When do the schools send files to the central selection committee?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Each school should be staffed with a full time AART, not sure why FCPS allows principals to do this. It is red flag that a principal does not care about high achieving kids.

This is the funniest post ever! You think that principals are sitting around with buckets of money and decide NOT to hire full-time AARTs. That is seriously funny.

Here’s the scoop: It’s a staffed position, just like the counselor position or school based technology specialist position. It’s dependent on your school’s enrollment. Now a principal technically could used school funds—the same funds to buy paper, materials, desks, toilet paper,etc—to “buy” an additional half of an AART position. But typically there are more pressing needs like trying to find a math specialist or an additional reading teacher. Or an IA to help cover all the substitutes that don’t show. Principals would LOVE to have a full-time AART and NOT have to pay for it out of their materials budget. Title 1 schools finally got one this year.

Our school has 700 kids-thats not enough for fcps to allocate a full time aart? Or are you saying that at the schools with a full time AART, the principal has chosen to forgo the Charmin?

[Anonymous]

How many of those 700 kids are in Level III? Level II at our school, around 700 kids, is a differentiated group in class and different work sheets. We have a part time AART and no local level IV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Our school has 700 kids-thats not enough for fcps to allocate a full time aart? Or are you saying that at the schools with a full time AART, the principal has chosen to forgo the Charmin?

NP. It's more likely that the principal has chosen to forego extra reading or math specialists, foreign language instruction, STEAM lab, and things like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Our school has 700 kids-thats not enough for fcps to allocate a full time aart? Or are you saying that at the schools with a full time AART, the principal has chosen to forgo the Charmin?

NP. It's more likely that the principal has chosen to forego extra reading or math specialists, foreign language instruction, STEAM lab, and things like that.

Or the PTO hasn’t kicked in any extra.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many of those 700 kids are in Level III? Level II at our school, around 700 kids, is a differentiated group in class and different work sheets. We have a part time AART and no local level IV.

I have no idea. They don't do any kind of pullouts or anything at all except occasional whole class vists from the AART (maybe a few times a year)-until advanced math in 5th grade.

[Anonymous]

No one actually responded to the main question---when does the package go to central? Does anyone know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one actually responded to the main question---when does the package go to central? Does anyone know?

Per the posted timeline here, the committee meets in March, so it'll be sometime between now and March.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one actually responded to the main question---when does the package go to central? Does anyone know?

Because nobody actually knows or gives a shit!

[Anonymous]

I’m planning to request the packet at the beginning of March.