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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arguing that AAP should be scrapped because of cost creates an unnecessary sideshow.  The cost is minimal as FCPS would still have to educate these kids and provide buses for a large chunk of the kids anyway.  I think the lack of real differentiation in the Gen Ed classroom is a better argument.  I think differentiation should be across the grade instead of every teacher being expected to teach to at least 3 levels within each class.  For example, if there are 3 classes in a grade, the teachers could group their kids in a high, middle and low group for language arts and for math, and one teacher would take the high, low or middle group from all the classes.  The groups could be reassessed every couple of months.  Some schools do this and I think this type of differentiation is easier to accomplish and more efficient than expecting one teacher to do it all.  If this was being done,a lot of the parents who send their kids to AAP centers wouldn't feel it was necessary, which would decrease the number of center kids and the brain drain (real or perceived) from Gen Ed.  My kids' center is way less convenient than our base school, and I most certainly would have kept them in our base school if it had across the grade differentiation.  The in class differentiation was very spotty and inconsistent from teacher to teacher so we opted for the center to avoid the inconsistencies in differentiation at our base school.  I'm sure that is a major factor in a lot of parents deciding to send their kids to centers.[/quote]

Totally agree!!  Our principal eliminated grouping or having teachers "specialize" in one subject (i.e one teaches all of the math or language arts classes), so the homeroom teacher teaches every subject (except specials) and every student in her/his class.  She thought that splitting into ability groups was "tracking" to too discouraging for the kids on the lower groups.  It has been a disaster.[/quote]

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