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[quote=Anonymous]I have kids in AAP, Gen Ed and Special Ed so I think I have a pretty balanced perspective on this issue.

While I appreciate the fact that one of my children has access to a more intensive curriculum, I don't think that class size matters for him. The class could have 50 kids in it, and he would still learn just as much because he's that academically curious and driven. Not so for my other ones.

The idea that you need large centers to have critical mass for co-curricular activities is largely false. The minimum numbers for most of these activities is quite low, and in fact, a lot of children get shut out of them at the largest centers because there are usually upper limits on the size of the teams.

The idea that you don't have critical mass to be able to offer an AAP class is untrue at all but a few schools. Many local level IV programs are in fact gutted by the fact that kids are given the choice to attend a center instead of their base school. A few truly have very few kids who qualify, and those could be given the choice to attend another school. Meanwhile, our base school/center's AAP classes are overcrowded, while the same local LLIV class a mile away has fewer than 20 kids.

And lastly, if we have to prioritize cuts, I'll take cuts to AAP over cuts to a lot of electives  that all my children enjoy.[/quote]

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