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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][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]

Maybe though they could pilot it with one of the schools that dcum says flier in this thread who have is nothing but problems...perhaps Louise Archer.

Turn that school into a 3-6 AAP only magnet and reassign all the other kids to neighboring schools and see how it goes.

LA gen ed/anti AAP parent posting here, what say you?  Could you get behind such an idea?[/quote]

AAP parent, and I like that DC goes to school with a mix of kids.  She doesn't need all AAP peers (although she does need enough for at least 2 classes, which almost no base schools have).   Also, this seems like you are setting up a TJ situation, with parents griping about kids having access to an elite super school and get busing there. But, there are certainly GE parents earlier in this thread who said they would welcome redistricting if it meant their kids didn't have to go to the same school as AAP kids.  So presumably, they would nOT mind if there kids were sent to a different school so the local Center could become all AAP. [/quote]

PPs -- you raise good points.

I like the idea of a pilot "all AAP" school.

I seem to recall Greenbriar West did a survey of parents prior to the Poplar Tree change. Maybe survey the Louise Archer parents and ask for their feedback?[/quote]

If PPs are as unhappy with having their kids with AAP kids as they say, they should jump at the chance to send their kids somewhere else.  Problem solved (I suspect not.  I'm sure GE parents would hate this solution too). [/quote]

To my knowledge, no one has said they are unhappy with having AAP kids at their school.  The problem arises when AAP kids become the majority, such as at several center schools, and the GE kids are now the minority, going through years with the same peers.  It's interesting that AAP parents cry foul when their kids don't have a "peer group," but it's perfectly ok in their book for the GE kids to be stuck with the same classmates year after year.

Having LLIV in every base school would ensure there is not a huge block of AAP kids at one school (centers).  They would be dispersed among all the base schools.  I'm not sure why some of you are trying to make this so difficult.  It's a much simpler solution than the current one of having multiple schools feed into centers, and providing busing from all of those schools (for free, no less).[/quote]

Wouldn't that likely give AAP students exactly one small class of kids they spend 4 years with? How is that better?[/quote]

For starters, you child is in one being affected, and not PPs, who thinks it is outrageous that his DC is stuck in a school with ONLY 2 gen Ed classes (or 60+ students). [/quote]

Case in point.  You are advocating centers so that your child will have his/her "peer group," correct?  So what happens to the GE students who attend center schools?  Why is it ok for their "peer group" to dwindle so that your kids can have "critical mass"?  And by the way, I am so tired of all these buzzwords.  It's beyond silly.[/quote]

2 full classes seems like a "peer group" to me. AAP parents because  their kid's "peer group" at a base school might be in the single digits. [/quote]

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