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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach AAP and there are several Level 4 students I have that I question how they got in. So even at the center, there are kids who somehow got in with less than scores and struggle academically. [/quote]

Curious to hear more about what you think about why/how they got in. Inflated test scores? Something else? [/quote]

Honestly, no one truly knows. It truly is a gamble. But the reality is that center schools are filled with kids who struggle and randomly got in and some Level 3 kids have better scores. [/quote]

Our base school is a center and the teacher basically told me this as well. I was asking about class composition out of curiosity because I found the way they assigned the two classes to be bizarre when looking at the class rosters. My child's class is all kids from the base school and half are principal placed kids. She said she can't really tell the difference between the level 3 and level 4 kids. The level 3 kids are all high performers, just maybe the parents didn't know or think to parent refer. The other AAP class has kids mainly coming from the other schools and she said the range of ability in that class was much more varied and a bigger challenge for that (more experienced) teacher to deal with. She is a younger teacher so maybe she wasn't supposed to go into such detail but she was clearly happy to have her cohort of kids with less variation... I imagine it's much easier for her... [/quote]

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