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[quote=Anonymous]Decisions about school placement are parental decisions... not appropriate for 8 yr olds to be making.  They can weigh in, but IMO, it has very little weight.  The job of the parent (for young kids) is to make these decisions based on factors that an 8 yr old cannot be expected to assess.

We actually weren't planning to send my very scattered, young-for-grade kid to the AAP center if he got in.  (We do not have local level 4 at our base school).   Kid was accepted.

Just out of an abundance of caution (and a bit of curiosity), we decided to go to the May orientation session for kids who were accepted.  We listened and did a complete 180 degree mind-change.  We left that thinking "I want some of THAT for my kid!"  We sent the kid in Sept. thinking we would give it until the middle of the year and if it didn't work out, we could always pull him out and put him in our neighborhood school.  Kid did NOT want to go to the center.  He wanted to stay with what he knew.  I can't blame him.  It is developmentally normal to resist transitions!  He begged to go back to his old school for months.... and then by Thanksgiving... it kind of faded away.  And by February he was excited to have made a few friends and be part of the "Fabulous five" boys group (just a groups of boys that he hooked up with as playground friends).  Never heard a word again about him wanting to go back to his old school.

The point is:  (1) wait until your kid is admitted, (2) find out what the options are by going to the meet-n-greet events, (3) make a decision based on what you, the parents, think is in the kid's best interest (do not put this decision on your 8 yr old), (4) whatever you choose, recognize that you have the good fortune to be able to change it if it doesn't work out after 6 mos.
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