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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks. What are the AAP classes in middle school? Are the AAP classes at higher level than honor classes?

Does this mean, similar to center elementary school, there are Level IV students with their AAP classes and general students with their regular classes but with the option to take honor classes?  [/quote]

It depends.  IME, with my children, the teacher was the bigger determinant to rigor than any differences between Honors or AAP in MS.  The differences were too small to be easily identified, if they existed at all.  The exception, of course, is math and then everyone is placed in their appropriate math class regardless of Gen-ed or AAP designation.  [b]Others on this board have indicated that their experience was different and they saw larger differences between the Honors and AAP classes.[/b]  The curriculum and the extensions are the same IME. [/quote]

+1 on the bolded part.

At our middle school, there was a large difference between "all honors" and the AAP Center course rigor. It appears to differ from school to school, however, as outlined by the PP.[/quote]

Ditto the second post above, OP. Middle school honors and middle school AAP classes at our MS center school were quite different.

Here's an example: There was a seventh grade biography paper that [i]all[/i] students did (general ed, honors or AAP). At each of those three levels the expectations about details, sources and length increased. And then the AAP students were required to go further, picking a current topic or conflict and explaining how they thought their chosen biographical subject person would have handled that (for example, if a kid did a bio on Teddy Roosevelt, the student might choose, say, the Syrian war and discuss theoretically how Roosevelt might have handled that situation, based on what the student learned about Roosevelt from doing the bio project). I don't recall how honors was different from general ed and AAP for that one example but I know the expectations for the honors students were different from those for general ed.

If you have a student who is not yet in MS or just starting MS, ask a teacher for a concrete example like that and ask if honors in the center MS is any different from honors at an MS without a center. It should not be different, but so much depends on the individual school....

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