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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 30 students in each of my 5 AAP classes. Half of the students don't have the capacity to keep up with the rigor. Therefore, I spend half of my time on test retakes and remediation, along with administrative babysitting of 2E, ADHD, 504, underperforming students.

Now remember this is supposed to be an Advanced class.

But I willingly sign homework sheets, check pencil boxes, provide one-to-one attention, stay after the school and ungrateful and unforgiving parents just want to bulldoze me daily. [/quote]

That's my biggest issue with AAP.  In my son's 5th grade AAP math class, the teacher frequently has to slow down the class for the half of the kids who don't belong there.  There have been a couple days where my kid has been sent outside to play with half of the class during math so the teacher could remediate and retest the other half of the kids.  You would think that by 5th grade, they would have a system to drop underperforming AAP kids down to regular math, but apparently FCPS would rather water down the curriculum and bore the top kids than send kids who belong in gen ed math back to gen ed math.

[b]I don't think 2E kids are the problem, though.  It's the above average kids who were pushed into the program by their parents, or the "gifted in language arts but average in math" kids who are the problem.[/b] [/quote]
I wouldn’t say those kids need to go back to general Ed.

Maybe the school staff isn’t differentiating correctly.  This is one of the problems when they refuse to give a kid a IEP or 504 and that’s what they need.
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I think what the original poster meant was that the problem in some AAP classes is that there are kids, both 2E and not 2E, who are not capable of keeping up with the material but there is no way to remove the kids who are slowing down the class from the Level IV class. From what some people are posting, the AAP program would be better served if more kids stayed at their base school and received Level III services instead of kids being forced into Level IV services. Essentially, there are kids who are advanced in math or English, but not both, who should not be in Level IV.

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