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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Okay random on the internet.[/b] I'm sure your AART would publicly disagree with her employer. Mkay sure.

There.Are.No.Capacity.Limits.

AAP teachers have special certification to teach gifted children. There may not be enough children in each grade at each school to justify training teachers at each school.     [/quote]

If that isn’t the pot calling the kettle black. I’m sure I’m going to go by you, Rando, who claims to be the insider who knows whether or not there are limits. Because of course you know everything there is to know about AAP and how it all works. And even though there are no limits, a ton of kids who should’ve gotten in, didn’t get in. I’m sure you’re in the know alright.

does an AART publicly refute the statements put out by her employer, you bet they do when they are good at what they do. Sorry your experience hasn’t been so. [/quote]

Sentiment is changing anyway. More and more parents now understand that there is a limit. We asked our Principal for placement for level 4 after the rejection. She informed us that there wasn’t capacity because central committee usually fills “all the spots”.  There are other parents in our school also requesting the same. Other posters have mentioned it also in a different thread. Honestly I don’t understand why it’s so hard to acknowledge that physical capacity issues alone can cause overall capacity issues at center schools. I guess it would get FCPS in trouble if they said that because it means eligible students are being denied service. It’s easier to say they were ineligible for level 4 rather than say it’s related to capacity. Honestly I don’t know because this entire process is completely opaque and impossible to understand. Though I am also a firm believer that there are indeed capacity numbers that play a role. As someone earlier said, what happens after all the applications are screened and there are 4 yes or 4 no?  It is impossible to think that an executive team isn’t doing something with the applications to make sure the accepted pool isn’t fully homogenous. Not just along racial lines but also along gender. Someone must be looking at that data to make sure it is being appropriately vetted and massaged. [/quote]

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