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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In middle school centers the full-time aap kids are segregated into full time aap only classes 
Non center middle school they mix with the kids who choose honors.
It does seem to be mostly the same thing....but with the segregation....[/quote]

Anyone understand why they are separated in MS? If Honors and AAP are the same, why not mix??[/quote]
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Because there not the same, regardless of what a lot of people want to believe. My kid in AAP at Carson completed projects and read an extra book that his friends in Honors did not do. 
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Honors is open to all students who want to take honors classes. There are kids who are better suited to regular classes who are in honors classes because the regular classes tend to be too slow and there are too many students in them that are disruptive. I know kids who asked to move into honors and earned C's and B-s instead of the A in the regular class because the regular classes were too slow and too disruptive. These are kids at Carson and then SLHS. The teacher for Honors is teaching kids who are a better fit for the regular class, if it was taught at the level it should be taught at, and honors students. The class has a far wider spread of abilities and needs. The AAP classes, regardless of how the kids got into them, has far more kids who belong in honors so the teachers can teach the honors level material and potentially offer extensions to the students.

There are 100% some honors classes that are on par with the AAP classes but there are plenty that cannot offer the same material. It is more of a mixed bag.

There are schools that don't offer AAP classes, because they don't have enough AAP students to offer specialized sections. Normally this is because more of the AAP kids choose the Center over the base school. Because the classes are mixed, parents will choose to send their kid to the Center. These tend to be the schools were 7th graders in Algebra 1 end up in class with 8th graders and there might not be enough kids to handle a Geometry class in 8th grade.

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Any parent who actually knows this needs to get a life, LOL.

I have a child in Honors at Carson, it's the exact same curriculum as AAP. Confirmed by two teachers of two different subjects who teach all three levels of the class. Gen Ed is easier, they get to use notes for tests, don't have as many projects, etc, but the H and AAP curricula are the same.[/quote]

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