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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is the cluster model going after a quarter into the year? [/quote]

It's going great! Our school is teaching the AAP curriculum to all children and then sending them to different classrooms if they are advanced math.[/quote]

I think our school does this? My kid's teacher said that in 3rd they only do pull-outs for advanced math. She thinks he should do advanced math next year, so I'm thinking we just pursue the Level III approach and not bother with a Level IV application. I think advanced Language Arts might be a bit of a stretch for him.  Level III is decided within the school, right?  This is so confusing and the AAP meeting at the school wasn't super helpful. [/quote]

Kids who are not committee placed into LIV can be added to LIII if their base school decides they need that service, same for Advanced Math. Each school will have it's own criteria for placing a child in LIII and Advanced Math.

Level III and Advanced Math is guaranteed to any child who is determined eligible for LIV by the committee who defers Center placement. we deferred for DS because he is in a LI program and we value that program. He has received LIII pull outs and Advanced Math since third grade started. His school creates an Advanced Math class in 5th grade because the kids are skipping a full year of math. That class seems to have become the defacto LLIV class because many of the kids in the Advanced Math class are also in LIII. Our school started LLIV when DS was in in 4th grade so it was not an option for him. The school is using the cluster model any way so it is not a huge deal.

We have friends whose kids were found eligible for LIV by the committee where the parents choose the LIII pull out and passed on the Advanced Math because their child was not not comfortable with accelerated math. [b]DS has friends who were in LIII pullouts that are no longer in LIII pullouts. The parents told us that they did not like their child missing an hour of class and having to make up that work. The kid was not able to make it up at school and needed to bring work home. [/b][/quote]

I might be confused here, but why would a child doing advanced math need to make up work for math that school and teacher both know is below their ability? That sounds punitive.[/quote]

LIII is a pullout. Kids who miss class for the LIII program have to complete the work that they missed. Some kids needed to take that home to complete it. [/quote]

Why is this? They obviously know the material already, so why force them to increase their workload with busywork? It's not like we expect regular 3rd graders to "make up" 2nd grade worksheets at home. [/quote]

They don't "know" the material because they've never been taught it. Kids in advanced math frequently skip past many fundamentals, which comes back to haunt them as the math gets harder. [/quote]

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