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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not an AAP magnet school?  Then there would be no centers in neighborhood schools and no LLIV.  The AAP madness could be confined to one or two all AAP schools.[/quote]

Interesting concept - "TJ" for elementary and middle school for the truly gifted, everyone else back in their neighborhood school.

Makes too much sense to work.[/quote]

+100  Especially if the magnet schools were limited to the "truly gifted" only.  [/quote]

+1000. Best Ideas I've heard about AAP. Clean and Simple. AAP Magnet Schools only with Level IV (aka Center placed) students. Cheaper to transport (Hubs like airports), no Principal favoritism stuff.[/quote]

Except that Level IV center students aren't the "truly gifted".  So there's that.[/quote]

hmm. so you get Level V, Level VI, Level MCLXXX.... who are the really truly gifted? [b]Center Placed are enough[/b]. Unless you want to brain scan the kids to see if there is a way to find more truly gifted.[/quote]

I disagree.  It's been noted time and time again that the center placed students are often kids who didn't even meet the minimum test cutoff for in-pool, but instead were parent-referred or appealed.  In what world are these kids "truly gifted"?  There should be one basic minimum criteria for acceptance, period.  And it needs to be a lot higher than it currently is to identify kids who are actually highly gifted and - here's the most important part - actually "in need" of a different educational program.  That pool, if it is ever to exist, will be far smaller than the current AAP masses.[/quote]

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