I think people come on here and post anonymously the ridiculous things that they would not dare ask or say in real life....

Anonymous wrote:When do the letters go out?
Is this XXXX score high enough to get in?
That score/GBRS suggests your kid is just run of the mill, garden variety, gifted. That's very good, mind, but it's not profoundly gifted like my DC.

Yes! The "your borderline, hardly above average kid is damaging to my super genius child's education!" WTH??? I see this all the time on these threads.

When do the letters go out?
Is this XXXX score high enough to get in?
That score/GBRS suggests your kid is just run of the mill, garden variety, gifted. That's very good, mind, but it's not profoundly gifted like my DC.

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Anonymous wrote:As a non-FCPS parent--all of it, because I can't believe how much space it takes up on the VA Public Schools page. I know, I know, I don't have to read them. I just get bummed when I go to the list view and literally every single topic is AAP-related.

That's a very valid point. Hardly worthy of being on this thead! I wonder if AAP could have its own subsection so it wouldn't annoy everyone else who doesn't care to follow the saga?

I 2nd this. I come here to see/discuss various school issues and couldn't care less about Special Snowflakes problems.

A separate forum would be ace. Mods?

Anonymous wrote:Well, my DD won the Nobel Prize in physics!

[list]Well my 2nd grader is going to be President of the US next year and is skipping the AAP center (OH my god). He plans to work for free he doesn't need an income. He is way smarter than any other person in the world. Really, born that way. In fact we live off of his six figure income. Yes money just magically appears in the mail because he is so smart people hope he will send them some brains. My husband and I haven't had to work since he came into this world The professional baseball teams wanted him but he turned them down. A true genius my kid. He doesn't need any moron play mates, no emmotional support, no fun, he is the best. He is just so smart - he rattles off computer code that hasn't even been written. Off to the islands on another vacation - Enjoy your lowly peasant life. Oh, by the way, he skipped all those silly test so I have no scores to bragg about. Hum.....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a non-FCPS parent--all of it, because I can't believe how much space it takes up on the VA Public Schools page. I know, I know, I don't have to read them. I just get bummed when I go to the list view and literally every single topic is AAP-related.

That's a very valid point. Hardly worthy of being on this thead! I wonder if AAP could have its own subsection so it wouldn't annoy everyone else who doesn't care to follow the saga?

+1 I have seriously thought about putting in a request to the admin along these lines.

Anonymous wrote:As a non-FCPS parent--all of it, because I can't believe how much space it takes up on the VA Public Schools page. I know, I know, I don't have to read them. I just get bummed when I go to the list view and literally every single topic is AAP-related.

That's a very valid point. Hardly worthy of being on this thead! I wonder if AAP could have its own subsection so it wouldn't annoy everyone else who doesn't care to follow the saga?

As a non-FCPS parent--all of it, because I can't believe how much space it takes up on the VA Public Schools page. I know, I know, I don't have to read them. I just get bummed when I go to the list view and literally every single topic is AAP-related.

16:14 and 16:16:

You obviously prepped. Your children will have the mark of the tainted AAP hanging around their necks forever.

Well, my DD won the Nobel Prize in physics!

PP, your DS got in with a 172 verbal score? My DS scores were higher than your DS scores! DS is exceptionally gifted and even AAP is below his academic ability.

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Anonymous wrote:My personal favorite, the ones who can't give enough advice about "loving their child for who they are, not how they score" but can't end the post without, well, mentioning their scores.

That's great! And my personal favorite, most ridiculous (and incredibly annoying) post is when parents complain about other parents posting their child's scores.

Wait for it....

My personal favorite is the complaining about the score sharing complaints.


Really though, I've read a couple that have mentioned kids crying when they didn't get into AAP. Crazy!

Signed,
---parent of a ds who scored a 172 verbal, 245 non verbal, and a 765 quant., all with a presidential medal and a GBRS of 31.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My personal favorite, the ones who can't give enough advice about "loving their child for who they are, not how they score" but can't end the post without, well, mentioning their scores.

That's great! And my personal favorite, most ridiculous (and incredibly annoying) post is when parents complain about other parents posting their child's scores.

[list]Pretty much all of it! AAP shouldn't exist in the way it does now. It is simply nonsense and prejudicial.

Anonymous wrote:My personal favorite, the ones who can't give enough advice about "loving their child for who they are, not how they score" but can't end the post without, well, mentioning their scores.

That's great! And my personal favorite, most ridiculous (and incredibly annoying) post is when parents complain about other parents posting their child's scores.

My personal favorite, the ones who can't give enough advice about "loving their child for who they are, not how they score" but can't end the post without, well, mentioning their scores.