AAP Lottery

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school has a lottery...I was e-mailed by the AAP teacher and told that the lottery is luck of the draw (they put all students in lottery)....which I find crazy, I mean if you are going to take the time to screen and have people appeal etc....then when there is room in the class just make it an open lottery!!! WHAT is this about????? It should be a tiered selection...by scores/screenings or teacher selection to make this supposed level 4 class equal in student capability or I don't even see why they have level 4???? Just is so frustrating! From a parent who's daughter achieved the same scores as 2 of her peers who are selected for level 4??? So it has been none the less quite a frustrating journey for us and the only difference I have noted between peers that are receiving services and us is that we are not locals we are military.....and I have noted this correlation through several schools in our local area...which are very tight knit groups and have lived here forever.

We are military, and all of the military families we know had a very easy time transitioning their kids into AAP. All (about 1/2 dozen kids) were accepted first round.

In fact, I think military who pcs into the district have a much easier time than the "locals". Yes, we have to hand deliver our records and apply in person, and we can't apply until our leases start. But, since we are applying late summer the turnaround is about 2 weeks from packet submission to acceptance. Every military child I know who applied was accepted, except for one. From our experience the district is very accepting and accomodating of military families.

[Anonymous]

My military neighbor said FCPS has to take military kids who qualified elsewhere, even under lower standards. In fact their own kid has struggled in AAP and is probably switching back to the base school next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My military neighbor said FCPS has to take military kids who qualified elsewhere, even under lower standards. In fact their own kid has struggled in AAP and is probably switching back to the base school next year.

This is not true.

Military kids have to meet the same standards as everyone else.

The district just allow them to submit different tests than the 2 administered by FCPS. Military can use whatever tests were administered in their previous district as long as it is on the list of acceptable tests.

Military kids are not automatically placed in AAP, even if they were part of a gifted program in another district. That is just false information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Military kids have to meet the same standards as everyone else.

The district just allow them to submit different tests than the 2 administered by FCPS. Military can use whatever tests were administered in their previous district as long as it is on the list of acceptable tests.

Military kids are not automatically placed in AAP, even if they were part of a gifted program in another district. That is just false information.

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All of this information is on the FCPS website:

http://www.fcps.edu/is/aap/identificationntc.shtml

[Anonymous]

I just think the whole Local Level IV system is a joke. If the same rules aren't followed from school to school how can any parent know what to expect for their children. It's just a name that doesn't seem to mean anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just think the whole Local Level IV system is a joke. If the same rules aren't followed from school to school how can any parent know what to expect for their children. It's just a name that doesn't seem to mean anything.

Parents can ask the school principal about the specifics and make decisions between Local Level IV and AAP Center options accordingly.

[Anonymous]

One of the reasons I ended up with a center for my kids.

[Anonymous]

They can only do this easily if their child is eligible. Our school was not forthcoming with this information prior to this. I still think it can't be called an actual program name if it doesn't have some criteria it has to meet. Otherwise it's just a local program instituted by the school, not a county wide program.