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[quote=Anonymous]I agree.

Our AAP center mixes the kids all the time for the same things mentioned above.

In fact, the final project for last year (an upper grade) was having groups mixed with AAP and non AAP kids. For the entire month they worked together the majority of every day in a combined history/writing/research project and presentation. My kid's group had a mix of AAP/non AAP kids that was reflective of the ratio of the school's AAP/non AAP population.

The kids really enjoyed the experience.

It sounds like some of the problems with AAP/vs non AAP are issues with the overall school culture, parents and administrators alike, and not necessarily a problem with the AAP program itself

[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. 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?[/[/b]quote]

I agree.

Our AAP center mixes the kids all the time for the same things mentioned above.

In fact, the final project for last year (an upper grade) was having groups mixed with AAP and non AAP kids.  For the entire month they worked together the majority of every day in a combined history/writing/research project and presentation.  My kid's group had a mix of AAP/non AAP kids that was reflective of the ratio of the school's AAP/non AAP population.

The kids really enjoyed the experience.

It sounds like some of the problems with AAP/vs non AAP are issues with the overall school culture, parents and administrators alike, and not necessarily a problem with the AAP program itself.[/quote][/quote]

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