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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good.  It's about time.  It's a tremendous waste of money and resources.

"Base kid" is a common taunt at our center school.

The AAP students are so segregated and operate in their own rarefied air beginning as young as third grade.

Very much an "us v. them" mentality fueled by hyper-competitive parents.

Enough!

The ugly reality is that FCPS is back to ersatz segregation, with the "elites" getting preferential treatment and in some center schools, "base kids" are the minority.

Interesting to note that some of the FCPS center schools HAD to become centers to avoid permanent closure.[/quote]

+1. Even if all the kids in AAP don't need the program, some certainly do.

I haven't read through all of the pages of this post, but if you had a child that needed this program you wouldn't feel this way.  My kid needs this program just like any other special needs child.  If they do away with the centers I hope they have a plan in place for kids like mine.[/quote][/quote]

The kids who need AAP didn't disappear just because a larger number of kids were admitted[/quote]

2nd pp up here - Our base school offers level4 and we LOVE our base school.  But, it's not a good option for a child like mine when she is put into a mixed classroom.  She is not with her peers, but actually separated from her peers to even out these kids throughout the different classes.  I also don't see any possible way for the teachers to teach to so many different levels of a curriculum.  Her K teacher was amazing and taught to each kid's level, but most teachers aren't like her and as they get older it would get harder to teach that way.

The AAP teachers at our center school all have master's in special ed and they "get" my child.  This first year in APP was an eye-opening experience for my child and for us as parents.  If they close the centers I hope they have a better plan for the base schools.[/quote]

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