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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does it seem like center schools have a lot more of their second graders going into AAP than regular old schools?[/quote]

NP. I'm not sure. My kid is in AAP at Bull Run. Our base school is VRES. I'm pretty sure we send the lion's share of AAP students to that program. It's not a ton of kids, but it's probably 15-20 per grade some years. The kids who are already at Bull Run make up the second-largest chunk. There are some kids wo are found eligible and decide not to go, for various reasons. There are also a lot of kids who live out that way and attend private schools because their parents aren't impressed with the school's offerings for Gen Ed.

It seems kind of dumb that VRES isn't willing to entertain a LLIV center. I'm surprised the people who live in the neighborhood haven't pushed hard for it, since the school's test scores and overall data would definitely look a lot better. [/quote]

While I would love to see VRES get LLIV, I am not sure the #s are there. My kid in AAP at BRES has approx a dozen kids from VRES for the whole grade, not per AAP classroom. The classes are like 21 and 17 kids per class, so maybe a third is a lion’s share but not sure it justifies a LLIV. I would say though that more at VRES would likely do a LLIV than the center and likely also there are kids ripe for principal placement as well. I hate our center being a “split feeder” though since it means an inconsistent cohort. If we stick with AAP through MS, the kids split for HS and the social implications for that are pretty unfortunate.[/quote]

What grade is your child in?  Mine’s in third grade at BRES, and says that there are maybe 8 or so VRES kids in her class.  Something else to keep in mind is that a bunch of kids opted out.  13, per my math, but chances are, not all of them didn’t come from VRES anyway, so unlikely that BRES can support a LLIV.[/quote]

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