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[quote=Anonymous]^I went to that center presentation and yes that was pretty much our takeaway too.

But also the Shrevewood principal did not promise incoming 3rd grade AAP parents that our kids' class would be small because she had no way of knowing if all the kids would end up going  to LemRd or not. And she didn't say there would be AAP kids only except for in Language Arts and Math. And in those two classes she did say there might be other kids who are invited in if they qualified AAP in those subjects.

I have a neighbor whose kid is in the 4th grade class and that is what they did this year too. She said on paper it looks like there are 15 kids in the class but that is just because there are 15 kids who were AAP eligible for all subjects and those kids were put in the AAP teacher's homeroom. But for the different academic subjects, there were anywhere from 5 to 7 more kids that come into the class. So for math there are 5 more kids who join those 15 and for language arts there are 7 other different kids who join the core 15. The posters who are all hot under the collar about the principal cheating the numbers really should calm down because it just isn't true that there is this huge discrepancy. I would understand if there was, but they are working under misinformation or misunderstanding. What she told us is that she would not put kids in the class who did not qualify for level IV services in that subject. So when people say she promised not to put them in a class with non-AAP students, they just meant that she was telling them the program was still an AAP program and any kids who were added in there would be eligible to do the work. Some kids qualify in just one subject and not both math and language arts. We haven't started yet so maybe I misunderstood this, but that was my take away.

Plus one thing we liked about LLIV as we understand it at Shrevewood that another poster mentioned here is that the principal has the grades that have AAP classes mix up all their kids for all the specials to make TEAMS that are different from their homeroom classes. And they go with these TEAMS that are evenly balanced to all their specials. She does a good job promoting community and we believe our son will benefit from a faster pace in certain academic areas but did not want him to always be isolated from his non-AAP class peers. I should note we have another son in general education and this principal is just really great with all students across the spectrum.

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