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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn’t find our school to be helpful at all. I really don’t know if you have to buddy up with the principal or be in the PTO to have influence. I work full time and it was hard to do that. We never got contacted about principal placement. I only learned about it from this forum. I figured if a kid really stands and was in pool and got rejected, there are grounds to ask for the principal to help. But I don’t think they proactively reach out. So you should do that soon as classes are being determined now for next year.[/quote]

I am a principal. Asking to be placed in an AAP class would be the fastest way to ensure your kid is not getting into that class. The last thing I would want is for anyone to think is that they have to be in the PTO or “buddy up” to me to get special favors. If word got out that all you had to do was bug the principal with that request, I’d lose all credibility. [/quote]

Ok…. so what are we supposed to do then? Just wait around for your call?[/quote]

Wow, that’s quite an arrogant statement from a Principal. Perhaps you should attempt to guide and direct parents in lieu of making threatening remarks that serve as part of the problem [/quote]

Agreed. The principal has no empathy for what families are going through. All we want is the next step after rejection which hurts. We don’t need some power trippy principal not providing any options.

For something supposedly called Principal Placement, there’s a lot of non-answers for the process of how such placement actually works and what happens next.

Like it’s called Principal placement but DO NOT talk to the principal about it? How does that make any sense? So what should we do then?[/quote]

I think the issue is that the process changes every year. If 29 LIV kids chose to stay, there might not be a need for any principal placed kids, vs. if only 16 choose to stay they'll need to find 10+ other kids to round out the class. I assume teachers and administrators work together to identify kids who can likely handle the academics but also mesh well with the personalities that are going to be in that classroom, just like they do for all grade level classrooms.

Unless your principal listens to parent letters asking for specific teacher placement, I wouldn't expect requests for LLIV placement will be well received.[/quote]

May 5th was the deadline to accept placements. From then til now they should have a good idea of how these classes will look and whether or not they want to principal place.

The “full time rejects” should be acknowledged during this time like “hey we might have space in our local program, stay tuned.” Or even “we saw you were rejected for full time, let’s see if we can try part time for your child’s strongest subject(s)” or “here’s an update: we don’t have any more space in our local Aap environments but let’s come up with a plan to get your child to where they need to be so they can apply again next year”

But, nah. Crickets.[/quote]

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