Where can I find a copy of the latest AAP expansion proposal?

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Anonymous wrote:UGH! This is AWFUL! Looks like for 3rd and 4th graders at Bull Run, they'd get removed from Rocky Run and sent to Stone instead? Going from a cohort of 435 to 105?

Seriously, some of us WANT the bigger, more competitive cohort to help push our students. Plus, RR has been doing AAP for ages, Stone hasn't. This is going to suck.

It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

It's actually a cohort half that size - two classes of each grade level (since it's split between 7th and 8th). So either there is only one AAP English teacher, or two teaches have on AAP prep and then a mix of honors and Gen Ed (or team-taught).

I reach at an AAP center middle school and having multiple teachers in each grade/subject for AAP makes the program better and stronger.

At the expense of everyone else, who have to pay for the additional transportation costs and deal with non-AAP kids being especially marginalized at the big AAP centers. Sorry, they are going in the right direction by making sure every middle school has AAP.

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Anonymous wrote:It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

Why? If families like it, why do they need to be wound down?

Because it's a huge waste of money. The bussing alone costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more. Think of it this way -- this may be the push we need to get them to start middle schools later because we will have money to buy more busses.

We don't need more buses, FWIW. We need to do the common sense thing and start the elems earlier so the middle/highs can start later. It used to be that middle/highs started early, then all those buses were reused for elem routes, which were later.

When they started highs later, they said it was going to way increase money, and that's only because they didn't do the obvious thing and just swap the start times - they bought more buses so we could use them all for routes at roughly the same time. We don't need to double-down on that error.

It will still come down to the fact that MS is only two years. No one wants their ES student to start as early as the MS’s do for 7 years.

I do, it's developmentally acceptable for younger kids to start at 730a, not so for kids in puberty. And many parents/teachers agree that ES-aged kids are pretty much donezo by 2-3p, getting out of ES at 4p isn't helping anyone (well, maybe some parents like it because it's logistically easier for them, but it's not helping their kids academically-speaking). Would also help if FCPS had 6th in MS like most of the country though, those kids are also hitting the age where they should have the later start time.