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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agreed on AARTs not being very helpful for purposes of getting into AAP.  They very deliberately seem to try to stay neutral in the whole process.  I remember going to a presentation by our AART for AAP and they basically read from a script.  It was not helpful at all.

The whole AAP application process is set up so that no one person can be held responsible for anything.  Every person in the process can say that someone else is responsible.  Your child's teacher will say that he/she just submits a review to a central committee who decides.  The local committee members will say that they are just gathering information and sending it on to the Central Committee.  The Central Committee will say that they've never actually met your kid and so they are just going off of the package that they receive.  There's no standard and there's no rubric explaining how the evaluation is done.

I really don't understand why this needs to be so complicated.  They should just set a clear bar, whether it be test scores, grades, GBRS or whatever and then let anyone in who passes any one of the clear bars.  Nothing prevents schools from having more AAP class sections, as teachers can easily be retrained.  Sure, it dilutes the program a bit, but there's no more fighting about who is and who isn't in.

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This is really well-written. And true. [/quote]

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