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Anonymous wrote:I don't know about Carson but I do know that GBW is very over crowded. I can't see the AAP center there being closed down but what if parents of schools that have level IV AAP had to stay at their school. Poplar Tree will have gr 3 level IV next year. I bet if Colin Powell and Poplar Tree had to stay at their schools for their own Level IV it would make a big difference at GBW.

And this is what so many parents have been advocating - that students with LLIV already in their base school stay there instead of being bused to centers. It makes perfect sense.

I'm glad to hear this. Then, why do so many who have the option to stay at their base school for LLIV still opt to go,to a center such as GBW? I keep hearing that happens. Should it even be an option when the service is available?

Because all in certain ethnic communities feel it is the Ctr or nothing....One has to be able to say that their child is in "GT". GBW is so overcrowded that
Kids have lunch at 1030 after starting school at 915 and some days they don' t get recess because of specials.

This is NOT true, at least for me. I'm not in a certain ethnic community and I am sending my child to the center next year. I don't even discuss with anyone that my child is going to the center next year. My child is going to the center because I believe my child be better served at the center. At my school there are NO pullouts for K-2. Our AART is only part-time. Homework has been minimal. So far I have not been impressed with my child's base school. The center that my child will be going to will have many more after school activities that would interest my child. Sure, these same programs could be implemented in the base school, but there would not be the number of other interested students. Additionally, there is no way my school will have enough students to fill a LLIV class. So then who are the kids placed in them? I also worried about my child always being known as being in "the smart class" and possibly being teased for that. At a center there are several "smart classes" so my child is not going to stand out.

In my opinion, I think Fairfax County should have "magnet" elementary schools that are only for kids in the Level IV program. Local Level IV's should be eliminated. I can't imagine the amount of pressure the principal is under to pupil place the other students to fill a full class.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know about Carson but I do know that GBW is very over crowded. I can't see the AAP center there being closed down but what if parents of schools that have level IV AAP had to stay at their school. Poplar Tree will have gr 3 level IV next year. I bet if Colin Powell and Poplar Tree had to stay at their schools for their own Level IV it would make a big difference at GBW.

And this is what so many parents have been advocating - that students with LLIV already in their base school stay there instead of being bused to centers. It makes perfect sense.

I'm glad to hear this. Then, why do so many who have the option to stay at their base school for LLIV still opt to go,to a center such as GBW? I keep hearing that happens. Should it even be an option when the service is available?

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Anonymous wrote:So 10:02, you don't want your child to go to school with those awful AAP kids and their tiger parents.

You don't want them to be placed into a separate magnet school where you never need to see or talk to them.

You don't want a center in YOUR child's school.

You do however want the local level IV in every school, but only if your child is one of the kids principal placed into the local level IV.

If your child is not selected for local level IV, then you don't want that in your school either.

In fact, your preference is for no gifted or differentiated education whatsoever. Everyone the same, no one does any more or any less.

Well, perhaps you would be okay with a very small class of 10 or fewer "truly gifted" students receiving gifted services. That is "truly gifted" as defined by you, not by trained educators, nationally recognized and respected tests, testing standards that are far more rigorous than standards at almost every single other school district in the country (if you understood how the tests are scored this would be crystal clear to you), and a process that has multiple checks and balances along the way.

Not your selection criteria of what you deem to be gifted based off your biased observations of your own child and thay child's classmates.

Hmmm.

Do you realize how silly you sound?

You seem a bit over-caffeinated, to put it charitably. I believe a scaled-back AAP program housed in schools that also have other students attending their neighborhood school is the best way to go, as do many others. Encouraging large numbers of parents to believe their children are such special snowflakes that they need their own buildings from third grade on is, IMHO, really bad policy. The bubbles around here are already way too big.

And you sound a little bitter.

If those kids are at a different school, then you don't have to deal with what you determine is their "insufferable" self worth.

I think that making fun of other people's children, talking about how "awful" these "special snowflakes" are says a lot about you, your objectivity and your agenda.

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Anonymous wrote:So 10:02, you don't want your child to go to school with those awful AAP kids and their tiger parents.

You don't want them to be placed into a separate magnet school where you never need to see or talk to them.

You don't want a center in YOUR child's school.

You do however want the local level IV in every school, but only if your child is one of the kids principal placed into the local level IV.

If your child is not selected for local level IV, then you don't want that in your school either.

In fact, your preference is for no gifted or differentiated education whatsoever. Everyone the same, no one does any more or any less.

Well, perhaps you would be okay with a very small class of 10 or fewer "truly gifted" students receiving gifted services. That is "truly gifted" as defined by you, not by trained educators, nationally recognized and respected tests, testing standards that are far more rigorous than standards at almost every single other school district in the country (if you understood how the tests are scored this would be crystal clear to you), and a process that has multiple checks and balances along the way.

Not your selection criteria of what you deem to be gifted based off your biased observations of your own child and thay child's classmates.

Hmmm.

Do you realize how silly you sound?

You seem a bit over-caffeinated, to put it charitably. I believe a scaled-back AAP program housed in schools that also have other students attending their neighborhood school is the best way to go, as do many others. Encouraging large numbers of parents to believe their children are such special snowflakes that they need their own buildings from third grade on is, IMHO, really bad policy. The bubbles around here are already way too big.

Anonymous wrote:So 10:02, you don't want your child to go to school with those awful AAP kids and their tiger parents.

You don't want them to be placed into a separate magnet school where you never need to see or talk to them.

You don't want a center in YOUR child's school.

You do however want the local level IV in every school, but only if your child is one of the kids principal placed into the local level IV.

If your child is not selected for local level IV, then you don't want that in your school either.

In fact, your preference is for no gifted or differentiated education whatsoever. Everyone the same, no one does any more or any less.

Well, perhaps you would be okay with a very small class of 10 or fewer "truly gifted" students receiving gifted services. That is "truly gifted" as defined by you, not by trained educators, nationally recognized and respected tests, testing standards that are far more rigorous than standards at almost every single other school district in the country (if you understood how the tests are scored this would be crystal clear to you), and a process that has multiple checks and balances along the way.

Not your selection criteria of what you deem to be gifted based off your biased observations of your own child and thay child's classmates.

Hmmm.

Do you realize how silly you sound?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about Carson but I do know that GBW is very over crowded. I can't see the AAP center there being closed down but what if parents of schools that have level IV AAP had to stay at their school. Poplar Tree will have gr 3 level IV next year. I bet if Colin Powell and Poplar Tree had to stay at their schools for their own Level IV it would make a big difference at GBW.

And this is what so many parents have been advocating - that students with LLIV already in their base school stay there instead of being bused to centers. It makes perfect sense.

I'm glad to hear this. Then, why do so many who have the option to stay at their base school for LLIV still opt to go,to a center such as GBW? I keep hearing that happens. Should it even be an option when the service is available?

Because all in certain ethnic communities feel it is the Ctr or nothing....One has to be able to say that their child is in "GT". GBW is so overcrowded that
Kids have lunch at 1030 after starting school at 915 and some days they don' t get recess because of specials.

This is NOT true, at least for me. I'm not in a certain ethnic community and I am sending my child to the center next year. I don't even discuss with anyone that my child is going to the center next year. My child is going to the center because I believe my child be better served at the center. At my school there are NO pullouts for K-2. Our AART is only part-time. Homework has been minimal. So far I have not been impressed with my child's base school. The center that my child will be going to will have many more after school activities that would interest my child. Sure, these same programs could be implemented in the base school, but there would not be the number of other interested students. Additionally, there is no way my school will have enough students to fill a LLIV class. So then who are the kids placed in them? I also worried about my child always being known as being in "the smart class" and possibly being teased for that. At a center there are several "smart classes" so my child is not going to stand out.

In my opinion, I think Fairfax County should have "magnet" elementary schools that are only for kids in the Level IV program. Local Level IV's should be eliminated. I can't imagine the amount of pressure the principal is under to pupil place the other students to fill a full class.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about Carson but I do know that GBW is very over crowded. I can't see the AAP center there being closed down but what if parents of schools that have level IV AAP had to stay at their school. Poplar Tree will have gr 3 level IV next year. I bet if Colin Powell and Poplar Tree had to stay at their schools for their own Level IV it would make a big difference at GBW.

And this is what so many parents have been advocating - that students with LLIV already in their base school stay there instead of being bused to centers. It makes perfect sense.

I'm glad to hear this. Then, why do so many who have the option to stay at their base school for LLIV still opt to go,to a center such as GBW? I keep hearing that happens. Should it even be an option when the service is available?

Because all in certain ethnic communities feel it is the Ctr or nothing....One has to be able to say that their child is in "GT". GBW is so overcrowded that
Kids have lunch at 1030 after starting school at 915 and some days they don' t get recess because of specials.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about Carson but I do know that GBW is very over crowded. I can't see the AAP center there being closed down but what if parents of schools that have level IV AAP had to stay at their school. Poplar Tree will have gr 3 level IV next year. I bet if Colin Powell and Poplar Tree had to stay at their schools for their own Level IV it would make a big difference at GBW.

And this is what so many parents have been advocating - that students with LLIV already in their base school stay there instead of being bused to centers. It makes perfect sense.

I'm glad to hear this. Then, why do so many who have the option to stay at their base school for LLIV still opt to go,to a center such as GBW? I keep hearing that happens. Should it even be an option when the service is available?

Because all in certain ethnic communities feel it is the Ctr or nothing....One has to be able to say that their child is in "GT". GBW is so overcrowded that
Kids have lunch at 1030 after starting school at 915 and some days they don' t get recess because of specials.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about Carson but I do know that GBW is very over crowded. I can't see the AAP center there being closed down but what if parents of schools that have level IV AAP had to stay at their school. Poplar Tree will have gr 3 level IV next year. I bet if Colin Powell and Poplar Tree had to stay at their schools for their own Level IV it would make a big difference at GBW.

And this is what so many parents have been advocating - that students with LLIV already in their base school stay there instead of being bused to centers. It makes perfect sense.

I'm glad to hear this. Then, why do so many who have the option to stay at their base school for LLIV still opt to go,to a center such as GBW? I keep hearing that happens. Should it even be an option when the service is available?

Anonymous wrote:Should it even be an option when the service is available?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about Carson but I do know that GBW is very over crowded. I can't see the AAP center there being closed down but what if parents of schools that have level IV AAP had to stay at their school. Poplar Tree will have gr 3 level IV next year. I bet if Colin Powell and Poplar Tree had to stay at their schools for their own Level IV it would make a big difference at GBW.

And this is what so many parents have been advocating - that students with LLIV already in their base school stay there instead of being bused to centers. It makes perfect sense.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about Carson but I do know that GBW is very over crowded. I can't see the AAP center there being closed down but what if parents of schools that have level IV AAP had to stay at their school. Poplar Tree will have gr 3 level IV next year. I bet if Colin Powell and Poplar Tree had to stay at their schools for their own Level IV it would make a big difference at GBW.