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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we can't find the money for after-school programs for middle school kids, we absolutely should get rid of TJHSST, IB, and AAP centers.  There is absolutely no justification for a magnet HS or these "extras" if we can't cover the basics for middle school kids.  [/quote]

At a minimum we should get rid of busses for choice programs like AAP Centers and TJ.[/quote]

Good lord- your kid didn’t get in, we get it, but this is getting boring as a retort at this point.  Think of something new. Maybe cutting all the coaches, or central office staff![/quote]

You post this same thing anytime anyone proposes getting rid of busses for AAP. Most schools offer AAP and most families keep their kids at their base schools. If they choose to send their kids to another school (just like if they sent them to language immersion or one of the arts schools), they should provide transportation. I get providing bussing for schools that don't offer LLIV, but if it's a choice, you should provide your own transportation.

- Mom who has had two kids go through the LLIV program and are doing great in middle school AAP (at our base school btw).[/quote]

I haven’t posted before, but I’m sure the sentiment that math and reading coaches and specialists at the county level are not really helping teachers or kids has been thought of before. Just as people keep complaining about AAP like it is a sink hole of money. [b] Frankly, i think it probably has kept more MC and UMC parents in the school system and it is the reason there aren’t robust private schools in the area.  Parents who are strivers can aim to get their kid in AAP and feel like they have achieved greatness in education and then they don’t move out of the district. FCPS would have had a brain drain long before this without AAP. [/b]

My AAP kid was at her home school and base middle school and doing fine, but the CONSTANT harping on AAP buses is crazy.

No one has said how much it costs to run, or how it compares to middle school after school activities, it is just harping because they don’t like the program.

Be creative, think of something new to cut because if you think this is going with the boundary changes, that will be an entirely different and perhaps uglier battleamong FCPS parents. [/quote]

Agree. It's a way to keep UMC families with bright, not necessarily gifted, kids from leaving the district. The ROI on these students is overall good, their parents contribute a ton of sweat equity and financial assistance to various school programs, and test scores and subsequently property values across the county would be a lot lower if many of those families went to private schools. [/quote]

+100. This describes my family and much of the AAP families we know. We donate towards financial assistance for the students who qualify for FARE which is a higher population at the center school than our base. The AAP busses are full for our center school. If AAP center schools were eliminated, our kids would switch to private. My kids are bright but I don’t think they are gifted. However, from volunteering in the classroom K-2, I observed that they performed at the top of their classes with at most a couple peers. Not just my opinion— other parents made similar comments about my kids. LLIV would not have been a good fit. The center program is substantially more rigorous at least for our pyramid. I believe AAP centers are overall a net positive because they retain kids who bring up average test scores and their families who have the means to give back.

Re: the middle school programs. If the choice is to fund the programs or give teacher raises, I support the latter. There can be other solutions to fill the MSAS gap but what other solution is there for teacher salaries?! Couldn’t MS PTAs organize after school programs? Provide scholarships to FARE students.[/quote]

I meant FARMS not FARE[/quote]

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