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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back on topic - please?

So I have one son at LLIV and a daughter starting LLIV next fall.  We looked at both the center and local and decided the local was a happier choice...kids were going to school with other kids in the neighborhood, the local school was closer, and so on.  We couldn't really see any academic advantage to going to the center where there were few, if any neighborhood ties.  Plus the center is a HUGE school and I was worried the kids would get lost.

So at face value I'm inclined to agree with the idea that center schools aren't delivering value relative to the effort required to maintain them.  [/quote]

Not all Centers/LLIV programs are the same across the county, nor are they all delivering services consistently. There are also some smaller populations of AAP LIV kids at their base schools that ARE better served in centers simply because of the number of kids. For instance, one ES might only have 13 LIV qualified students in a grade, which means that this class will have to be filled with LIII qualified students, but also that they will spend their ENTIRE 3-6 grades with the same kids in order to receive services. So for those kids they have the option of a center with a larger peer group and can make that choice. In this case, the centers DO deliver the value for the money. But this is not the case across the county where some schools have 24% of ta particular grade turning up as qualified, or a larger base population. [/quote]

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