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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The AAP program has grown too large. Used to be more selective. If everyone is special, the no one is special.

Every pyramid should have AAP in the middle school. [/quote]
The problem is viewing at as a measure of "specialness" in the first place.  For the most part, AAP is just regular school, but slightly faster and one year advanced beyond grade level.  [b]All kids who are in fact one year above grade level should be included.  No kids who are on or below grade level should be included.  It's really that simple[/b].  For what AAP is, there's entirely too much status attached and too much hand wringing over what ought to be a fairly straightforward academic placement.  
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No, it’s not. AAP is about providing services to kids who would not be well served in a Gen Ed classroom. I can’t imagine anyone disagreeing that the Gen Ed classrooms vary from one school to another (and as such, the grade level or CogAT or whatever measure you want to use where a student would not be well-served in that Gen Ed classroom is also going to vary from school to school). This is why a universal county-wide measure would be inappropriate for the program. For a while they tried to address this via busing kids to centers, but are now recognizing the flaws in that approach to de-emphasize centers and encourage LLIV, and hence greater emphasis on adapting the program (appropriately so) the variance at each school.[/quote]

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