Reply to AAP Question

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "AAP Question"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what needs be done about the AAP program in Fairfax County.  The AAP program should be renamed the "Advanced Program for Smart Children with Learning Disabilities (AAPLD)" and the "smart" children who learn the "normal way" [b]should be brought back in to the General Education Schools and placed in Advanced Classes based on their grades/performance.[/b]  In this way, the "smart"children who don't "think outside of the box" in the General Education Schools will be afforded the same opportunities as the currnt AAP center children.  In this way all children who really need an educational challenge to advance will get it based on their needs.  The General Education Schools in Fairfax County are failing many "smart" children![/quote]

Then you lose the advantage of having a large enough size of a peer group of like-minded kids, at least at the overwhelming majority of elementary schools in Fairfax County. Too big a loss for these kids who require instructional services to meet their needs per state regulation, as well as for the County.[/quote]

By like-minded, do you mean the AAPLD as pp suggests?[/quote]

[list][list]There are plenty of "like minded", "smart", children in Fairfax County General Education schools.[/quote]

Good - then your child should do great.

[quote=Anonymous]
 There doesn't need to be a separate school for the "smart" kids.
[/quote]

There isn't.  There are identified AAP Centers for grades 3 - 8 throughout the County, and there are dozens of Local Level IV options at elementary schools throughout the County.  These are [b]optional[/b].

[quote=Anonymous]
 It is the kids who do not flourish with the general education curriculum who are supposedly selected for the AAP Center.
[/quote]

Not true.

http://www.fcps.edu/DIS/aap/faqs.html

What is the full-time AAP placement (level IV) program?
The level IV program provides full-time academic placement for highly gifted students. Teachers follow a curriculum framework to differentiate the depth, breadth, and pace of instruction based on the FCPS Program of Studies.  Students work with academic peers in all core subject areas.

[quote=Anonymous]
So make it what it is and put only those children who need a differnent curriculum in the centers and keep the, truly, just plain "smart kids" together.
[/quote]

Already addressed above.

[quote=Anonymous]
 My son is a straight "A" student and is very disheartened by the children in his classroom who are disruptive and are not there to learn.[/quote]

Congratulations on your son's academic performance.  Students that are identified as qualifying for full-time advanced academic services are not necessarily "straight A students."  See some of the resources listed on the FCPS website:  
http://www.fcps.edu/DIS/aap/resources.html

[quote=Anonymous]
 He needs a classroom with "like minded" learners. He is not getting it! 
[/quote]

I suggest you contact your son's teacher and perhaps the Advanced Academics Resource Teacher (AART) at your son's school. It would be a great time to raise the issue at the start of the school year.

[quote=Anonymous]
The county is failing the "smat" children who are not in the AAP centers. The level II and III services are a waste of time and resources. Fairfax needs to put it back in the classroom - smart kids in the advanced classrooms and others placed in classrooms to meet them at their achievement levels. 
[/quote]

I disagree with your opinion, but I am entitled to an opinion as well.  Such an approach would work well in -- say, Great Falls -- but not so much in other parts of the County, such as eastern parts of the County.

[quote=Anonymous]
The children who truly need a different learning curriculum should be the only ones placed in the center schools and not any child who's parents pitch the biggest fit.
[/quote]

I agree with this statement. Thankfully we have a state mandate for gifted education!

[quote=Anonymous]
 This is failing the General Ed. children in Fairfax County!
[/quote]

I think there are many failures for General Ed in the County, starting with but not limited to an assumption that "everyone" needs to take Algebra in Grade 8.

[quote=Anonymous]
 If the centers were really being used for what they are "pitched" as by the county, then parents wouldn't be "biting at their bits" to get their children into centers. 
[/quote]

Not sure if I agree -- this area (metro DC-wide) tends to be its own form of Lake Wobegon.

[quote=Anonymous]
This is happening because parents know thier "smart" kid will not get the same opportunities in the General Ed. Schools. And each of you know this is true.
[/quote]

Already addressed above.

[quote=Anonymous]
Help correct this issue instead of fueling it. [/quote]

Don't forget to vote in the School Board election in November![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics