Reply to Eliminating AAP?

Forum Index » Advanced Academic Programs (AAP)

Reply to "Eliminating AAP?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The FCAG email said that 21% of elementary students are in AAP, and the percentage is higher in some areas. That seems like a very high percentage to me.  It used to be about 10% overall and that seemed to work well.

[b]How difficult would it be at this point to get back to 10%[/b] as a goal? It would save money and improve the program at the same time, if they could do it. The alternative appears to be to eliminate the program altogether, which actually might be easier to sell to parents than the idea of ratcheting the program back. 
[/quote]

I think the only way to do this for 2016-17 would be to close AAP Centers altogether and eliminate Level II and Level III as well.[/quote]

So, then what happens to the kids that are truly gifted?  If they're considering closing AAP centers down or eliminating the program, [b]they need to have contingencies in place for the kids in the top 1-3percentile.[/b]  Would they go to IEP plans or whatever they are called?[/quote]

Nationally or in Fairfax?  If it is nationally,then that is 10% or more of the Fairfax student body.  They used to set the cut off at the 10% mark for Fairfax and it was usually at the 2% mark nationally.   Fairfax is lucky, they have a large enough gifted population (in many school) to not have to segregate the students in separate schools.  Now, if you are talking above kids above 150 - then that would be a much smaller number- probably worth 1 or 2 centers for the whole county. [/quote]

Kids above 150.  [/quote]

So one center should do it.  [/quote]

Above 150 is a z-score of 3.125. That's more like 0.2% of the population.[/quote]-  Allowing for 5 times that because, you know its Fairfax ( :) - that would be 130 per grade- and excellent size for one dedicated school.[/quote]

How will this save $ next year?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics