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I'm not sure having different classes solves the separatism issue, isn't that still segregating the kids? [/quote]

No.  They would still be mixed for homeroom, specials, lunch, recess, and everything else.  The only difference is that the top kids in math would switch to the AAP math classroom during math time.  And the top kids in language arts would do likewise during reading and language arts time.  Kids don't necessarily attach huge labels to Larla because she doesn't attend AAP language arts class.  Kids aren't going to label themselves as "AAP math and AAP language arts" kids, just as they won't self label as "AAP math but not AAP language arts".

In the current system, AAP kids are completely separated into AAP only classrooms and tend to have very little contact at all with the gen ed kids.  There also is a strict label of "AAP" and "not AAP."  [/quote]

Yes, and the reasoning is to provide a cohort to the students.  If it's just some kids going to advanced math, that's not a cohort, or at least not a cohort as is currently being provided.  All those posters who say that AAP was great socially for their child because they found their people, that's a cohort.

You may be correct that cohorts provide no value to any gifted student and that schools shouldn't provide that.  That's what you're arguing for.  [/quote]

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