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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The in pool scores for higher SES school is significantly higher than lower SES schools.  It seems like FCPS is trying to keep students from wealthier schools from accessing AAP.  Students scoring in the 99th percentile are not “in pool” at some elementary schools.  I can understand lowering the “in pool” requirement for schools that traditionally have less AAP students; but it makes absolutely no sense to try to keep students scoring in the 98th/99th percentile from accessing A
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FCPS is trying to “dumb down” the higher performing high schools by lowering the academics for students starting in 3rd grade.  Less kids in AAP will mean lower I-ready/SOL scores, less kids taking advanced math in middle school, overall less prepared students for AP/DE classes in high school.  [/quote]

My understanding is that AAP is supposed to ensure kids who have enrichment needs in their school are getting them.

However, my question is, if this is true, how did the old system work to ensure this? A school-specific in-pool cut off makes sense but a county-wide one does not, as the latter would surely lead to some schools being overrepresented in the review process, no?

Can someone who has been in FCPS for a while help me understand? Is it that the goal of AAP has changed overtime or is it that the approach was misaligned with the goal and has become more aligned? (or something else entirely?)[/quote]

We moved from a high farms area to low farms area. My child went to an AAP center where some schools only sent 1-2 kids to AAP in old system. When we moved to UMC neighborhood, about 30-40 kids would get into AAP from the grade. Kn the new system, the poorer school would have at least more kids screen and more kids in AAP. [/quote]

We were at a MC/UMC ES where only a few kids left for the Center each year, most of the kids stayed at the base school. Why? Parents were not all that concerned about AAP and preferred to keep their kids at the base school with their siblings and friends. It could be that the FARMs kids at the low income school stayed at their base school because it was easier for their parents and/or their parents were not informed on what their kid would get by moving to the Center.

[b]It is my impression that the parents at the low SES schools desperate to get kids to the Center are parents of MC/UMC in the area who are trying to get out of the high FARMs school without having to move. I know three families where this was the case and two families that moved in between K and First grade because they saw what school was like at a Title 1 ES. The Teachers were working hard, the Principal was great, and their MC kid who had attended a good pre-school and had parents who had been reading to them from birth received very little attention from the Teacher. The parents did not want them to be the advanced kid in the class and spend their day working solo. My friends who waited for AAP were pretty desperate by Second grade.[/b] [/quote]

+1.  This is our family.   We love our neighborhood, but the base school is challenged with the number of ESOL kids and that is where the resources go.  Our kids have easily made it into the pool (& hopefully AAP).  But students with average NNAT & CogAT scores in the 140's belong in the pool [u]regardless[/u] of their SES or neighborhood when FCPS is admitting 15-20% to AAP.   If classroom performance is out of whack with test scores, that will come out later when the fuller review occurs. [/quote]

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