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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Copying over what I pasted on your other thread, contact the school, they've talked to a ton of parents about this already and will schedule a time to speak with you. AAP kids have nothing to worry about, people with average to below average kids are the ones that should be worried that their kids are going to be lumped into a "below average/ESOL speakers" class together.

There is going to be another info session in May. The principal, AP, and AART are all available for anyone who has any questions. Everyone seems really excited about it - for the same reason as you stated. In addition, I don't know about other grades, but the third grade LLIV class is very small and it's really unfair to the other students to have to have extra large classes while that one is so small.[/quote]

My question is why can't they do what they've always done and add kids to that ONE class?  Why do they have to make two advanced classes?  Or will Level III students be dispersed in all four classes?  If that's the case, then I think the Level III parents have something to sweat. [/quote]

I would guess that the LLIV class is small that they will try this model. I have no clue how big Shreveport is.

Our school has 8-9 kids selected for LIV services, that is about 10% of the second graders. If half of those kids go to the Center and the other half stay in LLIV you have a class of 4 or 5 kids, so you need to pull another 11-12 kids to get to the minimum size class of 16. We have 4 classes. If all of the kids stay for LLIV, then you need to pull 6-7 kids for LLIV. And then you have the same classmates for 4 years.

Centers tend to have multiple LIV classes so the kids can be mixed up, although not all Centers have this.

And it makes parents of Gen Ed kids happy because now everyone gets LIV content and their kids are no longer excluded!

Except that it is likely to end up that the LLIV kids are not going to get much of the Teachers time and no one is going to get LIV content because the kids who are below grade level cannot access it and they are the one that the Teachers spend most of their time with.  [/quote]

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