What in the world is happening at Carson?
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Anonymous
| The school’s administration is actually the cause here. Teachers report horrific behavior, and kids get “restorative justice” and sent right back. Zero help for the kids getting bullied, hurled racist language, and admin casually sweeping all under the rug. At some point something truly awful will happen and FCPS will be forced to finally put back in qualified, hands on administrators and teachers will be supported again. It was never like this here before. It is both gen ed and AAP and the problem is with the boys. Truly. |
Anonymous
Omg are you dumb? Stem electives are anything with computers or engineering. |
Anonymous
Who cares? You know what the PP meant. Carson is full of Indians. |
Anonymous
I am pretty certain that there are a good number of non-AAP kids in the computer science class as well as Engineering and foreign language and the like. I know lots of non-AAP kids in band and orchestra. I cannot figure out where the AAP kids are hiding from non-AAP in electives. It is possible that there are more AAP kids in some of individual kids electives because the AAP kids in each team have similar schedules but there are non-AAP kids in those classes. The only explanation I could have is that the kids coming to Carson for AAP are on a bus with other AAP kids and are forming stronger friendships with those kids because they are at school with them all day. Or there are after school activities that might have more AAP kids in them, I am thinking Mathcounts and Science Olympiad but I suspect that is more a function of kids in AAP might be more interested in trying out for those clubs, or the parents want their kids in those clubs. |
Anonymous
The question was not "what are stem electives." but "what are these stem electives?" Who is the "dumb" one here? Asking for specific examples in order to know whether they require high level knowledge above the norm. |
Anonymous
And plenty of non-AAP kids take Engineering and Computer Solutions, the original assertion was ridiculous. AAP kids have 3 classes with the AAP cohort. Then they are in electives, PE, and math with everyone else. |
Anonymous
| At Carson they have teams which have similar schedules, so you are going to have a lot of AAP kids grouped together even in the electives. AAP kids are together on the same team. |
Anonymous
Still dumb lol. Adding “these” doesn’t change the answer. These” electives are anything with computers and engineering. A lot of the AAP kids love those electives. |
Anonymous
PP was bragging about her child taking "stem electives" and implying that Gened students were not in there. You sound really, really obtuse. |
Anonymous
No they weren’t bragging. I saw it as explaining. Here’s what PO said: If you’re AAP and taking stem electives you don’t get a chance to meet many other kids. This is true because AAP kids are placed on teams with the same core teachers (except math) and thus will have a similar schedule. So a lot of AAP kids will be inadvertently grouped in electives classes as well. And a lot of AAP kids take stem electives. You’re so sensitive to the AAP/Gen Ed divide you interpreted it as bragging and that gen Ed kids don’t take stem electives. That’s not what PP was saying at all. Get a thicker skin. |
Anonymous
that PP clearly meant that her kids were not interacting with Gened. And, if you are as smart as you claim you are--you would know that. |
Anonymous
She said you don’t get a chance to meet many other kids. She did NOT say her kids weren’t interacting with any Gen Ed kids ever. Again, you’re looking at it through the lens of being super sensitive here. Anyway, maybe her kid doesn’t interact with many gen ed kids becuase the kid doesn’t know any. That is very true when you are on an AAP team at Carson. |
Anonymous
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There is only one section of Engineering 3 and there are AAP and non-AAP kids in the class. Great class, my kid loves it.
The reality is that there are shared schedule time for AAP kids but there are a lot of electives and not every AAP kid takes STEM classes. Foreign Language is an elective so any AAP kid taking a foreign language only has room for one other elective. Some of those kids will do a STEM elective and others will choose band or orchestra or chorus. Some might even choose home ec, or whatever it is called these days, art, theatre tech or something else. Not every kid in AAP is laser focused on TJ and the electives do nothing to help you get into TJ. |
Anonymous
| Kids these days really don’t know how to behave. Back in my day, if we acted up, we got a good spanking—and we learned from it. Discipline taught respect, and honestly, I think kids could use a little more of that now. Just my two cents |
Anonymous
This goes to the "no exclusion" rule, too. When you must evacuate a class for an out of control kid--instead of removing the kid, there is a serious problem. It is emotionally upsetting to all. And, I don't know about middle school, but it certainly occurs in elementary school--and AAP classes also deal with it. Here is an article from The Atlantic about accommodations in college. Astounding statistics. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/elite-university-student-accommodation/684946/ |