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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also don't understand the ",missed opportunities" of friendship. In that dopey scenario aren't 4th graders missing out on friendships with 3rd and 5th graders because they aren't in the same classes? Aren't kids who live in the same large neighborhood but are split between School A and School B missing out on 
friendships?

A child doesn't need to be exposed to 150 kids to make friends. In some small schools there may only be two classes in the grade. Are those kids suffering because there aren't another 50-75 peers at the school?

It really is looking for a problem where there shouldn't be one.[/quote]

I think the problem is that there's an academic segregation going on at the center schools. So that the GE kids never get to hang out with the academic superstars and the academic superstars never hang out with kids who may be on grade level or even struggling. This makes for a very segregated way of living and was the reason tracking went away in the first place. I think many people are supportive of kids getting lessons at their academic level. What they aren't supportive of is situation in elementary where kids are only with like minded kids whether that's race, intelligence, or parent income level. In high school it makes more sense to specialize because children are figuring out what they want to major in. [b]Can you not understand how a kid who is in GE might think he's too dumb to even hang out with the AAP kids if they are so segregated or an AAP kid thinking the other kids are so dumb they aren't worth hanging out with[/b]? That type of attitude stays with people throughout their lives.[/quote]

you're assuming or projecting that kids in each group think the AAP kids are superior and the non-AAP kids are inferior.  I don't think that is happening.  They just simply don't think about the other group...at all.  Maybe at some schools your presumed mindset is true.  It's not something I'm aware of at my kid's school... maybe b/c the parents aren't in a twist about who's in AAP and who's not.  They are simply co-located.  And there's nothing inherently wrong with that.... also, I take issue with your suggestion that the non-AAP classes are all "on grade level or struggling" -- there are smart, capable kids in non-AAP classes as well.  You make non-AAP seem like it is second class.  That's not how I see it (I also have a kid in gen. ed), that's not how my AAP kid sees it (DC doesn't think of the non-AAP kids AT ALL), and that's not how my gen. ed kid sees it (DC2 doesn't think of the AAP kids at all and doesn't desire to be an AAP kid).

Well it definitely is happening because people have complaining on this board for years. What do you think is the reason so many are against AAP? I think the issue of the two not mingling is the crux of the matter. I also don't want to live in your world where people don't notice each other "at all". I think there is something inherently wrong with that.[/quote]

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