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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many outdated people here who probably have college graduates.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]

So, in other words...  The same exact tiers exist, whether they're numbers or otherwise.  (i.e. LIII is now just "part time").

The same exact problems exist in that only LIV, or Full time is centrally managed, and all other levels (subject specific, part time) are implemented by the local school, which has wide discretion on how to execute them, which can also be space dependent.  .e. in some centers of Local Full-time classrooms, there may be space for push-ins, and in other times, the AART may provide 1-hour weekly support - both of which are acceptable approaches.

As a parent of a 2nd grader and 5th grader, I'll continue to use the terms interchangeably, as I believe they're still well understood.  Not sure if the "Sweeeties" was meant to be condescending, but it comes off that way.[/quote]

The frustrating part is that in most schools, the AAP classroom is really only about 10 kids who were actually accepted into the program and everyone else is principal placed. We didn't learn this until my son started middle school and all of the sudden, all these kids we thought were AAP were in his Honors classes.[/quote]
But how is that frustrating? Were their parents lording over their kids' "AAP" status over you or something?[/quote]

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