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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's the beginning of the end of centers.  There are several board members who don't like them.  I could see them saying LLIV is the same and costs less.  [/quote]

It the same thing and does cost less.  It's a sensible solution that's been a long time coming.[/quote]

In some schools where there is critical mass, it is similar. [b]In other schools where is not critical mass, it is not.[/b] [/quote]

It used to be that this was true. Nowadays the AAP program has been expanded so much that the only difference between kids in that 85-95th %ile range who are in the program and those who aren't is that the former prepped better, appealed more and got expensive outside testing done. If you want to expand the program that much, fine, but you could just pull in those same kids from inside the school itself without resorting to expensive bussing and without overcrowding the center schools.[/quote]

Size of base school plays a role--our school is very small and often has only 2 classes per grade:   LLIV would turn into a "smart class" and a "dumb class" in each grade, not a good thing, IMO.  [/quote]

Well this is exactly how center schools play out.  My DC goes to one of the larger centers and while there are far more AAP classes (in fact, they outnumber the Gen Ed classes), there is the underlying - and false - assumption that the AAP classes are "smart" and Gen Ed "dumb".  In fact, center schools only magnify this insanity and further the false division of students.  It would be far less egregious if there was only one AAP class per grade, and the rest were all Gen Ed.  Kind of like real life.  [/quote]

In my son's case, he has two base school classmates that went with him to the Center.  One Center-eligible classmate chose to stay at the base school.  So he no longer goes to the Center school and has a Local Level IV class of four students?[/quote]

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