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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AAP is going to be watered down. I mean every school is now going to be center school. Everyone can get into AAP.
No purpose of TJ , as it is going to be diluted with lottery selection on not best of the best.

So, is there a place for this forum in future ?[/quote]

AAP has been watered down by the county for the past 5 to 10 years. And it will just continue to be watered down. AAP is the new Gen Ed. I taught general education for years. I'm using the same material that I used 15 years ago in general education for my current AA students. [/quote]

This is simply not true. For English and social studies, fine. Nobody said that intelligent people develop language faster or understand history better ("wow, they learned about the civil war REAL GOOD!" lol). It's mostly about math. I was in a top private school 30 years ago that is very respected for its math and science. My son is doing the same math in AAP that I was doing in the advanced math class at that school. AAP is basically one year ahead math work. That's what it was designed to be and that's what it still is.[/quote]

Then why do parents fret over having their kids be in level IV vs just advanced math?  Kids can be in advanced math only, at least in our school.[/quote]

Because some base schools have neither LLIV nor advanced math until 5th grade. If your kid is above average in math, they're going to spend a lot of time in 3rd and 4th grade playing math games and peer teaching while the teacher tries to get the lower kids up to grade level so they'll eek out a 400 on the SOL. I let my kid stay at the base school for 3rd grade and saw this firsthand. In 4th grade at the center, he was a lot more engaged and his math SOL score increased over 100 points. I really doubt this was a coincidence. The base schools that aren't willing to provide these services are missing the forest for the trees.[/quote]

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