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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Base school level IV is not the same quality as a center school [/quote]

Please stop saying this. It is the same curriculum. Some centers don’t have certified AAP teachers and some base schools do. Some base schools out perform the center schools. Ask me how I know - I am a teacher at a LL4 that was shocked at some data I saw with VGA regarding centers vs base schools.  It all comes down to the teacher. [/quote]
This.  I'll also acknowledge that my child had some shockingly terrible teachers at the AAP center.  Some teachers choose to get AAP certified because they expect the AAP classes to be easy and not because they're particularly interested in helping very advanced kids maximize their potential.  [/quote]

And by having these crappy teachers the AAP students have to teach themselves and finally get the academic challenges they need?[/quote]
Honestly, in my experience, some schools, teacher, and principals don't care about giving academic challenges to advanced kids.  The only thing they care about is maximizing their SOL pass rates.  In this type of school, the kids who enter the grade already at a level where they'll pass the SOLs aren't a priority.  [/quote]

Which is precisely why centers have value.  [/quote]
LOL.  This happened at the center in the AAP class.  The AAP teachers were pretty weak and ineffective.  They also focused on the handful of kids who didn't belong in AAP and might fail the SOL over the kids who needed extensions.  Math was especially bad, since several kids were admitted centrally to AAP who were great in language arts and nowhere near the level that they needed to be to handle AAP math.  The entire class had to slow down for them.  I don't think any extensions at all were used.  Instead, AAP 5th and 6th grade math were simply gen ed math taught at gen ed pacing, but given a year early.  [/quote]

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