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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS has advanced academic level 4, level 3, and level 2 advanced math groups and kids can be brought into any of these levels at any given year. How many more levels do people want for advanced academics?[/quote]

People (aap haters) don't want to say that they're child receives some advanced services. It's not enough. [b]They want to say "my child is in AAP" and if they can't, then they don't want anyone to be able to. [/b][/quote]

Waa!!! Waa!![/quote]

I'm a PP who wrote critically about AAP earlier and I had a son in the program -- it's not waah, waah, trust me.  It's sensible people looking at a program that's driven a wedge into the FCPS community because of how it's been implemented and wondering how did we get here?  [/quote]

And what in particular do you find wrong with it and in your opinion can it be fixed? To me there are a couple of issues at certain schools, but I don't see an issue across the board within FCPS. I have yet to find a school system where advanced academics isn't an issue.[/quote]

It is too inclusive.  It is too exclusive.  It is not really a highly challenging curriculum but a bunch of kids that are in it can't handle it.  BUT, all or most of the kids in GE can handle it.   The AAP program is busting the school budget (not sure how and don't really have any idea how much it costs, but it sounds good) It makes a lot of parents feel badly. . :roll:  :roll:  :roll: [/quote]

This exactly is what makes me confused about all the complaining. Plus the whole GE kids can handle it speech while at the same time there are parents on this board all complaining about too much homework, tutoring needs, special ed needs, farm and esol students not keeping up, etc. At this point with all the contradictory arguments I just turn a deaf ear to all the complaining either pro or against AAP. If you have suggestions how to improve the situation while addressing the contradictory argument I'm all ears and I hope our school board would be too. [b]But I'm not interested in listening to grips about this issue any longer.[/b][/quote]

No one is forcing you to read or post on this thread, or any other.  You're free to exit at any time.[/quote]

True, but why have a discussion for the 100th time about whether kids in the 120-140 IQ range should be in AAP or not when they already are, especially kids you only know about via an anonymous forum? What is it accomplishing? Nothing. I was hoping people might actually advocate for something that might get implemented. If you want the criteria to be higher for testing, advocate for the testing criteria to be higher. For instance, people could advocate that the cutoff for the pool be increased. If you're concerned about too many kids in one school in AAP or concerned about transportation costs, advocate for that school to send more AAP kids back to their base schools and make their base school the center for those kids like they just did for Greenbriar West. If you think the course material in AAP isn't good enough or the course material in general ed isn't good enough, then advocate for FCPS to provide better course material. If you think AAP and general ed don't mix enough, then advocate for more mixed classes like they do in certain FCPS schools already where they just break out for language arts and math and take all accelerated math students into their AAP math classes.[/quote]

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