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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still think it comes down to some schools have critical mass and some don't.  If you can fill a classroom with center-eligible children year after year, then there is zero reason for a center option to be offered - place a LLIV teacher for each grade level in that school and leave the centers for the kids at schools without that many center eligible students.[/quote]

So here's a question.  If all the Forestville center eligible AAP kids stay at base school, and there is enough kids for a Level IV class, then they are all together in one class?  So then I guess there is a "smart" class and a "dumb" class?  Just curious.  I don't know much about this.  My child has a high IQ but low processing speed due to ADHD and didn't qualify for AAP.  Instead, she does pull outs in the resource room for math.  She tests at grade level on math, but has trouble with a big classroom.  I worry about her being considered one of the "dumb" kids when she certainly isn't.   I'm not disaparaging dumb or smart.  I just want to be ready to help her navigate peer relations.  She was very worried about starting on pull outs and practically begged me not to pursue them even though it was at the recommendation of the teacher.  Once the pull outs were implemented for a week or two, then she was happy with it, but I know she worries about the social aspects.  [/quote]

As another poster said, you've just described - [b]exactly[/b] - the dynamic at center schools.  There are the AAP classes and there are the Gen Ed classes.  Even though most of the Gen Ed kids and most of the AAP kids are indistinguishable, the fact that the classes are so clearly segregated makes the kids (and some parents) assume that there are "smart" and "dumb" classes.  It's outrageous how FCPS sees fit to make such blatant groupings, when many (most?) of these kids have overlapping abilities.  Some are advanced in some subjects, and others in different subjects.  It's the very rare child who is consistently advanced across the board, yet dividing the kids up like this makes all the kids assume that one group is superior to the other.  And that is definitely NOT the case.

Center schools are a horrible experience for the very bright, Gen Ed child.    [/quote]

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