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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Churchill Road is the local Level IV center for the AAP program.[/quote]

Definitely a reason to avoid.  Center schools are the worst.[/quote]

Why? Be honest. [/quote]

They usually attract the families most motivated to get their kids into AAP, thus it’s more competitive. Then they tend to have at least half the classes from grade 3-6 as AAP, which creates a culture of AAP vs. non-AAP students, [b]even though there is very little difference in the curriculum between them[/b]. (I’m a Churchill Road parent so I don’t dislike the school, but that’s the common belief about center schools). If your kid gets into AAP, it’s great. If they don’t, it’s still fine but they might feel bad about it.[/quote]

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I would add, there is very little difference in both the curriculum, AND the abilities of the two groups of students.  Separating the vast middle is just nonsense.[/quote]

I have heard that the non AAP classes are full of disruptive kids. I have seen many families switch to private if kid does not get into AAP.[/quote]

At a school like Churchill Road, there are not many disruptive kids and the disruptive kids who do go there are just as likely to be in AAP as not.

What you’ve “heard” just sounds like the typical bias that exists among some families hellbent to get their own kids into AAP.  [/quote]

I have 3 kids who are at or were at Churchill. My current child has several disruptive kids in the class. My older kids are in AAP. Their classes didn’t have many disruptive kids at all, nothing like my current child’s class. The people I heard about the disruptive kids in gened are the ones who switched because their kid who didn’t get in to AAP but was borderline probably was stuck with the bad kids in large classes so they left for private since they could afford it, didn’t want to virtual school or both.[/quote]

OK. I’m convinced. Best to just avoid this pyramid entirely because you aren’t going to be able to keep these disruptive kids in Gen Ed forever.  Next thing you know they’ll be at Langley and treated just like the ex-AAP kids who went to CRES and Cooper. [/quote]

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