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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I volunteer in the classroom/at school a lot. We are at a center school on the eastern side of the county. Our pyramid is not high SES (compared to the western part of the county), but the neighborhood that houses the center school is one of the more well-off neighborhoods in the pyramid (again—this is comparatively).

The difference between the Gen Ed kids and the AAP kids at our school is night and day. High ESL, behavioral issues, and a lot of blank stares. Maybe the Gen Ed curriculum is fine, but if it’s being presented in a classroom of kids who aren’t equipped to learn, no one is going to learn it.

At our school, the “average/bright” neighborhood kids need access to the AAP classroom to escape what’s happening in Gen Ed. Those kids who are denied full time AAP end up going to the local Catholic school, which makes the difference between AAP and Gen Ed even more stark.

I think in a higher SES area you have fewer disruptions in a Gen Ed classroom, which means there is likely not a huge difference between Gen Ed kids with LIII pull-outs and full-time LIV kids.

On the western side of the county, OP’s child (whose math score is low) would be fine in Gen Ed with a pull-out. On the eastern side, I would push hard for AAP.[/quote]

This isn’t the case for all higher SES schools.  Our western part of the county very high SES school’s general education classroom doesn’t come close to the AAP class.  It is particularly bad for high achieving students who are not in AAP.  They basically get ignored so that the teacher can focus on the kids who are behind.   The school doesn’t do anything for children who are ahead in the general classroom.  Basically, if your student is scoring 98th/99th percentile (and even lower than that in the 90s) they will learn very little in the general education classroom because the teachers and aids focus all of their time on the other kids in the class.  Your child will likely have a lot of time to help other children in the class, work on educational apps on the computer or free reading time.

This might not be the case in all schools, but I would bet most of these students educational needs aren’t being met in the general ed classroom.[/quote]

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