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It is not a caste system. It is a system that meets the needs of kids where they are and with what they require.

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unless the kid is gen ed relatively smart and hard working, but not gifted. Those kids get no extra resources because they're succeeding (so no interventions) and they don't test into aap (so no need for more pull outs or centers). They get can get straight 4s, but nothing is quite as meaningless as an elementary school report card and sit in class bored as hell [/quote]

It kind of is a caste system, because the bottom half of the kids in AAP are completely indistinguishable from the top 2-3 kids per classroom left in gen ed, who either got rejected or had parents who didn't understand that they should parent refer.  It's absurd to say that Larla, who is moderately advanced and has test scores in the low 120s but got into AAP needs a completely different educational environment than Carla, who also is moderately advanced and had test scores in the low 120s, but didn't get in.

I wish they had firmer cutoffs.  It's much easier to accept that if the cutoff is 130 and your kid got 129, then your kid missed the cutoff.  It's much more complicated when your kid has the same or better stats than kids who got in, and you have no idea why your kid wasn't picked.  I really feel for the kids with the 140+ WISC scores, because they flat out need AAP more than 99% of the kids who got in.  [/quote]

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