Removing a kid from AAP

[Anonymous]

Have any of you ever changed your mind and pulled your kid out of AAP? We hate the logistical challenge of kids in four different FCPS schools, and are considering moving our middle kid, a current 3rd grader, from his AAP center back to his base school to attend with his little brother next year. He'll have to leave his current AAP center next year anyway due to overcrowding. Base is instituting Level IV services for the first time starting with rising 3rd graders next year, but won't have any other rising 5th graders at his level. This a bright kid -- CoGAT was 138 -- but also a kid who struggles a little with math and has ADHD. Socially he has been much better off at the AAP center than he was at base.

Feedback? No flames or snarkiness, please. Oh, wait, I forgot I am on DCUM...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have any of you ever changed your mind and pulled your kid out of AAP? We hate the logistical challenge of kids in four different FCPS schools, and are considering moving our middle kid, a current 3rd grader, from his AAP center back to his base school to attend with his little brother next year. He'll have to leave his current AAP center next year anyway due to overcrowding. Base is instituting Level IV services for the first time starting with rising 3rd graders next year, but won't have any other rising 5th graders at his level. This a bright kid -- CoGAT was 138 -- but also a kid who struggles a little with math and has ADHD. Socially he has been much better off at the AAP center than he was at base.

Feedback? No flames or snarkiness, please. Oh, wait, I forgot I am on DCUM...

If he has been better off in the AAP center, have you considered pupil placing your younger child in the AAP center school? I pupil placed my kindergartner in my son's AAP center school to avoid three different schools. You just need to fill out a transfer request.

[Anonymous]

This is tough. Lord knows I appreciate the logistics of 4 diff schools and struggling to juggle it all! What gives me pause is that he has ADHD issues, and that he's doing well socially in the school he's in right now. At his age it's such a sensitive balance, socially fitting in. And he just switched schools to join the AAP center, right? If it's at all possible to push on through until he gets to middle school, it sure sounds like that would be the best route for him. And a hero badge for mom for keeping all the balls in the air!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have any of you ever changed your mind and pulled your kid out of AAP? We hate the logistical challenge of kids in four different FCPS schools, and are considering moving our middle kid, a current 3rd grader, from his AAP center back to his base school to attend with his little brother next year. He'll have to leave his current AAP center next year anyway due to overcrowding. Base is instituting Level IV services for the first time starting with rising 3rd graders next year, but won't have any other rising 5th graders at his level. This a bright kid -- CoGAT was 138 -- but also a kid who struggles a little with math and has ADHD. Socially he has been much better off at the AAP center than he was at base.

Feedback? No flames or snarkiness, please. Oh, wait, I forgot I am on DCUM...

If he has been better off in the AAP center, have you considered pupil placing your younger child in the AAP center school? I pupil placed my kindergartner in my son's AAP center school to avoid three different schools. You just need to fill out a transfer request.

+1

In general, an ADHD-and-AAP-eligible student will do better at a Center than Local Level IV. You may have to consider what to do when your middle child goes to middle school and your youngest may not be Center-eligible (yet).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have any of you ever changed your mind and pulled your kid out of AAP? We hate the logistical challenge of kids in four different FCPS schools, and are considering moving our middle kid, a current 3rd grader, from his AAP center back to his base school to attend with his little brother next year. He'll have to leave his current AAP center next year anyway due to overcrowding. Base is instituting Level IV services for the first time starting with rising 3rd graders next year, but won't have any other rising 5th graders at his level. This a bright kid -- CoGAT was 138 -- but also a kid who struggles a little with math and has ADHD. Socially he has been much better off at the AAP center than he was at base.

Feedback? No flames or snarkiness, please. Oh, wait, I forgot I am on DCUM...

I did. She also had cogat of 138. Also somewhat adhd, math is not her strong suit. Off the charts on the verbal and reading.

She is doing just fine in gen ed, happy as a clam. If she matures some, I might try it again. For now we are content.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have any of you ever changed your mind and pulled your kid out of AAP? We hate the logistical challenge of kids in four different FCPS schools, and are considering moving our middle kid, a current 3rd grader, from his AAP center back to his base school to attend with his little brother next year. He'll have to leave his current AAP center next year anyway due to overcrowding. Base is instituting Level IV services for the first time starting with rising 3rd graders next year, but won't have any other rising 5th graders at his level. This a bright kid -- CoGAT was 138 -- but also a kid who struggles a little with math and has ADHD. Socially he has been much better off at the AAP center than he was at base.

Feedback? No flames or snarkiness, please. Oh, wait, I forgot I am on DCUM...

If he has been better off in the AAP center, have you considered pupil placing your younger child in the AAP center school? I pupil placed my kindergartner in my son's AAP center school to avoid three different schools. You just need to fill out a transfer request.

+1

In general, an ADHD-and-AAP-eligible student will do better at a Center than Local Level IV. You may have to consider what to do when your middle child goes to middle school and your youngest may not be Center-eligible (yet).

+1

As for the youngest, if he/she is fine socially, it won't be an issue. Sometimes the necessity of staying with their friends throughout the school got blown out of proportion. What's the harm for 8yo to play with a different bunch of kids for a change?

[Anonymous]

Just remember that the middle school might not be in the same pyramid.
There is a lot to be said for being in your community school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just remember that the middle school might not be in the same pyramid.
There is a lot to be said for being in your community school.

And there is a lot to be said for being in a strong academic peer group, especially with teachers and counseling staff with lots of experience in supporting the emotional needs of the gifted.

[Anonymous]

Also, if you pupil place your kindergartner just make sure you have playdates with friends in your neighborhood who go to the base school. That way if the youngest for whatever reason doesn't end up in AAP the transition back to the base school won't be that bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have any of you ever changed your mind and pulled your kid out of AAP? We hate the logistical challenge of kids in four different FCPS schools, and are considering moving our middle kid, a current 3rd grader, from his AAP center back to his base school to attend with his little brother next year. He'll have to leave his current AAP center next year anyway due to overcrowding. Base is instituting Level IV services for the first time starting with rising 3rd graders next year, but won't have any other rising 5th graders at his level. This a bright kid -- CoGAT was 138 -- but also a kid who struggles a little with math and has ADHD. Socially he has been much better off at the AAP center than he was at base.

Feedback? No flames or snarkiness, please. Oh, wait, I forgot I am on DCUM...

IQ of 138 is bright. Is a COGAT of 138 really considered bright?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have any of you ever changed your mind and pulled your kid out of AAP? We hate the logistical challenge of kids in four different FCPS schools, and are considering moving our middle kid, a current 3rd grader, from his AAP center back to his base school to attend with his little brother next year. He'll have to leave his current AAP center next year anyway due to overcrowding. Base is instituting Level IV services for the first time starting with rising 3rd graders next year, but won't have any other rising 5th graders at his level. This a bright kid -- CoGAT was 138 -- but also a kid who struggles a little with math and has ADHD. Socially he has been much better off at the AAP center than he was at base.

Feedback? No flames or snarkiness, please. Oh, wait, I forgot I am on DCUM...

IQ of 138 is bright. Is a COGAT of 138 really considered bright?

Bright? Yes
Gifted? Not necessarily

[Anonymous]

Op- if you move your child back, talk to the principal or send a letter about having your child placed in a classroom in which the teacher is known for challenging students. You don't want him in a class where they the SOLs are the top standard.

[Anonymous]

If he is socially better off, however, I'd leave him there. Figure out another way to ease the logistics or just gut it out another two years.

[Anonymous]

Not every kid is successful in AAP. Dear friends DC has struggled all year with homework; not a strong reader, not internally motivated, and struggles in math. Friend told me she want to take DC out of AAP next year. Not sure what her DH thinks, though. In my DCs AAP class, 3 kids went back to Gen Ed after struggling for a year. Something parents should gnaw on...if you need to hire a tutor, think again.young kids shouldn't need tutors, not in AAP. School should be fun, not stressful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have any of you ever changed your mind and pulled your kid out of AAP? We hate the logistical challenge of kids in four different FCPS schools, and are considering moving our middle kid, a current 3rd grader, from his AAP center back to his base school to attend with his little brother next year. He'll have to leave his current AAP center next year anyway due to overcrowding. Base is instituting Level IV services for the first time starting with rising 3rd graders next year, but won't have any other rising 5th graders at his level. This a bright kid -- CoGAT was 138 -- but also a kid who struggles a little with math and has ADHD. Socially he has been much better off at the AAP center than he was at base.

Feedback? No flames or snarkiness, please. Oh, wait, I forgot I am on DCUM...

If he has been better off in the AAP center, have you considered pupil placing your younger child in the AAP center school? I pupil placed my kindergartner in my son's AAP center school to avoid three different schools. You just need to fill out a transfer request.

+1

In general, an ADHD-and-AAP-eligible student will do better at a Center than Local Level IV. You may have to consider what to do when your middle child goes to middle school and your youngest may not be Center-eligible (yet).

What is that based on? How do you know? What's important is that he has a strong teacher who "gets" what kind of learner he is. That happens everyday at non-AAP center schools.