When did your child start receiving AAP services?

[Anonymous]

Level II and III pull-outs were such a waste of time for my DS. They would pull them out when the class was doing math or language arts, so they'd miss that work and have to make it up. The pull-out itself consisted of sitting around talking about some silly story and/or answering questions on a worksheet - a lot of busy work. We finally decided DS was far better served by simply being in class and learning the core subjects that we would otherwise be missing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Level II and III pull-outs were such a waste of time for my DS. They would pull them out when the class was doing math or language arts, so they'd miss that work and have to make it up. The pull-out itself consisted of sitting around talking about some silly story and/or answering questions on a worksheet - a lot of busy work. We finally decided DS was far better served by simply being in class and learning the core subjects that we would otherwise be missing.

Just like with reading and ESOL pull outs, they have to do it when the TEACHER is available. How can the teacher work to accommodate dozens and dozens of schedules. You'd complain if you kid wasn't pulled out and complain if he was,,,,

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Anonymous wrote:My son is in kindergarten and have heard nothing about AAP. I occasionally volunteer and there are various other adults in the kindergarten classroom. I see certain kids getting pulled out of the class. Our school is a Young Scholars school with 30% ESOL/free lunch. I have never heard of AAP or Young Scholars mentioned by a teacher or other parents. The only thing I have heard about AAP is that a large number of children go to the AAP center that is about a mile away in 3rd away.

Does this mean my child was just not selected for AAP?

Sometime after the NNAT results were in last year, we received a letter from our school stating that our DC was eligible for level II services in second grade. There was a permission slip to sign for acceptance or decline. I assume that the NNAT score was a part of the selection process at our base school.

Since the NNAT results for the current batch of kindergartners are just being received by the parents, I have to wonder if the schools have decided on the level II services without the scores or if the decisions have only just been made.

It really depends on the school's AART resources for the format of pull-out, and when (K, 1st, or 2nd grade) the pull-out is taken place. DC's school did not have pull-out until 2nd grade, and his teacher told us verbally at the teacher/parent conference in October of that year. Some kids got pull-out for math, others for English, or both. Now that the AAP result came back, most pull-out kids in 2nd grade got in, but there is one in DC class also got in AAP without pull-out time. My guess is that most pull-out kids got decent test scores plus good GBRS (because the AART teacher would also provide inputs in their GBRS's comments - a major factor). The kid who did not get pull-out might have gotten excellent test scores. So the bottom line is anything can happen, there is no pattern of how a child is prepared in order to get in AAP.

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I don't think the Young Scholars Program is really going to impact a child who is already in main stream population. I've seen the activities for the Kindergarten and 1st grade. At least from what I've seen, some of the iPhone, iPad, Android education apps do the same thing. Traffic Jam games, bridge crossing problems, etc. There are a lot of websites that also offer the same types of games. I think the purpose of the Young Scholars is to offer those brain stretching exercises to kids from more challenged backgrounds that may not have had the resources the more well-off children would have had.