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[quote=Anonymous]Not clear to me about the choice you feel you have to make -- if your child qualifies for level 4 services, you have a choice between a center and your local level 4 classes if you school has them -- and yours does. You mention, "Is it any different (harder, easier) to get into a base school with level IV versus a center?" but you don't have to "get into" anything -- if he qualifies for level 4, you get to choose whether he stays at the base school and does get level 4 classes; stays at the base and does general education classes and not level 4; or goes to an AAP center. What is the concern about "getting into" a school? Do you maybe mean just qualifying for AAP?

I have a kid in an AAP center, sixth grade. Friends have kids in schools with local level 4 classes. One down side they mention (which can also have its positives....) is that in their schools there are few level 4 classes, so the same group of kids is together for four years, third through sixth grades. So if one child has an issue with another...they're stuck together again in the next grade. That was an issue for one family I know -- the fact that the same kids had too much togetherness year after year. But one parent said the up side was that the families of all the level 4 kids got to know each other well and cooperated well and had a "family" feel.

In our AAP center there are four classes of AAP (and new kids entering it each year as some parents bring their kids from local level 4 to the center in grades four, five and six), so there is more variety in classroom makeup from year to year. That works well for my kid and the program, I think, but others might want the smaller environment of a local level 4 where there is a smaller group overall.

So the mix of kids is something to think about as you make a choice. We've been very happy with the center, and I know others who have been equally happy with local level 4.

Remember, if your child qualifies for AAP, you can move your child to a center in any school year up to eighth grade, if you decide later than the local school isn't working out, so you are not saying no to the center option forever if you say no to it in third grade.

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