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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is one of those that got 99th percentile test scores at a high SES school who didn't get into AAP. Her friends at other schools with lower test scores got in. It's infuriating - is this FCPS way of encouraging young families to move to crappier parts of the county? I'm confident my child would have gotten in at a school with different peers.[/quote]

That fact may be your child did not cut it against your child’s competition at their school. It makes sense the way they are doing it based on the school’s population. If you don’t like it move or go private. [/quote]

It actually doesn’t make any sense when the AAP curriculum is determined at the county level and not the local elementary. A 99% student should have access to the advanced curriculum, especially in math, where that child is cut off from future educational opportunities that they’re fully qualified and capable of. It makes no sense that a 99% kid can’t get advanced math but a 92% kid does at another school.

If the local elementary schools want to start more widely offering AAP accelerated math to qualified students, then I might feel differently. At our high SES center school, I know a number of highly qualified GE kids who had to jump through hoops to get into AAP math every school year, oftentimes missing 4-6 weeks of classes before the testing was completed and they were allowed in, late and now behind on curriculum. [/quote]

Adv Math should be offered at all ES. Is it not? We have Gen Ed kids who flex into Adv Math. We look at IReady Data and SOL scores. [/quote]

Did you read the last paragraph of my post? At our center school it is offered, yes, but they make the students jump through hoops every year with the testing to get in and it isn’t approved for 1-2 months after school has started, so the students have a lot of catching up to do once they’re finally admitted in. [/quote]

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