My 3rd grade DC was assigned to an AAP teacher but is not in AAP
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Anonymous
| Doubt this happens at a center school. Just a local level IV. |
Anonymous
it happens in centers too. It seems to be happening more and more. Maybe boundary changes will occur to cut down on numbers/overcrowding or a complete shift away from centers. |
Anonymous
| It's happened at our local level IV school for the last 2 years (at least) although I assume it's fairly standard. My AAP DD had nearly half of her 3rd grade class principal-placed. Same thing this year in 4th, although only about half of last year's pp kids are back and new ones have been added. It didn't seem to impact the learning all that much and the kids were always grouped by ability in the core subjects. It's mainly due to budget concerns. DD had very small classes from K-2nd and there were 4 classes in the grade each year. In 3rd the student/teacher ratios change so now they are down to 3 classes in her grade, 1 AAP, 2 regular - all with around 30 kids. |
Anonymous
I’m calling bs on this. |
Anonymous
| My kids go to an AAP center school that is also Title 1. My neighborhood is the only one that feeds into the school that is upper middle class. All the other neighborhoods that feed into the school are apartments, trailer parks, etc. EVERY child in my neighborhood that goes to the school is in an AAP class. Something is going on that every upper middle class kid from one neighborhood is getting into the AAP class. |
Anonymous
| Both of my kids tested at level III and were placed into the local level IV class (even with the level III kids, the classes were still small at 18 to 20 kids). Some parents chose to have their kids tested again so their kids could continue AAP in MS. |
Anonymous
I wouldn't be surprised that it happens at some center schools but I know it doesn't at my DC's center school. |
Anonymous
This happened in our center to balance out class size. So not BS |
Anonymous
I'm pretty sure this happens at my center, too. The AAP and Gen Ed classes are always the same size, year after year. It's highly unlikely that this could happen without having the principal balance the classes by placing high achieving level III kids into the AAP classrooms. I have no problem with the practice of doing so, though. It makes much more sense to have both Gen Ed and AAP in classrooms of 25 kids than it is for AAP to have smaller classes and gen ed to have larger ones. |
Anonymous
If it's not at a center then this is very typical. They combine kids who choose to do AAP/Level IV at their base school with all the other kids (Level III and kids who aren't) because there aren't enough kids to justify a full class of AAP. |
Anonymous
| What is AAP? What is center school? What is Level IV? |
Anonymous
| What is pupil place? |
Anonymous
| ? |
Anonymous
Exactly. At our school our DD and one other child chose to stay at the local school and not attend the Center (and before someone asks how I know this you can look at the dashboard to see how many centrally placed AAP students a school has in each grade, plus, you see all the other level IV students at the orientation). That meant the other 19 kids are all principal placed as they have to fill the class. |
Anonymous
So your school has a local level IV class with on two level IV eligible students? Honestly curious. Our school doesn’t have LLIV anymore bc as I understand it, it would be too small. |