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[list]OK then differentiate with ALL kids in their home schools up to the AAP center level (or higher) in all subjects!!  This way, ALL kids, could move into AAP classes when ready and those who are in AAP level but need help in a certain subject could move out.  This is a no-brainer.  [b]Why is FCPS fighting this.[/b]  It could work, be successful, provide an excellent education for ALL students by allowing them to reach their full potential at any given time/grade/age.  Not to mention those kids who are "not cutting the mustard" in a given subject, in AAP, could get what they need as well.  Set a baseline academic level and move kids in and out of advanced classes based on their academic performance.  This is how the advanced mathmatics works now, if you have bad grades on 2-3(?) tests you are moved down a math level until you master the topic.  Why can't this be done across the board in all subjects, at all levels, at all schools?  The teachers are already differentiating for at least 3 levels with in their classrooms so differentiate for at least 3 levels in the "top class" as well.

The AAP center is so removed that high level learners in GE do not have an option to reach higher.  Unless, of course, they are deemed "eligible" by a special board, during a select time of year and move out of their base school.   An exhausting process much like "government red tape" and quite frankly a waste of time and resourses.

Why is FCPS deciding in 2nd grade that a select few children are "out of the box thinkers" and worthy of a better education and advanced course work for the rest of their primary education?  This is wrong.  Most FCPS students could be successful with the AAP center curriculum so why are only a select few receiving it?  I am not speaking for the "genius" level students (about 1%) they need a select level of learning.  I am talking about the vast majority of the AAP center kids who are smart but not in need of a separate school and are not in need of "automatic" advanced placement.   What ever happened to earning your "grade" to be in advanced placement?  Placing a child in an "advanced" curriculum in 2nd grade is, of course, going to give them an advantage in later years.  But the AAP center as it is now is so biased, discriminatory, and not affording many smart kids, who are not in the center, the same opportunity at a better education.  FCPS LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD!  I swear this is grounds for a lawsuit waiting to happen.[/quote][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We got the call as well, I was a little embarrassed because I was a bit tipsy and the dc was playing minecraft.  Of course I knew wed get in already.  Ms. Eugene did say the benchmark didn't create a large enough pool, so they had to let some kids in who didnt measure up.[/quote]

so, Every kid in pool will get in?[/quote]

Does this mean every kid in the pool gets in?[/quote]

About 2/3 of kids in pool get in[/quote]

Well, perhaps historically, but as we all know, the things were different this year with the custo Fairfax CogAT, locally normed test - so.....likely made the pool smaller.  And who knows?[/quote]

Still stands for this year[/quote]

And you know this because.....?[/quote]

I am close to the process.[/quote]

[list]If you are so close the work to fix it:

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