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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC tried one year of center during the Elem years and then went back to LLIV.  DC said the only difference was that at the center they wasted classroom time dealing with boys that cried.  DC also implied that some of the kids in the center classroom were actually less motivated - ie complacent.  Really not sure the pace was any different.  DC's grades were the same in both environments.  [/quote]

You truly think an 8/9 year old can accurately summarize the difference?  Considering what you wrote, she couldn't, let alone that she couldn't possibly know what is the "only" difference.  Was she in a base classroom everyday or was she at the teacher mtgs?  Wouldn't they crying boy be class specific, not a base/aap difference?   :roll: [/quote]

I am one of the other posters.

Often times, highly gifted boys especially, fall into the twice exceptional range (gifted plus a special ed diagnosis like aspergers or ADHD).

They test very high academically, but have very uneven development in other areas. Likely, that person's daughter's class had several of these kinds of students. If your kid is a bright good student, it would probably be annoying or difficult to be around a high concentration of these kinds of kids.  My child didn't mind because those boys were able to move very quickly academically, so the behavior was easier to overlook.  That got better by fourth and fifth for sure as thse kids evened out.[/quote]

No question there might be a kid or many kids who are 2e in AAP.  That doesn't mean that an 8/9 year old can accurately state that is the only difference b/w AAP and base.  You can see from these responses, parents don't really know either.  The "more in depth and breath" is coming from the AAP orientation, I suspect.  How can we know?  It would be different school to school and then from teacher to teacher.  Perhaps even a single teacher has different ability groups in her class, so it could even be a smaller group where some in base get x and others get y.  You cannot ask a broad question like this on a board and get an answer.  You also can't expect your 8/9 year old to accurately state what the differences are.  You can see from this kid's answer, she didn't know (she has no idea about the behaviors in the other classes, she mentioned nothing about writing, science, math, reading, vocabulary, CML, etc.)[/quote]

I totally agree with you. I was just explaining why the class might have had a lot of high strung boys.

In my kids' class, they were covering the curriculum much quicker than the other classes, AAP and gen ed.  The teachers would give them extra or different lessons every few weeks to allow the other classes to catch up to where my kids class was at. This was sixth grade.[/quote]

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