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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she not a strong reader and can't write why is she in AAP?[/quote]

+1  They must have a low bar. So what does that say about AAP?[/quote]

Agh! Not the case. Scored very high (without prepping) on Cogat in math and logic and has an extroverted independent personality.[/quote]

I wonder why on earth AAP isn't spread out among all the kids.  For instance, in Gen Ed there are lots of kids who excel at writing, reading, math, you name it.  But because they aren't strong in all skills, they aren't in AAP.  But it sounds like there are also kids in AAP who aren't strong at everything either.  So why the need to segregate students into one group or another?  Why not make "advanced" classes fluid, for all kids to be able to excel at their strengths?  The current system is so out of whack.[/quote]

Good question.  I'm the PP with the kid who is good in math/logic/reading but not writing... ironically, [b]my older child who excels in writing and reading, but not quite as strong in math just missed the cut off for the AAP pool.[/b]  Older child went through a rough patch initially with adv. math at the base school in 3rd grade, but now has settled into it (it was also ironic that she was even placed into adv. math when it was the math/nnat scores that kept her OUT of AAP -- but that's the only "advanced" class offered at the base school, so that's where they put her).  Now we wonder if older child might have been a better fit for the full AAP curriculum based on the writing requirements (even though younger child tested better)!

If they aren't going to better match adv. classes to kids' abilities, it would be nice if the screening tests better assessed the skills needed for the curriculum. [/quote]

Same situation with my child.  Math is his weaker subject, so just missed qualifying for AAP.  Seems very strange that there are kids in AAP who clearly have trouble with one subject or another, and there are other kids in Gen Ed who excel in all but one area.  It is simply not necessary to divide up these kids.  They're too similar.[/quote]

I used to share your same opinion but, being a seasoned elementary school parent with multiple kids, and, not having an AAP center child but multiple high achievers in GE, I do see a need for [b]most[/b] of the children being sent to the AAP center to be there, especially 2E children.  This is why, they learn differently - not "smarterly" differently and most need the special accommodations to assist in their success that they are not given in a GE school.  Most of the GE kids thrive just fine in the standard learning environment they "fit" there and are successful.  The problems arise when children who would be just fine in the standard learning environment are being sent to the AAP center.  It pisses parents off and is detrimental to the high achieving GE child because learning peers are being removed from their classrooms.  [b]This is why it pisses parents off,  the center children are given automatic advanced academics, and, are given opportunities for an advanced curriculum that many high achieving GE students could benefit from.   AAP levels II and III are not adequately providing this because there is simply not enough "AAP teacher" to go around for the amount of children who could benefit.  And, the blanket label that only AAP center kids are advanced learners is simply not true.[/b] Therefore an advanced curriculum needs to be addressed at the classroom level in all GE schools.

So, I do see a need for the AAP center for some children especially 2E children.  
I do not agree with the blanket label that all AAP center kids are "advanced" learners.  
I see a need for the advanced curriculum to be spread into the GE curriculum so that all children have the same opportunities to thrive to their highest abilities with or without the AAP center.
Levels II and III need to be eliminated and the advanced program addressed in all GE classrooms.
I think that after the elementary school AAP center program children should be placed in the AAP middle school program by their teachers - not by the county assumption that they all belong there.

So all of you non-AAP center parents out there, the GE schools in Fairfax county are great, could they improve, absolutely.  Instead of fighting for your smart child to be in the AAP centers, unite in a fight for changes to the GE schools to get advanced opportunities to all Fairfax county students.  [/quote]

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