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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason FCPS doesn't publish AAP numbers at TMS is that TMS does not have an AAP program that is recognized by FCPS (TMS isn't mentioned on the FCPS AAP website).  TMS does have a fair number of AAP-eligible students that enroll in honors classes, but for TMS-zoned students that want to continue with an AAP-level experience in middle school (where core classes are taught at the AAP level and labeled as AAP, as opposed to honors), LJMS remains an outstanding option that prepares students well for the rigors of high school.[/quote]

See, the thing is -- no one from TMS is ever saying that LJMS doesn't provide a good educational experience for the AAP set.  No one.  Ever.  It's only the LJMS-nervous parents like you who insist on denigrating TMS in order to keep the AAP kids coming to LJMS to prop up the test scores that otherwise (outside of AAP) doesn't look so good.

And you can keep saying "there is no AAP outside of the centers" -- but that doesn't make it so.  The fact that FCPS doesn't separate those numbers out for the non-center programs doesn't mean they don't exist.  What say you about Franklin and Irving???

Why don't you give it a rest -- you already tried this line of attack a few pages back.  [/quote]

Thoreau does have separate classes for AAP kids, so really they and other schools should be listing their AAP students differently than general ed just like the centers do. They do this for LLIV students in elementary, so why not in middle?[/quote]

But they can’t, because that would increase the litigation risk. It’s an obvious equal protection violation to give some students two, similar AAP options while denying similar choices to Gen Ed students.  It mitigates the risk somewhat to hide the fact that Thoreau now offers the same AAP courses as Jackson, with classes restricted to AAP-eligible students.[/quote]

not you again!

Good lord.  There is no "litigation risk."  You are an "intelligence risk."  According to you, FCPS is mitigating the risk of being sued by hiding its middle school AAP options at non-center schools, but it is putting itself fully "at risk" for "equal protection violations" at the elementary school level by  allowing kids who come from LL4 schools to choose AAP centers instead.  Got it.   :roll: [/quote]

You are so used to getting what you want that you don’t even know how blind you are to the legal risks FCPS is now assuming.

FCPS doesn’t have to offer the same program to every student, but giving AAP students access to multiple schools offering the same AAP courses in classes restricted to AAP-eligible students, when other students are not afforded similar Gen Ed options, is an obvious equal protection violation.

Back in the 50s, idiots like you were fine with segregated schools as well. It took litigation then to effect change, just like it will probably take lawsuits in the future to get FCPS to clean up its act.[/quote]

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