Advice for newcomers for accelerated Math and Language curriculum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not very familiar with the county, but I've heard that schools are strong, for example a lot of things about the Falls Church City area. ideally, within a reasonable commute to Washington

There are 139 elementary schools in FCPS. Some schools have the AAP curriculum as their gen-Ed curriculum, some have over half of their population in the advance math. Some do not. My advice would change depending on the school.

Which ones?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not very familiar with the county, but I've heard that schools are strong, for example a lot of things about the Falls Church City area. ideally, within a reasonable commute to Washington

There are 139 elementary schools in FCPS. Some schools have the AAP curriculum as their gen-Ed curriculum, some have over half of their population in the advance math. Some do not. My advice would change depending on the school.

Which ones?

More are added every year, I have lost track of them all. Most of McLean and much of Vienna are doing it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not very familiar with the county, but I've heard that schools are strong, for example a lot of things about the Falls Church City area. ideally, within a reasonable commute to Washington

There are 139 elementary schools in FCPS. Some schools have the AAP curriculum as their gen-Ed curriculum, some have over half of their population in the advance math. Some do not. My advice would change depending on the school.

Which ones?

More are added every year, I have lost track of them all. Most of McLean and much of Vienna are doing it

Does this mean gen-Ed students are taking the aap curriculum? What's the point of aap then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not very familiar with the county, but I've heard that schools are strong, for example a lot of things about the Falls Church City area. ideally, within a reasonable commute to Washington

There are 139 elementary schools in FCPS. Some schools have the AAP curriculum as their gen-Ed curriculum, some have over half of their population in the advance math. Some do not. My advice would change depending on the school.

Which ones?

More are added every year, I have lost track of them all. Most of McLean and much of Vienna are doing it

Does this mean gen-Ed students are taking the aap curriculum? What's the point of aap then?

Smarter kids grouped together still move faster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not very familiar with the county, but I've heard that schools are strong, for example a lot of things about the Falls Church City area. ideally, within a reasonable commute to Washington

There are 139 elementary schools in FCPS. Some schools have the AAP curriculum as their gen-Ed curriculum, some have over half of their population in the advance math. Some do not. My advice would change depending on the school.

Which ones?

More are added every year, I have lost track of them all. Most of McLean and much of Vienna are doing it

You lost track? We are in Vienna and know many others in Vienna schools. I don't know of any that have the AAP curriculum in the Gen Ed classroom. Please provide the name of at least one Vienna school that does this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not very familiar with the county, but I've heard that schools are strong, for example a lot of things about the Falls Church City area. ideally, within a reasonable commute to Washington

There are 139 elementary schools in FCPS. Some schools have the AAP curriculum as their gen-Ed curriculum, some have over half of their population in the advance math. Some do not. My advice would change depending on the school.

Which ones?

More are added every year, I have lost track of them all. Most of McLean and much of Vienna are doing it

You lost track? We are in Vienna and know many others in Vienna schools. I don't know of any that have the AAP curriculum in the Gen Ed classroom. Please provide the name of at least one Vienna school that does this.

Search the archives, it has been posted a number of times.

[Anonymous]

Wolftrap and Flint Hill mix the kids for science and social studies in some grades and teach some lessons from the AAP curriculum. I don't know how much. From experience, it really doesn't seem to be an advanced program. Those classes are only taught for 1 hour each day every other week anyway. Math and Language Arts are separated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys crack me up. We moved to a Common Core jurisdiction. The Smarter Balanced Tests (which l what my kids took) are WAY harder than the SOLs. Coming from a good FCPS elementary, the kids here were ahead of my GE kid and my AAP kid was on par. You might be surprised at what some other districts are like.

Is this a good thing? People are on here all the time railing against SOLs and testing.

Not sure if it's a good thing or not, but FCPS does not have a monopoly on good education.