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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are crucial decisions about diploma vs certificate made in fifth 4th/5th grade? Why is that the point in which it is decided that a kid will stay in the county services til 21? Or won't get a diploma?
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Kids can't be more than two grade levels behind for more than 3 years.  If they continue to be more than two grade levels behind their peers, they have to be in a different "learning model."[/quote]

If they make rapid progress after fifth grade, can they switch tracks?[/quote]

I doubt it would ever happen like that.  They lower expectations for kids on the certificate track and the gap gets bigger and bigger..  A parent at my school told me about when he and a friend both had to decide on programs for their kids.  He kept his kid in the regular ES at the Learrning Center and the other family chose LFI.  His friend's kid never learned to read but his did.  The academic skills are not stressed to the same degree in the certificate program.[/quote]

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