Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares, they get all mixed together again in HS anyway. I know of no college that look at ES and MS transcripts to see if a child was enrolled in TAG, GT or AAP.

So true. All this panic to get kids into AAP and once they get into high school (or even middle, for that matter), it makes no difference whatsoever in their high school class choices or college acceptances. Much ado over nothing.

+100

Anonymous wrote:Last year's 3rd grade AAP enrollment was open, obviously. Will have to see what this year is like. My oldest is in 6th and that was the last year that AAP had actual tough requirements.

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Read the statistics on slide 12, precious!

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/99LQQB6A6292/$file/FCPS%20Advanced%20Academic%20Programs%20Review.pdf

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last year's 3rd grade AAP enrollment was open, obviously. Will have to see what this year is like. My oldest is in 6th and that was the last year that AAP had actual tough requirements.

Of course it was.

I actually choked on my lunch when I read this. No more reading DCUM at my desk during lunch for me. What a hilarious post. AAP is "open enrollment"?

Anonymous wrote:Who cares, they get all mixed together again in HS anyway. I know of no college that look at ES and MS transcripts to see if a child was enrolled in TAG, GT or AAP.

So true. All this panic to get kids into AAP and once they get into high school (or even middle, for that matter), it makes no difference whatsoever in their high school class choices or college acceptances. Much ado over nothing.

Anonymous wrote:Last year's 3rd grade AAP enrollment was open, obviously. Will have to see what this year is like. My oldest is in 6th and that was the last year that AAP had actual tough requirements.

Of course it was.

Anonymous wrote:Oh please wait for me to get my popcorn and a comfortable seat! What a show it would be to watch parents' reactions upon receiving the news that their child that they thought was going to the AA center is now being sent back to they washed masses at the base school. I would pay money to watch that unfold.

Maybe the legal trials will be televised? Can you imagine the testimony?

Oh, and I mistook your kid for one of the sub-standard students admitted in later years. It's a good thing you wrote that post, so that everyone would know your kid made the "harder" cut. Time to get yourself to the bus stop, where you can enlighten the parents of other sub-standard students.

Last year's 3rd grade AAP enrollment was open, obviously. Will have to see what this year is like. My oldest is in 6th and that was the last year that AAP had actual tough requirements.

Who cares, they get all mixed together again in HS anyway. I know of no college that look at ES and MS transcripts to see if a child was enrolled in TAG, GT or AAP.

With all the added classes HS students are required to take by the state, energy would be better spent trying to get more HS classes offered in MS or get the HS to add an 8th period. If you have a HS student who wants to take a language and orchestra/band/chorus/theatre arts all four years, he/she will have to take at least one summer school course to graduate. (Summer school classes cost $$$)

How would you base the testing? would you base it on another FxAT? Or would you look to see who is falling behind, based on the SOLs? Or would you look at teacher recommendations....which children the teacher does not think belongs?

There are always a few kids who have a rough time in third grade, or are simply unhappy at the center, or are not ready (and perhaps never will be, which is okay), and everyone agrees they should go back to their base schools.

I've heard of what seems like more than usual doing so at my rising fourth grader's center. I don't know how strongly the schools recommend it to the parents, but I'd love to see this sorted out, too. It's to everyone's benefit.

I wish there would be retesting periodically because there are many kids in AAP (all grades) who cannot handle the program across all subjects as Level IV is supposed to be. I believe the chances of that happening are zero.

Oh please wait for me to get my popcorn and a comfortable seat! What a show it would be to watch parents' reactions upon receiving the news that their child that they thought was going to the AA center is now being sent back to they washed masses at the base school. I would pay money to watch that unfold.

Anonymous wrote:I ask because last year's third grade AAP classes at our center were so incredibly bloated. Way too many kids admitted. Are students ever re-evaluated and perhaps switched to General Ed instead?

That would seem very reasonable to me. The School Board has already expressed concern regarding the "over identification" of AAP kids. Maybe they should admit there were mistakes last year and do something to correct the balance.

I ask because last year's third grade AAP classes at our center were so incredibly bloated. Way too many kids admitted. Are students ever re-evaluated and perhaps switched to General Ed instead?