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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing is the [b]LR principal had to make a combination class of I think 4th and 5th AAP students in order to make the student numbers relatively even between classes[/b]. So while he didn't combine general ed and AAP, he did combine grades and tried to be fair with teacher resources. The Shrevewood Principal took a teacher that was probably given to the school to help the kindergarten or 1st grade students coming from those apartments and used the teacher to make 14-18 student AAP classes [b]while leaving the kindergarten classes with 30 students each[/b] plus having much larger general ed classes throughout all grade levels.[/quote]

Makes a compelling story...but there were no kindergarten classes with 30 students at Shrevewood last year...the largest had 26 and that does not meet the threshold requirement for allocation of an additional teacher, so that would not have been a consideration. (Perhaps this was just a mistaken assumption here, but it just wasn't the case, so I thought I would point that out.)

Also, the PP who said it's messed up that parents get to choose is right. Maybe the principal wants to have even numbers, but not enough parents chose the LLIV option over the center. And then if the ones who opt to stay see that the class is not, in fact, [b]really[/b] an AAP class because now you have made it half-AAP and half-not to even out the numbers then is that really putting their kids in an accelerated learning environment that they qualified for? If that isn't what the LLIV delivers, then why would they stay the following year? So then the next year, they know better and send their kids to the Center and your LLIV program is gone.

And then, as the Colvin Run parent/poster pointed out, when this happens, the Centers get overrun with "outsider" AAP kids, and the gen. ed kids are getting the short end of the stick there, too.

FCPS has an issue. They are bi-polar about what they want out of this program.[/quote]

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