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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It will all shake out in high school. If your kid is truly gifted, AAP in the lower grades won’t matter.[/quote]

This is a strawman argument. We are talking about kids who are academically advanced for their level - most likely as a result of parents who invested lots of time and resources on them from an early age. Some of them might also be gifted. For many of these kids, general ed is a bad fit. AAP is a better fit.[/quote]

Not really... If they simply did groupings at the base school, none of this would be necessary and the county could direct more funds to education than this bizarre system to segregate rich from poor.[/quote]

You would have segregation, it would be in the form of classrooms and not schools. The kids who go to the Center from Title 1 schools would be in different classes then the kids who would have stayed at the base school. ie The kids who are higher SES and end up qualifying for AAP in Title 1 schools would be different classes. Is it better that the segregation happen at the school vs different buildings?[/quote]

Sure, how many clusters have zero title 1 schools? Most of the schools that parents target have almost no farms students let alone enough to make a school title 1 [/quote]

The schools were you see segregation are the Title 1 schools. Those are the schools were parents are desperate to get their kids into AAP so that they can move away from the school to a different school with a different peer group.

The high income and more middle income schools the AAP push is much more about getting into position for TJ.

Both are generalizations but I suspect reasonably accurate ones. The LLIV that parents choose to keep their kids at tend to be more the middle class/upper class ES because the overall school population is more likely to be on grade level and so parents are happy with the base school. They are more likely to stay at the base because it is convenient. The parents interested in TJ are more likely to send their kids to the Center.

I have friends who bought in the Title 1 areas because the houses are less expensive and then fight tooth and nail to get their kids into AAP so they could be moved to a different school. I have friends looking to get their kid into AAP so they can go to Carson and not Herndon MS, they are fine with the ES but they want to avoid Herndon MS as much as possible. I doubt that they are the outliers. [/quote]

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