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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an AAP teacher who also taught gen ed in the same grade level. Honestly my experiences as a teacher have been night and day. I feel I can do so much more in AAP and got my creativity back as a teacher. They content is the same but the way it is taught is different. There is a lot more critical thinking and a lot more flexibility in the schedule to teach grammar, word study and do fun projects. All of the kids are reading on or above grade level so it is easy to do book clubs. I honestly love it! [/quote]

This was my experience too as an AAP teacher! I was absolutely able to use best practices and do really creative lessons/group work. My kids were motivated, polite, and on the whole well behaved. Parents were very involved. It was fun![/quote]

Don't you think this is incredibly unfair to bright kids in a gen ed classroom?  My child is motivated, polite, very well behaved, but doesn't test well and is a little bit behind grade level in reading (but not in comprehension), so she's not going to get into LLIV even though I know she would thrive in this type of classroom and because she's quiet and shy, she gets ignored in GenEd and it's going to set her behind everyone.  AAP is really unfair to children like her who also deserve the best but don't get it because of some stupid test and biased teachers such as yourselves.[/quote]

There are bright kids in general ED  too. From your own description it doesn't sound like your child is gifted or even advanced. It sounds like she is right where she needs to be.[/quote]
So she doesn't deserve to be taught creative thinking, grammar, word study, or do fun projects? She doesn't deserve to be in a class where they do book clubs?  AAP parents and their entitlement disgust me.[/quote]

What's stopping you from lobbying your principal and school board member to get those things included?[/quote]

NP. I don't know where everyone else lives, but parents at our base school have lobbied relentlessly to get a LLIV program in place for the better part of a decade. I know at least a dozen people who have brought it up at PTA meetings, visited SB their SB member's offices, talked to the regional superintendent, etc. If the principal is not on board, it's a non-starter, especially if your school board member isn't in your neighborhood. If anyone on here has done this successfully, please share your tips.[/quote]

You don't want local level IV, it has all the of the problems of AAP but none of the benefits.

You want more robust teaching and/or pull outs.  Creative thinking, word  study, grammar, book club, these aren't AAP subjects, these are just good teaching. Ask for what you want, ask for the right things. Not the wrong things.[/quote]

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