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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After reading through this thread, it seems that whether is a Local Level IV model or a Center model - [b]the bottom line is that GE parents resent the label - there are hurt feeling no matter what.  
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There a PPs who say that their child who just missed the cut off are stuck in GE where the teachers are focused on pulling the bottom up.  I understand the frustration with this - but imagine if ALL the kids were lumped together with no AAP program at all.  If teachers cannot differentiate effectively even with the AAP kids sent off somewhere else - do you think they can do it otherwise??

It seems to me that the biggest issue here is teachers giving the Gen Ed kids on the cusp what they need while also pulling the bottom up.

[b]If we eliminated AAP and provided the AAP curriculum to ALL, with the exception of "remedial students" as some have suggested, we'd still have a 2 tiered system of "everyone" and  "bottom smallest percentage."[/b]  [/quote]

Just wanted to respond to the first bolded line, above - I know AAP parents refuse to hear it, but it's not just GE parents who resent the label.  More importantly, it's [b]GE students[/b].  They're the ones who are stuck with this stupid label, even when so many of them are actually advanced in certain subjects, and often receiving different levels of AAP differentiation.  Imagine being given a label which is inaccurate.

As for the last bolded paragraph, if AAP were given to all, it would no longer be a two-tiered system.  It would become three-tiered - remedial, most kids, and tiny upper percentage (gifted).  [/quote]

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