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That isn't an across the board problem. Local level IV is going to make this issue so much worse for you. Congrats to those of you constantly complaining. You'll get even worse now that the students will just be top performing only relative to others in their grade at their own school.[/quote]

Hopefully, when they roll out LLIV in every school, kids who are borderline or only strong in one subject area will stop getting centrally placed.  After all, there's no reason to centrally place and guarantee AAP through 8th for kids who are below grade level or have mediocre test scores.

My kids' Title I school typically had classes of 25 kids and then about 25 kids out of 125 were centrally placed in AAP.  At least half of these kids did not belong in full time AAP and only got in because the parents were highly motivated to escape the Title I school.  Ideally, rolling out LLIV would coincide with drastically decreasing the number of kids centrally placed and guaranteed AAP through 8th.  That would give the local school much more flexibility to place the kids in the LLIV classroom based on who needs it most for that subject.  [/quote]

While this may be true it's also true that there are likely kids who arent objectively qualified for AAP but are relatively more advanced than their peers. In those cases, they are still going to slow down the class for those who cant keep up.[b] At our center class slows down for no one. Keep up or fail. [/b][/quote]

That works well until you get a kid who can advocate for themselves and insists on asking questions or a 2E who has no self control and no problem disturbing the class. Sure they can fail, but a 1 in ES is absolutely meaningless and they will still be AAP in 7th because that part of the program they were accepted into. [/quote]

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