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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many parents of students at base schools do not realize that removing that gifted level of learner, lends for many opportunities for the next level of learner. The sense of being at the top of the class, moving up to leadership roles in the classroom and school. This builds confidence. Many if not most of the AAP kids are competitive by nature, academically ahead and quick learners, they also made up the majority if not the entire highest level reading/math groups etc. opportunities will be lost for base kids... [/quote]

You've just illustrated the entire issue around Gen Ed kids who attend center schools.  What happens to the "base kids" who attend centers?  Imagine what it's like for them to be thrust into an environment where AAP kids "rule the roost," so to speak - mainly because of sheer numbers.  How is it that the Gen Ed child is supposed to excel in a school like this?  [/quote]

Check out the Sangster model.

Plenty of exceptional gen ed kids who are school leaders, academic leaders and all around great kids. Lots of mingling between students, in specials and activities.  For example, the 6th graders go on a class leadership type field trip and all the kids are blended in smaller groups with mixes of all classes.  The classes all display the same projects in the halls. The staff works very hard, especially at the administrative level, to make the kids all "Sangster" kids, not "us" and "them" groupings. Do they fail sometimes or are somenkids on both ends occasionally mean to one another? Of course.  But the school doesit as well as any school could. Exceptional parents, base families, AAP families and overall wonderful kids...in both programs.

It says a lot about the community as a whole and the graciousness of the families assigned to Sangster when you see how all the kids shine at that school.

Knowing how many stars and class leaders come from the gen ed kids at Sangster, I find your post so rude and insulting to all base kids.

Your experience sounds miserable, but I have to wonder how much of that is colored by an attitude that is trying to find fault at every turn.

But your experience is not universal, so please quit acting as if it is. At least be reasonable enough to state that your experience is unique to your school and that it might not reflect all center schools.[/quote]

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