I would be up in arms if my child were not getting the services I paid for! Level, I, II, III or IV, every child should get what their parents insist is appropriate otherwise some of our children would be spending too much with students from the lower levels. kind of like having to take a class at NOVA whhile attending UVA. Unacceptable!

I don't disagree that they have extra work, but this happens every year and for a long period of time. Why wouldn't the work just be taken over by another teacher? Either the classroom teacher does her own lesson with these kids since they're hers anyway or another aide could do these lessons. Apparently half the AAP teachers aren't certified anyway. If this were the level IV program do you think all the parents would just sit tight while their children were not taught at their level for months?

Write your school board member.

from a classroom teacher

Oh relax! That same AART helped your child get into the AAP program! Good lord people are uptight here.

My third grader told me she did not have her AAP class today either. I think this is the first time this has happened.

Anonymous wrote:Huh? The child's supposed to be getting services and she isn't. I don't get the difference between LLIII and LLIV. Either way they should be getting the service.

Yes, and given the amount of paperwork that can go into getting the packs ready for the county level screening, the extra committee meetings to coordinate and hold to review every child referred, both pool and parent referral, the paper work that follows that, just what do you propose the AART cuts out for this one period of time in the school year? Should they give up lunch, their nights and weekends (oh, probably already doing that) and what about meetings that involve others in the school? Can't really do them in off hours either. If you have an excellent way for an AART to balance her commitments and your child's needs for every week of the year, I'm sure the AART would like to hear it.

Huh? The child's supposed to be getting services and she isn't. I don't get the difference between LLIII and LLIV. Either way they should be getting the service.

Shudder, OP. How DARE the johnny-come-latelies disrupt the cultivation of our precious little snowflakes?

Don't you mean your schools AART teacher? The way you word this it is as if the kids actual AAP classes are not getting taught(those are different teachers than the AART teacher assigned to the school.

My child has been meeting regularly with the AAP teacher at her school, no cancellations. Must depend on the teacher or the number of parents she has to deal with.

They can teach while they get their certification. they have so many years (5, I think) to get it. If they don't get it in that time, they leave teaching AAP, but (I think) they can come back after some period of time and try again. It's my understanding that some schools will shuffle teachers in and out and they never actually get their certification.

Anonymous wrote:That is terrible! One of the 4th grade AAP teachers at our school will not be coming back as AAP next year since she is not certified to teach AAP! What the heck is going on here? Why has she been teaching AAP for the past two years if she is not certified?

AAP teachers have five years to get the endorsement.

http://www.fcps.edu/is/aap/pdfs/presentations/AAPCombinedEndorsementBrochure.pdf

In middle school, AAP Center teachers do not have to be endorsed if they are not teaching AAP students 50% or more.

That is terrible! One of the 4th grade AAP teachers at our school will not be coming back as AAP next year since she is not certified to teach AAP! What the heck is going on here? Why has she been teaching AAP for the past two years if she is not certified?

Seriously? That's a conversation I would have w/the principal.

I've been told that the AAP teacher at my child's school has been "too busy" helping parents with their referral packets to hold any AAP classes (Level 3) for the past month. Lovely.