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[quote=Anonymous]We are in the West Springfield Burke area.

We have one kids who went to our (then) amazing local center.

We had one kid qualify a few years later and decided to keep at our amazing base school.

We currently have that advanced kid plus one kid who is bright but has struggles (reading and speech).

We have had kids in all grades (K through 6th) at the base school.

The administration is exceptional.  They are warm, welcoming to parents, involved with the kids, engaged, and have their priorities in order (trying to balance testing with learning, reasonable discipline, open to finding good fits for kids who struggle).

The teachers have ranged from very good to exceptional. We have had one meh teacher and one bad teacher, both teachers who were older and more experienced. One of our very best teachers was one just out of college. She was amazing.

My AAP level IV kid has gotten a lot of personal attention, a weekly level 3 class, and advanced math.

My bright kid who struggles has received lots of individual attention from speech therapy, pullout with the reading specialist, accommodations/adjustments for classroom things to make learning more productive, even for things he does not have a 504 or IEP for, and the opportunity to do advanced math. Because the school is smaller than the big center they were able to see beyond his deficits to notice his strengths, Yay!

OP do not use the dcum AAP forum to make your decision of whether your base school is horrible or not.

Look around your school, principal and teachers. Look at the projects posted on the walls. Look at the PTA, how it runs and what it does. Look at the scores in middle and high school. If all the base elementaries were failing the non AAP kids then the middle and high school scores would be a mess.  If those are strong then someone is preparing those kids well in elementary.  Talk to people with older kids in the school. Not the one person still bitter that their kid is not AAP, but everyone else.

That will tell you how well your base school is doing.

Not the tiget moms of dcum's AAP forum.[/quote]

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