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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are is a high SeS school and left for the center also in a high ses area. The center school has smaller classes with only full time kids. The local school had very few children that are full time and places other kids in there to fill the class. The truly full time kids never get the advancement and attention they need [/quote]

"The center school has smaller classes with only full time kids."

Yes - this will be true for Grade 3 - you'll however notice in higher grades that as more kids get admitted, your classes will be larger than average in 5th and 6th grades.  Particularly for math with push-ins.

The local school had very few children that are full time and places other kids in there to fill the class. The truly full time kids never get the advancement and attention they need.

This is true for BOTH a local school as well as a center classroom. While FFX county satisfies its gifted program requirements through this mechanism, the advertisement of "advanced" is pretty misleading, as you'll find in numerous posts here. Like any classroom, the teacher has much more influence over the learning than the classroom or curriculum itself, and you can have a good or bad teacher in both general as well as AAP. I'd also state that if its a true LLIV class, with principal placed students, the difference between the ones who were selected for AAP, and those who were not is pretty non-existent. The only real benefit is that it weeds out the lower half, which generally includes the majority of trouble-makers.

If you're seeking an "appropriate" education for your child - you may want to seek private school options.

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