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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really do not see the point of threads like this. OP - why do you care?

My oldest DC did AAP at a centre and yes I think she needed it. Math was still a lot slower than she would like but at least better than gen Ed would have been. They did do multiple neat projects.

Youngest DC is LLIV. He does not “need it” I think and faster math beyond the pace they are doing would be too much for him. School mixes classes so the LLIV kids are integrated with the other kids for hometown, SS/S, specials. Not as challenging in my view as the version of AAP older DC got but a good fit for this kid. I do not think the LLIV model would have been enough for older kiddo given that it feels like a bit more watered down version. [/quote]

OP here. I haven't checked in a few days and appreciate all the answers.

To address this question: I care for a lot of reasons, not all of them good, productive reasons. I admit that to a large degree I am just disappointed with the program and frustrated that it's so completely different from the way it is described. So it irks me when experienced parents use the FCPS language with prospective parents because it seems like we should know better. And I do not believe that people are "mocking" the application's language. It's quite clear that many people feel that way. It sounds so self-promotional, which I find embarrassing for kids in a program that just isn't all that special (though it could be... FCPS could do SO MUCH BETTER!) You look at a program like AOPS/Beast Academy and THAT is special. Even if your fifth grader is doing the third grade books, the kid would be approaching math in a different way. And, if anything, FCPS does an adequate job with Math, whereas language arts... Maybe its the SOLs and being forced to teach to the test? maybe it's that the classes are too large? I just wish this program delivered on it's promises. I feel that it's a program that selects for a certain kind of student and rewards that kind of student. And for what it's worth my kids are at one of the supposedly most coveted centers. I am willing to believe that there are some brilliant teachers out there but I doubt other schools are teaching wildly different content in wildly different ways.

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