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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]You sound like you had a child in LLIV a long time ago[/quote]

I am 11:37 and I have a child in LLIV right now. We are not at Chesterbrook of Wolftrap. Our school is higher SES, but not Great Falls/McLean level. The school has about 12-15 kids who qualify for Level IV a year year. That leaves about 10 kids to be pupil placed each year.

My older child was at LLIV at one school and the environment became so toxic with a mean girl clique in the Level IV classroom. There was also a problem with some Gen Ed kids hating on the Level IV kids AND some Level IV kids being snotty to Gen Ed kids. We moved to the center and there was actually a lot more mixing at the center. In part because it was a larger school so it was easier to have different groups.

We have since moved in the county and my youngest is at a different LLIV school. It is even smaller, and I think that is worse. The smaller the school, the worse the LLIV politics. At least that has been my observation. I will say this school seems much more on top of the cliques.[/quote]

11:48, and my younger child moved into MS this year. So nope.  And exactly like PP, our neighborhood school qualified about 15 kids a year. So you had the kids who "really belonged," the kids "who are just there because their mom is friends with the principal" and everyone else, who is pissed at the first two groups. And maybe if you can get two full classrooms of kids you can mix things up.   But those schools are very much the exception. Everywhere else, it is hard to pull together a full AAP class.  There aren't enough kids working at AAP level to shift kids around.  As it was, we found when we moved to a Center that LLIV had been seriously watered down. And we also came out of an affluent area. [/quote]

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