Are AAP centers going away?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully, but probably not next year

There are a perplexingly large number of people, including parents, people at Gatehouse, and some of the school board who are anti-center and unaware that center schools are extremely popular and a big draw for the county. So strange.

Nope. I have two, non-prepped, Level IV students and I purposely kept them at the base school program because I wanted them to be challenged but also have a solid EQ (for example, not acting superior to their classmates). I know plenty of parents who made the same choice.

EQ comes from the home, not from the school. It's not like centers are full of snobs and have-nots and local schools are egalitarian utopias. Kids who are snobs get it from their parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully, but probably not next year

There are a perplexingly large number of people, including parents, people at Gatehouse, and some of the school board who are anti-center and unaware that center schools are extremely popular and a big draw for the county. So strange.

You mean that getting rid of centers will also reduce the number of students in over crowded schools? Win win

Do you want to snap those students, like Thanos? The students won't vanish, they will just move around.

If center schools go away, then former center schools will have their catchment area enlarged, almost doubled. And other schools will have their catchment areas reduced.

Maybe at some schools. I'm in-bounds for a center and if everybody went to their in-bounds school then mine would be right at capacity (as calculated with modulars) instead of over.

[Anonymous]

If center school go away, low ses or even some mid ses school aap classes will probably be mixed with non aap class and maybe principal placement will go away too, it may not be good for low ses school, those few really advanced won’t have a chance. However, like others said, it will be good for high ses school as more capacity for their own school students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If center school go away, low ses or even some mid ses school aap classes will probably be mixed with non aap class and maybe principal placement will go away too, it may not be good for low ses school, those few really advanced won’t have a chance. However, like others said, it will be good for high ses school as more capacity for their own school students.

It will be bad for the former center kids at low and mid ses schools, but great for the regular kids. Teachers teach to the middle, so raising the middle helps those near the middle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully, but probably not next year

There are a perplexingly large number of people, including parents, people at Gatehouse, and some of the school board who are anti-center and unaware that center schools are extremely popular and a big draw for the county. So strange.

You mean that getting rid of centers will also reduce the number of students in over crowded schools? Win win

Do you want to snap those students, like Thanos? The students won't vanish, they will just move around.

If center schools go away, then former center schools will have their catchment area enlarged, almost doubled. And other schools will have their catchment areas reduced.

Maybe at some schools. I'm in-bounds for a center and if everybody went to their in-bounds school then mine would be right at capacity (as calculated with modulars) instead of over.

There isn't room for everybody at "their in-bound school" so boundaries would be shifted and your school would get more students.

[Anonymous]

How are AAP students, whose families can’t even afford private in the discussion for snobs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If center school go away, low ses or even some mid ses school aap classes will probably be mixed with non aap class and maybe principal placement will go away too, it may not be good for low ses school, those few really advanced won’t have a chance. However, like others said, it will be good for high ses school as more capacity for their own school students.

It will be bad for the former center kids at low and mid ses schools, but great for the regular kids. Teachers teach to the middle, so raising the middle helps those near the middle

You think the current problem is teachers refusing to just "teach higher?" And if they did that, everyone's test scores would just magically rise? If they just present "AAP Light" material in class, their students will all absorb it and raise their test scores, and the only think preventing teachers from doing so is that there aren't any AAP kids in the classroom?

What is preventing the teachers from teaching higher, even if it's not the "Middle" of their classroom, right now? This is the most absurd comment I've read on this entire thread.

[Anonymous]

Local Level IV is just a back door attempt at watering down what is an already watered down education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully, but probably not next year

There are a perplexingly large number of people, including parents, people at Gatehouse, and some of the school board who are anti-center and unaware that center schools are extremely popular and a big draw for the county. So strange.

You mean that getting rid of centers will also reduce the number of students in over crowded schools? Win win

Do you want to snap those students, like Thanos? The students won't vanish, they will just move around.

If center schools go away, then former center schools will have their catchment area enlarged, almost doubled. And other schools will have their catchment areas reduced.

FCPS is not that nimble. They’d just let the enrollments at center schools plummet and shrug if other schools were overcrowded.

[Anonymous]

Now that they are capping the number of kids from each MS getting into TJ it seems like getting rid of a big MS AAP center like Carson is a win-win. Less overcrowded school and all the Asian kids in that area won’t be piling into one center to compete with each other for TJ slots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully, but probably not next year

There are a perplexingly large number of people, including parents, people at Gatehouse, and some of the school board who are anti-center and unaware that center schools are extremely popular and a big draw for the county. So strange.

Nope. I have two, non-prepped, Level IV students and I purposely kept them at the base school program because I wanted them to be challenged but also have a solid EQ (for example, not acting superior to their classmates). I know plenty of parents who made the same choice.

LOL- my kid did better with a center and having so many other kids on his level. If he was one of only a handful in a LLIV classroom, he'd definitely be full of himself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully, but probably not next year

There are a perplexingly large number of people, including parents, people at Gatehouse, and some of the school board who are anti-center and unaware that center schools are extremely popular and a big draw for the county. So strange.

Nope. I have two, non-prepped, Level IV students and I purposely kept them at the base school program because I wanted them to be challenged but also have a solid EQ (for example, not acting superior to their classmates). I know plenty of parents who made the same choice.

Lol so many things wrong with this post.

1. More parents are opting for center schools than staying in bounds. If the opposite was true, they’d be able to have full AAP classes at local schools and they typically cannot as not enough kids stay.

The easiest way to avoid feeling superior to your classmates is to be in a class full of other smart kids who challenge you. Not with kids who you know haven’t placed in AAP.

[Anonymous]

I think it's happening eventually but I haven't seen a date for it.
I think the first step is rolling out LLIV to all the ES schools which they are doing now.

[Anonymous]

Your "friend" is wrong. Stop trying to stir up trouble MAGA troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully, but probably not next year

There are a perplexingly large number of people, including parents, people at Gatehouse, and some of the school board who are anti-center and unaware that center schools are extremely popular and a big draw for the county. So strange.

Nope. I have two, non-prepped, Level IV students and I purposely kept them at the base school program because I wanted them to be challenged but also have a solid EQ (for example, not acting superior to their classmates). I know plenty of parents who made the same choice.

EQ comes from the home, not from the school. It's not like centers are full of snobs and have-nots and local schools are egalitarian utopias. Kids who are snobs get it from their parents.

Whether or not the parents are snobs, kids pick up on the caste system created by AAP. We tried not telling our oldest child, other kids told him. He came home one day and said “you know I’m in the smart class right?”