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[quote=Anonymous]As others have noted, it may vary by school, and by LLIV vs. a Center. Everyone's right in that yes, there's loads of Gen-ed kids that do just fine in Honors/AP come middle and high school.

So, what would be the point?

If you're worried that your kid might get disengaged from school because it's too easy, AAP might be something to help keep them a little more interested in school, or might force them to work harder/build up resilience if it's a little harder/faster than your local gen ed, until they get to middle school when honors becomes an option. (Also, in MS, an AAP center will definitely offer honors in all 4 core subjects. I'm not sure if the other middle schools all have that or not - they def didn't when I went through FCPS.)

Also, I feel like it helps all the teachers - our LLIV has stated they'll do the "cluster model" where they put 2-3ish LIV kids in each class - basically no different from the lower grades, where the problem is the teacher is trying to teach the kids 3 grade levels above all the way through 2 grade levels below. There's only so much a teacher can do with that to meet all kids needs. Pulling the LIV kids out to the center gives them an opportunity to have a class where everyone is closer together in terms of ability, and gives the rest of us classes where similarly, everyone is closer together in terms of ability and thus gets more appropriate instruction from the teacher. [/quote]

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