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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You didn't answer my questions. 
What resources? 
How would general education students benefit from having advanced students down the hall rather than in another buildong?

Oh - here's a few more:

How much would redrawing boundaries to adjust for moving students back to their neighborhoods cost?
Do parents advocating for this change realize it might require moving their children to different schools?[/quote]

I'm not the PP, but I think most Level IV programs are run where the high performing GE students can push into the classes. Bringing back the Level IV students would provide a peer group for the high performing GE students. The curriculm would be more of a continuum, less of a divide between GE and AAP, and more like how high schools are run.

Moving the Level IV students out of the centers would also add balance to the centers. Many schools have issues with the AAP vs. GE divide. Whether actual or perceived, GE students feel like they are less smart than AAP.  My GE kid told me he used to think he was smart until he found out he wasn't in AAP. We have to actively work on his academic self-esteem.  Since five classes in his grade are AAP and only two are GE, it can be difficult to get him to understand he is still smart. [/quote]

YES to the PP above.  I also have a GE child who has five AAP classes in her grade and only two GE.  You could be talking about her.  The dynamics at these centers are horrendous for the GE kids, who feel that since they're in the only remaining GE classes, they must be "dumb".  Nothing could be further from the truth, but try telling a child this when all they see are their peers in multiple AAP classes.  If we had known just how bad sending our GE child to a center was going to be, we would have moved long ago.  We would be thrilled to send her to a "normal" school, without all of this foolish AAP divisiveness. [/quote]

These 2 PPs pretty clearly are the same person or go to the same school. 7 classes, 5 of which are AAP is 200 kids, 140 of whom are AAP.  Except for the 6th grade (or 5th and 6th?) at GBW (which was realigned), is there another FCPS ES with those demographics?  Because the situation described is not the norm. [/quote]

Hunters Woods in 6th grade?

[img]http://i.imgur.com/hZd4ELY.jpg[/img]

There is no other Center elementary school with such disproportionate numbers, according to FCPS Dashboard.[/quote]

Isn't this the case for [b]Colvin Run[/b] and Haycock 6th grade classes?   It's the Vienna, McLean, Great Falls parts of Fairfax that need to eliminate centers and move toward Local Level IV. [/quote]

Yes, this is absolutely the case for those schools and areas.  Huge numbers of AAP kids and AAP classes.[/quote]

Not the case recently for Colvin Run.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/eJTXlFc.jpg[/img][/quote]

The current 6th grade at Colvin Run has four AAP classes and only two GE.  This grade is a joke and FCPS should be ashamed of themselves.[/quote]

But NOT the case for grades 3, 4, and 5.[/quote]

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