AAP Appeals Questions Thread

[Anonymous]

Did you receive the confirmation email?

[Anonymous]

I just got my confirmation email around noon today

[Anonymous]

Got mine today

[Anonymous]

Can anyone please explain who is on the appeals committee and how the decisions are made? Is it the same people that were on the original committee? Is it the same process? How many people look at a child's file?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone please explain who is on the appeals committee and how the decisions are made? Is it the same people that were on the original committee? Is it the same process? How many people look at a child's file?

It’s a different committee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone please explain who is on the appeals committee and how the decisions are made? Is it the same people that were on the original committee? Is it the same process? How many people look at a child's file?

It’s a different committee.

But who is on the committee? Like is it a group of AARTs?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone please explain who is on the appeals committee and how the decisions are made? Is it the same people that were on the original committee? Is it the same process? How many people look at a child's file?

It’s a different committee.

But who is on the committee? Like is it a group of AARTs?

AARTs, second grade teachers, etc. But a different set this time than the first time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone please explain who is on the appeals committee and how the decisions are made? Is it the same people that were on the original committee? Is it the same process? How many people look at a child's file?

It’s a different committee.

But who is on the committee? Like is it a group of AARTs?

AARTs, second grade teachers, etc. But a different set this time than the first time.

Will a group of teacher review all appeals? Or a teacher group from a pyramid review appeals from another pyramid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone please explain who is on the appeals committee and how the decisions are made? Is it the same people that were on the original committee? Is it the same process? How many people look at a child's file?

It’s a different committee.

But who is on the committee? Like is it a group of AARTs?

AARTs, second grade teachers, etc. But a different set this time than the first time.

Will a group of teacher review all appeals? Or a teacher group from a pyramid review appeals from another pyramid?

You're not going to get an acceptable answer to satisfy you here. Suffice to say that an equivalent committee that originally looked at your child's package will re-look at it again with the additional supporting materials. They may have the same opinion, or your arguments may have swayed them to overrule the original decision. Either way, you have no more transparency into this process than you did in the last one, nor is there an avenue to appeal after this stage. Therefore, it makes no difference for you to have that specific information. FCPS does its best to hide its internal processes to avoid scrutiny or prevent any more gaming than is currently done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone please explain who is on the appeals committee and how the decisions are made? Is it the same people that were on the original committee? Is it the same process? How many people look at a child's file?

It’s a different committee.

But who is on the committee? Like is it a group of AARTs?

AARTs, second grade teachers, etc. But a different set this time than the first time.

Will a group of teacher review all appeals? Or a teacher group from a pyramid review appeals from another pyramid?

You're not going to get an acceptable answer to satisfy you here. Suffice to say that an equivalent committee that originally looked at your child's package will re-look at it again with the additional supporting materials. They may have the same opinion, or your arguments may have swayed them to overrule the original decision. Either way, you have no more transparency into this process than you did in the last one, nor is there an avenue to appeal after this stage. Therefore, it makes no difference for you to have that specific information. FCPS does its best to hide its internal processes to avoid scrutiny or prevent any more gaming than is currently done.

I mean, you can re-apply next year. That's a sort of way to appeal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone please explain who is on the appeals committee and how the decisions are made? Is it the same people that were on the original committee? Is it the same process? How many people look at a child's file?

It’s a different committee.

But who is on the committee? Like is it a group of AARTs?

AARTs, second grade teachers, etc. But a different set this time than the first time.

Why second grade teachers instead of third grade teachers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone please explain who is on the appeals committee and how the decisions are made? Is it the same people that were on the original committee? Is it the same process? How many people look at a child's file?

It’s a different committee.

But who is on the committee? Like is it a group of AARTs?

AARTs, second grade teachers, etc. But a different set this time than the first time.

Why second grade teachers instead of third grade teachers?

Why not trained psychologists? Why would we trust teachers at all to make these critical decisions; it's not like they're trained to assess early childhood education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone please explain who is on the appeals committee and how the decisions are made? Is it the same people that were on the original committee? Is it the same process? How many people look at a child's file?

It’s a different committee.

But who is on the committee? Like is it a group of AARTs?

AARTs, second grade teachers, etc. But a different set this time than the first time.

Why second grade teachers instead of third grade teachers?

Second grade teachers see other second grade work all day, every day. They know what's typical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone please explain who is on the appeals committee and how the decisions are made? Is it the same people that were on the original committee? Is it the same process? How many people look at a child's file?

It’s a different committee.

But who is on the committee? Like is it a group of AARTs?

AARTs, second grade teachers, etc. But a different set this time than the first time.

Will a group of teacher review all appeals? Or a teacher group from a pyramid review appeals from another pyramid?

You're not going to get an acceptable answer to satisfy you here. Suffice to say that an equivalent committee that originally looked at your child's package will re-look at it again with the additional supporting materials. They may have the same opinion, or your arguments may have swayed them to overrule the original decision. Either way, you have no more transparency into this process than you did in the last one, nor is there an avenue to appeal after this stage. Therefore, it makes no difference for you to have that specific information. FCPS does its best to hide its internal processes to avoid scrutiny or prevent any more gaming than is currently done.

I want to clarify that although I asked the original question, I did not ask the follow up about group of teachers. I just wanted to know who the committee was.

[Anonymous]

Has anybody gotten an early heads-up from their AART that their child was accepted into AAP? I'm curious as to when the schools are notified about the AAP appeal results.