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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AAP more aptly should be called Advanced Academic Parents. Academically oriented parents would give their children many enrichment activities outside of classroom from a very early age. Thus the kids end up with earlier reading and earlier math skills than their peers. General Ed would mean they are covering material that they have already covered.

Dont know the right solution. Maybe grade skipping is more popular and an easier option, there might be less incentive to go AAP route for these parents.[/quote]

:roll: Really?  So are parents supposed to stop reading or playing games with their kids to make sure their kids aren't too far ahead?

The best solution would be to structure a LLIV program the way some schools already are doing.  AAP kids + gen ed kids who are advanced in math take advanced math together.  AAP kids + gen ed kids who are advanced at language arts take advanced language arts together.  For science, social studies, homeroom, and all specials the classrooms would be mixed ability with a cluster of advanced kids receiving extensions.  That way, there isn't such a stark AAP vs. not AAP divide, and talented gen ed kids can be flexibly grouped in with the AAP kids for subjects of strength.  [/quote]

“Extensions” won’t happen. Come on now.  [/quote]

+1 and don’t forget about all the special Ed kids who will slow the class down. [/quote]

I was one of the special ed kids who slowed the class down. I earned my Doctorate at 30 partially because I was in a mainstream classroom and expected to meet those standards. There is a fine line you walk between writing kids off and putting them in remedial classes and excepting that things might move at a slower pace for some kids. I took Algebra in 9th, Algebra 2 in 10th and Geometry in 11th. I did not take math in 12th. I taught myself Calculus and Matrix Algebra in Grad school, enough to go on and teach Statistics and Game Theory.

There are other kids like me out there and there are kids who were not given that oppertunity who could have been like me.

My son is very bright and does not have my learning issues. I want AAP and similar programs for kids like him because he legit needs that challenge to stay interested in school. But I am not going to write off the kids who are struggling because many of them can do better then what many people think. I don’t think that kids who are disruptive, throwing things and fighting in class and taking all the Teachers attention should be in a mainstream classroom but I don’t think that you exclude kids who are struggling and have been identified as Special Ed because they hold the class back. We should be able to devise a system that meets many kids needs and not throw away the kids who are struggling in order to promote the kids who are bored. [/quote]

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