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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If so many kids are so easily getting 2 or 3 grade levels ahead in math, doesn't that suggest that the pacing is too slow in the first place?  Gifted kids should be more than capable of being at least 3 grade levels ahead.  AAP math is a mere one grade level ahead, and between AAP kids and gen ed advanced math kids, it serves 40% of the FCPS students.  The benchmark to be placed in gen ed advanced math is only around a 115 CogAT Q, and the AAP and advanced math classes are paced for a kid with around a 115 IQ.  [b]This pace is way to slow for 99th percentile kids.  It's reasonable for parents to want a gifted level math class and not just an above average math class.  [/b]

Even grade skipping doesn't help because the pace is so slow within each class.  Mine skipped 2nd grade math and 4th AAP math.  He was still bored out of his mind, because the other kids in AAP required too much repetition to grasp the concepts.  [/quote]

One of the failings of public schools is that it just can't teach every kid at his or her exact level. It fails most of the kids on either end of the bell curve. That's why people supplement. [/quote]

But FCPS isn't even trying.  There is one math level in K-2.  There are only 2 math levels in 3-6: above average and average/below average.  Advanced math and regular math.  That seems appropriate for base schools that don't have AAP, but it's absurd that they're busing kids to a different school and gathering kids who are higher ability, just to give them the same advanced math that's available for 40% of FCPS kids.  If AAP kids don't need services beyond regular advanced math and reading groups that are one year above grade level, then there's no reason to have AAP at all.  Those services are already available in gen ed at the base schools and are already needed by any kids who are above average.  There is enough of a critical mass of kids who are beyond that in FCPS, especially when AAP centers are absorbing kids from many schools.  [/quote]

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