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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh, sorry, should say "AAP doesn't cost much extra money."[/quote]

No, it just siphons off the best teachers and students into programs that leave non AAP students in education "ghettos" with burnt out teachers. How did we ever survive to become professionals in schools where the dumb, average and smart kids were all in the same classrooms?
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I'm 40 and my elementary and middle schools were all tracked. The same "smart" kids were in the "smart' class every year, the "dumb" kids were always together in the "dumb" class, etc. This system wasn't great either. My preference would be no aap centers and the aap curriculum taught at every school. [/quote]

Two sides to every coin -- my husband and I are also 40.  My school was tracked and grouped to put like-ability kids together for reading/writing/math, and it worked out pretty well.  High ability kids tracked into honors/AP classes in high school, but electives, PE, etc. were mixed classes.  Husband was in a mixed ability classroom and went to school in a rural area without much in the way of advanced classes, and he says he was regularly expected to help peer teach the kids that were having difficulty picking up concepts.  He was often bored in school and few teachers tried to differentiate to challenge him.  There are upsides to this, but he does resent that his education wasn't challenging and that college was far more difficult for him because he wasn't prepared for the workload and academic rigor.  If I had confidence in teacher ability to differentiate, I'd be more open to mixed classrooms, but I don't think that would serve my kid with the IEP who already thinks he's stupid or my AAP kid (guess we're just resource hogs).[/quote]

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