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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Louise Archer. Woe to the parents and students of non-AAP students. Great for students in the AAP program.

Cliques abound between parents and students: AAP v. base.
Heartbreaking and sad to see the students forever separate out to AAP in third grade.

So to the parents of neighborhood-assigned students, I’m telling you now to get ready to supplement reading, handwriting, spelling, math facts and writing to name just a few off of the top of my head. Opt out of the SOLs.

The only time my DC got offers of extra help and tutoring before and after school was after he failed the online math SOL. VP called to discuss remediation and a re-take. Declined.
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Unfortunately, needing to supplement all basic skills is universal to FCPS, including for kids in AAP.[/quote]

Agree with this. My rising 4th grader is on grade level and passed her SOLs and she's [b]barely able to read and write[/b]. Have now added a math tutor to our reading tutor because she's just not going to learn the way FCPS teaches. And we're in a good ES with perfectly competent teachers. Not a fan of the curriculum and how they tell teachers what they have to teach every week.[/quote]

Sounds like she shouldn’t be marked on grade level.

Grade 3 Teacher[/quote]

Unfortunately at some schools they are.  Grade inflation is out of control.   Teachers don't want to hear parents complain or don't want to be blamed.  So they "liberally" grade to appease parents.  It's sad and disgusting and all in the name of optics.[/quote]

I think teachers do it to hide dyslexia too. My DC has all 4s in reading/writing through elementary and in 4th grade wasn’t anywhere near grade level. We kept questioning the high grades and they kept giving 4s. So it is not always the parents.[/quote]

That's not grade inflation, or teachers.  It how elementary grades work.  They are and always have been pretty useless.  Teachers have to grade "taking into account" any IEP goals, for example.  So a kid can be reading two years below grade level and still get a good grade in LA as long as they are meeting their IEP goals.  It's incredibly confusing and renders the grading meaningless for a lot of kids, but in general elementary grades are not very useful for the majority. [/quote]

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