Work Samples - Meeting with AART

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Anonymous wrote:But it is. We may as well just say all of FCPS is "advanced" since that's clearly what everyone wants to hear.

But it is not. See the statistics posted as follow up materials to the July 2013 School Board meeting.

But it is. Stats from a couple of recent years don't tell the whole story. How many new AAP centers are they opening to reduce overcrowding? If you build it they will come. I predict those will become as crowded as the ones they replaced. It's much easier for principals to allow additional AAP students who are at the margin if there's the perception that there's room.

Absolutely true.

One of the goals for these new Local Level IV Centers is to provide access to the AAP curriculum to students that would otherwise not have such access.

What is the goal of center schools in areas in which all the feeder schools already have large populations of LLIV students? Why is there such an overlap in services?

Because not all schools in all areas of the county have 2 or more classes full of AAP eligible students. What works in one zip code does not necessarily work in another zip code.

Then FCPS should take that into account when deciding which schools will have center access and which won't. Better yet, make all schools have LLIV and turn "centers" back into neighborhood schools.

Then people complain about unequal services in the county.

Then forget the center model and make LLIV available in all schools. Easy solution and no more extra busing to pay for.

I like all of the above - LLIV in all schools; Also add retesting for AAP every year - making it harder for parents to coach. Let the bright ones get into LLIV every year by their own latent talent.

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Retesting for AAP every year is completely going overboard.. I can't imagine if every program retested every year.. talk about expensive and stressful for the students- don't they have enough testing with the SOLs?? (I have no kids in AAP)

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is so boring after the silly Mods deleted the funny, but important OP's posts about her periods, sex life and OCD.

Stop.