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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are avg. class sizes at Lemon Road?? Again, how strong is their AAP program compared to other the LLIVs (particularly Shreve and Westgate since those schools seem to be demographically alike...)[/quote]

The first few pages discussed the AAP program there. Did you go to the prientation? I would think it is better than either of those schools mainly because there are more children in the program. Neither school has the large class sizes that you see in Mclean and Vienna so it's unlikely any school will have classes over 30 students or even over 25 students. If FCPS allows Shrevewood to have an all LLIV program under 20 students again, I will bring it to their attention publicly. I think they will fix this though so that Westgate and Shrevewood will continue to be mixed classrooms of LLIV, LLIII, LLII, and general ed children.[/quote]

It looks from the board docs that Shrevewood and Lemon Road are "competing" for the LLIV students. 
Both want to grow their program. Makes me wonder if their local screening committees will be inflating GBRS at both schools. [/quote]Uggh! What is the point of the program then??if this were proven to be true, what a disappointment and unfair to kids who truly would benefit from the program in other schools.[/quote]

I completely agree. I wouldn't trust any GRBS from Shrevewood at all. For all I know they are prepping the kids too. What is the benefit of having AAP students? Can FCPS not figure out how to grade schools based on their general ed population separate from AAP? Why should every school be afraid of losing their AAP students?[/quote]

PP, I don't know if you are the one that's been doing all the Shrevewood bashing or not!  Apparently someone on here does not like Shrevewood, yes it's that obvious!  If you don't like a school or agree with the Principal or other Administrators, there's no reason to continue to bash it. Make 1 point and move on!   Makes me wonder if you are that vocal in your current school if you don't like the way something is handled.

Your comment about the GRBS scores being inflated by Shrevewood or any other school is laughable. Do you honestly think they would give a child GRBS scores if they didn't think the child was able to handle the AAP curriculum?  I personally know of two parents at Shrevewood whose kids didn't get into to the program due to low GRBS scores, so no they are not inflating the scores!

As for competiation between Shrevewood/Westgate/Lemon Rd for AAP students each school does the best they can to retain good students and involved parents.  We all know schools run better with a large involvement from parents. 
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Are you the parent who thought it was so great that Shrevewood had a class of 13? That parent obviously didn't consider the other children at the school at all. I don't live in the Westgate, Shrevewood, or Lemon Road boundary, but have spent the past three years arguing for smaller class sizes for FCPS and increased budget from the BOS. I've also been working toward a better relationship between general ed and AAP students with expanded curriculum available to general ed children even though I have AAP children myself. My kids have been in classes of 30 for several years in early elementary with mixed AAP and general ed students. The discussion of 13 kids at Shrevewood to keep the LLIV kids separate was a slap in the face to all I've been working for. From what I can see, Lemon Road didn't try to change their staffing and class size just to get new AAP kids in while Shrevewood did. I can point it out as much as I want till it gets fixed. After that, I promise I will stop bashing Shrevewood. Really though, the parents and principal brought it on themselves. Yes, I do think often GRBS is inflated if kids have the option of staying at the base school for AAP and lowered possibly if they don't want them to leave. I believe this has been talked about at many schools, not just Shrevewood. There is obviously a problem within FCPS if two schools are competing for the same students.[/quote]

If there are so many AAP students at shrevewood why are the SOL and GS scores so low compared to other AAP centers[/quote]

Shrevewood is [b]not[/b] a center and has only had 2 years of LLIV students thus far.

There seems to be a mis-understanding of the # of students in the LLIV at Shrevewood.  Here's how it works.  Yes, the LLIV classes are smaller, but this is just the main # of students, the numbers do not speak that for example during Language Arts time, kids who tested into LA are in the class this can increase the class # at this time from 15 to 22.  The same goes for math, during math the class size can be 26. Further, these kids then integrate with other kids and get moved around to classes with other gen ed kids when it comes to specials time, this includes, PE, Music, Mandarin, lunch and recess.   I'm pointing this out there are posters on here who seem to think it's  an exclusive 13 in these LLIV all day long, no, not the case!

Additionally, did you all know that Shrevewood also has a large number of children with disabilities?  There are so many good things going on at Shrevewood, the laser pointing of the LLIV class size is minimal in comparison. [/quote]

PP. Do you think Shrevewood should have to combine LLIV and other children in their math and language arts classes like any other LLIV school in FCPS has to do? Why should Shrevewood keep their current structure when other schools are not allowed to do this and have to even out their classes?[/quote]  I should have also added science and social studies to math and language arts time.[/quote]

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