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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids in AAP should be passing advanced on the SOL. The entire reason they are in AAP is that they are academically advanced, it is in the title. If kids are not passing advanced in AAP, then their participation should be reconsidered.

Parents can parse the scores all that they want but kids in AAP are supposed to be ahead of the other kids. Passing advanced should not be a heavy lift. We deferred AAP and kid has passed advanced on every SOL without the benefit of being in a LIV classroom but parents who are on this site talking about how their kid [b][i]needs[/b][/i] the AAP cohort and pacing because they are so bored in the gen ed classroom are passing proficient on the SOL.

Your kids spent a month reviewing SOL questions and being told how to answer them correctly, the test should not have tripped them up. [/quote]+1 It speaks to how low quality the AAP program is that students in that program would not pass Advanced.  What are they achieving in Reading?  It also speaks to the low quality of students who are getting all of these extensions and can’t apply them on an SOL.  Too many tutored and over-prepped kids don’t learn how to do things on their own. [/quote]

Lol. I guess you haven't realized the language arts program this year was the exact same between gen ed and AAP. There were no extentions for AAP.

This is problem with a one size fits all curriculum. Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses so a static curriculum is going to challenge weaker students more than stronger students. And you get this sort of end result. Now let's see what happens when ALL students are appropriately challenged with differentiated instruction. [/quote]

Kids who were advanced last year are no longer advanced because of benchmark. You are trying to tell me that your kid who requires LIV cannot score 83% on a test meant to make sure that kids are meeting state standards? All the parents on this forum going on about their kid with a 140 CoGAT and 99% iReady and why are the HOPE scores so bad because my kid is a genius, but they can't score a 500 on the SOL because of benchmark?

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Cmon, 99.9% of kids aren't self studying the definition of foreshadowing or whatever at home. To a certain extent, above grade level material does need to be presented. Again, there was no above grade level LA material presented this entire year so it shouldn't be surprising that a lot of kids who might otherwise have the ability to do so are not scoring in the advanced column. [/quote]

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