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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So kids wouldn’t be able to attend AAP centers unless their parents have the resources to drive them there?

That’s klassy.[/quote]

Isn’t that what language immersion students do?[/quote]

Yes. The difference, I am guessing, is that the State requires a program for gifted kids and not LI. So LI is totally voluntary, like swapping schools for IB or AP classes, while AAP is FCPSs answer to a State mandate. Voluntary school swaps are on the parents while State mandates are on the County.

Not every school has Local Level IV and some school’s don’t want it. Our school just added LLIV and there are lots of unhappy folks.

Local Level IV programs are not the same as LIV at the Center. Our base school uses a cluster model where the LIV are in the Gen Ed class and the AAP curriculum is taught to all the kids. Except that there are kids who are below grade level in that class so the class can’t move at the speed or in depth the way a LIV class at the Center can. The program is very different and doesn’t do what AAP is supposed to do for the selected kids.[/quote]

If there are students below grade level, or even at grade level, why are they being taught AAP level curriculum? I imagine it is very difficult for those students.  [/quote]

The county is hoping to implement a program where AAP curriculum is being implemented at the Gen Ed level under the guise of “rigor”.[/quote]

I’m an ES teacher and each year we are required to provide a certain number of lessons from the AAP curriculum (Jacob’s Ladder, M3, Socratic Seminar, etc). Since it’s AAP material it can be very frustrating for many (if not most) of the students. I find it a bit frustrating. [/quote]

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