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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our McLean elementary school, all AAP kids are placed in the Level IV class.  To fill the remaining seats, every student in the grade takes a placement ecart test each quarter and the students that score the highest for each subject fill in the rest of the seats for the class.  Students move in or out of the class  every quarter based on these tests, so it's great for a Gen Ed kid who is really good in 1 or 2 subjects, but not all 4.  Also, if someone improves during the year, they also have a good chance to move into the Level IV class since there is movement 3 times a year (not counting first time placement at the beginning of each year).  It's a great system I think.[/quote]

That has to be the worst, most developmentally inappropriate system I've ever heard of.

Why do people allow their kids to be treated the way that FCPS treats kids?  [/quote]

I'm not sure why you think it's inappropriate. It's a pretty fair system without parent referral pushing or principal favoritism. There are several levels of each subject in a grade, so they are able to differentiate better with the kids. If you really know a subject they are about to cover, you move into a more in depth classroom for that quarter. If you don't know the subject well, you're in a classroom to learn the basics with other similarly situated kids. No one, including the kids, thinks anything of moving classrooms as they switch for each subject anyway. Isn't the point to give the students the best situation to learn at their pace? [/quote]

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