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[quote=Anonymous]The idea is a valid one. They wanted to have enough students to create a classroom of kids who had been selected for the program. That way you have a class of kids on the same level. Most schools did not have enough kids to create a class of kids who were selected. If you pool ES together into a Center, you create at least one class, many times two to three classes so the kids can be mixed up each year.

It should lead to a room full of kids who are ahead and interested in diving deeper into subjects and moving faster. The problem is that parents have gotten fixated on making sure that their kid is in AAP and so many of the kids in the program now are not ready for the curriculum, normally math is the area the kids are not ready for acceleration, and the class slows down. The Advanced Math option allowed for the County to have a space for kids ahead in math but not as strong in the LA to have an outlet. Without an Advanced LA class, all the parents of kids who were a bit ahead in LA pushed hard for AAP, even though their kid wasn’t advanced in math, and were accepted in the first round or, many times, on appeal.

FCPS push in services for kids who are ahead in K-2 are a joke. My kids Level II services in math were some extra worksheets and in LA was a specific reading group. That was it. And that is what the services in APS sounds like. AAP does do more advanced work, which is why parents move here for it, because most of the advanced kids are clustered together in a class or at a Center in multiple classes.[/quote]

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