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There would be a greater savings by eliminating honors. AAP does not really cost that much.

Please explain/expand on this. I don't buy it.

Honors courses (actually, a subset of them) were placed back in at the request of the FAIRGRADE parents (January 2009, I think?) with the grade bump efforts for honors and AP. At that time, FCPS said that eliminating the subset of honors courses would have saved some money. (There was the effort to identify what courses really were honors level and warranted the grade bump.) As the SOLs change, the curriculum has to change to match it, which requires changing all courses (general ed, honors, and AAP).

AAP courses at the same grade level (just in middle school) are only at a subset of schools and not every school.

So under a zero-based budgeting approach, due to sheer numbers, eliminating honors at middle school which be a bigger chunk of money than eliminating AAP at middle school. [/quote]'Dead wrong

Honors does not require the expense of additional busing, additional teachers, additional testing expenses, etc.  Check out the 
FCPS budget.[/quote]

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