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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain why both Shrevewood and Lemon Road have 3rd grade classes in the teens for the AAP classes when other cluster 2 schools have classes in the 30's? Seems entirely unfair. Does the needs based staffing ratio count some AAP kids as more than one kid too or something?[/quote]

Shrevewood has one LLIV class and it's in the teens because the principal was trying to entice parents to stay rather than go to Lemon Road so the new program would succeed.  The people who should be upset are the Gen Ed parents whose kids are in classes of over 25 with a fair number of ESOL and other kids that need attention.  Meanwhile,  the LLIV class, which has students that, in theory, should be able to hold their own in a larger class because they are very bright, has an unbelievable ratio.

Lemon Road has classes in the teens for the same reason -- to entice parents to send their kids to the new center.  When those kids were split out of Haycock, the parents were promised the new center would have "critical mass," which most people agreed was 2 classes.  The assumption would be that would be 50 kids per grade.  It isn't but the parents were promised there would be 2 classes, hence the small classes.

Which Cluster 2 schools have AAP classes in the 30's?  If you're referring to West Briar, just be aware that West Briar and all of the other Cluster 2 schools were supposed to go to Lemon Road as well, but the parents vehemently opposed it, so FCPS caved and West Briar got a center.  If the other Cluster 2 kids had gone to Lemon Road, it would have been more like a regular sized center -- but then the Lemon Road parents would be complaining that the AAP/Gen Ed proportion was off.  The bottom line is that there is a lot of resentment about AAP.  FCPS needs to find a way to give the AAP students that need extra what they need, but make Gen Ed a good enough program that the parents aren't gaming the system to get their kids in AAP because there is no challenge left in Gen Ed.  The whole thing is messed up.[/quote]

I don't understand what you're talking about.  Cluster 2 includes Louise Archer and its feeders, and some of the feeders to Mosby Woods, too. They weren't all supposed to go to Lemon Road. [/quote]

That's right.  The kids that fed into Louise Archer will go to the Westbriar center, but the older kids were grandfathered in, unlike the kids at Haycock.  The third graders that would eventually feed into Kilmer and Marshall from Louise Archer are at Westbriar this year.[/quote]

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