Be heard about the local building norm changes to AAP Screening Pool

[Anonymous]

Wow hard to believe 140 is not in pool. Something isn't right. Time to reach out to your school board members for transparency in the process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow hard to believe 140 is not in pool. Something isn't right. Time to reach out to your school board members for transparency in the process.

The PP's mentioned "close to 140" is not in-pool. From the posts here it seems like 140 and above was in-pool.

[Anonymous]

Going to be honest if the pool is 140 for some schools why in the world do we need to do a referral packet?

There is no reason why any kid who got a 140 shouldn’t get in.

[Anonymous]

Not well publicized - the Assistant Principal at our school said the cut off would be 132.

[Anonymous]

While I agree that FCPS did a poor job of communicating this change, could someone please help me to understand why this is such a big deal? Whether one’s child is in-pool or parent-referred, doesn’t the child’s file get reviewed by the same AAP committee? I didn’t think there was any advantage of being in pool, other than the automatic referral.

Or, is there something more to this? Does this mean there are fewer spots available in AAP? During our school’s AAP presentation, they emphasized that there is no quota and that anyone who is deemed eligible can be in AAP, so I didn’t think this was the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While I agree that FCPS did a poor job of communicating this change, could someone please help me to understand why this is such a big deal? Whether one’s child is in-pool or parent-referred, doesn’t the child’s file get reviewed by the same AAP committee? I didn’t think there was any advantage of being in pool, other than the automatic referral.

Or, is there something more to this? Does this mean there are fewer spots available in AAP? During our school’s AAP presentation, they emphasized that there is no quota and that anyone who is deemed eligible can be in AAP, so I didn’t think this was the case.

The only thing I can think of is that some parents may not be informed that the cut-off changed, and may assume that their kid with a 132 was in-pool and not send in a referral. However I know that's unlikely. I would have no idea that some parents received an in-pool notice except that I read about it here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While I agree that FCPS did a poor job of communicating this change, could someone please help me to understand why this is such a big deal? Whether one’s child is in-pool or parent-referred, doesn’t the child’s file get reviewed by the same AAP committee? I didn’t think there was any advantage of being in pool, other than the automatic referral.

Or, is there something more to this? Does this mean there are fewer spots available in AAP? During our school’s AAP presentation, they emphasized that there is no quota and that anyone who is deemed eligible can be in AAP, so I didn’t think this was the case.

There is no "quota" but some schools like ours only have one AAP class.

[Anonymous]

The problem with having higher cutoffs for center schools is … any of the local school kids found eligible can now go to the center… but if you have a center full of a 140 plus class it will move at a totally different pace than a class with 120 level iq.

This really only makes sense if centers did not exist.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think there is a whole lot more to it but yet I think it just being so unclear and poorly communicated is creating some confusion/unease/distrust. I think that is unfortunate since it could have been handled better to avoid that. Handling it they way they have makes it look like a bigger deal and mess than it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem with having higher cutoffs for center schools is … any of the local school kids found eligible can now go to the center… but if you have a center full of a 140 plus class it will move at a totally different pace than a class with 120 level iq.

This really only makes sense if centers did not exist.

...which jives with rumors that FCPS eventually plans to do away with the centers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think there is a whole lot more to it but yet I think it just being so unclear and poorly communicated is creating some confusion/unease/distrust. I think that is unfortunate since it could have been handled better to avoid that. Handling it they way they have makes it look like a bigger deal and mess than it is.

OP here. The lack of transparency is my complaint. I don’t think this necessarily dooms AAP or anything. I just want them to tell people what they are changing and how.

[Anonymous]

Right but they haven’t done away with them yet. So it doesn’t make sense to do this until they get rid of the centers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with having higher cutoffs for center schools is … any of the local school kids found eligible can now go to the center… but if you have a center full of a 140 plus class it will move at a totally different pace than a class with 120 level iq.

This really only makes sense if centers did not exist.

...which jives with rumors that FCPS eventually plans to do away with the centers.

It’s literally part of the 5/2020 consultant report on which they based the local norm change, so not just a rumor. At least that report was duly discussed by our SB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem with having higher cutoffs for center schools is … any of the local school kids found eligible can now go to the center… but if you have a center full of a 140 plus class it will move at a totally different pace than a class with 120 level iq.

This really only makes sense if centers did not exist.

I don't think it's just the center schools that have higher cut-offs. Looks like it's all the higher-SES schools. Unless your center is fed by a mix of high-income and Title I schools, this doesn't seem likely to be an issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with having higher cutoffs for center schools is … any of the local school kids found eligible can now go to the center… but if you have a center full of a 140 plus class it will move at a totally different pace than a class with 120 level iq.

This really only makes sense if centers did not exist.

I don't think it's just the center schools that have higher cut-offs. Looks like it's all the higher-SES schools. Unless your center is fed by a mix of high-income and Title I schools, this doesn't seem likely to be an issue.

This is exactly our center school lol.