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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AAP children can be taught with other independent and high achieving students. It's done in LLIV schools all the time and can be done in the centers too. A teacher shouldn't have to teach many, many different levels, but they can teach 2-3 levels during the year.[/quote]

Would love to see teacher input on how "they can teach 2-3 levels during the year." PP, are you a teacher who has to do this?

I only know that our experience with "differentiation in the classroom" meant that kids who were able and ready to work at higher academic levels were the ones shortchanged as teachers had to focus mostly on meeting the needs of the rest of the class and getting the rest of the class's standardized test scores up to scratch. The kids who were ready for more challenges were not effectively challenged under "differentiation" and the differentiation often took the form of more worksheets (busy work) that these kids were left to do on their own "because you can handle it." This is very dispiriting to these kids. That's why we were glad to have the AAP option when the time came. That won't be popular with the anti-AAP posters on here, but nothing that is in any way positive about AAP ever is OK with them.

As for OP, way back many pages ago, if it's a center school, of course you have more AAP classrooms than general ed; kids are coming to the school from several other local elementary schools to fill those AAP classrooms. [b]Sorry if you feel that their presence somehow sullies your "neighborhood school" experience, but I'm not sure why it would. [/b]Our center school had tons of interaction between AAP and general ed students, all the time, in "specials" classes, on the playground, on field trips--the school actively worked to create bonds between all kids in a grade, regardless of AAP or general ed status. If your school doesn't do that -- why not be the one to get it started?[/quote]

OP here.  Let me explain to you why having majority AAP kids at school "sullies" the atmosphere.  Yes, it is a center school.  But first and foremost, it is the neighborhood school for a lot of kids who aren't in AAP (but are no less bright).  Many of the AAP kids have a superiority complex and this manifests itself in places like the playground or cafeteria, where some are telling Gen Ed kids that they're not in the "smart" class, etc.  And before you and others jump in and say this behavior isn't happening, let me just say -- it is.  My child has been told this and other parents of Gen Ed children have said similar things have happened to their kids.  I don't know if it's the parents of AAP kids who are feeding this BS to their children, or if it's the kids themselves who have an over-inflated sense of self.  But it's very dispiriting to be on the receiving end of those comments.  [/quote]

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