Did your child want to leave AAP after being admitted? If so, did you let them?

[Anonymous]

Leave AAP? No, of course not. Both kids loved it.

Leave the Churchill Road AAP Center? YES. I know 2 families who tried it, then fled.

Churchill Road is an overly-competitive, cut-throat environment driven by a core of really arrogant, pushy, nasty parents who have generally supplemented the heck out of their poor kids.

My own two opted NOT to transfer to Churchill, and both are doing extremely well in HS after finishing AAP without Churchill.

[Anonymous]

No, my kids did not choose to leave AAP as it was good fit for them.

AAP is not TJ where it's a really tiny group that it's actually a fit for. 20% of the system does AAP and many more could probably handle it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bad decision. Your kid is going to lose out on a quality peer group forever. Even if they never see the people again, it shapes their development early on.

See this mom. The perfect example of a mom whose child doesn't belong in AAP but she refuses to let him/her out. Child is trapped and their life is hell for all of ES and MS. Poor child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is truly a shame that parents won't put their kids in the right classroom to fit their needs just because they view AAP as some sort of status symbol. If a kid isn't fitting in, is struggling in the AAP class, then nobody should be ashamed of it. Really sad that it has come to this.

It's not a shame and is the right thing to do.

You are the worst of the worst. If your child is struggling, they shouldn't be there.

[Anonymous]

Standard and rigor wise, current AAP is the old gen ed, and the current gen ed is the old remedial.

[Anonymous]

I know a lot of people who tried the Center for a year and then left to go back to the base school. A lot of the Centers have really bad reputations - there's no need to take a child out of a high SES school's LLIV program ever. Our school is expecting a large cohort of kids back next year b/c the only reason they left was due to construction and our local Center is a nightmare (I did not want my child with that peer group, I did not want to deal with those parents, LOL).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is truly a shame that parents won't put their kids in the right classroom to fit their needs just because they view AAP as some sort of status symbol. If a kid isn't fitting in, is struggling in the AAP class, then nobody should be ashamed of it. Really sad that it has come to this.

It's not the parents but fcps using non-academic factors to decide who should be admitted into the program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a lot of people who tried the Center for a year and then left to go back to the base school. A lot of the Centers have really bad reputations - there's no need to take a child out of a high SES school's LLIV program ever. Our school is expecting a large cohort of kids back next year b/c the only reason they left was due to construction and our local Center is a nightmare (I did not want my child with that peer group, I did not want to deal with those parents, LOL).

Crossfield students at Navy is my guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is truly a shame that parents won't put their kids in the right classroom to fit their needs just because they view AAP as some sort of status symbol. If a kid isn't fitting in, is struggling in the AAP class, then nobody should be ashamed of it. Really sad that it has come to this.

It's not a shame and is the right thing to do.

You are the worst of the worst. If your child is struggling, they shouldn't be there.

Surrounded by low quality individuals? YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR MIND.

[Anonymous]

I know some kids who wanted to switch to the gen ed classes. It wasn’t because of the academics, it was always because of their friends and also their “image”. AAP kids don’t tend to be the popular kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Standard and rigor wise, current AAP is the old gen ed, and the current gen ed is the old remedial.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know some kids who wanted to switch to the gen ed classes. It wasn’t because of the academics, it was always because of their friends and also their “image”. AAP kids don’t tend to be the popular kids.

LOLing at the idea that GenEd kids would be considered better people because they're more "popular"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Standard and rigor wise, current AAP is the old gen ed, and the current gen ed is the old remedial.

And I've heard that the old AAO from back in the day was a grind with many hours of homework every night, burning out the gifted kids before they even got to middle school.

So this is better than that.

[Anonymous]

We moved DS to another school because his AAP cohort was horrible.

My DD's cohort was terrible as well - widespread bullying, lots of behavioral issues, overcrowded, just really a terrible experience. I regret making her stick it out as long as I did. The work definitely was not too hard. There was a ridiculous amount of online busywork, especially math, and the teaching (especially 4th grade) was absolutely underwhelming. We left for Catholic in 5th and did not regret it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Leave AAP? No, of course not. Both kids loved it.

Leave the Churchill Road AAP Center? YES. I know 2 families who tried it, then fled.

Churchill Road is an overly-competitive, cut-throat environment driven by a core of really arrogant, pushy, nasty parents who have generally supplemented the heck out of their poor kids.

My own two opted NOT to transfer to Churchill, and both are doing extremely well in HS after finishing AAP without Churchill.

Is this generally the case with center schools or just some of them?