Anonymous wrote:At our school, the LLIV class has less than 15 kids because the principal will not infill. Then the Gen Ed classes have in the mid-twenties. That seems sort of ridiculous to me.

Having classes in mid-twenties still seems pretty decent.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these numbers from this past year?

2012-2013 school year

And those numbers are across all Local Level IV classes in each school (multiple grades).

Anonymous wrote:Are these numbers from this past year?

2012-2013 school year

At our school, the LLIV class has less than 15 kids because the principal will not infill. Then the Gen Ed classes have in the mid-twenties. That seems sort of ridiculous to me.

Are these numbers from this past year?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school just fills in the class with non-Center eligible students. (But our school has a very small number of Center eligible students overall.)

This makes no sense for your school to have a LLIV class.

LLIV should be placed at the schools that send a large number of kids to AAP. If the school has enough center eligible kids to consistently fill an entire class, then they should keep them at the school and do LLIV.

The schools that have small numbers of center eligible kids should not have a LLIV. Those kids should be sent to a center school.

I agree. But look at the schools that have Local Level IV and have small numbers of Center eligible students.

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/99K2BT016C29/$file/c_Level%20IV%20demographics%20data%20by%20school.pdf

Annandale Terrace 7
Braddock 6
Cameron 9
Clermont 11
Glen Forest 11
Little Run 9
Mason Crest 14
Washington Mill 8

Anonymous wrote:Our school just fills in the class with non-Center eligible students. (But our school has a very small number of Center eligible students overall.)

This makes no sense for your school to have a LLIV class.

LLIV should be placed at the schools that send a large number of kids to AAP. If the school has enough center eligible kids to consistently fill an entire class, then they should keep them at the school and do LLIV.

The schools that have small numbers of center eligible kids should not have a LLIV. Those kids should be sent to a center school.

Our LLIV class is self contained but has level IV students plus Principal Designees. They all do the same work except for math - some non level IV kids go to another teacher for math an some students come into this
classroom for "Advanced Math".

19:21 Is it hard for the teachers to teach to different levels? How many levels do they have to teach to?

Anonymous wrote:Can the level III kids keep up without much problem? Do their parents complain the curriculum is too hard?

No, never. Their kids excell in the core AAP class they are assigned.

Our school just fills in the class with non-Center eligible students. (But our school has a very small number of Center eligible students overall.)

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Can the level III kids keep up without much problem? Do their parents complain the curriculum is too hard?

Sometimes there is a small class for some of the core subjects. There are LIII students that are also added to core classes. Generally the LIII students don't have all core AAP classes but 1-3.

How does your school handle LLIV programs where there are either less than 2/3 or greater than 1 class of AAP students? Do they have additional teachers, teach two different levels, combine grades? How do they make it work?