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[quote=Anonymous]I think that Centers have reasons for letting families know everything that is happening. They want kids in AAP, those classes should help raise test scores. My school does not have local level IV and probably doesn't want to lose kids to the Center because those kids should have higher SOL scores, which helps the school. The school passes out the minimum amount of information but if you don't know to look for it, you might not notice it.

We received a Level II notice last year and I was not surprised, I had been researching AAP. The next week there were parents asking if other people had received a Level II letter and what it meant, because they knew nothing about AAP. The first time I remember hearing the school mention AAP was at Back to School Night at the start of second grade. The Teacher mentioned that the COgAT's were a piece of the AAP decision but she did not discuss what AAP was or why anyone should care about AAP.

The school doesn't invest much time letting people know about AAP or the possible pull outs or the like. It does spend a good amount of time on the language immersion program, which brings kids into the school.

I suspect that a Principal is not incentivized to send kids from their schools to the Centers and so schools without a Local Level IV or that are not centers are less invested in informing parents.[/quote]

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