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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Are there center schools that encourage/facilitate GE and AAP classes mixing for specials, or activities like putting on a play[/b]?  I hope that is the case at our center school. [/quote]

Yes.

Sangster.

The kids are grouped AAP/non AAP for core subjects. Each group rotates between their two-four teachers for these subjects.

They are mixed together for all specials. All activities are open enrollment to all students, although there are a handful like Science Olympiad that end up with only AAP kids showing up for the meeting and joining the team. There is a nice mix for things like the musical, chess club, robotics, etc.

Lunch is assigned with a few tables per each class. Recess is together. Field trips are together, although to keep the logistics simple, the busses are assigned by class. The sixth graders for example go on a field trip to a ropes/team building course. They are divided into teams that has students from all classes on each team.

The fifth graders do a big end of year project together where they are assigned small groups with an almost even mix of AAP/non AAP kids from a variety of classes.

The parents mingle together for volunteer activities, PTA and the like. When the parents interact, it is not about who is/is not in AAP. We talk about the musical, or the sports teams or bookfair or the hundreds of other things that define our kids.

The kids mostly hang out socially with the kids from their class (I think this is the norm in elementary whether or not the school has AAP), but they have friends in the different groups and hang out with each other at recess and specials.

Judging from the projects displayed at the school and on the walls, it appears to me that the non-AAP classes follow much of the same curriculum and major projects as the AAP kids, especially in the mid and lower grades.

If you talk to the teachers and administration, they will openly tell you that they are making a conscious effort to run the school so that all the kids are Sangster kids, and not AAP/non AAP kids.

I cannot speak to how effective their efforts are for the non AAP families, but I can say that as an AAP parent I greatly appreciate the efforts they have made to make all of us feel like we are part of the school community. From my side, we are not interlopers or invaders, but just another Sangster family.

I have other kids not in AAP at the base school, and I can't imagine how it must feel for these kids who are at some of these other centers where there is such a divide between kids.[/quote]

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