Parents Demand Answers at Advanced Academic Meeting
At first of three meetings this week about restructuring Fairfax County Public Schools' AAP Centers, parents ignore survey format and approach officials for dialogue instead.
Parents at a Fairfax County Public Schools meeting Tuesday night demanded the system answer questions about the overcrowding and relocation of students from some Advanced Academic Program Centers, along with quality assurances for new centers that could come with a program restructuring — opting largely to ignore written survey sheets and approach officials for dialogue instead. At the meeting at Westfield High School, the first of three scheduled on the issue this week, FCPS addressed about 200 parents of Clusters 6, 7 and 8 about a proposed restructuring of the centers, which would ensure each of the six pyramids without an elementary-level center — which offers a full-time "highly challenging instructional program" — had one. It would …
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Julia Hearst
1:10 am on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
FCPS doesn't know anything aboutm taking it slow and steady. I'm an AAP teacher and believe me, as teachers, we are more and more overworked due to knee-jerk reactions and poorly planned initiatives that are rushed. It's going to be the downfall of the FCPS system if someone doesn't step in and fix this mess soon. more ›