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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shrevewood parents - how is this going? Are you happy with your child's placement?[/quote]

It's fine. The LLIV kids were definitely split into 2 classes per grade and the rest of the gen ed students were mixed within them and the remaining other classes. What surprised me though, is that it doesn't seem to be the case that the Level III or other stronger students were necessarily those chosen to be mixed into the 2 AAP LLIV classes. Seems like a huge mix of kids across all of the various classes. [/quote]

The mix has been disappointing.  Our level III kid wasn’t placed in one of those AAP classrooms when we had been told they’d have a strong likelihood.  From what we hear, many ESOL kids got placed in and AAP parents are upset.  This school continues to disappoint.  [/quote]

That's terrible! The reason most people sign up for AAP is to avoid the masses.[/quote]

Part of the reason we (and a lot of our friends/neighbors) were so supportive of this is because we have such a great, diverse community and our kids all learn from each other. Most people were excited about this change. The ones who weren't switched schools. If PP's child is Level III, then s/he would have been in a class with all the other kids any way, so I'm really not sure why they are complaining. All the other hearsay is just ridiculous. If her kid isn't in one of the two classes that AAP kids were distributed across, then she really doesn't know anything about those classes at all.[/quote]

Ding, ding, ding!! One mom is jealous that her kid didn't get into one of the other classes so she is trying to stir up trouble. [/quote]

It’s only a shame she/he was told their Level III DC had a good chance of being in one of those classrooms. Otherwise,  a Level III kid doesn’t deserve or shouldn’t expect Level IV treatment.[/quote]

This is the exact problem with AAP - her child doesn’t “deserve” Level IV treatment?!  Are you kidding me? For all you know that student is more qualified than your child but in the randomness that is AAP selection, didn’t get picked.  And, even if her child truly isn’t eligible for LIV, they are no less deserving of a quality education and access to appropriate curriculum.  It is a crap system that creates an insane amount of inequity in FCPS.  There needs to be a way less rigid acceleration system that doesn’t depend on how a student did on the second grade COGAT. [/quote]

Or the 2nd grade CogAT which was privately administered after an appeal. This stuff is a crazy waste of money.[/quote]

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