AAP vs. MS Honors - what's the difference?

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Anonymous wrote:I know that most of our friends whose kids were not in AAP were told the same thing and they all ignored the advice. I think a good percentage of people put their kids into all honors.

So, why does fcps constantly tell a cohort of kids who weren't the chosen ones in second grade that they aren't good enough when many of them are

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Anonymous wrote:I know that most of our friends whose kids were not in AAP were told the same thing and they all ignored the advice. I think a good percentage of people put their kids into all honors.

So, why does fcps constantly tell a cohort of kids who weren't the chosen ones in second grade that they aren't good enough when many of them are

They give everyone the same generic device so no one can say that there is a bias pro one group of people or against another group of people. Just tell everyone the same thing an then let parents enroll their kids in whatever they want.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know that most of our friends whose kids were not in AAP were told the same thing and they all ignored the advice. I think a good percentage of people put their kids into all honors.

So, why does fcps constantly tell a cohort of kids who weren't the chosen ones in second grade that they aren't good enough when many of them are

They give everyone the same generic device so no one can say that there is a bias pro one group of people or against another group of people. Just tell everyone the same thing an then let parents enroll their kids in whatever they want.

I would buy that if there wasn't so much overlap between the bottom half of aap and the top half of Gen ed

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Anonymous wrote:I know that most of our friends whose kids were not in AAP were told the same thing and they all ignored the advice. I think a good percentage of people put their kids into all honors.

So, why does fcps constantly tell a cohort of kids who weren't the chosen ones in second grade that they aren't good enough when many of them are

They give everyone the same generic device so no one can say that there is a bias pro one group of people or against another group of people. Just tell everyone the same thing an then let parents enroll their kids in whatever they want.

I would buy that if there wasn't so much overlap between the bottom half of aap and the top half of Gen ed

They should really get rid of the bottom half of AAP but then we would lose diversity and parent placements.

[Anonymous]

What happens to level 3 AAP kids from elementary school who were not here for second grade screening and did not apply separately – are they grouped with gen ed advice or aap for MS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What happens to level 3 AAP kids from elementary school who were not here for second grade screening and did not apply separately – are they grouped with gen ed advice or aap for MS?

Yes, my level 3 kid who never applied for level 4 got the generic Gen Ed advice despite the fact that his teachers thought he needed more. Bit was a whole thing....

[Anonymous]

Less chairs in the air.

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I think it depends on the middle school. At Cooper they automatically placed all of the kids not in Algebra I Honors in 7th grade into 7th grade honors math. Only the students with significant struggles in elementary school were placed in regular 7th grade math.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Carson has separate AAP Algebra 1 H classes in 7th grade. I am not sure that Geometry is AAP only because a good number of kids take Geometry in the summer, there might not be enough 8th grade AAP Geometry students to have AAP only math classes.

Nope, this is not true. There is no separate AAP math curriculum at Carson.

I didn't say a separate curriculum, I said that there is a separate AAP A1H class, meaning that AAP kids are in their own Algebra 1H class.

I don't think this is true, but also I don't think there are many kids in Algebra 1 that were not in AAP in 6th.

Advanced math kids can take A1H in 7th grade, Fox Mill didn’t have LIV until this current years 7th graders and there are plenty of Fox Mill kids who were taking Advanced math and in A1H last year. I have no idea how many kids qualify for A1H through advanced math but I would guess that there are more then people think.

I also know that my kids A1H class at Carson was all AAP and several of my kids friends in A1H who were not in AAP did not have any AAP kids in their A1H class last year.

Once again, how the heck do you know if kids from the four other elementary schools were in AAP or not? You don't. You know which kids were at Navy with yours and which weren't, but that's it.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Carson has separate AAP Algebra 1 H classes in 7th grade. I am not sure that Geometry is AAP only because a good number of kids take Geometry in the summer, there might not be enough 8th grade AAP Geometry students to have AAP only math classes.

Nope, this is not true. There is no separate AAP math curriculum at Carson.

I didn't say a separate curriculum, I said that there is a separate AAP A1H class, meaning that AAP kids are in their own Algebra 1H class.

I don't think this is true, but also I don't think there are many kids in Algebra 1 that were not in AAP in 6th.

Advanced math kids can take A1H in 7th grade, Fox Mill didn’t have LIV until this current years 7th graders and there are plenty of Fox Mill kids who were taking Advanced math and in A1H last year. I have no idea how many kids qualify for A1H through advanced math but I would guess that there are more then people think.

I also know that my kids A1H class at Carson was all AAP and several of my kids friends in A1H who were not in AAP did not have any AAP kids in their A1H class last year.

Right. Because you looked at every single child's record to determine if they were AAP or not. Every single 7th grader at Carson including kids from several different elementary schools that you and your child had never met before? Please. You have NO idea who is AAP and who isn't. My child was surprised in 7th to discover that several of her classmates from her elementary AAP class were not in her middle school AAP classes, they were in Honors English and History. Turns out they had been principal placed into the elementary school AAP class since 3rd grade.

No because every kid in his Algebra class was in one of his core classes, which were AAP.

We deferred AAP in ES, so we have no clue who was or was not in AAP from our school.

Is your kid so weird that he makes a list of every kid in every class to compare them? This is not normal, OP. Nobody believes you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why a poster says something didn't happen. If we post saying it did, it was our experience. It happened.

BECAUSE WE HAVE KIDS AT CARSON TOO

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent, I'd watch and counter what might be a difference in advising. The next year, for 9th previously labeled AAP kids are encouraged to take all honors, and other kids, though straight As, are not - don't let this be their idea.

I don't think this happens. Everyone is encouraged to take honors.

As a momma of a bright Gen Ed kid who chose to take all honors (and managed straight As first quarter) I can tell you that the generic advice to Gen Ed kids at our school is to take one honors class in their area of strength and that taking all honors will be to hard for them. We had to advocate a bit to get him in the schedule he wanted...and if he didn't do well enough on sol day they would have bumped him out

What elementary? My very average kid at Crossfield was suggested to take all Honors. We actually chose not to do Honors math and now regret it because it's too easy..

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent, I'd watch and counter what might be a difference in advising. The next year, for 9th previously labeled AAP kids are encouraged to take all honors, and other kids, though straight As, are not - don't let this be their idea.

I don't think this happens. Everyone is encouraged to take honors.

As a momma of a bright Gen Ed kid who chose to take all honors (and managed straight As first quarter) I can tell you that the generic advice to Gen Ed kids at our school is to take one honors class in their area of strength and that taking all honors will be to hard for them. We had to advocate a bit to get him in the schedule he wanted...and if he didn't do well enough on sol day they would have bumped him out

What elementary? My very average kid at Crossfield was suggested to take all Honors. We actually chose not to do Honors math and now regret it because it's too easy..

If anything math is the most important subject to take honors. It builds on itself.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent, I'd watch and counter what might be a difference in advising. The next year, for 9th previously labeled AAP kids are encouraged to take all honors, and other kids, though straight As, are not - don't let this be their idea.

I don't think this happens. Everyone is encouraged to take honors.

As a momma of a bright Gen Ed kid who chose to take all honors (and managed straight As first quarter) I can tell you that the generic advice to Gen Ed kids at our school is to take one honors class in their area of strength and that taking all honors will be to hard for them. We had to advocate a bit to get him in the schedule he wanted...and if he didn't do well enough on sol day they would have bumped him out

What elementary? My very average kid at Crossfield was suggested to take all Honors. We actually chose not to do Honors math and now regret it because it's too easy..

We feed to twain

[Anonymous]

There are too many versions of different subjects nowadays. It never used to be this way.