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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you are King (or Queen) of FCPS Advanced Academic Programs for a day . . . what would you do?

Would you close all the AAP Centers?

Would you put AAP Centers in every school?

Would you make all the kids get retested and only allow in the top 5% of students?

Something else?

What would you do?[/quote]

I would make sure that the AAP Levels (Level 2, Level 3, Local Level 4 and Level 4 Centers) are the same at each school. Reading the posts on this board it seems pretty clear that, for example, Level 3 at one school is not the same as Level 3 at another school.[/quote]

I disagree. First of all, there are 130 odd ES schools in Fairfax County.  Coordinating it, above setting guidelines and benchmarks, would be difficult.  Secondly, schools within Fairfax County are quite diverse and have different needs.  The same thing won't work in every school.  Some schools do not have enough children to warrant LLIV, so a center based system would work better for them.  Others have plenty, so LLIV would work better for them.  I do think LII and LIII should be beefed up.

An example of different things work differently:  School 1:  Has enough children for 1 1/2 LLIV classes, but can fill the 1/2 with different LIII students in each core class.  The LLIV get varied classmates and the LIII students get AAP in the core classes in which they excel.  School 2: (3 miles down the road) Not enough students for one class even with LIII students.  LLIV students go to Center based school, LIII math students take math with the grade above them.  In 6th grade have small group math with Special Ed teacher in daily pul out session, Gen Ed teacher gives them more complicated homework in other core classes.  (Eg. higher level book in book group)

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