Can someone break down AAP and wtf it means moving out of ES
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Anonymous
I know which Math would be best for both kids - Advanced Math 6. What I don't understand is why my much better student (a level 2 AAP) wasn't given the choice to take Algebra 1 in 6th grade. Apparently, this was due to scoring 2 points too low on the math SOLs in 5th grade. I don't care about this, but I do find it strange that my current 5th grader (a level 4 AAP, who struggles with math) was invited to take algebra 1 next year, in 6th grade, despite not taking the math SOLs yet this year. |
Anonymous
There's no pretending. I didn't grow up here, and I genuinely have no idea how it works. We've had zero communication about AAP with either child since they started. It wasn't until this year that I learned one was level 2 and one was level 4. They've had the same teachers and they've done the same coursework. While they've had the same teachers and have done the same work, my Level 2 has outperformed my Level 4 by a long shot, but my Level 4 will be able to take AAP in MS, and my level 2 will not. |
Anonymous
| I have had placement information/files lost for each of my kids with AAP FCPS. There could easily be a mistake (or several) going on here. The mistake could like within the local elementary school or within the central AAP office system. Start with the Principal and the local elementary school center and just ask questions. Ultimately, the principal can also make a few exceptions here and there in terms of allowing placement. Just start sending emails and making phone calls to get information on your particular children. Be nice because you may want a favor. |
Anonymous
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How can both your kids be in AAP and you are this clueless?
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Anonymous
It happens. OP, if you want your kid in regular AAP Math, then opt out of A1H. I would recommend paying a lot better attention to the emails you get from the school because you have missed a lot of meetings. There is a general AAP meeting at the beginning of each year and normally a specific meeting for people applying for AAP, mainly second grade parents and then the few parents applying for their kids in later grades. |
Anonymous
What would i have to pay attention to? They're in the same classes with the same people every year. They bring home report cards with all 4s. They test very well. They go to school and don't have issues. It wasn't until picking classes for middle school that we noticed some kids were picking honors and some were aap. |
Anonymous
But then you claim you wanted both kids in grade 6 honors math, so why is this a big deal? I think you are trying to get people worked up. If you aren’t, the. Si,ply make the best choice for your kids in math and ask the middle school if the kid doing level 4 work in elementary can select AAP in middle school. There isn’t that much difference between honors and AAP in ,idle school anyway. And it all goes away in high school |
Anonymous
| AAP is discriminatory and should be stopped because it sets up a two-tier education system, which is ironic, given how FCPS prides itself on equality. It's everything that is wrong with education. |
Anonymous
You would have known that you could have applied for LIV services for your oldest and have options in MS. You would have known that your son could choose to attend a Center and been in a class with all LIV selected kids. You wouldn’t be asking these questions now because you would have had the information to make informed choices 3 years ago. |
Anonymous
That's my point. I wasn't ignoring communication. My husband and I have heard nothing. There was nothing ever mentioned in parent teacher meetings either. I didn't know only certain aap kids stayed in aap in ms. I just assumed they all did since they've been moving through ES together. But hey, at least I get text messages twice a week from fcps telling me to check my email about skyview. "The boundary tool is back online." |
Anonymous
That isn't entirely true. My kids were in AAP in a non-center school. Their History, Science, and English classes were all full-time AAP kids. They weren't mixed in with honors kids for anything other than Math. Of course PE and their elective courses were mixed. |
Anonymous
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You actually have missed communication both email and through the mail. When we had level 2 service we were notified via mail EVERY year usually late May.
For level 4 (full time) we got notified when we got in. |
Anonymous
| For all the hoop-la, it really is not ‘ all that and a bag of chips!’ |
Anonymous
Ok, so then it's always segregated... I'm not sure that that is a better look for fcps |
Anonymous
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Sounds like you were not involved in applying for the program, and missed all of the annual AAP meetings. Your elder child was probably identified as being very advanced in math so put into level 2 AAP for math. (Although I thought the subject specific was level 3).
The younger is in an AAP level 4 which means the county found them eligible based on an application the school (or parent) put together and the teachers at your school were not involved. They receive AAP instruction in all subjects, level 2 is not supposed to unless your child was principal placed into a classroom. It’s also possible that your younger is in the first year that level 4 is offered at this school. You as a parent can apply/appeal every year for your older child. However the classes in middle school are supposed to be the same. Honors English = AAP English except that the group of students are all AAP students… |