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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just because parents choose to be cordial doesn't mean the school situation is healthy[/quote]

Exactly.  Most of the parents saying their school is just fine, has no problems with AAP/GE, etc. are, in fact, AAP parents.  Of course they don't see the problems!  And, as PP says, parents are generally going to be cordial and polite in person.  You're probably never going to hear anything negative from a parent at your school if they feel what they have to say is going to be received negatively.  That's why it was very interesting to read the comments on the FCPS message board, when they opened it up for discussion.  Many parents were upset over centers and the way AAP is administered, and spoke freely in those comments - because it was anonymous.  [/quote]

I think the FCPS' User Voice suggestion of assigning some neighborhood schools to be all AAP is a good suggestion.  There are some parts of the county where schools are located in close proximity to one another. Just take entire schools in various locations across the county and make them all AAP.  There would be no need for Advanced Academic Resource Teachers in the base schools, either.[/quote]

I don't think that is a bad idea.

HOWEVER there are going to be many EXTREMELY unhappy base school parents who are pleased with their school and happy to be able to have, for example, one kid in GE and a sibling in AAP, who are going to be furious when they are going to get reassigned to a different school so there school can be turned into a center only school.

I would bet money that there are far more people who would be upset by this and that there are many more people who would prefer the status quo over such an idea.

That is a can of worms fcps does not want to open.[/quote]

PPs in this thread with Gen Ed kids have said that all Gen Ed parents are unhappy with with being at a Center school.  So they should be fine with leaving. And that they would welcome redistricting if it meant getting rid of AAP kids.  (But I imagine they meant they would be happy If OTHER PEOPLES KIDS were redistricted, not theirs).  So how about it Gen Ed parents:  [b]you're okay with AAP kids being sent to different schools.[/b]  You think it's fine to make up the difference by having other kids redistricted to make up the difference. You've talked the talk. Can you walk the walk? Are you also oaky with letting your school become all AAP, and having your kids redistricted?

Also, in response to PPs above, base schools would still need an AART.  The play a big role in screening 2nd graders, and do the pull outs of Level I-III kids, and things like Young scholars. In our school, the AART's only interaction with LLIV kids is to do an hour a week in 5th & 6th grades with kids who need differentiation in math above standard compacted math. Maybe it is different in other schools?[/quote]

Wait a minute.  We're "ok with AAP kids being sent to different schools"?  Oh, you mean [b]THEIR OWN SCHOOLS[/b]?  The whole point so many of us are trying to make is that every student - whether Gen Ed or AAP - should attend [i]their own base school[/i].  Schools should be returned to their communities and centers should be a thing of the past. [b] LLIV should be put in place at every elementary school.  What about this do you not understand?[/b]

Who came up with the idea to have "all AAP schools"?  Certainly not me.   [/quote]

What I do not understand is how such a broad brush approach is equitable across the county, when there are some schools with 50+ Level IV Center-eligible students per grade and others with 2 Level IV Center-eligible students per grade?

The county is too big and too diverse to have a broad brush approach work at all schools.

The goal should be 2 classes per grade level of Level IV Center-eligible students. This probably means a tiered approach where some parts of the county have LLIV (2 classes per grade) and other parts of the county do not have LLIV and instead have Centers (with 2 classes per grade).[/quote]

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