| How does your school handle LLIV programs where there are either less than 2/3 or greater than 1 class of AAP students? Do they have additional teachers, teach two different levels, combine grades? How do they make it work? |
| Sometimes there is a small class for some of the core subjects. There are LIII students that are also added to core classes. Generally the LIII students don't have all core AAP classes but 1-3. |
| Can the level III kids keep up without much problem? Do their parents complain the curriculum is too hard? |
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| Our school just fills in the class with non-Center eligible students. (But our school has a very small number of Center eligible students overall.) |
No, never. Their kids excell in the core AAP class they are assigned. |
| 19:21 Is it hard for the teachers to teach to different levels? How many levels do they have to teach to? |
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Our LLIV class is self contained but has level IV students plus Principal Designees. They all do the same work except for math - some non level IV kids go to another teacher for math an some students come into this
classroom for "Advanced Math". |
This makes no sense for your school to have a LLIV class. LLIV should be placed at the schools that send a large number of kids to AAP. If the school has enough center eligible kids to consistently fill an entire class, then they should keep them at the school and do LLIV. The schools that have small numbers of center eligible kids should not have a LLIV. Those kids should be sent to a center school. |
I agree. But look at the schools that have Local Level IV and have small numbers of Center eligible students. http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/99K2BT016C29/$file/c_Level%20IV%20demographics%20data%20by%20school.pdf Annandale Terrace 7 Braddock 6 Cameron 9 Clermont 11 Glen Forest 11 Little Run 9 Mason Crest 14 Washington Mill 8 |
| Are these numbers from this past year? |
| At our school, the LLIV class has less than 15 kids because the principal will not infill. Then the Gen Ed classes have in the mid-twenties. That seems sort of ridiculous to me. |
2012-2013 school year |
And those numbers are across all Local Level IV classes in each school (multiple grades). |
Having classes in mid-twenties still seems pretty decent. |