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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every FCPS teacher's nightmare.  The following acronyms profiling one student.

2E
ADHD
AAP

Please for everyone's sake (teachers, students, parents), enroll your student in the regular curriculum before you constantly harass teachers and counselors to babysit and nurse your little snowflake to class.[/quote]

Because why should we make an effort to challenge a child who is very bright but processes information differently? I mean, by all means, lets keep "those kids" out of challenging programs that might engage them and help them to grow as people.

Many kids with learning disabilities and ADHD have above average intelligence, they process information differently. Once you understand how a child processes information, the child is capable of very impressive work. Asking teachers and the school district to help a child understand how they learn is hardly all that much to ask. Or are you actually advocating that we consign bright kids who learn differently to a world of mediocrity or failure because a child might need a bit of extra help?

No one is saying that kids [b]with more serious learning issues [/b]should be in AAP, but kids with learning issues who are intelligent should have the same access to AAP as a kid without said learning issues.  [/quote] What do you mean when you say "with more serious learning issues"?[/quote]

I would mean a child who cannot do the work with support. Tutors, resource support and the like can help a gifted child with learning issues succeed in advanced classes. If those resources are in place and the child continues to struggle, the AAP placement might not be the best placement. But you could make that argument for any child who is in AAP and not able to keep up, whether it is due to learning issues or lack of effort.

I am not the person to determine what more serious issues might be. I would hope that a parent is working with various support personal to decide what is best for their child but also willing to see that some efforts are not working and a change is needed. There are children with serious learning issues who can thrive in AAP and there are very smart kids who will flounder in AAP. Each situation is individual and should be looked at as such.

Public schools are meant to meet the needs of all and have limitations on what they can provide. Schools need to be willing to work with children who learn differently and parents need to determine what is best for their child. I would hope that any parent who has a child with learning disabilities is working with professionals that are providing support or adequate information to help parents make informed decisions. That might be that the parent should be pressing for their child to be included in a program like AAP because their child can succeed in it, with or without support, or a parent understanding that an AAP placement might be too much for their child. But really, that is no different then any parent.

I would not trust the school if the school said that a child with a learning disability cannot handle AAP even if their test scores and gen ed classwork demonstrates that they met the bench mark. I would work with tutors and the like to see if the individualized support can help my child meet the demands of AAP. If so, I would advocate for my child. If my child was struggling with AAP even with support, I would consider pulling my child until we learned how my child processed information and was succeeding in a regular classroom. Then I would revist the AAP option.

We all want what is best for our kids. Sometimes that is a program like AAP and some times it is gen ed. It depends on the child, the parents understanding of what the child is capable of (and that is not told just by test scores), and sometimes, unfortunately, what resources the parents can afford to provide (tutors and the like). [/quote]

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