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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]you said "old level ii" and "old level iii" - has something changed?[/quote]

I don't think FCPS differentiates levels - as of this year, it's just part time vs. full time. They also updated the FCPS website this year to only show part vs. full time services. [/quote]

Given the budget cuts to reduce AARTs to part time, this all seems like an intentional decrease in AAP services across the board. My experience is that Level II was useless this past year, and this indicates that FCPS knows it and isn't interesting in improving the situation. Instead, they're shifting full-time services to be more inclusive regardless of academic ability, and they are neutering all other enrichment services.

That's a real problem for those whose kids miss the cutoff for full-time services. It's even more problematic if they keep misusing the HOPE scale to eliminate highly intelligent kids who need more rigor and are not challenged in the regular classroom.

I would love for them to do a better job of providing part-time services, but all signs point to the program gradually fading into obscurity.

Don't love that.

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Level II was a joke. A few people seemed to have schools that had a Level II program that was more than extra worksheets but not too many.

Level III was fine for my kid. He had no problem making up the material he missed when he went to the Level III pull out but a good number of kids dropped out of LIII because their parents were not happy that the kid needed to make up the work and that meant homework. Our school held the Level III pull outs pretty frequently, but many schools reported shorter than advertised class meetings and that the pull outs were not held all that often.

Over-all, the early AAP "programs" were a joke that did little for the students. I have heard good things about the Young Scholars program at my kids' school, but you need to be lower income or have an IEP to be invited to join.

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