Is anyone going to force their kid to go to a center school?

[Anonymous]

I think my DH wants to do that. I agree the school is probably a better fit for my DC, but I just can't imagine doing that. What do you plan to do?

[Anonymous]

We didn’t have to force our kid bc a lot of his friends got in and were going and we saw them at the open house. Maybe go to the open house with your kid and see how it goes?

[Anonymous]

OP here; our school has a LLIV, so many kids will just stay at our school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here; our school has a LLIV, so many kids will just stay at our school.

Oh yeah ours doesn’t have lliv so most who get in go to Center. Do you have other kids at the base?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here; our school has a LLIV, so many kids will just stay at our school.

Do you know that for a fact? Because at our school, exactly 2 kids stayed for LLIV, the rest moved to the center school (including my own).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think my DH wants to do that. I agree the school is probably a better fit for my DC, but I just can't imagine doing that. What do you plan to do?

My 2nd grader doesn't get to pick which house he gets to live in or which school he goes to.

[Anonymous]

I haven't seen anything in the mail yet, but we decided a while back that we would keep our DC in his base school. He's done really well here, has had wonderful teachers so far, all of his friends are here, and he's in the SACC program which he loves.

[Anonymous]

My kid got in, but no way would I send them to our Center school. Local level IV is not an option for us either. We’ll stay at the base and supplement outside of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid got in, but no way would I send them to our Center school. Local level IV is not an option for us either. We’ll stay at the base and supplement outside of school.

why not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid got in, but no way would I send them to our Center school. Local level IV is not an option for us either. We’ll stay at the base and supplement outside of school.

why not?

No the PP and we do have LLIV, but I would never take my kid out of the neighborhood school. Tons of friends, he can walk there and back, it's convenient . Also, it's elementary school so who cares?


When we moved here, we carefully chose a diverse school, racially and socio economically. Pulling him to the bubble school was never an option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here; our school has a LLIV, so many kids will just stay at our school.

Do you know that for a fact? Because at our school, exactly 2 kids stayed for LLIV, the rest moved to the center school (including my own).

yes, last year three kids left for the center school.

[Anonymous]

Level IV is an important distinction because you can opt into the Center School any year that you want and when you get to Middle School. If there is a stong program at the base school then there might be good reasons to not attend a center.

[Anonymous]

I didn't even realize there was an option. I thought if your school had Local Level IV that that's where you were required to receive your services. What's the point of having two options?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't even realize there was an option. I thought if your school had Local Level IV that that's where you were required to receive your services. What's the point of having two options?

There are some schools without a Local Level IV option. My son is at a language immersion school and does not have Local Level IV, I suspect it would be too mcuh to have language immersion seperated from gen ed seperated from level IV. Some schools don’t have enough kids for a local level IV. I think the centers are meant to meet the needs of those types of schools.

Schools were there are enough kids to form a local level IV class on a regular basis have developed that option. It probably helps to keep the centers from becoming too crowded and allows more kids to participate in the program.

That is my guess at why there are options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven't seen anything in the mail yet, but we decided a while back that we would keep our DC in his base school. He's done really well here, has had wonderful teachers so far, all of his friends are here, and he's in the SACC program which he loves.

Sounds like SACC isn’t your only factor, but they usually run a bus from the base school to the aap center. So he could stay at SACC at his base school even if he went to the center.