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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]There are always parents on here that claim the five paragraph essay has gone away and it’s one of the reasons FCPS and our children’s education is declining. The five paragraph essay has not gone away. It is still the expected/desired outcome for multiple language arts units in 4-6th grade. If your students are not writing a five paragraph essay, there are probably three reasons for that.

1) their individual ELL or SPED level is not at a place where they can manage a five paragraph essay.
2) the teacher did not do it because they ran out of time in the unit.
3) the student complained and procrastinated needlessly and never got beyond paragraph two or three.[/quote]

My FCPS AAP student was not assigned a five paragraph essay in 4-6th grade (and in fact was not given any formal writing instruction--or punctuation, or grammar, or spelling instruction--until we moved them out of FCPS for 7th grade).  This was a well regarded albeit overcrowded LIV AAP center.  The emphasis was math, math, math.[/quote]

And my AAP student did get those things… at an average school. [/quote]

I think this does happen. Lower performing school teachers know they can’t get away with cutting stuff. More affluent schools think they can get away with it and the parents will just teach the kids instead. [/quote]

This is why I never understand why parents think the center is better. Our AAP kid at a Local Level 4 got spelling, grammar and writing instruction. [/quote]

The center is less affluent than the local schools in many cases.[/quote]

Not necessarily true.

Following Centers are not less affluent…
Lemon Road
Westbriar
Churchill Road
Haycock
Louise Archer
Sunrise Valley
Willow Springs
White Oaks
Oak Hill
Poplar Tree
Greenbrier West
Navy
Mosaic
Mantua

I can keep going…

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I think you’re missing PP’s point. There are AAP centers in affluent areas but they were often placed in schools less affluent than the neighboring schools. In other cases they were placed in schools that just had more capacity.

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I am looking holistically. There are AAP centers in every pyramid. The pyramids that are less affluent have centers that are less affluent. The[b] PP stated most centers[/b] were less affluent than the surrounding schools and that is not true if you look at the list of centers.

I personally wish centers would go away in these affluent areas as the majority have local level programs. It irritates me beyond belief that every school going into our center has a LL4 program that is well established and we bus kids to the center. It us a waste of money and resources. [/quote]

I'm the PP--I said "many" not "most."  Which is true.  The LL4 programs have undermined many centers--but in many schools there are not robust enough local programs and the center is the most cost-effective way to serve advanced students (less teacher training, more centralized resources--bussing is often not much of a cost compared to these).  I think it's a bad idea to have both local programs and centers because they have diffused the role of advanced academics and added costs in multiple places.[/quote]

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