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[quote=Anonymous]wolftrap. With Local AAP, you get to stay with your friends and your community. Centers are a necessary evil, for when needed services are not available at your local school. But a 3rd grader has no business being bussed around with kids outside their neighborhood. That's why the elementary schools are local. So if you're lucky enough to live in a place that has an excellent school, and when that school has a great LIV program, it baffles my mind that you would consider droppping out and having your kid bussed to a "center".

That school turns a large number of AAP ready kids, the community is extremely involved, they have all sorts of grants from business partnerships and a community of really smart kids and their family. Yes, they are tinkering with the program a bit -- at some point, when most kids work at advanced levels, you'll have to be creative about teaching.  I would not hesitate on this one.

In contrast, Louise Archer is over crowded and something has got to give there.

Full disclosure -- not a Wolftrap parent, nor a LA one. But I toured those schools, and we have neighbors in both. They are both great schools -- but local for this age group should really always trump a center -- especially when local is such a great school![/quote]

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