Young Scholars and AAP

[Anonymous]

Is anyone's ES offering a math enrichment program for rising 3rd graders who are going into AAP or are being pulled for advanced math? I saw on the FCPS website that there are a list of schools listed as "Young Scholars" schools, so I was wondering how commonplace this is.

[Anonymous]

Young Scholars is intended to increase diversity in AAP. The list of ES all look like Title I schools. My local ES is on that list, offers Young Scholars in the summer, and is a Title I school. Not just for rising 3rd and not just math.

[Anonymous]

Young Scholars is for populations that have been under served by AAP. This includes children who have reduced price or free lunches and children who are also in special education.

[Anonymous]

As far as I know, Young Scholars doesn't have anything to do with AAP or prep for AAP or Advanced Math. It's a separate program.

There's no special preparation needed for 3rd grade Advanced Math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As far as I know, Young Scholars doesn't have anything to do with AAP or prep for AAP or Advanced Math. It's a separate program.

There's no special preparation needed for 3rd grade Advanced Math.

This. All of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As far as I know, Young Scholars doesn't have anything to do with AAP or prep for AAP or Advanced Math. It's a separate program.

There's no special preparation needed for 3rd grade Advanced Math.

This. All of it.

OP here - our AART teacher is holding a math enrichment program at our ES specifically designed for rising 3rd graders entering AAP. We are not a Title I school. The email that was sent out confirming the date and time labeled this enrichment program as part of "Young Scholars", which is why I asked the question.

[Anonymous]

Great - hope it is fun. Our school (Title 1) did Young Scholars in the summer with more of a science focus - lots of field trips to outdoor centers, etc. Really fun.

And I agree with the above - no special prep needed for AAP math - but any enrichment is great at that age.

[Anonymous]

My kids attended a young scholars school and I never heard anything about young scholars. I was very involved in the school, was on the pta board, volunteered, etc. I had one child qualify for Level II AAP in 1st grade. We are asian American.

I remember posting on here like 5 years ago about young scholars and I was told asian and white kids can be in the program if their school was a young scholars school.

[Anonymous]

Former first grade teacher. I was given a thirty second explanation by my principal when I joined my title 1 school. Young scholars are identified by the kindergarten teacher as having potential. In our school, it was primarily ESOL students who spoke Spanish at home. That doesn’t mean that it’s not implemented differently elsewhere. I was told that they were likely to bloom.

Being an educator, I know of studies where students who were randomly flagged as having potential actually made more progress than other, equally talented students. I wonder if Young Scholars the county’s way of giving underserved populations that extra boost to get them into AAP.

Another benefit of the YS program was that they were clustered together. I’d have a whole reading group of Young Scholars. It often started out below grade level, but caught up a bit more than the same level reading group in another class.

Aside from clustering the kids and flagging them for the teacher, there was nothing to the program. If your kid isn’t in it, it doesn’t affect you at all.

[Anonymous]

At my school, Young Scholars is for bright kids who are underrepresented minorities or FARMS. They get some pull outs and a free summer camp. It's mostly a way to provide enrichment for people who otherwise couldn't necessarily afford it, as well as a way for the AART to flag kids who are bright but may not have parents who apply for AAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As far as I know, Young Scholars doesn't have anything to do with AAP or prep for AAP or Advanced Math. It's a separate program.

There's no special preparation needed for 3rd grade Advanced Math.

This. All of it.

OP here - our AART teacher is holding a math enrichment program at our ES specifically designed for rising 3rd graders entering AAP. We are not a Title I school. The email that was sent out confirming the date and time labeled this enrichment program as part of "Young Scholars", which is why I asked the question.

Maybe using the Young Scholars program gives her a method of offering this enrichment for the rising 3rd grade AAP kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids attended a young scholars school and I never heard anything about young scholars. I was very involved in the school, was on the pta board, volunteered, etc. I had one child qualify for Level II AAP in 1st grade. We are asian American.

I remember posting on here like 5 years ago about young scholars and I was told asian and white kids can be in the program if their school was a young scholars school.

Yes, kids of any color can be in young scholars. It tries to include URMS, but any child from a lower SES can be included. I've even heard of kids who aren't URMS or lower SES participating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids attended a young scholars school and I never heard anything about young scholars. I was very involved in the school, was on the pta board, volunteered, etc. I had one child qualify for Level II AAP in 1st grade. We are asian American.

I remember posting on here like 5 years ago about young scholars and I was told asian and white kids can be in the program if their school was a young scholars school.

Yes, kids of any color can be in young scholars. It tries to include URMS, but any child from a lower SES can be included. I've even heard of kids who aren't URMS or lower SES participating.

Pp here. I just never heard of it at our school. I only know of it because it is listed on the school profile. We were not title I but 30% ESOL/FARMS.

Both my kids ended up going to the Level IV AAP center. Each grade had 1 black student and they were not Farms. Most of the students who went to AAP Level IV were white and Asian.

[Anonymous]

Young scholars are now what mostly AAP is. Typically AAP is for the Farms and underrepresented, FCPS no longer has a gifted program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Young scholars are now what mostly AAP is. Typically AAP is for the Farms and underrepresented, FCPS no longer has a gifted program.

I don't understand what you're trying to say. AAP is more white and Asian than URM or FARMs.