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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think some of the parents who push, push, push to get their child into an AAP level 4 center program should compare the size of those classes with the size of the classes of the school they are leaving.  With the huge expansion this year of the numbers of students who qualified for level 4, those classes will be packed.  In the meantime, is there still a quality program back at the base school?  Or is,the need for status worth the 30+ students in one room?[/quote]

Many schools have Local Level IV options at the base school that will work for moderately gifted kids. But for kids that are highly or exceptionally gifted, or for kids with a small number of Center-eligible kids in the base school's Local Level IV classroom, the Center is a better fit.[/quote]

Yes, I know. I really wished ALL schools had a Level IV option but from what I have heard, even the schools that do have the option, many (the majority?) of parents still choose to send their children to the center based program.  Do we really have that many "highly or exceptionally gifted" students that cannot be served at their base school's level IV, or is it due to the "status" of having a child in the center?  Personally, I feel it is the latter. [b] This year has opened the flood gates to level IV eligible kids due,to the new CogAT and lack of changing the cut off.[/b]  Something is going to have to give.  But then again, maybe I forget, is this really Lake Wobegone and our children are really all above average?  Sorry for that.  I really do like hearing from the parents here who are pleased with their Title I school experiences.  Those schools have so many more resources for ALL students and lower numbers in th classrooms.[/quote]

Please share these statistics about the opening "of the flood gates to level IV eligible kids due to the new CogAT and lack of changing the cut off."

The only information I have heard about was[u] the change in using the CogAT composite score as the benchmark for establishment of the 2nd grade pool[/u]. As you know, the 2nd grade pool is not the same thing as Level IV eligibility.

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