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I think you misunderstood my comment.  The point is that a tiny minority of highly gifted kids shouldn't require massive amounts of kids to be placed in AAP and the resulting centers.  How is that fair to General Ed. students?  If gifted kids are the exception to the rule, the schools should reflect that ratio.  I don't think the current system is ideal by any means.  At our center school, my child is in one of only TWO General Ed classes for his grade.  In the meantime, there are FOUR AAP classes; the other grades have similar ratios.  So this means my child is with the same handful of kids throughout elementary school.  Why is this somehow ok with you and other AAP parents?  As long as your child has plenty of different classmates each year, then I guess the system is working just fine.    :roll:  [/quote]

My DS was in a LLIV a Center with one AAP class, and I loved that he stayed with the same group of kids every year.  It gave him stability, and took a lot of the hit or miss out of the class assignment process. Then again, I never thought of him as being "stuck" with the same 25 kids for 4 years-- he was in a CLASS of 125 kids (25 AAP & 100 GE) and did band and lunch and recess and extracurriculars and play dates with the other 124 kids in his class.  So yes, he had plenty of classmates, even though his core subjects were with the same kids every year.  But then again, in our house won't do Us and Them. We realize that everyone has talents and everyone has challenges.  So you are gracious about being good in math and music and do the best you can with being terrible at sports and having ADHD. [b]But maybe it's okay in your house to act like AAP kids are not really part of your DC's class.  Sad[/b].[/quote]

Regarding the bolded, you've got that backwards.  Also, I'm glad your child enjoyed being in the same homeroom class of 25 kids for 4 years.  My DC doesn't enjoy that at all.  He would much prefer to have some different faces every year, and make new friendships.  Having two Gen Ed classes, year after year, isn't his idea of optimal, nor should it have to be.[/quote]

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