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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a rather dour assessment of the Lemon Road center in the new AAPAC report:

"When FCPS moved part of the AAP Center from Haycock to Lemon Road the students who were moved were all Providence District students. Consequently, several of the families actually moved so they would be back in Haycock’s attendance area while others decided not to send their children to the Center. Now the Lemon Road Center is far below critical mass of qualified students, which has been identified as 50 per grade at elementary level. This is a possible result when new AAP Centers are opened without considering the factors identified in the AAPAC decision framework."

How important is having a "critical mass" of AAP students, really?  It used to be you'd go to school and there might be a "smart class," and that was good enough if you had a kid who wanted to learn and a good teacher.    [/quote]

I think it is important to have a critical mass - for ES, that is defined as 50 kids - or two classrooms.  It allows for two AAP teachers, and therefore differing perspectives, on how the teaching should go.  They can learn from each other instead of being insular and kings of their own domain.

The problem with the critical mass issue is that the Lemon Road Center only takes in 100% of the kids from Lemon Road, and those who choose to go from Shrevewood or Westgate.  So it is the center or the base school - and the base schools do not have critical mass either!

LR averages less than 9 AAP kids, Shrevewood averages 25 per year and Westgate averages 15 per year.  If they all went to one school you would barely meet the critical mass minimum but of course some Shrevewood and Westgate kids stay at the base school.

If Shrevewood continues its push to retain more of its kids at the base school for LLIV, it is very conceivable that Shrevewood would have a bigger AAP population than the Center.  Shrevewood sent 100% kids - when it did not offer LLIV - then 50% then 25%.  Who knows what next year will bring.

I would not be surprised if LR has more 'principal placed' AAP kids from its own student body in order to fill out the Center seats and make itself look viable.[/quote]

Why can't the AAP teachers just have a dialogue with other, experienced teachers?  The assumption seems to be that only AAP students and teachers can relate to one another.  [/quote]

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