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[quote=Anonymous]Why? Because there is no Advanced Language Art equivalent and parents who have kids that are strong in Language Arts don't think that Level III pull outs are enough. Those parents might choose to parent refer, even though their kid is on grade level in math.

Or there is a kid who is in-pool based on test scores and is not big into math. They are doing well in Gen Ed math, maybe they are a bit ahead, and end up accepted into AAP. Still, math is not their thing and they are not interested enough to keep on top of the accelerated math.

DS is in Advanced Math. We received no less than 4 emails from school about Advanced Math this year. The first was that they would be evaluating kids for inclusion in Advanced Math and that parents should be aware that the class would move far more quickly and that there would be homework. Kids needed to be focused and prepared to do extra work in order to do well in the class. If you are interested in Advanced Math, please make sure the school knows. The other three emails stressed the speed, extra work, and kids being focused when they sent home that DS had been selected, the letter that we had to sign approving his inclusion. And a reminder that Advanced Math would be starting.

I do not remember receiving any such information about AAP when DS was accepted last year. We received the letter and were given two weeks to make a decision. It was a weird year because of COVID so there were no open houses and no one talked about what to expect if your child joined AAP. We did email his Teachers and ask for their pros and cons because they knew DS as a student better then we did and we valued their opinion. But no one from the Center school or even our own AART explained what AAP really entailed and how it was different.

There are kids who return to the base school from the Center. Sometimes it is because it was not a good fit socially and the kid was miserable. Sometimes because the school work proved to be too much and hte parents decided that the struggles were not worth it, the kid is better off at the base school.

So yeah, kids in AAP struggle with Math. Some struggle with LA. It is why they don't accept kids based solely on their test scores. A efw strong tests does not automatically equate to a kid needing to be in an advanced classroom.

I could see a parent of a kid who was strong in LA and Social Studies but doing fine in math not understanding what the faster paced math looked like. And I can see those kids struggling with the pace of the math in AAP.  [/quote]

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