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[quote=Anonymous]To the original question:

I have no idea what my child scored on any of the alphabet soup of tests that are constantly referenced on DCUM. My child entered AAP six years ago. Did AAP through ES and MS. At the time she entered, we weren't told until after the fact that she had had some tests and was qualified for AAP if we chose to send her to a center school, or she could get "pull-out" AAP once a week - yes, once a week for about an hour, for all that's worth, which is nothing-- at the base. No parents yakked about scores or tests or details like people do on here. I don't even know whether the tests always cited on here were even done at that time. It never came up. An AART just said, your child qualifies and here are your options.

No-brainer. Sent her to the center. Her first and second grade teachers at the base school both strongly advised that we send her to the center (and did the same with other families who had kids who qualified). Our base school had and still has a large proportion of students who need a lot of remedial help in academics and the teachers said that kids who did qualify for centers should go if the family could work it out. The centers were excellent and the teachers smart and engaged -- I can think of maybe three teachers over six years of AAP who were less than enthusiastic or good. The base school teachers were great too-- and they said quite frankly at that time that while they wanted to work with advanced students, they would not be able to provide the challenges or the curriculum to keep those kids engaged because the teachers had to focus on helping the kids who were in academic trouble. [/quote]

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