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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]just combine honors and AAP in middle school - its pointless to have three track, two of which are supposed to teach the same content [/quote]
This x 1000[/quote]At Longfellow there is no difference except the kids are still "separated" in classes AAP Honors and just Honors for LA, Science and History/civics.  ALL classes are taught as Honors. Same projects, same tests, same papers. Occasionally AAP has a due date that is before Honors but for the most part everything is taught the same.[/quote]

Not our family's experience at all at Longfellow. Child in AAP had much more homework and read comparatively more challenging books in English class. Both kids at same level of Math, though.[/quote]

Our 8th grade local level AAP English classes no longer read full length novels. They are doing readers & writers workshops. I'm not sure what this is, but from what I've read, the objective is simply to get the kids to read anything. Why would a higher level class be doing this? This was done at the school level - a low ranked school by the way.
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Aap is very focused on math when selection is made. Reading ability is something that is pretty much up to the kid by 8th grade- kids will either be reading on their own and getting better at it or not. Most aap kids are not going to voluntarily sign up for a gen ed class. The end result is a gen ed English class labeled level iv[/quote]

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