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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you know they don't belong? Do the teachers discuss others' grades with you? [/quote]

Ignoring the fact that there are parents on this forum who admit to applying and appealing multiple years to get their kid into AAP who is not advanced and then using tutors to keep their kids in the class, kids discuss test scores and see who is struggling in their class and who is exceling. They know who is finishing their work early and has time to do extra work or their own thing while other kids are working with the Teacher. DS had homework maybe 5 times last year, he had friends who had an hour or so of homework every day. Their homework was any work they didn't complete in class. I know his friends parents where not happy with the amount of work that was coming home and were surprised that DS had none. We see it on the neighborhood message board when parents gripe about homework and are confused that some kids don't have any.

This isn't rocket science. There are kids strong in LA who are in AAP who are not strong in math. They struggle with the pace of math, especially in 5th and 6th grade. There are kids who are strong in math and not LA in AAP and they struggle with some of the LA work. The program would be better served to have Advanced Math and Advanced LA so that the kids who are strong in one or the other can push into the AAP class for that specific subject but stay on the grade level class for the area that they are not in need of. I know that many of the high CoGAT scores/iReady score kids who are not put in AAP are kids with high Quant scores and more average LA scores. You can't do that as easily for a kid with high verbal scores and more grade level math scores because there is no Advanced LA option. 
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NP. At our center school, S/SS and LA and math were integrated in 5th and especially 6th grade.  Dividing into Advanced Math and Advanced LA would be difficult.  Did your school not do that?[/quote]

Every school does things differently. Kids were separated into homeroom based on Advanced Math or Regular Math in 5th grade and then had all classes with that group, a defacto LIV group. They changed classes for all subjects in 6th grade, with the Advanced Math kids all in the same math classes.

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