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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many outdated people here who probably have college graduates. We're not doing numbered levels anymore, sweeties!!!

Access to Rigor: Grades K-6 – All students receive talent development lessons with critical and creative thinking strategies and AAP curriculum lessons. [b]This is a normal classroom and sometimes the AART pushes in for a stupid Jacob's ladder lesson[/b]

Subject-Specific Services: Grades K-6 – Identified students receive AAP curriculum lessons in the general education setting in areas of academic strength. [b]This is extra math worksheets[/b]

Part-Time Services: Grades 3-6 – Identified students receive AAP curriculum lessons in more than one academic content area. The Advanced Academic Resource Teacher (AART) leads these lessons. Programming has increased depth and complexity in several content areas.[b]This is actually wrong because some kids AART pull outs, but there are also kids who get advanced math where they push in to the AAP or LLIV classroom[/b]

Full-Time Services: Grades 3-8 – Identified students receive AAP curriculum lessons full-time. Programming has increased depth, complexity, and pace in all academic content areas.[b]This is the AAP or LLIV classroom but the biggest difference is just advanced math[/b][/quote]

I know someone else posted in response to this post but I have an 8th grader in AAP. He received LII services in first and second grade. Received LIII services in third-sixth grade, we deferred LIV services, and moved into the AAP classes last year. This is a recent change, not something that happened 10 years ago. He had GBRS scores, not HOPE scores.

Subject services is a different name for LII
Part-time services is a different name for LIII
Full-Time services is a different name for LIV
Advanced math is still advanced math.

Math has always been its own track. Math is not covered in AAP services in MS, only English, Social Studies, and Science. Math was never a part of LIII services, or part-time services today, because math was covered in advanced math.

LIV, full-time services, has always included advanced math. At my kids' base school, kids who deferred LIV were guaranteed LIII and advanced math.

It is problematic that Center schools do not have an advanced math option for kids not selected for full time services, there should be an option other than pushing into the full-time classroom for math. I know kids who do just that, a friend of mine was telling me about his daughter pushing in for math.

The reality is that the services, no matter what you call them, are not that exciting. The only one that really matters is the advanced math. FCPS does not provide the services in a uniform manner across the county, it is very much school dependent. [/quote]

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