APS Classroom placement K, 1, 2, 3...?

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Anonymous wrote:Have you noticed most of the SOL Advanced pass students in the same classroom?

No. It has always been a healthy mix in my kids’ classrooms.

Ditto. SOLs are not broken out by classroom in the data. Please elaborate first PP.

I guess if you work all the time and have a nanny raise your kids you wouldn't talk to the other parents. But we all make choices I guess.

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[Anonymous]

At DD's APS school, the kids are all mixed together, unlike in Fairfax County, where classes are grouped more academically.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you noticed most of the SOL Advanced pass students in the same classroom?

No. It has always been a healthy mix in my kids’ classrooms.

Ditto. SOLs are not broken out by classroom in the data. Please elaborate first PP.

I guess if you work all the time and have a nanny raise your kids you wouldn't talk to the other parents. But we all make choices I guess.

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No one has ever asked me what my kids got on the SOL or told me what their kids got. I guess I don't hang out with neurotic parents who are going to produce suicide-prone teenagers.

[Anonymous]

The classes are mixed, but for subjects like math they are more differentiated. They do pull outs, which actually work well because both the best performing and least performing are pulled out so kids are just accustomed to everyone doing some moving around.

[Anonymous]

You should ask the principal, the vice principal or a PTA officer it varies by school (but not that much). To have gifted kids in your classroom you have to have the course work or classwork to teach GT, I think it may be a 3 credit class (I can't remember). It also depends on how many GT students in the grade level there are, kids and teachers at that grade level and in what subject the children are gifted in. A group of teachers, admin and specialists very thoughtfully group the kids, this happens in May or June. Grouping meetings are very complicated, thoughtful meetings where all the children's strengths, weaknesses and needs are taken into consideration. Depending of how many or few gifted students at the grade level (even the school)all the kids can be clustered into 1 or 2 classrooms per grade level that way the GT teacher can more easily work with the kids and collaborate with the classroom teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The classes are mixed, but for subjects like math they are more differentiated. They do pull outs, which actually work well because both the best performing and least performing are pulled out so kids are just accustomed to everyone doing some moving around.

Not all schools do pull outs for gifted kids. I thought they had done away with them across the board.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you noticed most of the SOL Advanced pass students in the same classroom?

No. It has always been a healthy mix in my kids’ classrooms.

Ditto. SOLs are not broken out by classroom in the data. Please elaborate first PP.

I guess if you work all the time and have a nanny raise your kids you wouldn't talk to the other parents. But we all make choices I guess.

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No one has ever asked me what my kids got on the SOL or told me what their kids got. I guess I don't hang out with neurotic parents who are going to produce suicide-prone teenagers.

One parent actually asked me, and I refused to say, even though that was the year she had a 600 on the math SOL.

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What kind of parents talk about the scores their kids get? I mean... I was a gifted kid and got off the charts in all these tests. My mom didn't go disclosing it to other parents. What a bunch of weirdos you are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Have you noticed most of the SOL Advanced pass students in the same classroom?

I don't know how you would know which kids are which. And my kids have always gotten advanced pass on some and not on others anyhow. Or it differs by year. And SOLs don't start until 3rd.

At any rate, CALM DOWN.

Go over to the Arlington Education Matters page on Facebook and watch all the high school parents freaking out about mental health and all the pressure the kids are under and how horrible it all is and how there should be a movement to dial it all back down. You know who doesn't think there needs to be a movement about this? Those of us who don't give a @&!& about SOLs and whether there are a lot of other advanced pass students in our kids classrooms. That's where the pressure comes from--the PARENTS.

All the Arlington Education Matters page does is complain about how ipads are going to turn all our kids into zombies or something.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you noticed most of the SOL Advanced pass students in the same classroom?

No. It has always been a healthy mix in my kids’ classrooms.

Ditto. SOLs are not broken out by classroom in the data. Please elaborate first PP.

I guess if you work all the time and have a nanny raise your kids you wouldn't talk to the other parents. But we all make choices I guess.

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No one has ever asked me what my kids got on the SOL or told me what their kids got. I guess I don't hang out with neurotic parents who are going to produce suicide-prone teenagers.

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