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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It won’t matter eventually - once every school has level 4 they will slowly move to clustering and no more centers. Then no more aap at middle school. I say 10 years.[/quote]

I say we go retro and revert to "tracking" where all the LIV qualified kids are in the same class (or multiple classes if there are more than 20 per school). That would retain the neighborhood school concept but allow teachers to enhance and accelerate for the more advanced group. The current process is inefficient and unfair and gives too much weight to race components when that isn't necessarily a deterrent to high test scores. [/quote]

Sweetie, this is the current model.[/quote]

Not really.  Currently not all ES have LLIV and a lot of LLIV schools spread the AAP kids into various classrooms, with the teachers having many different levels of instruction to deal with.  Not great for the families who were told their kids would be getting AAP level work, or the teachers who are spread pretty thin.[/quote]

Yes, every ES has or soon will have LLIV.  [b]Many of them are using the cluster model, but that's because they cannot make a class for 3-6 students who are eligible for Level IV.  [/b]The center school concept is really really a better implementation.  Maybe in 5-10 years, posters like you will realize it.[/quote]

Our school had 26 kids stay for LLIV. They split them across 5 classrooms with 5 or 6 in each room. It could easily have been a separate class, but they didn’t want to use that method for whatever reason. Made it easy to decide on the center![/quote]

Same, except only about [b]3 or 4 kids per grade[/b] stay at our LLIV, so you can imagine how much attention they get, even if placed in the same classroom.  Yet my kids (there are younger siblings) can walk to the base school, so choosing the center we gave up the ease of going to the neighborhood school with siblings for a more rigorous program that my third grader has to be bused to.  I think we made the right decision education-wise, but there were some trade-offs. [/quote]

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