Anonymous wrote:People have been making that same prediction since the introduction of LLIV. FCPS doesn't seem to be moving in that direction at all. Instead, this year all cluster 1 schools and a couple cluster 2 schools are using the level IV AAP curriculum for all classes in grades 3-6. I'm not sure where they are headed, but they don't seem to be moving toward more LLIV.

I think they are doing that to convince parents they don't have to push their kids in to AAP to get the "same thing." They are also starting LLIV in a lot more schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again.

Just because OP's special snowflake did not get in to AAP, an internationally recognized suite of programs for gifted kids will be dismantled in 5 years.

Yeah, right.

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Talk about famous in their own minds!

And the gifted education community.

A self-appointed group if ever there was one.

Cannot argue with that. Lawyers have their self-appointed group through the Bar Association, pediatricians have their self-appointed group through the AAP, engineers have their self-appointed group through IEEE, etc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again.

Just because OP's special snowflake did not get in to AAP, an internationally recognized suite of programs for gifted kids will be dismantled in 5 years.

Yeah, right.

@@

Talk about famous in their own minds!

And the gifted education community.

A self-appointed group if ever there was one.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again.

Just because OP's special snowflake did not get in to AAP, an internationally recognized suite of programs for gifted kids will be dismantled in 5 years.

Yeah, right.

@@

Talk about famous in their own minds!

And the gifted education community.

People have been making that same prediction since the introduction of LLIV. FCPS doesn't seem to be moving in that direction at all. Instead, this year all cluster 1 schools and a couple cluster 2 schools are using the level IV AAP curriculum for all classes in grades 3-6. I'm not sure where they are headed, but they don't seem to be moving toward more LLIV.

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again.

Just because OP's special snowflake did not get in to AAP, an internationally recognized suite of programs for gifted kids will be dismantled in 5 years.

Yeah, right.

@@

Talk about famous in their own minds!

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again.

Just because OP's special snowflake did not get in to AAP, an internationally recognized suite of programs for gifted kids will be dismantled in 5 years.

Yeah, right.

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In all seriousness, I am an AAP parent. I do think they are moving toward eliminating the centers. If you watch closely, you can see the signs. I think the future plan is LLIV in all schools.

Love the sarcasm!!!

Here we go again.

Just because OP's special snowflake did not get in to AAP, an internationally recognized suite of programs for gifted kids will be dismantled in 5 years.

Yeah, right.

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Anonymous wrote:

- that at least one AAP student went on an extended Disney vacation during the school year (not holidays) possibility breaking one or more truancy laws

Oh dear, I see what you mean. That is serious. But was it ever established it was an AAP student?

What she doesn't know is that Mickey that week was a Dartmouth graduate who gave the student pointers after hours on how to ace the essay portion of the TJ exam.

OP you couldn't have said it any better. Amen!

Do you really have nothing better to do on a Saturday?

OP, I agree with you, but I also think you seem to have a very personal grudge about the whole thing. Why do you care so much?

Anonymous wrote:

- that at least one AAP student went on an extended Disney vacation during the school year (not holidays) possibility breaking one or more truancy laws

Oh dear, I see what you mean. That is serious. But was it ever established it was an AAP student?

My prediction is that the AAP program will be terminated within the next 5 years and that all level IV services will either be eliminated or rolled into level III.

In the end, it all comes down to a question of fairness.


It is unfair,

- that FFPS spends tens of thousands of dollars each year busing AAP students to AAP center schools.

- It is unfair (and discriminatory) that Black and Hispanic students are underrepresented in AAP classrooms – the NAACP is already working on a position paper to address this…

- that AAP school teachers are required to obtain additional certifications before being allowed to teach AAP making them overqualified when compared to general ed teachers.

- that a significant number of the students in AAP are only marginal students at best and are at risk for developing lifelong psychological problems because their pushy parents forced them into the program

- that online AAP test prep materials are openly sold and are even available online

-that numerous parents clog this forum with questions asking how to get their precious snowflakes in the program by various forms of chicanery including but not limited to cheating and bribery

- that almost all the children of the PTA board members at most schools are in AAP

- that on average, AAP classrooms have more south facing windows giving AAP students 15% more natural sunlight during the school year than non-AAP students

- that at least one AAP student went on an extended Disney vacation during the school year (not holidays) possibility breaking one or more truancy laws

- that the new AAP FAT(ness) test encourages already overweight nerdy students to eat more