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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish every school had at least one full time AART. Then there would be more time to allow the AART to push in or pull out to work with the Level III classes for each grade and maybe even a more robust Level II program. Something like the reading specialists that they have at the schools but for the advanced kids. That would allow the Teacher to work more with the struggling and grade level kid while giving the advanced kids some additional attention.

I think our AART is spread between 2 schools, maybe 3. Those hours are split so that there is less time for the kids at each school. If each school had a full time AART then there would be more hours, stronger Level III, and less pressure for Level IV services because kids who do fine but not necessarily thrive in Level IV would be able to have their needs met. [/quote]

Part of the outside commission on AAP's recommendation was to have a full time AART at every school. Another part was to make every school a local level IV, which would have the effect of broadening access to level IV. Honestly they *should* call that level III and make level IV be what GT was years ago, just for the top 5% and at centers. GT kids could possibly accelerate even a little faster (5th grade math in 4th, 6th grade math in 5th, pre-algebra in 6th for all) or even do some different work (ex: Beast Academy for math? something like IEW for writing?).

This would sort of leave gen. ed as a remedial track, though.[/quote]

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