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[quote=Anonymous]OP, as you can tell by the posts so far, a huge amount of the "culture" at a center depends on the perceptions of the students and parents you ask. How can one school's center be both a "mini-TJ" with high stress AND a place with barely minimal teaching above the curriculum? How can one grade's teachers be both terrible and terrific? Depends on your child's experiences, personality, and whether a little homework seems like a crushing load, or a lot of homework seems like it's reasonable, or whatever. Also depends on what parents bring to the center in terms of their own (sometimes overblown) expectations of what AAP should be. So take whatever is said here with more than a grain of salt.

There was a recent thread about kids "fitting in" at AAP centers and you should search on DCUM for that. Again, because it's DCUM and many posters tend toward snarkiness and potshots at all AAP, everywhere, take the posts with some skepticism. But many parents on that thread said that kids in AAP centers are just like other kids (as someone noted here). My child is in 6th grade in an AAP center and it has been an excellent experience for her -- there are a lot of different kinds of kids (some very academically oriented, others very artistic, some both; some really into extracurriculars in math and science, and some not; some dreamers, some very serious, some class clowns -- like any children their age). Fitting in has never been an issue. But I think we would have had issues if she had stayed at her base school (no Level IV services available there.) Be sure to ask not only whether your kid will fit in at an AAP center but also whether your child will be frustrated and lack challenges if he or she remains at a base school without Level IV.[/quote]

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