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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We love the AAP program. We would probably be in private school if FCPS didn’t have AAP. My kids have a solid peer group. When my kids were in K-2, they were mostly ignored by the teacher because they were well behaved and always did well in school. The teacher often focused on the kids with behavioral problems or struggling kids. [b]My kids have said the biggest difference between AAP and their old classes are the kids are better behaved. [/b]I like the center model because the peer group is larger and there are better academic extracurriculars.[/quote]

This is such a myth.  There are *many* behavioral issues within AAP.  Lots of IEPs, 504s, and just plain old acting out.  My kids attended a center school and invariably, the kids sent to the principal's office were from the AAP classes.[/quote]

I don't normally bother posting in support of AAP because it gets such hate on this board, but I have to say that the above poster's experience was ours, too. Our daughter spent most of 1st and 2nd sitting at her desk working on word searches while the teacher focused on the struggling kids.  Every week, she'd bring home a big stack of completed word search pages to show how she spent her time.   :roll:   That completely changed when she moved to the AAP center.  The center model has been great.  Had she stayed at the base school, she would have been one of only 12 kids who were selected for AAP in a class of more than 30, the vast majority being principal-placed kids who didn't qualify per the selection committee.  That would have been a completely different experience.[/quote]

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