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Anonymous wrote:It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

Why? If families like it, why do they need to be wound down?

Because it's a huge waste of money. The bussing alone costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more. Think of it this way -- this may be the push we need to get them to start middle schools later because we will have money to buy more busses.

We don't need more buses, FWIW. We need to do the common sense thing and start the elems earlier so the middle/highs can start later. It used to be that middle/highs started early, then all those buses were reused for elem routes, which were later.

When they started highs later, they said it was going to way increase money, and that's only because they didn't do the obvious thing and just swap the start times - they bought more buses so we could use them all for routes at roughly the same time. We don't need to double-down on that error.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

Why? If families like it, why do they need to be wound down?

Because it's a huge waste of money. The bussing alone costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more. Think of it this way -- this may be the push we need to get them to start middle schools later because we will have money to buy more busses.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

Why? If families like it, why do they need to be wound down?

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Anonymous wrote:UGH! This is AWFUL! Looks like for 3rd and 4th graders at Bull Run, they'd get removed from Rocky Run and sent to Stone instead? Going from a cohort of 435 to 105?

Seriously, some of us WANT the bigger, more competitive cohort to help push our students. Plus, RR has been doing AAP for ages, Stone hasn't. This is going to suck.

It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

It's actually a cohort half that size - two classes of each grade level (since it's split between 7th and 8th). So either there is only one AAP English teacher, or two teaches have on AAP prep and then a mix of honors and Gen Ed (or team-taught).

I reach at an AAP center middle school and having multiple teachers in each grade/subject for AAP makes the program better and stronger.

It's so obvious that you're just saying this because you are worried you'll be reassigned to a different school. The curriculum is the same no matter how many classes there are. Yes, you'll have to do more work because you can't mooch off your fellow teachers, but you'll be fine.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UGH! This is AWFUL! Looks like for 3rd and 4th graders at Bull Run, they'd get removed from Rocky Run and sent to Stone instead? Going from a cohort of 435 to 105?

Seriously, some of us WANT the bigger, more competitive cohort to help push our students. Plus, RR has been doing AAP for ages, Stone hasn't. This is going to suck.

It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

It's actually a cohort half that size - two classes of each grade level (since it's split between 7th and 8th). So either there is only one AAP English teacher, or two teaches have on AAP prep and then a mix of honors and Gen Ed (or team-taught).

I reach at an AAP center middle school and having multiple teachers in each grade/subject for AAP makes the program better and stronger.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

Why? If families like it, why do they need to be wound down?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UGH! This is AWFUL! Looks like for 3rd and 4th graders at Bull Run, they'd get removed from Rocky Run and sent to Stone instead? Going from a cohort of 435 to 105?

Seriously, some of us WANT the bigger, more competitive cohort to help push our students. Plus, RR has been doing AAP for ages, Stone hasn't. This is going to suck.

It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

Why? If families like it, why do they need to be wound down?

Anonymous wrote:It should save money and perhaps your neighbors’ kids are smarter than you think. The AAP centers like Carson and Rocky Run that pull from so many different pyramids need to be wound down.

Anonymous wrote:UGH! This is AWFUL! Looks like for 3rd and 4th graders at Bull Run, they'd get removed from Rocky Run and sent to Stone instead? Going from a cohort of 435 to 105?

Seriously, some of us WANT the bigger, more competitive cohort to help push our students. Plus, RR has been doing AAP for ages, Stone hasn't. This is going to suck.