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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 30 students in each of my 5 AAP classes. Half of the students don't have the capacity to keep up with the rigor. Therefore, I spend half of my time on test retakes and remediation, along with administrative babysitting of 2E, ADHD, 504, underperforming students.

Now remember this is supposed to be an Advanced class.

But I willingly sign homework sheets, check pencil boxes, provide one-to-one attention, stay after the school and ungrateful and unforgiving parents just want to bulldoze me daily. [/quote]

First, bless you and thank you AAP teacher!  We saw firsthand how challenging it is with bigger classrooms and plenty of kids who somehow landed in AAP but couldn't handle the rigor which our kids even the undiagnosed chatty ADHD one could.  One teacher confided how lovely it was to have our kid because there were so many who couldn't handle the rigor - I remember being shocked because I felt there wasn't all that much rigor! Her comment explained why!

I think the bigger question is why is FCPS not doing a better job of IDing the kids and not admitting 20% that another DCUM thread is claiming. They need a way that doesn't allow for prep. We are also parents to a 99% IQ (but not confirmed until age 16 at ADHD dx time) and AAP was made for kids like that and actually isn't even deep enough for them but it was a start. I agree with the other parent who exclaimed their kid would have dropped out in 10th - that's exactly a critical time for the 99% kids with ADHD - at least in our experience. Many don't need extensive or difficult accommodations and if classrooms weren't huge in number and half full of kids whose parents pushed them in through test prep and/or holding them back a year and then complaining, I do think things would be smoother.[/quote]

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