AAP Center Elimination Rumors

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our base school is a center and I would fully support this! The kids who come from other schools are like outsiders, no connection to our neighborhood.

Holy cow I hope this is a joke.

Not a joke. Really it’s just one of the schools I have a problem with. I'm sure they are nice kids, but they are bussed from 20 minutes away, are not in the same extracurricular circle, and are not zoned for the same HS. Sorry but I think they would be better off in their own pyramid.

Who assigned to Lemon Road is being bussed 20 minutes from out of pyramid to attend? The only students who are “out of pyramid” would be from the McLean zoned portion of Westgate, and they are less than 10 minutes away.

[Anonymous]

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when they could be in a class where they have 30 other kids to push them.

Myth. Do you really think all the AAP kids are on the same level? A handful may be gifted, but there is a wide span there.

It doesn't hurt to be in a heterogenous class. In fact, it is better.

Teacher

There is a wider span in the general ed class. This is a terrible idea.

[Anonymous]

Cluster model at our base school made us go to the center too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

when they could be in a class where they have 30 other kids to push them.

Myth. Do you really think all the AAP kids are on the same level? A handful may be gifted, but there is a wide span there.

It doesn't hurt to be in a heterogenous class. In fact, it is better.

Teacher

There is a wider span in the general ed class. This is a terrible idea.

It worked very successfully in FCPS for many, many years. Again: AAP is not GT.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'll repeat:

TROLL ALERT

Remember when you read these posts, ladies, that it is an election year!!!!

TROLL ALERT

Are you new?

Or not from Fairfax County?

Do you have kids?

Or are you a childless political activist from DC or California?

If you had kids or were from this area, you would know that there are thousands of threads just like this, every week, going back years, since as long as FCPS created AAP centers. They happen in election years, non election years, summer vacation, Christmas Eve, Presidents Day, Juneteenth, Diwali, and every random day of the year.

These types of anti AAP threads are why the moderator created a separate forum for AAP several years back (on a non election year.)

If you lived in Fairfax County, or had kids in FCPS you would know that this thread is just normal conversation and has nothing to do with elections.

The fact that you responded like you did clearly shows that the only election and politics troll is you

Oh shut up, we all know that these posts are far more frequent during election years.

We know you're a MAGA MAMA.

Says the person with zero connection to FCPS or Fairfax County.

WTF are you talking about about? I have two kids in FCPS and I read this forum a lot. Enough to know that there are a lot of trolls that post posts they know are going to be super controversial and rile people up in election years. Go back to 2020 if you are really so dumb that you don't understand what I'm talking about.

Sure.

Get help, lady. Not everyone has the same opinions as you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

when they could be in a class where they have 30 other kids to push them.

Myth. Do you really think all the AAP kids are on the same level? A handful may be gifted, but there is a wide span there.

It doesn't hurt to be in a heterogenous class. In fact, it is better.

Teacher

There is a wider span in the general ed class. This is a terrible idea.

Next time you buy a house, consider who your children's peers are going to be. If you're going to be racist, then move to where the other racists live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll repeat:

TROLL ALERT

Remember when you read these posts, ladies, that it is an election year!!!!

TROLL ALERT

WTF? Seems you're the troll here. Go away and let the adults discuss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll repeat:

TROLL ALERT

Remember when you read these posts, ladies, that it is an election year!!!!

TROLL ALERT

Are you new?

Or not from Fairfax County?

Do you have kids?

Or are you a childless political activist from DC or California?

If you had kids or were from this area, you would know that there are thousands of threads just like this, every week, going back years, since as long as FCPS created AAP centers. They happen in election years, non election years, summer vacation, Christmas Eve, Presidents Day, Juneteenth, Diwali, and every random day of the year.

These types of anti AAP threads are why the moderator created a separate forum for AAP several years back (on a non election year.)

If you lived in Fairfax County, or had kids in FCPS you would know that this thread is just normal conversation and has nothing to do with elections.

The fact that you responded like you did clearly shows that the only election and politics troll is you

Oh shut up, we all know that these posts are far more frequent during election years.

We know you're a MAGA MAMA.

Says the person with zero connection to FCPS or Fairfax County.

WTF are you talking about about? I have two kids in FCPS and I read this forum a lot. Enough to know that there are a lot of trolls that post posts they know are going to be super controversial and rile people up in election years. Go back to 2020 if you are really so dumb that you don't understand what I'm talking about.

DP. The only person turning this into some kind of political rant is YOU. People of all political leanings want AAP centers to be a thing of the past. Stop trolling and trying to derail this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

when they could be in a class where they have 30 other kids to push them.

Myth. Do you really think all the AAP kids are on the same level? A handful may be gifted, but there is a wide span there.

It doesn't hurt to be in a heterogenous class. In fact, it is better.

Teacher

There is a wider span in the general ed class. This is a terrible idea.

It worked very successfully in FCPS for many, many years. Again: AAP is not GT.

+1
And flexible groupings across grade levels is the answer, not "clustering." Kids rotate classrooms and groups for all core subjects. No one is locked into any one "level" (or label) - they can move up (or down) as needed.

Note - this doesn't mean many different levels in one classroom. It means each teacher takes a level for each subject, so all the students in the class are at the same level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard rumors from various sources FCPS may be eliminating AAP centers at the elementary level when they do the re-districting. Does anyone have any reliable info to confirm or deny this claim?

Good. It's beyond past time for centers to be eliminated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any school with local level IV AAP should not send students to a center. Elementary schools without enough children for a particular grade can give parents the option of sending their kids to the next closest elementary school (assigned by administration) with local level IV AAP (that is also zoned for their base middle school). All middle schools should have level IV AAP.

Great Falls Elementary has a local level IV AAP program with enough kids to make classes at all grades. 40-50 kids a year are bussed from Great Falls (high SES zoned for Cooper/Langley) to the center school Colvin Run (high SES school zoned for Cooper/Langley). Colvin Run’s AAP Program only pulls students from Great Falls (no other elementary schools). There are multiple busses driving these kids from their homes in the Great Falls Elementary boundary to Colvin Run. One bus only has 8-9 students on it!

GFES certainly does NOT have enough kids to make classes at all grades. That’s the only reason why families go to the center school.

[Anonymous]

Why can’t you take this to the AAP forum?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

when they could be in a class where they have 30 other kids to push them.

Myth. Do you really think all the AAP kids are on the same level? A handful may be gifted, but there is a wide span there.

It doesn't hurt to be in a heterogenous class. In fact, it is better.

Teacher

Why is it better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our base school is a center and I would fully support this! The kids who come from other schools are like outsiders, no connection to our neighborhood.

let me guess haycock...

No Lemon Road. The bussed in kids cause a lot of problems.

Or it could be Canterbury. Some kids coming aren’t in the Woodson pyramid and they get/3’t back to Annandale for HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

when they could be in a class where they have 30 other kids to push them.

Myth. Do you really think all the AAP kids are on the same level? A handful may be gifted, but there is a wide span there.

It doesn't hurt to be in a heterogenous class. In fact, it is better.

Teacher

There is a wider span in the general ed class. This is a terrible idea.

It worked very successfully in FCPS for many, many years. Again: AAP is not GT.

+1
And flexible groupings across grade levels is the answer, not "clustering." Kids rotate classrooms and groups for all core subjects. No one is locked into any one "level" (or label) - they can move up (or down) as needed.

Note - this doesn't mean many different levels in one classroom. It means each teacher takes a level for each subject, so all the students in the class are at the same level.

I agree that leveled classes are best pedagogically, but it always cracks me up when people think that will solve the angst around AAP. The truth is even with "flexible" classes the bulk of the top class will stay the same and the bulk of the bottom class will stay the same and the parents with kids in the middle will wail and gnash their teeth. Honestly, the jockeying and grasping from parents would only increase and continue all year every year. The added angst for teachers and principals is probably one big reason they don't do this.