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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shrevewood isnt doing away with the program- there is just suspicion that they will not be able to keep it as small and intimate as year's past.[/quote]

This likely won't be a problem because I'm guessing the incoming 3rd grade AAP class will be 22-25 kids.

The smaller AAP class will age out and disappear in a few years.

It may come to pass that the AAP class will be *bigger* than the gen ed class.[/quote]

That doesn't help the rising Gen Ed 4th and 5th graders, who are stuck in bigger classes, while their AAP peers have the luxury of tiny classes.  Also, there are other grades that maybe could use the extra teacher more.[/quote]

It comes down to whether Shrevewood (meaning both parents and administration collectively) really wants a LLIV program or not. The initial survey sent out before Shrevewood started its LLIV program came back with results that said  YES...the parents wanted it!...but once reality set in, it kind of looks like responders really meant "Yes, if MY child gets in!"

But in order to get the LLIV program off the ground, there had to be a group of parents that were willing to have their kid stay at the base school and be the "test group" instead of sending their kids to the Center. The first couple of classes ended up being a little smaller than they would have been if the kids had all stayed instead of going to the Center, but not by much since they add in kids for Math and Reading when they qualify. You may argue that the principal could have just filled in the class with principal-placed students, and yes, that is true. But think about it-- If the principal had just immediately started pushing in kids who were "close" but not actually identified for AAP services, then the parents of students in upcoming AAP grade levels would wonder pretty quickly whether this was actually a Level IV program or more like a "kinda/sorta Level IV program" and then the program would never have gotten off the ground because if you aren't getting the actual AAP program, then why not just go to the Center? And even if the parents did not initially think a mixed class was a big deal, as soon as they went to the Center Orientation, I guarantee you they would be beat over the head with this argument from the parents/administrators at the Center that "it's not the same accelerated program because at the base school you have kids in the class who did not meet the criteria for LLIV services" and, like it or not, this argument is compelling.

So, if you are just anti LLIV that is fine and I get it. Because it sucks to have an imbalance of class sizes. And that's a different argument. But if the solution is to just throw students in there that haven't met the criteria in order to balance class size, well then why bother having a LLIV AAP program at all? Just offer Center or No Center and be done.
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