AAP orientation
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Anonymous
| What are some of the questions you would ask at AAP orientation? Especially if this is at a center school which you child would be new to. |
Anonymous
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- What special AAP curriculum items do they use? For example there's a math program out of W&M and Caesar's English for AAP only at our center, but not every center uses those.
- How long is the average commute for AAP students? - (You may already know this, as our orientation email had it) Is there a parent form to fill out where you can describe your kid to assist the school in placing your child in the right class? Better than asking questions would be getting friends/neighbors at the center to describe the principal, administrative team, and school culture/feel. I know people who have declined AAP entirely because they hated the principal at the center and loved the principal at the base - kids are flourishing. |
Anonymous
Thank you.. hoping to find some parents at the orientation who are willing to talk. This AAP thing has been hush hush since the beginning. |
Anonymous
| What do you mean hush hush? Parents don’t discuss with each other? |
Anonymous
| I just received the orientation email! |
Anonymous
DP here, but I am afraid to ask DD's friends' moms if DD's friend(s) got in. I only asked my close friends. The potential embarassing "no" makes it hard to broach the subject. |
Anonymous
School? |
Anonymous
Someone asked me and my answer was no but that person has given me so many tips on appealing. So approach it in preparation to help with appeal ideas. |
Anonymous
| Orientation is in person but unclear if kids are able to attend. Any idea? |
Anonymous
I emailed the AAP contact at the center school and they said the orientation was for the parents but kids could attend. I figure each school will be a bit different in their approach though. |
Anonymous
Yeah, at our school (at least 2 years ago, assume this year will be the same) some of the 3rd grade AAP teachers came and played icebreakers with the kids. Was a nice time for the kids to get an idea who from each base was coming. I think my DC liked orientation better than DH did, but we already had a kid at the center so we didn't have much to learn. |
Anonymous
| Ours is for families |
Anonymous
yeah, I have heard zero about the entire AAP process from any other parents at our base, and I have zero clue which other kids we are friends with are either at the top or bottom of the classes. Not really wanting to risk embarassment by running around asking "did your kid get into level 4?" only to have someone respond that their kid is remedial or whatever. |
Anonymous
| I have emailed aap@fcps.edu to inform of our acceptance of level IV eligibility. Anything else that we have to do? Thank you. |
Anonymous
| Attend orientation. Ours is Thursday. |