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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know for us, with a child going to a center for Level IV, where our local school does not have LLIV - our local school also does not offer advanced math until 5th grade and level III pullouts amount to one hour a week. Calling that “Level III” relative to full time AAP in Level IV suggest they are incremental in name but in reality they are far from incremental as that is a huge difference.  It is possible that having more than just an hour a week pullouts available at the local school would make parents less motivated towards the AAP center. My kid has a 134 WISC from GMU so I don’t think our child is one who is blatantly in the wrong place for being at an AAP center, but I will say that the lack of more at our local school which we otherwise liked was the main driving factor in choosing the center. I think it wiuld be smart to address these big gaps between levels 3 and 4.[/quote]

AGREE!

There is a huge cliff between level 3 (which is almost nothing -- 45 min per week for 6 weeks x4 if your kid is picked up for each core subject pull out) vs. full time everyday with Level 4.   I have one on each side of that cliff.  The one who went to the center for Level 4 had a much more rigorous experience.  I regretted not referring our other child (who was older, so it was too late by the time I realized the difference).

That said, I still believe that 75% of HS and college and life success is about effort and attitude.  Smart doesn't compare to effort when it comes to excelling.[/quote]

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