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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AAP has been lowering math rigor for years. If you can afford it, consider private schools. For low-income families, explore affordable afterschool math enrichment programs.

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I feel like this is not correct. My kids are all doing math far beyond what I was doing in FCPS in the same grades. There is no way they are lowering “math rigor”. [/quote]
Far less math rigor now.  Previously, a 3rd grader in AAP would learn that 1/2 = 0.5.  Now, they have to wait until 4th grade to learn the existence of decimal equivalent.  [/quote]

I assume PP was not in 3rd grade FCPS last year though. If PP was not in GT (or whatever it's predecessor was called) in the 90s or whenever then yeah, if they have a kid in 4th or later that kid is probably doing more advanced math. Only if PP has a 3rd grader would they see what's happening.

And it's clear from the lack of outcry on this topic that most people really don't care. Either their kids are older or they don't have a vested interest in AAP for whatever reason.[/quote]

Nope, I had a kid in Advanced Math, he is taking Algebra 1 H in 7th grade this year. Third grade math was boring when he took it. We supplemented.

This is public school. The school is not going to meet the needs of the high achieving kids and the kids with serious learning issues, it just isn't. If you want that then you have to pay for a private school that specializes in gifted kids. Or you supplement.

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Your last paragraph succinctly addresses the question posited in this thread's title.

An additional consideration is FCPS's recent decision to lower the level of elementary instruction for AAP math.

There is a separate thread on what FCPS has done to lower the quality of AAP math.  That decision, and the continuing philosophy of the Board members/Reid/Gatehouse officials who lowered the level of AAP math, weighs heavily against keeping advanced and accelerated students in public school, but instead, considering private school alternatives.

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