Possible AAP changes at ES

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Anonymous wrote:Getting back on topic - OP, this means that there will be two dumbed down AAP classes with Level II, III, IV kids in them and two "smartened up" GenEd classes with everyone else. We spoke with the principal and AART about it and are moving to Lemon Road next year. We have two in AAP and they need a challenging curriculum with their peers, not one dumbed down for kids whose parents complained they weren't in AAP. I can tell you that we are not the only ones making the switch.

Don't be surprised if those level III kids end up being as good as the level IV kids at class work.

Of course. My concern is the Level II kids that will be placed with Level IV.

That was not me, but yes, I am concerned about the grouping/mixing and not being able to meet my children at their very advanced levels. It's hard enough when there are children principal placed into the classroom that are having a hard time keeping up but whose parents won't send them back to GenEd because of the "prestige" of being in AAP. It's not about prestige, its about academics and challenge.

I hear you. DC's class went from 17 last year to 25 this year (with two of the original 17 moving), and some of the "newer" AAP students are struggling to keep up. I know the Principal or perhaps one of the AAP teachers mentioned that the 3rd grade class only had 14 kids in it. I think they're getting pressure to equalize the class sizes.

Right. Isn’t this a move to remedy this concern? There needs to be equal sized classes and if there aren’t enough level IV students to make an entire class, they need to get divided into the two classrooms. Those kids that were placed in there will get redistributed. Though it is interesting that your perspective on how they’re doing directly conflicts with the evidence presented.

Not sure I'm following you. They're filling an advanced academic class with non-advanced students for the purpose of filling the class? This doesn't solve the problem of those kids not being able to keep up. My DC's teacher complains about this daily.

BULLSHIT. Your child's teacher complains to you every single day that there are kids in her class that can't keep up? Really? If that's true, then she's extremely unprofessional and the issue is more likely that she doesn't know how to do her job. But in reality, we all know you're making that up.

I know this because she tells the class this almost daily, and she complained about it during a parent/teacher conference. Other parents are aware of the comments as well. Would agree with your assessment that it is unprofessional, even if the situation is accurate.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting back on topic - OP, this means that there will be two dumbed down AAP classes with Level II, III, IV kids in them and two "smartened up" GenEd classes with everyone else. We spoke with the principal and AART about it and are moving to Lemon Road next year. We have two in AAP and they need a challenging curriculum with their peers, not one dumbed down for kids whose parents complained they weren't in AAP. I can tell you that we are not the only ones making the switch.

Don't be surprised if those level III kids end up being as good as the level IV kids at class work.

Of course. My concern is the Level II kids that will be placed with Level IV.

That was not me, but yes, I am concerned about the grouping/mixing and not being able to meet my children at their very advanced levels. It's hard enough when there are children principal placed into the classroom that are having a hard time keeping up but whose parents won't send them back to GenEd because of the "prestige" of being in AAP. It's not about prestige, its about academics and challenge.

I hear you. DC's class went from 17 last year to 25 this year (with two of the original 17 moving), and some of the "newer" AAP students are struggling to keep up. I know the Principal or perhaps one of the AAP teachers mentioned that the 3rd grade class only had 14 kids in it. I think they're getting pressure to equalize the class sizes.

All of the third grade classes were small at the beginning of the year, but then the teacher of the largest class quit in the second week of school without giving notice and instead of hiring a new teacher, they just redistributed those kids to all of the other classes - except AAP. So the AAP class remained small while the other classes are huge. It's a really bad look.

I would assume hiring an AAP teacher would be slightly more difficult than a gen ed teacher. Presumably AAP instructors have some additional accreditation /county-based certification, which could be less common.

It was NOT an AAP class whose teacher quit, it was a normal class. And the administration was too lazy to identify the high performers from that class to place into AAP or to shift other kids around so they just shoved them in the other classes that were thriving with small class sizes.

What do you mean thriving? Didn’t the teacher quit in the second week?

No chance a principal is going to reshuffle the entire grade the second week of school. Terrible timing but redistributing one class was the smart choice. There must have been room or else they would have hired a long term sub.

Not even sure we’re taking about the same school or class anymore here.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting back on topic - OP, this means that there will be two dumbed down AAP classes with Level II, III, IV kids in them and two "smartened up" GenEd classes with everyone else. We spoke with the principal and AART about it and are moving to Lemon Road next year. We have two in AAP and they need a challenging curriculum with their peers, not one dumbed down for kids whose parents complained they weren't in AAP. I can tell you that we are not the only ones making the switch.

Don't be surprised if those level III kids end up being as good as the level IV kids at class work.

Of course. My concern is the Level II kids that will be placed with Level IV.

That was not me, but yes, I am concerned about the grouping/mixing and not being able to meet my children at their very advanced levels. It's hard enough when there are children principal placed into the classroom that are having a hard time keeping up but whose parents won't send them back to GenEd because of the "prestige" of being in AAP. It's not about prestige, its about academics and challenge.

I hear you. DC's class went from 17 last year to 25 this year (with two of the original 17 moving), and some of the "newer" AAP students are struggling to keep up. I know the Principal or perhaps one of the AAP teachers mentioned that the 3rd grade class only had 14 kids in it. I think they're getting pressure to equalize the class sizes.

Right. Isn’t this a move to remedy this concern? There needs to be equal sized classes and if there aren’t enough level IV students to make an entire class, they need to get divided into the two classrooms. Those kids that were placed in there will get redistributed. Though it is interesting that your perspective on how they’re doing directly conflicts with the evidence presented.

Not sure I'm following you. They're filling an advanced academic class with non-advanced students for the purpose of filling the class? This doesn't solve the problem of those kids not being able to keep up. My DC's teacher complains about this daily.

BULLSHIT. Your child's teacher complains to you every single day that there are kids in her class that can't keep up? Really? If that's true, then she's extremely unprofessional and the issue is more likely that she doesn't know how to do her job. But in reality, we all know you're making that up.

I know this because she tells the class this almost daily, and she complained about it during a parent/teacher conference. Other parents are aware of the comments as well. Would agree with your assessment that it is unprofessional, even if the situation is accurate.

Are we still at the same school or is this a different school? A teacher is telling the class that level III kids aren’t to the level of the level IV kids?

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Anonymous wrote:Getting back on topic - OP, this means that there will be two dumbed down AAP classes with Level II, III, IV kids in them and two "smartened up" GenEd classes with everyone else. We spoke with the principal and AART about it and are moving to Lemon Road next year. We have two in AAP and they need a challenging curriculum with their peers, not one dumbed down for kids whose parents complained they weren't in AAP. I can tell you that we are not the only ones making the switch.

Don't be surprised if those level III kids end up being as good as the level IV kids at class work.

Of course. My concern is the Level II kids that will be placed with Level IV.

That was not me, but yes, I am concerned about the grouping/mixing and not being able to meet my children at their very advanced levels. It's hard enough when there are children principal placed into the classroom that are having a hard time keeping up but whose parents won't send them back to GenEd because of the "prestige" of being in AAP. It's not about prestige, its about academics and challenge.

I hear you. DC's class went from 17 last year to 25 this year (with two of the original 17 moving), and some of the "newer" AAP students are struggling to keep up. I know the Principal or perhaps one of the AAP teachers mentioned that the 3rd grade class only had 14 kids in it. I think they're getting pressure to equalize the class sizes.

Right. Isn’t this a move to remedy this concern? There needs to be equal sized classes and if there aren’t enough level IV students to make an entire class, they need to get divided into the two classrooms. Those kids that were placed in there will get redistributed. Though it is interesting that your perspective on how they’re doing directly conflicts with the evidence presented.

Not sure I'm following you. They're filling an advanced academic class with non-advanced students for the purpose of filling the class? This doesn't solve the problem of those kids not being able to keep up. My DC's teacher complains about this daily.

BULLSHIT. Your child's teacher complains to you every single day that there are kids in her class that can't keep up? Really? If that's true, then she's extremely unprofessional and the issue is more likely that she doesn't know how to do her job. But in reality, we all know you're making that up.

I know this because she tells the class this almost daily, and she complained about it during a parent/teacher conference. Other parents are aware of the comments as well. Would agree with your assessment that it is unprofessional, even if the situation is accurate.

Are we still at the same school or is this a different school? A teacher is telling the class that level III kids aren’t to the level of the level IV kids?

Same school but your assumption is incorrect. I’m the PP who referenced the AAP class going from 17 to 25 this year. Some of the newer AAP kids added this year are struggling to keep up; others have had disciplinary issues. These issues didn’t exist previously. I brought it up due to the discussion of what appears to be further dilution of the Level IV classroom.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting back on topic - OP, this means that there will be two dumbed down AAP classes with Level II, III, IV kids in them and two "smartened up" GenEd classes with everyone else. We spoke with the principal and AART about it and are moving to Lemon Road next year. We have two in AAP and they need a challenging curriculum with their peers, not one dumbed down for kids whose parents complained they weren't in AAP. I can tell you that we are not the only ones making the switch.

Don't be surprised if those level III kids end up being as good as the level IV kids at class work.

Of course. My concern is the Level II kids that will be placed with Level IV.

That was not me, but yes, I am concerned about the grouping/mixing and not being able to meet my children at their very advanced levels. It's hard enough when there are children principal placed into the classroom that are having a hard time keeping up but whose parents won't send them back to GenEd because of the "prestige" of being in AAP. It's not about prestige, its about academics and challenge.

I hear you. DC's class went from 17 last year to 25 this year (with two of the original 17 moving), and some of the "newer" AAP students are struggling to keep up. I know the Principal or perhaps one of the AAP teachers mentioned that the 3rd grade class only had 14 kids in it. I think they're getting pressure to equalize the class sizes.

Right. Isn’t this a move to remedy this concern? There needs to be equal sized classes and if there aren’t enough level IV students to make an entire class, they need to get divided into the two classrooms. Those kids that were placed in there will get redistributed. Though it is interesting that your perspective on how they’re doing directly conflicts with the evidence presented.

Not sure I'm following you. They're filling an advanced academic class with non-advanced students for the purpose of filling the class? This doesn't solve the problem of those kids not being able to keep up. My DC's teacher complains about this daily.

BULLSHIT. Your child's teacher complains to you every single day that there are kids in her class that can't keep up? Really? If that's true, then she's extremely unprofessional and the issue is more likely that she doesn't know how to do her job. But in reality, we all know you're making that up.

I know this because she tells the class this almost daily, and she complained about it during a parent/teacher conference. Other parents are aware of the comments as well. Would agree with your assessment that it is unprofessional, even if the situation is accurate.

Are we still at the same school or is this a different school? A teacher is telling the class that level III kids aren’t to the level of the level IV kids?

Same school but your assumption is incorrect. I’m the PP who referenced the AAP class going from 17 to 25 this year. Some of the newer AAP kids added this year are struggling to keep up; others have had disciplinary issues. These issues didn’t exist previously. I brought it up due to the discussion of what appears to be further dilution of the Level IV classroom.

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Center school exist for a reason! This neighborhood school can’t function if each grade insists on maintaining classrooms with ONLY level IV kids. I get the frustration but look at it from an admin lense

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Anonymous wrote:This school board needs to be voted out. They are not concerned about providing the best education but are playing dirty politics in the name of race based education. Diversity is important in classrooms but AAP selection has to be merit based.
We also moved to a high SES school pyramid and my DC is in pool after scoring more than 140 in cogat and NNAT, receiving level II services in math and language arts. But due to the dirty politics in play I’m concerned about the selection process and future of AAP.

Did your DC prep for the tests?

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Anonymous wrote:This school board needs to be voted out. They are not concerned about providing the best education but are playing dirty politics in the name of race based education. Diversity is important in classrooms but AAP selection has to be merit based.
We also moved to a high SES school pyramid and my DC is in pool after scoring more than 140 in cogat and NNAT, receiving level II services in math and language arts. But due to the dirty politics in play I’m concerned about the selection process and future of AAP.

Did your DC prep for the tests?

As you ought to be whether they prepped or not. I’m concerned because my kid has a plain Anglo Saxon name. Lol

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Anonymous wrote:Center school exist for a reason! This neighborhood school can’t function if each grade insists on maintaining classrooms with ONLY level IV kids. I get the frustration but look at it from an admin lense

Other level IV schools are managing it just fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting back on topic - OP, this means that there will be two dumbed down AAP classes with Level II, III, IV kids in them and two "smartened up" GenEd classes with everyone else. We spoke with the principal and AART about it and are moving to Lemon Road next year. We have two in AAP and they need a challenging curriculum with their peers, not one dumbed down for kids whose parents complained they weren't in AAP. I can tell you that we are not the only ones making the switch.

Don't be surprised if those level III kids end up being as good as the level IV kids at class work.

Of course. My concern is the Level II kids that will be placed with Level IV.

That was not me, but yes, I am concerned about the grouping/mixing and not being able to meet my children at their very advanced levels. It's hard enough when there are children principal placed into the classroom that are having a hard time keeping up but whose parents won't send them back to GenEd because of the "prestige" of being in AAP. It's not about prestige, its about academics and challenge.

I hear you. DC's class went from 17 last year to 25 this year (with two of the original 17 moving), and some of the "newer" AAP students are struggling to keep up. I know the Principal or perhaps one of the AAP teachers mentioned that the 3rd grade class only had 14 kids in it. I think they're getting pressure to equalize the class sizes.

Right. Isn’t this a move to remedy this concern? There needs to be equal sized classes and if there aren’t enough level IV students to make an entire class, they need to get divided into the two classrooms. Those kids that were placed in there will get redistributed. Though it is interesting that your perspective on how they’re doing directly conflicts with the evidence presented.

Not sure I'm following you. They're filling an advanced academic class with non-advanced students for the purpose of filling the class? This doesn't solve the problem of those kids not being able to keep up. My DC's teacher complains about this daily.

BULLSHIT. Your child's teacher complains to you every single day that there are kids in her class that can't keep up? Really? If that's true, then she's extremely unprofessional and the issue is more likely that she doesn't know how to do her job. But in reality, we all know you're making that up.

I know this because she tells the class this almost daily, and she complained about it during a parent/teacher conference. Other parents are aware of the comments as well. Would agree with your assessment that it is unprofessional, even if the situation is accurate.

Are we still at the same school or is this a different school? A teacher is telling the class that level III kids aren’t to the level of the level IV kids?

She's 100% making this up.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting back on topic - OP, this means that there will be two dumbed down AAP classes with Level II, III, IV kids in them and two "smartened up" GenEd classes with everyone else. We spoke with the principal and AART about it and are moving to Lemon Road next year. We have two in AAP and they need a challenging curriculum with their peers, not one dumbed down for kids whose parents complained they weren't in AAP. I can tell you that we are not the only ones making the switch.

Don't be surprised if those level III kids end up being as good as the level IV kids at class work.

Of course. My concern is the Level II kids that will be placed with Level IV.

That was not me, but yes, I am concerned about the grouping/mixing and not being able to meet my children at their very advanced levels. It's hard enough when there are children principal placed into the classroom that are having a hard time keeping up but whose parents won't send them back to GenEd because of the "prestige" of being in AAP. It's not about prestige, its about academics and challenge.

I hear you. DC's class went from 17 last year to 25 this year (with two of the original 17 moving), and some of the "newer" AAP students are struggling to keep up. I know the Principal or perhaps one of the AAP teachers mentioned that the 3rd grade class only had 14 kids in it. I think they're getting pressure to equalize the class sizes.

Right. Isn’t this a move to remedy this concern? There needs to be equal sized classes and if there aren’t enough level IV students to make an entire class, they need to get divided into the two classrooms. Those kids that were placed in there will get redistributed. Though it is interesting that your perspective on how they’re doing directly conflicts with the evidence presented.

Not sure I'm following you. They're filling an advanced academic class with non-advanced students for the purpose of filling the class? This doesn't solve the problem of those kids not being able to keep up. My DC's teacher complains about this daily.

BULLSHIT. Your child's teacher complains to you every single day that there are kids in her class that can't keep up? Really? If that's true, then she's extremely unprofessional and the issue is more likely that she doesn't know how to do her job. But in reality, we all know you're making that up.

I know this because she tells the class this almost daily, and she complained about it during a parent/teacher conference. Other parents are aware of the comments as well. Would agree with your assessment that it is unprofessional, even if the situation is accurate.

Are we still at the same school or is this a different school? A teacher is telling the class that level III kids aren’t to the level of the level IV kids?

She's 100% making this up.

The post you’re responding to is not accurate, as I previously stated, but I’m not making this up. Do you even have a child going to the same school, or is this projection?

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It could be that smaller schools might move to the model that the OP posted or some of the schools that have not wanted LLIV and are being told that they have to institute LLIV.

It does go to the problem that FCPS has in that they don’t insist on uniform practices across schools so that it ends up being a huge mess.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting back on topic - OP, this means that there will be two dumbed down AAP classes with Level II, III, IV kids in them and two "smartened up" GenEd classes with everyone else. We spoke with the principal and AART about it and are moving to Lemon Road next year. We have two in AAP and they need a challenging curriculum with their peers, not one dumbed down for kids whose parents complained they weren't in AAP. I can tell you that we are not the only ones making the switch.

Don't be surprised if those level III kids end up being as good as the level IV kids at class work.

Of course. My concern is the Level II kids that will be placed with Level IV.

That was not me, but yes, I am concerned about the grouping/mixing and not being able to meet my children at their very advanced levels. It's hard enough when there are children principal placed into the classroom that are having a hard time keeping up but whose parents won't send them back to GenEd because of the "prestige" of being in AAP. It's not about prestige, its about academics and challenge.

I hear you. DC's class went from 17 last year to 25 this year (with two of the original 17 moving), and some of the "newer" AAP students are struggling to keep up. I know the Principal or perhaps one of the AAP teachers mentioned that the 3rd grade class only had 14 kids in it. I think they're getting pressure to equalize the class sizes.

Right. Isn’t this a move to remedy this concern? There needs to be equal sized classes and if there aren’t enough level IV students to make an entire class, they need to get divided into the two classrooms. Those kids that were placed in there will get redistributed. Though it is interesting that your perspective on how they’re doing directly conflicts with the evidence presented.

Not sure I'm following you. They're filling an advanced academic class with non-advanced students for the purpose of filling the class? This doesn't solve the problem of those kids not being able to keep up. My DC's teacher complains about this daily.

BULLSHIT. Your child's teacher complains to you every single day that there are kids in her class that can't keep up? Really? If that's true, then she's extremely unprofessional and the issue is more likely that she doesn't know how to do her job. But in reality, we all know you're making that up.

I know this because she tells the class this almost daily, and she complained about it during a parent/teacher conference. Other parents are aware of the comments as well. Would agree with your assessment that it is unprofessional, even if the situation is accurate.

Are we still at the same school or is this a different school? A teacher is telling the class that level III kids aren’t to the level of the level IV kids?

She's 100% making this up.

Time for a new schtick, PP. Calling people liars and claiming everything is made up does not contribute to the conversation. You've done it several times on this thread. You seem entirely vested in AAP going away (my guess is your kid didn't get in) but this one school's change isn't going to wipe out the entire program. Make a case for it if you feel strongly without resorting to just claiming everyone else is making up fiction. It's weak.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting back on topic - OP, this means that there will be two dumbed down AAP classes with Level II, III, IV kids in them and two "smartened up" GenEd classes with everyone else. We spoke with the principal and AART about it and are moving to Lemon Road next year. We have two in AAP and they need a challenging curriculum with their peers, not one dumbed down for kids whose parents complained they weren't in AAP. I can tell you that we are not the only ones making the switch.

Don't be surprised if those level III kids end up being as good as the level IV kids at class work.

Of course. My concern is the Level II kids that will be placed with Level IV.

That was not me, but yes, I am concerned about the grouping/mixing and not being able to meet my children at their very advanced levels. It's hard enough when there are children principal placed into the classroom that are having a hard time keeping up but whose parents won't send them back to GenEd because of the "prestige" of being in AAP. It's not about prestige, its about academics and challenge.

I hear you. DC's class went from 17 last year to 25 this year (with two of the original 17 moving), and some of the "newer" AAP students are struggling to keep up. I know the Principal or perhaps one of the AAP teachers mentioned that the 3rd grade class only had 14 kids in it. I think they're getting pressure to equalize the class sizes.

All of the third grade classes were small at the beginning of the year, but then the teacher of the largest class quit in the second week of school without giving notice and instead of hiring a new teacher, they just redistributed those kids to all of the other classes - except AAP. So the AAP class remained small while the other classes are huge. It's a really bad look.

I would assume hiring an AAP teacher would be slightly more difficult than a gen ed teacher. Presumably AAP instructors have some additional accreditation /county-based certification, which could be less common.

It was NOT an AAP class whose teacher quit, it was a normal class. And the administration was too lazy to identify the high performers from that class to place into AAP or to shift other kids around so they just shoved them in the other classes that were thriving with small class sizes.

What do you mean thriving? Didn’t the teacher quit in the second week?

No chance a principal is going to reshuffle the entire grade the second week of school. Terrible timing but redistributing one class was the smart choice. There must have been room or else they would have hired a long term sub.

Not even sure we’re taking about the same school or class anymore here.

This was in response to this poster, not OP:

All of the third grade classes were small at the beginning of the year, but then the teacher of the largest class quit in the second week of school without giving notice and instead of hiring a new teacher, they just redistributed those kids to all of the other classes - except AAP. So the AAP class remained small while the other classes are huge. It's a really bad look.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting back on topic - OP, this means that there will be two dumbed down AAP classes with Level II, III, IV kids in them and two "smartened up" GenEd classes with everyone else. We spoke with the principal and AART about it and are moving to Lemon Road next year. We have two in AAP and they need a challenging curriculum with their peers, not one dumbed down for kids whose parents complained they weren't in AAP. I can tell you that we are not the only ones making the switch.

Don't be surprised if those level III kids end up being as good as the level IV kids at class work.

Of course. My concern is the Level II kids that will be placed with Level IV.

That was not me, but yes, I am concerned about the grouping/mixing and not being able to meet my children at their very advanced levels. It's hard enough when there are children principal placed into the classroom that are having a hard time keeping up but whose parents won't send them back to GenEd because of the "prestige" of being in AAP. It's not about prestige, its about academics and challenge.

I hear you. DC's class went from 17 last year to 25 this year (with two of the original 17 moving), and some of the "newer" AAP students are struggling to keep up. I know the Principal or perhaps one of the AAP teachers mentioned that the 3rd grade class only had 14 kids in it. I think they're getting pressure to equalize the class sizes.

All of the third grade classes were small at the beginning of the year, but then the teacher of the largest class quit in the second week of school without giving notice and instead of hiring a new teacher, they just redistributed those kids to all of the other classes - except AAP. So the AAP class remained small while the other classes are huge. It's a really bad look.

I would assume hiring an AAP teacher would be slightly more difficult than a gen ed teacher. Presumably AAP instructors have some additional accreditation /county-based certification, which could be less common.

It was NOT an AAP class whose teacher quit, it was a normal class. And the administration was too lazy to identify the high performers from that class to place into AAP or to shift other kids around so they just shoved them in the other classes that were thriving with small class sizes.

What do you mean thriving? Didn’t the teacher quit in the second week?

No chance a principal is going to reshuffle the entire grade the second week of school. Terrible timing but redistributing one class was the smart choice. There must have been room or else they would have hired a long term sub.

Not even sure we’re taking about the same school or class anymore here.

This was in response to this poster, not OP:

All of the third grade classes were small at the beginning of the year, but then the teacher of the largest class quit in the second week of school without giving notice and instead of hiring a new teacher, they just redistributed those kids to all of the other classes - except AAP. So the AAP class remained small while the other classes are huge. It's a really bad look.

Was this at Shrevewood? If so, I wasn't aware of it as my DC is in another grade. Would agree that is a bad look, and may have been part of the impetus for what they are doing now. Not sure why they just couldn't have gotten a long-term sub until they hired another teacher. My sister works for FCPS and has done several long-term sub jobs for teachers on maternity leave, et.