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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, here are my thoughts.

If a grade level can't support an entire class of LIV kids, there shouldn't be a local LLIV for that grade at a school.

If the number of LIV classes at a center is &gt; than the number of GE classes at a center, split the center.

I think each grade levels at all schools should have open seating for lunch and have recess together.

When practical/feasible with scheduling at a given school, I think that GE kids should be able to push in to LIV classes, whether that is LLIV or a center.

I think most schools mix GE and LIV for specials because those classes are often much larger than one class. At our LLIV school, the LLIV class is spot in half, and and half the class has specials with one GE class and the other half of the class has specials with a different GE class. It gets much harder when they mix in things like strings, band, and chorus.

Personally, I don't think there is anything that special about the specific LIV curriculum. I think the main advantage, as some PP have said, is the cohort of kids who are generally able to move faster.

I think that kids with IEPs, LDs and ESL should get better support in all classrooms (GE and LIV) so that the main classroom teacher is not overwhelmed trying to be all things to all students. (This is one thing I think our LLIV school is amazing at, and the main reason I have kept this kid in LLIV vs the center.)

What I don't know is how some of these things get paid for.

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The problem with open seating for lunch is... have you ever been to an ES for lunch?  It's mass chaos, monitored by 2 volunteers or aides, because the teachers have lunch off.  That's enough to keep the inmates from overrunning the asylum-- but barely. And not enough to deal with The Who sits where mean girl dramas. The kids are barely mature enough to handle assigned seating.  In fact DD's school has been known to use silent lunch when things get out of hand. I don't agree with that-- but having left the cafeteria with post Taylor Swift concert level hearing loss, I see the point.   Open seating is a nice idea-- but not all that practical.

A lot of the other ideas are good, though.

I'm an AAP parent and like the school choice. But will say that once a school can field two full AAP classroom, bussing to a Center is kind of pointless. Not many schools meet this standard. But those that do should lose the Center option. Just like the Cooper to Longfellow, Thoreau to Jackson or Kilmer, Irving to LBSS (? Is that where they bus?) and Franklin to Carson bussing is silly.  You' ve got your critical mass. Moving on...[/quote]

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