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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Find out if your LLIV is a self contained room or a “cluster model”.

If it’s cluster, choose the center, no question.
If it’s self contained, either is probably fine. I’d probably choose the local program for social reasons and forgo a bit of academic rigor.

Our LLIV is cluster. We went to the center and have never second guessed the decision.[/quote]

Ours is two LIV classes with about 20% LIV kids and the rest principal placed. DD is in middle school now and the kids from her ES do just as well as the center kids in AA classes.  [/quote]

That's not cluster though.  Cluster is ~5 LIV kids, and then a mix of gen ed, ESOL, and SPED kids.  It is trying to mimic the 2nd grade classroom makeup in 3rd grade.  Our principal was raving about how it would be a mix of english language learners alongside kids reading middle school novels in 3rd grade.  Which sounds good if there are multiple adults in the room to run different levels of instruction and have history projects for both kids who are capable of reading source documents AND kids who need plain english texts, but the reality is its one teacher who now has to differentiate for 5 levels of students instead of 4. It's not sustainable (done well), and will end up teaching to the middle like every other classroom does out of necessity.

A self contained room with only hand picked LIII and LIV kids is totally different.[/quote]

Prediction, the kids reading above grade level will get ignored and be alone the entire year while struggling students will take up 95% of the teacher's time. The only way this is going to change is hiring more teachers.[/quote]

That's how it works now for gen ed. The only difference is that there is more chance the teacher will pay attention to the kids on or above grade level if there are more of them [/quote]

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