Are you PTA posters talking about actual AAP?

Or are you just talking about the accelerated classes the principal puts together for the kids that don't go to AAP?

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, let's cut the crap about "PTA bigwigs getting their kids into AAP".

Involvement in the PTA does NOT get you a spot in AAP. If that were true, we'd be beating volunteers off with a stick, instead of having to beg for volunteers to fill our committees.

[/b]If this were true, then why didn't all of our PTA board members children make AAP?[b]

Interesting thread. Actually at my school all the PTA board member's children did get into local AP classes. But I am sure that it is just a huge coincidence.

same here. Near perfect correlation. Probably just a coincidence.

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, let's cut the crap about "PTA bigwigs getting their kids into AAP".

Involvement in the PTA does NOT get you a spot in AAP. If that were true, we'd be beating volunteers off with a stick, instead of having to beg for volunteers to fill our committees.

[/b]If this were true, then why didn't all of our PTA board members children make AAP?[b]

Interesting thread. Actually at my school all the PTA board member's children did get into local AP classes. But I am sure that it is just a huge coincidence.

PP: Some people think that people that help out a lot in PTA get better GBRS scores. That may be true, but correlation does not mean causation. I suspect that kids with parents involved in there education do better. The involvement at school probably means involvement at home.

With that said, at DD's school (base school is an AAP center), I have noticed the most involved in the PTA are from the base, and many do not have kids in AAP.

I do not think you can buy your way into AAP directly. There may be ways to improve your child's performance based on engaging the child rather than having them plunked in front of the TV all day, but donating $$$$ to the school will not be sufficient to get the kid into AAP

Anonymous wrote:Ok, this may be naive, but how does funding/supporting the PTA influence AAP admissions????

. For LLIV centers the principal decides who gets the open slots after center qualified students are placed. In theory the students who just missed the cutoff and did not qualify for the center would be assigned these open spaces but at some schools kids whose parents volunteer and/or donate big bucks gets the open spots. Now the class has 30 students instead of 18 or even 25. I know some kids in the lower 50th percentile NNAT/CogAt who got into AAP. They need tutoring to keep up.

Seriously, let's cut the crap about "PTA bigwigs getting their kids into AAP".

Involvement in the PTA does NOT get you a spot in AAP. If that were true, we'd be beating volunteers off with a stick, instead of having to beg for volunteers to fill our committees.

If this were true, then why didn't all of our PTA board members children make AAP? They didn't and nobody cares.

Get real, PTA involvement gets you the satisfaction of helping your school, but it doesn't get you AAP.

Ok, this may be naive, but how does funding/supporting the PTA influence AAP admissions????

What depresses me is that at some schools AAP has become just another status label that can be acquired by parents for their special snowflake, either by prepping, getting a private Wisc testing, or if that fails then just bullying the principal or giving $$$$/time/both to the PTA to ensure a LLIV placement. There is also a matter of pressure to inflate GBRS to increase the number of AAP students to justify getting more funding for more AAP teachers for those students that are in reality not capable of handling the advanced paced. A few years ago I witnessed a parent of AAP 3rd grader complaining to the AAP coordinator that the pace of AAP level math was too fast and it was unfair that they blew through third grade math in the first few months. Depressing indeed.

HA! Imagine! A hoax by FCPS AAP. Funny. Maybe the webmaster has had a boring summer.

This thread depresses me.

Also, it would be interesting to see how quickly you would be able to purchase books and sign your child up for courses to prepare for the "Fairfax Abilities Test," particularly if it turns out to be a typo.

Anonymous wrote:It would actually be sort of funny if this was a typo or an effort to see how many parents would be worked up over a "new" test to get into AAP. Or whether FCPS is just trying to see how many calls it will get about how you prepare for the FAT test.

Everywhere else on the website (yes, I've checked) the timelines/test descriptions have not been updated since the 2011-12 stuff and it still says CogAT everywhere.

Do you remember when AAP, for a short time, was referred to as "AA"? Everyone had a good joke with that for a while.

It would actually be sort of funny if this was a typo or an effort to see how many parents would be worked up over a "new" test to get into AAP. Or whether FCPS is just trying to see how many calls it will get about how you prepare for the FAT test.

Maybe its a typo?