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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. [b]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 [/b](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]

Two close friends with kids in established LLIV school like yours said the same as you say in bold above -- much more possibility for friction between kids that lasts across several school years, because there's little opportunity to mix up the core academic classes from year to year and thus separate kids who have issues with each other (or even kids who are best friends and distract each other for that reason, rather than because there's friction). The up side, friends said, was that their families forged really good, close friendships with some families since the kids were together for everything every year. But they found a real down side in terms of kids being with the same group for so long. I can hear responses now saying things like "Kids need to learn to work out their stuff year to year" but that's easily said and not as easily done, if you're an elementary kid who is being distracted from the point of school -- academics -- by having to work on social stuff that is often resolved just by summer break and starting with a new class in the fall. Full disclosure, our own kid went to a center school because our base had zero LLIV option, and benefited from meeting and working with a lot of different kids. [/quote]

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