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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Socially AAP sucks.  It just does.  We are in bounds for a center school. My oldest got in (unprepped) and I saw the dividing line so clearly.  It is sad.  I hated it, dropped out of the PTA.  I felt for my kid and experienced the divide myself as a parent.  I worked hard to make sure my kid knew all the other kids are smart too and to try to remain friends.  By 6th it was clear it wasn’t working and the divide was internalized.

When it came time for younger sib to go to school, I entered every lottery possible for immersion and magnet arts to get my second kid out of a center school because I was tired of the divide.  It worked and the younger sib doesn’t go to the local elementary.

I WISH we had had the option of a local level 4, but oh well. Maybe the centers shouldn’t be based at a local elementary, but a completely separate place.  IDK, the solution, but I can say I didn’t enjoy the experience of being at a center school for our home school.[/quote]

In our experience local level 4 programs are just as bad, if not worse.  The center school at least combines/splits the AAP classes into color groups to combine with other kids within general ed, and has enough kids for multiple classes so there's differences between the years.  Our local Level 4 school would have kept the single classroom makeup the same for 4 years, and had no mingling between AAP and gen-ed except for recess...[/quote]

Ours splits LIV kids between two of the four classes in a year. Unless the gen ed kids are in there for academic classes, the mixing is superficial and the kids know it [/quote]

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