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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because I pay taxes and I think you should pay for private/private supplementation instead. I send my kids to private starting preK, never did any testing, but DH went to TJ. [/quote]

I don't understand this logic. The cost of an AAP child is not different than the cost of a gen ed child. I know people are upset about busing, but that has to be a fairly insignificant cost in the school board budget. I don't think an unfair amount of your tax dollars are going to AAP.

I dare say there isn't one other group of specialized instruction to which you'd apply this thought (ESOL, special ed, alternative school, etc.).[/quote]

What about the amount of money that goes into having two different curriculums, to having [b]additional classrooms and building out the centers[/b], the time and effort that goes into testing and evaluation, etc.?[/quote]

Those kids will be in a classroom anyway, so you’re not building any additional classrooms. Also, the centers are neighborhood based, so it’s just a matter of where you draw the school boundaries. If you remove aap centers you’d have to redraw the boundaries of all those schools to acomodate the same number of total children. If anything you’d have to make regular schools bigger to fit in the kids that you took out of the aap center.

Books are also not an issue bc there are no books, but even if they were your still need 30 books for 30 kids, just some different books for some. The only cost is the gifted teacher salary and the busses.

People that complain about aap usually also complain about teacher salaries being too low, so it’s a win win. Kids get better education, teachers get a bit more money. [/quote]

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