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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mosby Woods/Luther Jackson/Oakton high poster here. I gave you OUR experience. Has very little to do with anything other than the admin and the teachers. Try to spin it as you may, but we LOVED all 3 schools, and LJ was our kids' favorite! Again, this is OUR experience. Nothing to do with funding or center schools.[/quote]

The point is it means very little to general ed parents who don't have the option of a center school if their school is declining while these schools are improving. The entire pyramid should be strong.[/quote]

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Personally, I'm really sick and tired of hearing about how great center schools are, when my own children don't have that "option."  Why aren't all schools equally good?  Why must one have a child in AAP before they can say how "great" their school is?  Forget AAP - [b]every [/b]school should be excellent, for ALL students.[/quote]

I agree - FCPS distributes its resources very unevenly.  The best of everything goes to AAP, the most resources to special needs, and regular kids are left with nothing.  We have language immersion classes with 20 kids from the same country getting a private school education that isn't available to the rest of the county.  FCPS is not world class unless you are  one of the "special" kids that gets more than average.  If you're average, you sit in classes with 35 kids, do work on the lowest common denominator, and probably have an average teacher at best.[/quote]

What you mean by "the best of everything"?  AAP kids are in the same buildings, use the same facilities and materials....they have AAP certified teachers, but that doesn't mean they are "better" teachers then gen ed teachers. What makes AAP different is that the kids identified as eligible are lumped together - and the curriculum goes faster and a little more in-depth, but otherwise is the same as Gen Ed. [/quote]

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