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Anonymous wrote:I don't find their position to be value add. I am fine with this cut.

So who is putting together your kid's packet?

That doesn't require a full-time person. Plus, it is usually a committee of people doing the packets.

Anonymous wrote:If you care about advanced academics, I urge you to get engaged in the budget process NOW. Last night, Dr. Reid’s new proposed budget included cutting almost all full-time AARTs at elementary schools. That means that all of you who have kids in local full-time services (aka Local Level 4) will be significantly impacted. You cannot effectively run these programs with a half-time AART.

It’s time to speak up. Contact your school board members and sign up for public discussion next week. This is moving fast.

This is not accurate. The AART does not teach LLIV classes. LLIV classes have dedicated teachers. LII and LIII pullouts are either expansions of existing work by the teacher or the occasional AART pullout, but in my experience at TWO different elementary schools, the AART is more of an administrative position and not an instruction position. My kids only saw the AART at the beginning of the year when she was doing the dumb "Jacob's ladder" or "X + Y = z" lessons to gather materials for AAP applications. That doesn't require a full-time person, who the rest of the year is just pushing paperwork and helping in the office with testing, etc.

I'm so curious what OP thinks the AART does that warrants a full-time position. Please educate us, LOL.

You only want an AART because you think she's the one helping your kid get into AAP. Such BS, so incredibly selfish of AAP mamas. This is a good cut - there is not enough work for schools to have a full time AART. Parttime is more than enough.

Oh come on, lady, what exactly do you think the AARTs do? They are definitely not doing advanced academics all day long. At our school, the AART is just an admin person who fills in as needed the vast majority of the time.

My school has the AART on the master schedule. All classes see her every two weeks. So this will greatly change the specials schedule.

Anonymous wrote:If you care about advanced academics, I urge you to get engaged in the budget process NOW. Last night, Dr. Reid’s new proposed budget included cutting almost all full-time AARTs at elementary schools. That means that all of you who have kids in local full-time services (aka Local Level 4) will be significantly impacted. You cannot effectively run these programs with a half-time AART.

It’s time to speak up. Contact your school board members and sign up for public discussion next week. This is moving fast.

Where do you think they should cut to make up the difference?

Name 3 great things that the AART has done for your kid this quarter.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly get rid of AAP and start challenging our kids in school. We are missing out on opportunities to teach our children when we focus on the bottom 10%. Raise the bar for everyone

Well, in practice, one overburdened teacher cannot cater to the bottom 10% and also the top 10% effectively. The end result will be that kids who need extra challenge, will most probably be ignored or left to figure out things by themselves, while all energy will be bringing the other kids up to speed. This is such a disservice to everyone!

Frankly, AAP in its current form is not very effective either - especially with Benchmark for LA and new Math basal coming, I often wonder if there is enough challenge or differentiation for AAP kids.

Unsurprisingly those with the means will do some combination of:

- leave for private
- supplement extensively with tutors and academic enrichment or even just parent supplementation

And everyone else will suffer. As already happens.

Anonymous wrote:Reid talks about it in link of Board meeting about 3:29 in. Title 1 schools to retain aart employee, rest go .5

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8k-HIczG0Ww

Does title 1 have more kids getting AART services or they get funding from elsewhere?

It’s a good choice. Eliminate them.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly get rid of AAP and start challenging our kids in school. We are missing out on opportunities to teach our children when we focus on the bottom 10%. Raise the bar for everyone

Well, in practice, one overburdened teacher cannot cater to the bottom 10% and also the top 10% effectively. The end result will be that kids who need extra challenge, will most probably be ignored or left to figure out things by themselves, while all energy will be bringing the other kids up to speed. This is such a disservice to everyone!

Frankly, AAP in its current form is not very effective either - especially with Benchmark for LA and new Math basal coming, I often wonder if there is enough challenge or differentiation for AAP kids.

Anonymous wrote:Funny how the 2020 report was definitely supposed to be followed. That report recommended 1.0 AART at every ES and MS.

Guess we can throw that report out the window now.

As I understand it, each Principal is allowed to determine how to spend the staff budget. Some Principals choose to have a 1/2-time AART so that they can afford another specialist 1/2 time, like an art teacher or music teacher or reading specialist.

Funny how the 2020 report was definitely supposed to be followed. That report recommended 1.0 AART at every ES and MS.

Guess we can throw that report out the window now.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't find their position to be value add. I am fine with this cut.

So who is putting together your kid's packet?

Plenty of schools have part time AARTs and they put together packets without issues. I would guess that this impacts very few schools and is not much of a cost savings.

All elementary schools are staffed for 1.0 AART, so any school with a part time AART has two of them. There are several schools with two 0.5 AARTs.

This is not the case at our school. We have 1, part time AART.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't find their position to be value add. I am fine with this cut.

So who is putting together your kid's packet?

Plenty of schools have part time AARTs and they put together packets without issues. I would guess that this impacts very few schools and is not much of a cost savings.

All elementary schools are staffed for 1.0 AART, so any school with a part time AART has two of them. There are several schools with two 0.5 AARTs.