No CogAT testing in FCPS AAP Screening this year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AAP in FCPS is dead.

Elections have consequences. This is what electing only Ds gets you.

You're a funny guy. Do you do standup?

She is correct.

Research what the legislature has said about TJ admissions. It will not be merit based hoing forward. It will either be lottery, or quotas.

[Anonymous]

I have no problem with TJ having a certain number of slots per school and a lottery being used to determine who gets those spots for the kids who make it into the acceptance pool. So the kids need to have the requisite test scores and teacher recommendations. Instead of a committee deciding among the kids who meet the threshold, there is a lottery. It would diminish the pressure on kids to participate in 9,000 activities and competitions and the like in order to pad their application. If a middle school does not have enough kids meet the threshold, then those extra slots go into a general pool. Any kid who was not drawn in the lottery has another shot form the general pool.

AAP should be local and should include the top 10%-15% of the kids in that school. The curriculum would meet the needs of the kids at their local school and it would allow the kids who are more advanced in their school to have their needs met. A class of 15 or 20 kids would allow for kids in Level III to attend the class for the area that they are more advanced in, which would decrease the hit and miss nature of level III and Advanced Math services offered across the school district. It would also simplify/reduce bussing needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have no problem with TJ having a certain number of slots per school and a lottery being used to determine who gets those spots for the kids who make it into the acceptance pool. So the kids need to have the requisite test scores and teacher recommendations. Instead of a committee deciding among the kids who meet the threshold, there is a lottery. It would diminish the pressure on kids to participate in 9,000 activities and competitions and the like in order to pad their application. If a middle school does not have enough kids meet the threshold, then those extra slots go into a general pool. Any kid who was not drawn in the lottery has another shot form the general pool.

AAP should be local and should include the top 10%-15% of the kids in that school. The curriculum would meet the needs of the kids at their local school and it would allow the kids who are more advanced in their school to have their needs met. A class of 15 or 20 kids would allow for kids in Level III to attend the class for the area that they are more advanced in, which would decrease the hit and miss nature of level III and Advanced Math services offered across the school district. It would also simplify/reduce bussing needs.

No, Local Level IV is worse than the center schools, and anyway center schools are not the problem with AAP. The problem is that in their efforts to increase the numbers of URMs in the program they also greatly expanded the number of non-URMs and in some schools is too large.

That really has nothing to do with the UC's decision to move away from SATs and ACTs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad your kids get up so early. Between 6 and 6:30 am is not normal, sorry.

It’s way more normal than sleeping until 8. You probably keep them up way too late. Early bedtime and early wake time is most developmentally appropriate. Read any sleep book. But anyway you seem psycho so PLEASE do not move to LCPS. Fairfax can have you.

Nice try. The only one who is coming across as psychotic is you. But that’s to be expected given your kids are waking up so early! Even if they wake that early, don’t you have a family rule about staying in rooms until a more reasonable hour? It’s one thing if your kid is a toddler, but an older school age child should be trained to not get out of his or room that freaking early. Have them read or pay quietly in rooms until 7:30 or something!

And no, I don’t keep my kids up late at all. They go to bed by 8:30-9:00 pm and are up now between 8:00 - 8:30 am. Much more reasonable and we don’t have to stress out getting to bed early for a 7:50 am start time at school. No thank you to LCPS!

NP but it is super weird that you are so up in arms and defensive about this. Who cares what time other people's kids wake up?

We're all early risers in my family and are happy that way. My kid's 9:20 - 4:00 school day made her miserable. She'd be much happier with 8:00 - 2:45.

I don’t care at all. I had made one comment about how I wouldn’t enjoy the early start times in LCPS earlier. And then I was jumped on and told I must keep my kids up late and that I was psycho. And that I was asked if I had ever had a paying job. Please go back and reread the posts. If anything, it’s the PP who is defensive about the early start times in LCPS and insulting anyone who disagrees.

No, sorry, this is what you said: "I feel bad your kids get up so early. Between 6 and 6:30 am is not normal, sorry."

That was after I was called psycho and not a functioning adult.

Actually I just checked. It was after I was told I must not be a functioning adult and have a paying job but before I was called a psycho. Quit the name calling.

The average elementary school child does not wake between 6-6:30 am. That is earlier than most. I think the average is more like 7 ish.

Just admit that you were mean and you deserved mean comments back at you. Now go away troll.