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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard the AAP program used to be offered at separate elementary schools starting in second grade. But now it's a few separate classes in every single elementary school? Which classes? When did the change happen? What was your experience of the program? [/quote]

If your child qualifies for level IV AAP, or “full time” AAP, they have the choice of attending their center school (which often is a different elem school), or they can stay at their base school and join the local level IV class. Not all schools have a local level IV class, but more and more are creating one to retain their kids because they don’t want to lose their higher performing kids to other schools for SOL purposes. So, on paper the two classes are supposed to be similar and follow the same curriculum, but in practice they often do not. They usually don’t have enough kids to qualify for level IV at the base school to make an entire class, so they fill it with other higher performing kids. These are known as the “principal placed kids” and they did not qualify by central committee. Some of those kids won’t be able to keep up and some parents will push their way in or use their favor with the principal to get principal placed. It seems unfair to me.[/quote]

This happens at the center school as well, especially for advanced math.

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There's definitely principal placing at the centers (if needed) and Dr. Reid is pushing schools to allow more kids into advanced math who aren't level IV eligible. I don't think - contrary to PP's worries - that this pulled down my AAP kids' class experience at all. If anything it was kids who were full-time/level IV eligible that needed the most help, not the hard-working kids whose teachers and test scores identified them as ready for more advanced content. Maybe our school is just good at properly identifying kids since we are a center where lots of teachers have advanced academic teaching credentials? But I think most schools are probably pretty good at this (and the "use their favor" fears are always overblown on DCUM).[/quote]

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