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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what needs be done about the AAP program in Fairfax County.  The AAP program should be renamed the "Advanced Program for Smart Children with Learning Disabilities (AAPLD)" and [b]the "smart" children who learn the "normal way" should be brought back in to the General Education Schools and placed in Advanced Classes based on their grades/performance.[/b]  In this way, the "smart"children who don't "think outside of the box" in the General Education Schools will be afforded the same opportunities as the currnt AAP center children.  In this way all children who really need an educational challenge to advance will get it based on their needs.  The General Education Schools in Fairfax County are failing many "smart" children![/quote]

Then you lose the advantage of having a large enough size of a peer group of like-minded kids, at least at the overwhelming majority of elementary schools in Fairfax County. Too big a loss for these kids who require instructional services to meet their needs per state regulation, as well as for the County. [/quote]

[list]There are plenty of "like minded", "smart", children in Fairfax County General Education schools.  There doesn't need to be a separate school for the "smart" kids.  It is the kids who do not flourish with the general education curriculum who are supposedly selected for the AAP Center.  So make it what it is and put only those children who need a differnent curriculum in the centers and keep the, truly, just plain "smart kids" together.  My son is a straight "A" student and is very disheartened by the children in his classroom who are disruptive and are not there to learn.  He needs a classroom with "like minded" learners.  He is not getting it!  The county is failing the "smat" children who are not in the AAP centers.  The level II and III services are a waste of time and resources.  Fairfax needs to put it back in the classroom  -  smart kids in the advanced classrooms and others placed in classrooms to meet them at their achievement levels.  The children who truly need a different learning curriculum should be the only ones placed in the center schools and not any child who's parents pitch the biggest fit.  This is failing the General Ed. children in Fairfax County!  If the centers were really being used for what they are "pitched" as by the county,  then parents wouldn't be "biting at their bits" to get their children into centers.  This is happening because parents know thier "smart" kid will not get the same opportunities in the General Ed. Schools.  And each of you know this is true.  Help correct this issue instead of fueling it.  [/quote]

Well put! I too wish it were not called Advanced, but instead something like "Alternate".[/quote]

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