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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]it would do my aap kids no good to force them to sit in a classroom, bored, while the teacher paced the lessons for the average kid. [/quote]
No one is advocating getting rid of differentiation.  If, hypothetically, a base school qualifies 20 kids for the center, some of us are having trouble seeing why their needs can't be met at the base school, with the top 20 kids in math being grouped together for advanced math class, and the top 20 kids in language arts being grouped together for the language arts block.  There's no reason AAP and gen ed kids need to be separated for homeroom, lunch, recess, or specials.  At each school, there might be a couple kids who are truly outliers and would be poorly served by this model.  But those same kids are already poorly served by AAP.  [/quote]

Our local elementary school is currently doing this and it isn’t working. They are actively looking for a solution. History : they had self contained aap classrooms for years, and changed to a model that integrates the aap kids with gen ed for science and history (supposedly aap curriculum for those areas), and pullouts for laungage arts and math.  Here’s the problem. The kids are wasting time switching classes over and over. Kids are being shuffled to and from teacher to teacher, and are not able to form solid relationships with any of the teachers. Kids get lost in the shuffle.

The supposed ‘AAP’ science and history instruction that all student are receiving is virtually indistinguishable from the regular instruction the gen ed kids were recievinf before this change was made. Teachers are teaching to the average student in those areas, and the aap kids are bored and disengaging. The level 4 services the kids are supposed to be recievinf is basically level 3 services. The motivation for this change was to better serve the gen ed student, and to give them access to the resources the level 4 students receive. It’s done nothing but devalue the instruction the level 4 students receive. So we are benefitting the gen ed kids at the expense of the AAP kids.

It’s probably obvious that I send my AAP kid to the center. [/quote]

So since you send your kids to a center, you don't actually have experience of this model. I agree this model does not work that well in all schools, however as long as the classes are near to each other, switching takes very little time and actually is good for children to have a break from one subject to the next. This is how things are done in middle as well. Not convinced switching is a problem. My kids are in this type of program and switching is not a concern other than the fact that the child has more than one teacher, but as kids age that could happen anyway.[/quote]

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