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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Oh, yes! AAP of today is roughly similar to the “regular” education that FCPS offered a generation ago.

Don’t get into AAP? Expect overcrowded, mismanaged classrooms where instruction will be adjusted for the average/below- average student.

Don’t bother expressing concern that your solidly average student is struggling or needs additional help to grasp concepts or could benefit from being in an emerging reading group. You will be told that average is perfectly fine. True hands on help is reserved for ESOL learners.

My advice to the parents of the non-AAP’ers; expect nothing and DIY supplemental instruction (outside tutor, kitchen-table teaching and/or learning center like C2). Opt out of SOLs. Carefully review your student’s progress.

Oh- and handwriting, spelling, math facts and geography aren’t taught at all, so don’t bother expressing shock or dismay, just add this to your list of supplemental instruction that you’ll need to outsource.

-DH and I are FCPS graduates. How the mighty FCPS has fallen. It’s very sad.[/quote]

I agree with a lot of this except - AAP ALSO does NOT teach handwriting, math facts, spelling, or geography....
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It did about 6-8 years ago. My current junior learned all of this in AAP and so did younger sibling. Homework was graded with comments on how to improve.  Both had to study multiplication facts over the summer before 3rd grade. Is this gone now, too?[/quote]

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