FCPS email: AAP Level IV Centers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So 10:02, you don't want your child to go to school with those awful AAP kids and their tiger parents.

You don't want them to be placed into a separate magnet school where you never need to see or talk to them.

You don't want a center in YOUR child's school.

You do however want the local level IV in every school, but only if your child is one of the kids principal placed into the local level IV.

If your child is not selected for local level IV, then you don't want that in your school either.

In fact, your preference is for no gifted or differentiated education whatsoever. Everyone the same, no one does any more or any less.

Well, perhaps you would be okay with a very small class of 10 or fewer "truly gifted" students receiving gifted services. That is "truly gifted" as defined by you, not by trained educators, nationally recognized and respected tests, testing standards that are far more rigorous than standards at almost every single other school district in the country (if you understood how the tests are scored this would be crystal clear to you), and a process that has multiple checks and balances along the way.

Not your selection criteria of what you deem to be gifted based off your biased observations of your own child and thay child's classmates.

Hmmm.

Do you realize how silly you sound?

Where on earth did 10:02 say he/she wanted "her own child selected for AAP"? I think the point is that AAP has become an out-of-control monster that some of us want no part of. Why is that so difficult for you to comprehend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about Carson but I do know that GBW is very over crowded. I can't see the AAP center there being closed down but what if parents of schools that have level IV AAP had to stay at their school. Poplar Tree will have gr 3 level IV next year. I bet if Colin Powell and Poplar Tree had to stay at their schools for their own Level IV it would make a big difference at GBW.

And this is what so many parents have been advocating - that students with LLIV already in their base school stay there instead of being bused to centers. It makes perfect sense.

Yes! I kept my son at CP, it is a really strong program, smaller classes and he stays with his neighborhood friends. Why on earth parents from CP send their kids to GBW, what is the advantage?