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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course AAP centers vary from school to school. It's just like how the quality of gen. ed varies from school to school. Each principal does things a bit differently. Some principals aren't very good at hiring quality teachers or retaining them. Different principals have different focus, and some don't see the point to offering extra learning experiences or activities. These are also the principals who ride the teachers hard about focusing on SOL practice.

Our center is pretty mediocre. The parents are on the low-key side, for AAP center parents.

I hate to break it to you, PP, but your issue with gen. ed versus center is more about parents being asses. In school, kids have always known who is the smarter and who is the slower. Whether they're tracked, separated, together in one lump, kids know. Just as you know who's the fastest runner in your class and who can't walk and chew gum. And how children act and talk about those differences depends on what kind of asses their parents are, and how the adults in the school model behavior.[/quote]

PP here and I agree with you about the parents being asses and passing that along to their children.  However, [b]the mere fact that in centers[/b], certain classrooms are labled "AAP" and others "Gen Ed" certainly doesn't help matters.  It's one thing to have flexible ability groupings, yet a mixed homeroom.  But when the homerooms are that black and white, it just enforces the separation and becomes very "in-your-face".[/quote]

The "labeling" you refer to was the impetus for changing the name from GT to Advanced Academics, in that the service is named ("labeled") and not the child.

There are some children that require different services. My child has a peanut allergy and must sit at the nut-free table in the cafeteria. Is there a better way to designate that he must be away from peanuts?

Also -- not every center does things the same way. Evidently you have first-hand experience at more than one Center school. I suggest you reach out to the principals at those Center schools and provide suggestions for how to better designate the equivalent of my son who must be away from peanuts.[/quote]

:shock:   Now that's a strawman if ever there was one.  You're actually comparing a child with a peanut allergy - who has to sit at a separate table to prevent contact with peanuts so s/he won't have an adverse reaction - to separating kids into Gen Ed and AAP classrooms?  Last time I checked, none of the AAP kids had gone into anaphylactic shock from exposure to Gen Ed students and vice-versa.  How bizarre.

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