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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's the beginning of the end of centers.  There are several board members who don't like them.  I could see them saying LLIV is the same and costs less.  [/quote]

It the same thing and does cost less.  It's a sensible solution that's been a long time coming.[/quote]

In some schools where there is critical mass, it is similar. [b]In other schools where is not critical mass, it is not.[/b] [/quote]

It used to be that this was true. Nowadays the AAP program has been expanded so much that the only difference between kids in that 85-95th %ile range who are in the program and those who aren't is that the former prepped better, appealed more and got expensive outside testing done. If you want to expand the program that much, fine, but you could just pull in those same kids from inside the school itself without resorting to expensive bussing and without overcrowding the center schools.[/quote]

This may be true in your part of the county. In other parts of the county, there are Local Level IV programs in schools where less than 15 total students, across all grades, have been found Center eligible. There is not critical mass for these students. [/quote]

Then that means there is something fundamentally wrong and biased with the selection process, in that in some schools it selects the top fraction of a percent vs. something like up to a quarter or more of the kids at other schools (that's what you would need for it to average out to 15% of kids in AAP across the system). There may be disparities in intelligence and ability based on SES, but they're not that large. And day to day experience with AAP kids at one of the larger centers suggests that most of them aren't amazingly bright (above average, sure, but nothing to write home about). Which means that you could pull in a lot of kids from GenEd in those schools with few identified Level 4 kids to achieve that vaunted critical mass. The fact that GMU or somebody else rubber stamped it with a seal of approval doesn't change the reality of those kids' abilities.[/quote]

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