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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing is— none of that indicates whether a kid needs full time AAP or is going to be successful in Advanced Math. It’s not Advanced Compassion or Advanced Visual Arts.

It’s great to recognize that our kids have strengths in all kinds of areas and that they all have value. But why would you use this type of data to accelerate a child in the four main academic subjects? [/quote]

This!!

A kid who is a stellar artist does not necessarily need advanced math and reading. Why is that relevant?[/quote]

This new “Hope” scale looks like another attempt to “close the racial achievement gap from the top down.”

Essentially the Hope scale will slow-down the accelerated math and English classes by adding kids who are good at “performing arts,” but probably do not otherwise have the academic scores to get into AAP.

An AAP class can only move as fast as the lowest common denominator/ student in the class.[/quote]
With E3 math rolling out, most kids won’t be prepared for 6th grade math in 5th plus the focus on non academics with this HOPE form, most of the new admits won’t need it anyway. Advanced math disappears and a new equitable class of AAP appears with varied “gifted” interests.

Straight from the creators of HOPE:
“ The HOPE Teacher Rating Scale is designed to help guide teachers in identifying gifted students for programming. It is unique in several ways. First, it is short, with only 11 items that measure academic and social/affective components of giftedness, making it easy to use. Second, it is invariant when used to identify students from low-income and culturally diverse families. Third, it can be used across grade levels, K-12. Finally, local norms ensure that the data are relevant to the specific school populations. With multiple measures and multiple pathways crucial for reversing the inequities in identifying culturally, economically, and linguistically diverse students, a teacher-nomination instrument like the HOPE Teacher Rating Scale is an important component of identification systems.”

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It appears FCPS AAP is headed to be one like Loudoun Public Schools' gifted program, Futura and Spectrum, which is free from academics completely. There are no math, science, or English components, and no exams. Instead, it focuses on arts and crafts, Sudoku, panic room field trips, and for grading it's self-assessment. Superficially, it retains the appearance of a gifted program with CogAT and NNAT entrance tests, but half of the students are filled with students who didnt score even the average percentile.  In fact teachers are provided a list of students who didnt make through the test, and they are to recommend a diverse group of students to the program, irrespective of their academic performance.  That's how diversity is achieved, using non academic criteria.  However, many students find the program unfulfilling, and a significant number choose not to continue. Most of the students in this program struggle in their regular academic classes. Nevertheless, it is deemed a gifted program that promotes diversity.
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