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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To keep my kids out of the general population and with kids whose families at least moderately care about academics and future success.[/quote]

It's also weird to me that you are identified in second grade and get to stay no matter what happens, but if a child blooms let the parents have to jump though hoops to be moved to AAP.[/quote]

If I’m following correctly, I believe I agree. It seems more difficult to get in the older the child becomes. Also, when they join later they will be behind because they are a grade level ahead when it comes to math. Definitely not a troll post IMO.[/quote]

I don't know that it is more difficult to get in as kids get older. I know of a bunch of people who applied after second grade and the kids were accepted. Parent's have to refer, there is no pool that leads to automatic referral, but that is about it. And a good number of parents are referring in second grade anyway.

I am sympathetic to kids with LDs and ADHD, I happen to have both. I was the straggler in the class when I was in ES. I think that having a program for kids who are ahead is just as important as having resource Teachers and folks to help kids with LDs and ADHD. Kids who are ahead should be challenged, it keeps them engaged in school. It gives the kids who are ahead work to do that helps them develop good study habits and focused at school. Otherwise, they learn that they can skate by because the regular curriculum is too easy for them.

It also means that Teachers have to differentiate for kids who are grade levels behind, kids who are struggling, kids who are on grade level, and kids who are ahead. That is a crazy amount of work for the teacher.

There are 100% Parents who are assholes and who want to avoid the kids in Gen Ed and act like Gen Ed is beneath them and their kids.There are parents who move into less expensive houses in Title 1 school boundaries who are counting on AAP to move their kids away from kids who are behind and ESOL kids. The attitudes of some of those parents is, to be frank, gross.

I would like an environment for my kid who is ahead where he is challenged and he feels like school is not easy. I want him to be engaged and learning. We choose a language immersion program for just that reason, we liked the idea that he would be challenged to learn another language and to use that language for some of his classes. It was an active choice that we made and the program has been great for him. I would like a similar challenge for him when he is in MS and HS. So we will move him into the AAP program in MS because I understand that the AAP classes are supposed to be more challenging than the honors classes. And we will encourage him to take AP/IB classes in HS because he is capable of doing that work and we think it is important for him to be challenged. Do I want him to take 14 AP exams by the time he graduates HS? I have no clue, we'll handle those choices when we get there.

Essentially, I want him in an environment that is appropriate for his learning ability. The Gen Ed classroom is not that environment. Not because of disruptive kids or because of SPED kids but because the pace of the class is too slow for where he is. I fully expect that he will be in classes with many of his friends in Gen Ed in HS and that they will potentially do better then him in some subjects. Different kids have different strengths and mature at different rates. But for now, my concern is that he is challenged in school and developing good habits. [/quote]

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