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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the 22:32 PP:
How can you justify the teachers’ and committee members decisions when so many kids who were accepted to AAP aren’t getting pass advanced (sometimes aren’t even passing) SOLs and are massively bombing the IAAT.  Most of the kids in AAP are pretty mediocre and unremarkable in every way.  [/quote]

Then make AAP the default, have a remdial class, and a GT class for the kids who are off the charts smart.[/quote]

Our AART is an advocate for “AAP for all” so technically everyone gets some AAP but the pace is still incredibly slow and a single teacher can not differentiate appropriately for such a wide spread of abilities in one class. I’m at a center school that is not quite a title 1 school, but would benefit immensely from those resources.  Maybe it will be Title 1 soon—the class size caps would be a huge help. Our school consistently has 25 kids in each ES class, and usually only one class with an aide at each grade level after K.  In 2nd grade it was unbelievable how far apart some kids were, with no classroom aide or tutors.  I suppose when the higher achieving kids go to AAP it makes it a bit easier to manage, but we need smaller classes and more teachers in gen ed. Big time. A neighboring Title 1 school had local level 4 and parents seem happy there. Maybe the thresholds for Title 1 funds need to budge a bit.  Currently its only for schools with more than 50% FARMS, which is very high.[/quote]

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