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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Herndon isn't asking for an AAP center at Cooper. Longfellow is just after spending more than $20 million on a renovation BASED on their AAP capacity. MS AAP requires science that involves actual laboratory work. Apparently GE doesn't. I think that sucks and was surprised to hear it. In any event, Cooper has no science lab facilities so those need to be built there before they can claim to have AAP facilities. Also the AAP build out -- including another mod-- will cost a cool several million or more. But there's no budget allocated because that was just ignored in the "plan". Not my fight. My DD who could be affected is already in private (thankfully) and will stay there, and my DS is already through Longfellow to TJ. But don't kid yourselves--- Cooper is a very entrenched GE school. That's probably still better than the education in many parts of the US. But it's not a Longfellow or Kilmer (and in my opinion won't be under Arlene Randall's watch). If you want true AAP, in the mold of something that feeds to TJ, I don't believe it will happen at Cooper, certainly not by September. Now, if I were in the Longfellow indigenous district, I would probably be happy and think that would increase the odds of my kid getting into TJ -- probably true. Longfellow not actually crowded yet, it's all hypothetical. But Cooper already has a mod and will need another if this happens. Plus massive buildout. ... 
Hmmm.  This I personally believe is driven by a master plan to overcrowd Cooper to get a major $30 million redo there in 5 years. Good last swan song for Janie, she is getting long in the tooth. [/quote]

I believe Cooper has Honors level science now, correct?  The Honors curriculum is the same as the AAP curriculum, just with non tagged GT students.  AAP, Honors and GE use the same facilities at Longfellow.  There are no "special" facilities for AAP science students.  The difference between GE and the AAP/Honors curriculum is that the AAP/Honors currilum includes additional extentions.  I know that some parents with children in AAP like to think it is the [i]quality[/i] of the students the AAP program that makes it better than the Honors program, but IME with both at Longfellow, there really isn't a difference with the bulk of the students.  The biggest difference is in the attitude of the parents.[/quote]

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