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[quote=Anonymous]We decided to remain at a Local Level IV.  We parent referred in 4th on the advice of ds's 3rd grade teacher. (was in pool but not eligible in the first go round).  For us, we stayed with Local Level IV for a few reasons.  Our first reason was that the school ds attended was not our neighborhood school (we were there on opt out, long story) so if we left for the center, they likely would not have allowed us to return.  Also, there was a pretty high % of children from ds's school who stayed, I am not 100% sure, but I would say more than 50% of his class was Level IV eligible.  I was not really hung up on the peer group issue that many talk about here.  I want my son to be accustomed to being around all types of students.   I had heard some very negative talk regarding the treatment of non-AAP center students at our AAP center (along the lines of "we are better than you because we are in AAP", and really did not want my son to be influenced by this behavior (and no, I do not claim to know the culture at all Centers, some may be better than others in this regard).   He has always been a very strong student, and I felt that as long as he had the advanced curriculum, he would be getting the challenge, whether he was around all AAP eligible children, or AAP eligible and other bright students who can handle the advanced work.  The one drawback I can see, is that with there being only 1 class per grade, he will be with the exact same students for the next few years.  I recently did a bit of research into our Center though, and discovered that this past year they had one class per grade, and that these classes were huge (as is our Local Level IV).  In the end, we have decided to stay.[/quote]

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