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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It does not make sense for any Lake Bradfock students to attend Keene Mill for AAP.

Lake Braddock has more than enough elementary kids to move those students to a center or create a center gor them in their pyramid.

It is crazy to call an Keene Mill a split feeder because it simply is not.

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[b]AAP feeder patterns are insane. [/b]The AAP kids at Gunston who live in the portion of the school zoned to Hayfield go to Lake Braddock, while the kids who live in the South County zone go to South County. Why don’t we have AAP at all middle schools yet? I also think there is a similar issue at Lorton Station where the AAP kids attending the Lorton Station center from Saratoga go to Lake Braddock instead of Lewis. [/quote]

Which is why they need to eliminate centers for good and just keep all kids at their base schools.  Have an AAP group for every subject and allow kids to rotate in and out as needed.  This does not need to be the ridiculously complicated system they currently have for something that's not even a gifted program.[/quote]

Elementary schools don’t rotate for math, reading, social studies and science.  They lump math/science together and reading/social studies. They can’t do “an AAP group for every subject’ and have the kids rotate out without losing TONS of time to transitions.

I don’t really care if they get rid of AAP centers at the elementary school level except that it will result in a massive redistricting project. [/quote]

My kids' elementary school rotates for all four core subjects.  The classrooms are all clustered next to one another, so it's not a big deal at all.  [/quote]
And some elementary schools don't have enough AAP kids to make a class.  Others barely enough.  Are you saying those kids should be stuck with the inferior cluster model just because of where they live?  The centers are absolutely required at the elementary level to get a mix of kids - especially if was on a subject-by-subject basis as you suggested since some subjects would have even fewer kids than others.  
Now for middle school there is no reason to have centers.  Hopefully the push to eliminate them isn't lost after all the boundary changes drain the political will to make the moves.[/quote]

At this point, there is NO reason to have AAP centers, in either elementary or middle.  Sorry.  It's redundancy at its worst.  [/quote]
I just gave you the reason. Many elementary schools do not have enough level 4 AAP kids to make a full class. Mixing them in a cluster model makes it no longer an AAP classroom, and the pace goes at that of the slowest kids.  Providing gifted children services is a legal requirement in Virginia.  You can't just decree that they should be ignored.[/quote]

Sigh.  Every time someone suggests getting rid of AAP centers, people like you immediately jump to the conclusion that we're advocating getting rid of AAP.  That's not at all what I said.  At this point, decades after AAP centers were implemented, 99% of schools all have their own AAP classes.  The idea of giving kids another school to choose from, the center, is ridiculous.  If they have AAP at their base school, they should be required to stay there.

The very few schools that don't have AAP (which are??) should get it.  And flexible grouping is a much smarter way to give [b]all the kids[/b] who can do advanced work a chance to do it, in whatever core subjects are appropriate for them.  It's not a gifted program.  The whole process should be simplified, not made [b]more [/b]complicated with byzantine regulations and zoning issues.  Just offer it in all schools.  Done.  [/quote]

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