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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no disability law that states being advanced is a disability. Therefore aap is not a law or mandate. I am starting to think the aap parents are dumb as a box of rock turds.

-aap identified child's parent who thinks centers are stupid[/quote]

Gifted education is a mandated program.[/quote]

Yes and it can be given as pull-outs from the child's base school.  There is no mandate for AAP and centers.
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There are economies of scale by grouping kids together.[/quote]

Do have any evidence that FCPS has saved money through this economy of scale by grouping kids together? Are you saying it would be MORE expensive to leave them at their base schools and have the AART do pull-outs with them?  [/quote]

It would be more expensive because the AART would be taking children out of class verses now where they stay all day with a classroom teacher.[/quote]

Explain how this is more expensive.

The AART has a salary, she doesn't get paid on a per kid out of class basis.  She is already taking kids out for Level II and Level III services. Are you saying Level II and Level III cost more than the AAP Program?

Kids get pulled out all the time, whether it's for enrichment or remediation.

Your economy of scale justification is a fail.

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You would need a lot more AARTs. [b]Right now they have full time jobs without doing all these extra pull outs.[/b] I think you should ask a teacher if it's easier to teach a class of 30 students with similar abilities or 30 kids with very different abilities.[/quote]

The difference in cost is transportation. It would be interesting to see what the cost difference is between bussing students to centers compared to the transportation cost if these same kids went to their base school.  (Some of the kids would still be bussed to the base school and others would be walkers.)[/quote]

The transportation cost would definitely be less.  My kids are walkers to their base school but going to the center our kids would get bus service.

Also, why make it extra work for the AART.  Just pull out all the kids with enrichment needs at the same time.

Even better, implement the Level IV curriculum across the board and just pull out the very few (and likely this wouldn't even be needed in every school) that are extremely gifted.  The ones that absolutely cannot learn anything at all in the implemented Level IV across the board gen ed. classes.

Problem solved.

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Absolute common sense and I would wholeheartedly support this.  LLIV should simply be the Gen Ed curriculum, with remedial help for kids who are at the very lowest end, and extra advanced work for the highly gifted - which, as you say, would wind up being very few kids in need of such pullouts.  Come on, FCPS - this isn't difficult![/quote]

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