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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS is failing other parents' non-gifted kids, too. You're not special.[/quote]

APS only job is to get kids to pass the SOLs. Period. [/quote]

I mean, if you look at where the bulk of their money and effort gets directed, that’s certainly what it seems like. But I think that would be a rather embarrassing admission of institutional failure.

Can you imagine the motto? “Come to APS, where we will spend 13 years teaching your kid to pass a test that they probably could have passed after the first 8 or 9.”[/quote]
I am very annoyed that APS has reassigned the former gifted teachers, now AACs, from supporting advanced learners to being directed to supporting all students.  Most APS elementary schools have a large portion of gifted or advanced students (~30+%) and it was good having at leasr one person per elementary school who was tasked with making learning more appropriate and challenging for these students.  There are lots of other teachers supporting students who need help passing SOLs, as well as it being the main classroom focus.  And in the past, the main classroom teacher often got extra bandwidth to help those students when the gifted teacher was working with the advanced students.  It's a shame APS has ditched this model and the AAC is now told to only work on materials and projects for the whole class and all learners.  It's very anti-differentiation, when it is necessary and appropriate to differentiate. Ignoring gifted and advanced students isn't equitable, despite what APS admin is touting.

To those with middle and high schoolers chiming in, this is a new change as of last year and has had a big impact for my kids.  Far less is being offered to challenge them than was available pre-covid.[/quote]

The old policy had drawbacks too. Some kids were not identified who should have been. The AACs were too resistant to identification because it increased their caseloads. So students couldn't access those pullouts. Also the pullouts had no connection to the instruction in the classroom either. [/quote]

This is why we need separate classrooms. [/quote]

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