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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Know why parents freak out about entry into AAP?  Several reasons.  One being that the program is so bloated that it's embarrassing for some parents to be excluded.

And secondly, the obvious public nature of "Centers."  It's easy to drop it into casual conversation how smart your child is if he/she doesn't go to the neighborhood school.

Get rid of centers, pare the program from the gigantic ego trip it's become to a real G/T program, and move on. [/quote]

PP in an LLIV school. And instead of name dropping schools, parents just name drop the AAP teacher for the grade. Everyone-- parents and kids alike, knows exactly who is in the "smart" class. And since the AAP kid stay together in all subjects for 4 years, tight, and often mean girl, cliques form-- among the AAP kids and the AAP moms. Why would you want this in your school. It really is an awful environment (and I'm not exactly fighting for Centers because I have a vested interest my kids are going through LLIV (we actually have a strong LLIV and a week Center). [/quote]

Do you actually think centers are any better?  The cliques are only magnified there because of how many AAP kids there are!  It's far worse than just having one class of them at a base school.[/quote]

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