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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, kids leave AAP,[b] typically because the math is too hard[/b]. The moms typically say "Oh, he was principal placed and we decided the regular classroom was the better place for him after all"[/quote]

This is the only reason I've ever heard anecdotally.  A friend of my daughter's couldn't do the Level IV math.  But rather than drop AAP, she just moved back to a regular math class but stayed in AAP for the remainder of her classes.  This was at a school with local LIV services.  Don't know that that would be possible at a center school.  It just served to reinforce my opinion that the reading/writing is what flags more people for AAP than advanced math abilities.  Most of the work samples the school submits are language arts based.  Kids who read well early are often flagged as "so smart!"  But no one notices the nuances of a kid who can think through a math problem in a different way or understand fractions at a different level than the others.  This is why the math tends to be the problem for some kids once they get in to Level IV while kids who are strong in math get overlooked unless you have a good elementary school that doesn't use AAP designation only to decide who gets advanced math.[/quote]

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