FCPS potential changes to AAP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the "Final Thoughts" explains a lot this year.

"The identification of advanced academic potential must be grounded in an expanded understanding of intelligence that embraces diverse cultural, ethnic, and linguistic manifestations. A narrow definition of intelligence that is measured by how well children perform on assessments that require a knowledge of words and numbers learned in school precludes from participation in gifted programs certain populations of students who have not had the opportunity to attain this knowledge before coming to school. As we move from an understanding of intelligence as innate ability grounded in a cultural and social context tied to Western, affluent populations to an understanding of intelligence as a student’s evolving potential that is contextually-based and is nurtured through experience, we provide numerous possibilities for understanding giftedness as developing potential in a much broader range of students."

As an AAP teacher, the bold part above is how the county "promotes" looking beyond test scores for admission, especially for URM. Does the student show the potential to be successful in AAP?

Half the kids in FCPS 2nd grade have the "potential to be successful in AAP". Only URM kids have potential?

[Anonymous]

I think its great to look for unrealized potential, but what angers and baffles parents is when their child meets or exceeds all the supposed metrics being used to evaluate AAP placement but still gets rejected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we provide numerous possibilities for understanding giftedness as developing potential in a much broader range of students."

As an AAP teacher, the bold part above is how the county "promotes" looking beyond test scores for admission, especially for URM. Does the student show the potential to be successful in AAP?

So, when they reject kids with high test scores, they're saying those kids don't have potential worth developing? One of my kids was rejected a few years ago with 97th percentile CogAT and a 15 GBRS. They thought she didn't have the potential to succeed in AAP or the potential to be gifted in any way?

It makes about as much sense to say that they select kids based on using a magic 8 ball than whatever line of BS that FCPS is peddling.

[Anonymous]

Do they have some kind of mandate to even out the demographics in the centers in some way?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do they have some kind of mandate to even out the demographics in the centers in some way?

By law only the gifted are aap. The low demographic should get ESOL and farm services.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do they have some kind of mandate to even out the demographics in the centers in some way?

By law only the gifted are aap. The low demographic should get ESOL and farm services.

No. By VA law, the gifted must have access to gifted services. The mandate isn't specific as to how gifted students are identified or the nature of the gifted services. FCPS finds many students eligible for AAP who aren't technically gifted, and it's finding others ineligible despite having a 99th percentile IQ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do they have some kind of mandate to even out the demographics in the centers in some way?

By law only the gifted are aap. The low demographic should get ESOL and farm services.

No. By VA law, the gifted must have access to gifted services. The mandate isn't specific as to how gifted students are identified or the nature of the gifted services. FCPS finds many students eligible for AAP who aren't technically gifted, and it's finding others ineligible despite having a 99th percentile IQ.

Bullshit , 99% score is always in even if appealed

[Anonymous]

Why doesn’t the School Board move to abolish AAP to advance the equity goals of One Fairfax? Keep TJHSST and let them found a new Governor’s School or two dedicated to the arts or international studies and languages with IB curriculum. Get rid of the other poor-performing IB schools. How much money would this save? The AAP busing alone must cost a mint.

[Anonymous]

They did a study and AAP doesn’t cost any more than not having it. The kids still need to be educated and bussed somewhere.

[Anonymous]

I think it was about $1m extra.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it was about $1m extra.

The school district budget is over $2b. That means that $1m is just a rounding error.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn’t the School Board move to abolish AAP to advance the equity goals of One Fairfax? Keep TJHSST and let them found a new Governor’s School or two dedicated to the arts or international studies and languages with IB curriculum. Get rid of the other poor-performing IB schools. How much money would this save? The AAP busing alone must cost a mint.

Why would abolishing AAP advance equity?

[Anonymous]

Can someone please explain what URM stands for??

[Anonymous]

Under represented minority.

[Anonymous]

They should make the entire curriculum all-AAP anyway since it's so watered down in the first place. Then do flexible ability groupings so no one feels "tracked" then there's that equity FCPS seeks.