Is this the beginning of the end for Level IV AAP?

[Anonymous]

I hope they still keep the AAP Centers selection process to support the top as they still have special ed to support special need kids. It is good if they provide the AAP for gen ed. The problem is at the kids if they can not digest it at their levels.

Your kids would also want take Yale or Harvard online courses while they're in 1st grade. The question is if they understand what the course is talking about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that the kids who are qualified for the AAP can choose to stay at their Level 4 base school or go to the center. Is this true?

True and a misuse of tax dollars.

How?

Because kids that are found to be Center-eligible get a small amount of state funding to go towards GT education, and those kids that opt out are in essence allowing FCPS to get the state funding for no provision of services.

[Anonymous]

I can't believe some of these posts. Yikes. There are some pilot schools adding what the AAP teachers teach in their Language Arts program called William and Mary units to the base school curriculum. They are not doing this to take away from or eliminate the center, but the AAP teachers have raved about how good these W&M units are for teaching concepts in grades 3-6 so FCPS thought it would be a good idea to see how using these units will affect those learners not in AAP and hopefully build skills through these units that will also help the base school kids grow as learners. This doesn't mean the base kids will be completing these units at the same pace or to the same level as the AAP kids but it does mean our base kids will be taught through a meaningful program that has proven benefits. Remember this is a pilot. The AAP centers will remain in tact - do not fret.

[Anonymous]

In McLean, the problem is the teachers want to teach the old way - with worksheets. they won't change and they will keep kids from Haycock and the kids will suffer. Adding aap is a great idea - but they are going to have to get teachers willing to change to get it to be useful. At Franklin Sherman, parents claw their way out to go to Haycock. I don't blame them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In McLean, the problem is the teachers want to teach the old way - with worksheets. they won't change and they will keep kids from Haycock and the kids will suffer. Adding aap is a great idea - but they are going to have to get teachers willing to change to get it to be useful. At Franklin Sherman, parents claw their way out to go to Haycock. I don't blame them.

Not my sense at all. Of course, some parents will push to get their kids assigned to Haycock, since the Haycock/Longfellow/TJ path is so well trod.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In McLean, the problem is the teachers want to teach the old way - with worksheets. they won't change and they will keep kids from Haycock and the kids will suffer. Adding aap is a great idea - but they are going to have to get teachers willing to change to get it to be useful. At Franklin Sherman, parents claw their way out to go to Haycock. I don't blame them.

agree!