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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kid is advanced and hasn't been accepted in to Level IV for whatever reason and if they don't get accepted even after an appeal, what is your plan? Do you plan on enrolling your child in enrichment classes or giving them challenging material to study at home? [/quote]

We'll teach DC after school by ourselves. Both parents have advance degrees. We probably will transfer to private at 6th grade.[/quote]

So you will move your child to private just as the Honors classes come into play in MS? Even though private schools have less differentiation then public schools and many of the private schools in the area have dropped AP classes?

DS was accepted into LIV with no prep. We kept him at the base school for a language immersion program. He has been in Advanced Math at his base school. He scored in the 99th percentile on the IAAT, passed his SOLs advanced every year, and has high iReadys. His school did not have LLIV when we made our decision. Between Advanced Math and LIII pull outs he has had his needs met.

If you are not at a Title 1 school, your child will have peers in the regular classroom and will be well prepared for MS and HS. Most of the kids in HS AP/IB classes were not in LIV in ES and go on to get good grades and 4’s and 5’s on AP exams.  LIV is not some magic program that is amazing and the end all be all. Title 1 schools will have a pronounced gap between the kids who were ready for school and the ones who were not. LIV gives kids who were ready and are now ahead a class that moves at the regular pace instead of one that is teaching to kids who are mainly behind.

For non-Title 1 schools, AAP is not all that special. Some parents assume that it is the path to TJ, but that is more the Advanced Math that allows kids into Algebra in 7th grade. Even before the change in admissions, it was the accelerated math that helped with TJ, not AAP as a whole. Some parents want to be able to say that their kid was accepted into AAP, it is a prestige thing. [/quote]

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