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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The center at Churchill Road is busting at the seams mostly with it's own kids. Seems to me they should put in local level IV at every elementary school and keep the centers only for the top 1%-why the county doesnt raise the admissions bar is beyond me! [/quote]

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Then have a small number of MS AAP Centers around the County to establish critical mass[/quote]

The problem is that that "critical mass" is necessary for an effective Level IV program at the elementary level, too.  It sounds like it would work fine at Churchill Road, but some schools -- like the Title I school I work in -- don't have the numbers to support that.  We might have enough for one classroom of Level IVs for each grade.  But there would be no collaboration, little AAP teacher support, and we would lack the specialists -- art and music teachers, counselors -- who are experienced in working with gifted kids.

What makes the current AAP centers so good is having lots of students and teachers all on the same page.   Tiny, isolated pockets of AAP don't help the students who need the program. [/quote]

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