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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing is the schools without a lot of AAP students would suffer if AAP went away. Now those neighborhoods do better because by 3rd grade you can go to the center. No one wants to live in an area with only 4-5 AAP level kids and have them stay in the same school without any peers. It's a different story say at Great Falls Elementary.[/quote]

That is a good point. The situation where people seem to have the most objections is when the number of AAP classes exceeds the number of GE classes at a center, like 4 AAP classes and only 2 GE classes. Perhaps there would be a better balance if AAP never made up more than half of the students at a school for each grade. That would still allow level IV AAP students to have the larger peer group of a center but wouldn't overwhelm the center and make the GE students feel in the minority. Although an adult could rationalize that all those kids come from five different schools, a kid could wonder why so many were in AAP and not him or her.

So in effect the larger centers would be split into a greater number of smaller centers.[/quote]

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