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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am curious why you would push her into a program for which she's not qualified to participate? Why not err on the other side of the border?[/quote]

In many schools, particularly the higher SES ones, 50%+ of students would likely do just as well in AAP as the current students in the program.  The benefits of AAP over Gen-ed are largely better teachers, more accelerated math, and ability to focus on more/all students instead of teaching remedial activities to the under-grade performing few.  One might say fewer distractions/problems as well, but then you'll get into all the twice exceptional student arguments and indignant parents, so we'll leave it at that...

A benefit of being one of the borderline lower-performing AAP is that they'll get the teachers attention to bring the entire class up, whereas the borderline students in gen-ed will be ignored because they're at grade level already, while the teacher gives attention to the remedial education.  I think the borderline students left in Gen-ed are the ones getting the worst focus of anyone.

Note that all of the above is generalizations.  There are good teachers/experiences in gen-ed, and bad experiences/teachers in AAP, and others will certainly feel the need to bring them up.[/quote]

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