Navy Elementary - Principal Resignation

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a Navy parent but my child is in 2nd at Crossfield and I'm fairly confident she will get into AAP given her test scores and some subtle feedback from her teacher so I've been following this thread with interest. How are things going at Navy this year?

Just stay at Xfield for LLIV. It’s underenrolled and Navy very much is not.

Although Navy leadership might be an improvement

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not a Navy parent but my child is in 2nd at Crossfield and I'm fairly confident she will get into AAP given her test scores and some subtle feedback from her teacher so I've been following this thread with interest. How are things going at Navy this year?

That’s a loaded question. lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a Navy parent but my child is in 2nd at Crossfield and I'm fairly confident she will get into AAP given her test scores and some subtle feedback from her teacher so I've been following this thread with interest. How are things going at Navy this year?

Just stay at Xfield for LLIV. It’s underenrolled and Navy very much is not.

Although Navy leadership might be an improvement

What do you mean under enrolled? My friends with older kids complain about how large their class sizes are? 6th grade has one glass with 28 kids!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a Navy parent but my child is in 2nd at Crossfield and I'm fairly confident she will get into AAP given her test scores and some subtle feedback from her teacher so I've been following this thread with interest. How are things going at Navy this year?

Just stay at Xfield for LLIV. It’s underenrolled and Navy very much is not.

Although Navy leadership might be an improvement

What do you mean under enrolled? My friends with older kids complain about how large their class sizes are? 6th grade has one glass with 28 kids!

Crossfield is underenrolled and Navy is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a Navy parent but my child is in 2nd at Crossfield and I'm fairly confident she will get into AAP given her test scores and some subtle feedback from her teacher so I've been following this thread with interest. How are things going at Navy this year?

It’s very class and teacher dependent, much like many other schools. Some grade level teams were wiped out by the mass exodus. My sense is that things are better in the grades where more of the teachers stayed, which makes sense. I don’t know if how things are going this year is much of a predictor for next year because teachers can come/go/get moved around including in or out of AAP. And we have no idea who the principal will be and if it will be someone the teachers actually like working for. If there’s more stability at Crossfield, and if parents there are happy with the local AAP, it might make sense to stay put.

I haven’t heard any complaints since they figured out the long term sub situation in 6th, honestly. I think most everyone else is happy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a Navy parent but my child is in 2nd at Crossfield and I'm fairly confident she will get into AAP given her test scores and some subtle feedback from her teacher so I've been following this thread with interest. How are things going at Navy this year?

Just stay at Xfield for LLIV. It’s underenrolled and Navy very much is not.

Although Navy leadership might be an improvement

What do you mean under enrolled? My friends with older kids complain about how large their class sizes are? 6th grade has one glass with 28 kids!

That is literally all of FCPS. If you have fewer than 26-28 in a class, consider yourself lucky.

[Anonymous]

My kid AAP class at another school has over 30 kids. The gen ed classes are much smaller. Every grade is different. Some grades are over enrolled and others under enrolled. I would suggest stay at your home school. We stayed at our home school for AAP and don’t regret it. If you and your kid is happy at Crossfield then stay there. If you’re unhappy then it’s an opportunity to move.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a Navy parent but my child is in 2nd at Crossfield and I'm fairly confident she will get into AAP given her test scores and some subtle feedback from her teacher so I've been following this thread with interest. How are things going at Navy this year?

Just stay at Xfield for LLIV. It’s underenrolled and Navy very much is not.

Although Navy leadership might be an improvement

What do you mean under enrolled? My friends with older kids complain about how large their class sizes are? 6th grade has one glass with 28 kids!

That is literally all of FCPS. If you have fewer than 26-28 in a class, consider yourself lucky.

FCPS is FCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a Navy parent but my child is in 2nd at Crossfield and I'm fairly confident she will get into AAP given her test scores and some subtle feedback from her teacher so I've been following this thread with interest. How are things going at Navy this year?

Just stay at Xfield for LLIV. It’s underenrolled and Navy very much is not.

Although Navy leadership might be an improvement

What do you mean under enrolled? My friends with older kids complain about how large their class sizes are? 6th grade has one glass with 28 kids!

That is literally all of FCPS. If you have fewer than 26-28 in a class, consider yourself lucky.

I always wondered the mismatch between the class size, and the student to teacher ratio...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a Navy parent but my child is in 2nd at Crossfield and I'm fairly confident she will get into AAP given her test scores and some subtle feedback from her teacher so I've been following this thread with interest. How are things going at Navy this year?

Just stay at Xfield for LLIV. It’s underenrolled and Navy very much is not.

Although Navy leadership might be an improvement

What do you mean under enrolled? My friends with older kids complain about how large their class sizes are? 6th grade has one glass with 28 kids!

Crossfield is underenrolled and Navy is not.

Crossfield has about 567 kids, and Navy has around 900. Navy grade has like 6 classes while crossfield has about 3. For example for 3rd grade, Crossfield has 1 AAP class and 2 Gen Ed, and Navy has 2 AAP class and 4 gen ed classes. But somehow Navy lunch is 45 min and Crossfield 20 min.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a Navy parent but my child is in 2nd at Crossfield and I'm fairly confident she will get into AAP given her test scores and some subtle feedback from her teacher so I've been following this thread with interest. How are things going at Navy this year?

Just stay at Xfield for LLIV. It’s underenrolled and Navy very much is not.

Although Navy leadership might be an improvement

What do you mean under enrolled? My friends with older kids complain about how large their class sizes are? 6th grade has one glass with 28 kids!

That is literally all of FCPS. If you have fewer than 26-28 in a class, consider yourself lucky.

I always wondered the mismatch between the class size, and the student to teacher ratio...

Because when they do staffing it is for grades 1-6. So if the school gets alloted 30 1-6 teachers, the principal decides how to implement with the state ratios. Some grades happen to be bigger too. So our 4th grade gas classes of 18-20 while 5th grade has classes of 25-28. It truly is dumb and IMO staffing formula should be done by the grade level vs all of 1-6.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a Navy parent but my child is in 2nd at Crossfield and I'm fairly confident she will get into AAP given her test scores and some subtle feedback from her teacher so I've been following this thread with interest. How are things going at Navy this year?

Just stay at Xfield for LLIV. It’s underenrolled and Navy very much is not.

Although Navy leadership might be an improvement

What do you mean under enrolled? My friends with older kids complain about how large their class sizes are? 6th grade has one glass with 28 kids!

Crossfield is underenrolled and Navy is not.

Crossfield has about 567 kids, and Navy has around 900. Navy grade has like 6 classes while crossfield has about 3. For example for 3rd grade, Crossfield has 1 AAP class and 2 Gen Ed, and Navy has 2 AAP class and 4 gen ed classes. But somehow Navy lunch is 45 min and Crossfield 20 min.

Lunch at Navy is 30 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a Navy parent but my child is in 2nd at Crossfield and I'm fairly confident she will get into AAP given her test scores and some subtle feedback from her teacher so I've been following this thread with interest. How are things going at Navy this year?

It’s very class and teacher dependent, much like many other schools. Some grade level teams were wiped out by the mass exodus. My sense is that things are better in the grades where more of the teachers stayed, which makes sense. I don’t know if how things are going this year is much of a predictor for next year because teachers can come/go/get moved around including in or out of AAP. And we have no idea who the principal will be and if it will be someone the teachers actually like working for. If there’s more stability at Crossfield, and if parents there are happy with the local AAP, it might make sense to stay put.

I haven’t heard any complaints since they figured out the long term sub situation in 6th, honestly. I think most everyone else is happy.

No, half of the 4th grade parents are not happy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a Navy parent but my child is in 2nd at Crossfield and I'm fairly confident she will get into AAP given her test scores and some subtle feedback from her teacher so I've been following this thread with interest. How are things going at Navy this year?

Just stay at Xfield for LLIV. It’s underenrolled and Navy very much is not.

Although Navy leadership might be an improvement

What do you mean under enrolled? My friends with older kids complain about how large their class sizes are? 6th grade has one glass with 28 kids!

That is literally all of FCPS. If you have fewer than 26-28 in a class, consider yourself lucky.

I always wondered the mismatch between the class size, and the student to teacher ratio...

Because when they do staffing it is for grades 1-6. So if the school gets alloted 30 1-6 teachers, the principal decides how to implement with the state ratios. Some grades happen to be bigger too. So our 4th grade gas classes of 18-20 while 5th grade has classes of 25-28. It truly is dumb and IMO staffing formula should be done by the grade level vs all of 1-6.

5th has classes under 20. 6th is the big one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a Navy parent but my child is in 2nd at Crossfield and I'm fairly confident she will get into AAP given her test scores and some subtle feedback from her teacher so I've been following this thread with interest. How are things going at Navy this year?

It’s very class and teacher dependent, much like many other schools. Some grade level teams were wiped out by the mass exodus. My sense is that things are better in the grades where more of the teachers stayed, which makes sense. I don’t know if how things are going this year is much of a predictor for next year because teachers can come/go/get moved around including in or out of AAP. And we have no idea who the principal will be and if it will be someone the teachers actually like working for. If there’s more stability at Crossfield, and if parents there are happy with the local AAP, it might make sense to stay put.

I haven’t heard any complaints since they figured out the long term sub situation in 6th, honestly. I think most everyone else is happy.

No, half of the 4th grade parents are not happy.

Do tell…