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Anonymous wrote:Young scholars are now what mostly AAP is. Typically AAP is for the Farms and underrepresented, FCPS no longer has a gifted program.

Huh? AAP is <10% FRM.

I teach at a Title I AAP center. If there are 100 AAP students in my grade, then I would estimate that approximately 20 students were Young Scholars.

That's nice, but your center is an outlier. Also, you can be in Young Scholars and not be FRM. The FRM three year baseline in AAP is 4%.
https://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/B6KS6A711EC3/$file/Baseline%20Targets%20worksheet.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Young scholars are now what mostly AAP is. Typically AAP is for the Farms and underrepresented, FCPS no longer has a gifted program.

Huh? AAP is <10% FRM.

I teach at a Title I AAP center. If there are 100 AAP students in my grade, then I would estimate that approximately 20 students were Young Scholars.

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OP here - our AART teacher is holding a math enrichment program at our ES specifically designed for rising 3rd graders entering AAP. We are not a Title I school. The email that was sent out confirming the date and time labeled this enrichment program as part of "Young Scholars", which is why I asked the question.

Why would kids entering AAP need extra math prep? It's not like AAP math is that advanced or difficult, and all of the AAP schools are following the same curriculum.

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Point is the young scholars program doesn’t seem to be working or not enough to get URMs into AAP.

Getting kids into Level IV AAP isn't the main goal of the program. It's to help bright, disadvantaged kids develop their potential. A Young Scholar who doesn't get into AAP but takes honors classes in middle school or AP classes in high school would fulfill the goals of the program. Young Scholars runs through 6th grade, so it can't be viewed as just an AAP admissions prep program.

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Anonymous wrote:NP- they have quotas on white people to allow for underrepresented . The whole program is useless

They don't. Use your gifted brain. They keep expanding the program in an attempt to capture more URMs, to limited success. There's no quota.

Yep. And the only real result of expanding the program is that even more slightly above average white and Asian kids from upper middle class households are getting into AAP. I think my kids' AAP classes were over 90% white and Asian in schools that are only 50% white and Asian otherwise.

I’m the one who posted above that had an asian kid at a young scholars school. One year, 18 kids went to the AAP and only 1 kid was black. Black child’s mom was a doctor. My younger child’s year also had one black student go and she was adopted.

Point is the young scholars program doesn’t seem to be working or not enough to get URMs into AAP.

At that center, there were black kids but they were kids of black professionals or children of African immigrants. These parents were mostly all educated and involved in children’s education. At the end of the day, it is SES.

We have since moved. Our new school is low FARMs/low ESOL. AAP is majority Asian. I want to say 60%. The base school is majority white but AAP is majority Asian. Most kids being bused to the center are Asian.

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Anonymous wrote:NP- they have quotas on white people to allow for underrepresented . The whole program is useless

They don't. Use your gifted brain. They keep expanding the program in an attempt to capture more URMs, to limited success. There's no quota.

Yep. And the only real result of expanding the program is that even more slightly above average white and Asian kids from upper middle class households are getting into AAP. I think my kids' AAP classes were over 90% white and Asian in schools that are only 50% white and Asian otherwise.

Anonymous wrote:Young scholars are now what mostly AAP is. Typically AAP is for the Farms and underrepresented, FCPS no longer has a gifted program.

Huh? AAP is <10% FRM.

Anonymous wrote:NP- they have quotas on white people to allow for underrepresented . The whole program is useless

They don't. Use your gifted brain. They keep expanding the program in an attempt to capture more URMs, to limited success. There's no quota.

NP- they have quotas on white people to allow for underrepresented . The whole program is useless