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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honors and AAP have the same curriculum? Why have different names then? Is everyone encouraged to take honor courses now? I read this at our local middle school a year or so ago, but am not sure what it is like now.[/quote]

In MS -Same curriculum, but they are still segregated. The thought is that the "level of student interaction" is higher in the AAP classes. It fosters some of the elitism.  That is only for English, History and Science.  Math it totally integrated between AAP and GE.  Language, PE and other classes are integrated too.  They are all together in HS in Honors or AP or IB.

ODS just got into NHS, induction is next week - I will be able to see if there is a good showing of both AAP and GE students there.[/quote]

Our middle school (thankfully, a non-center) has honors classes and they are open to all.  Plenty of AAP kids chose to go to this middle school over the center, and there is a big mix of GE/AAP kids in the honors classes.  No one even knows or cares who was in elementary school AAP at this point.  So much better than the center model of segregating the students.  The segregation model only leads to false assumptions about ability levels.  Which is why I'm debating taking my younger DC (a GE student) out of her center school.[/quote]

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