We got in center school is home school- how do we tell our kid?

[Anonymous]

Um, I didn't tell my child about anything. She got in to center and came home on day one after the letters asking about why she wasn't going to the smart school. All these parents in NOVA are cra-zee

We were thinking about what to do and didn't realize it was cause for popping champagne at some houses. RIDIC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Um, I didn't tell my child about anything. She got in to center and came home on day one after the letters asking about why she wasn't going to the smart school. All these parents in NOVA are cra-zee

We were thinking about what to do and didn't realize it was cause for popping champagne at some houses. RIDIC

Me again. Sorry to derail, but does everyone realize how crazy it is to decide in 2nd grade what is best for the kids thru 8th?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Um, I didn't tell my child about anything. She got in to center and came home on day one after the letters asking about why she wasn't going to the smart school. All these parents in NOVA are cra-zee

We were thinking about what to do and didn't realize it was cause for popping champagne at some houses. RIDIC

Um, no one was talking about champagne. Please stick to the topic.

[Anonymous]

Do you need to bring your kid to the orientation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you need to bring your kid to the orientation?

No, but not taking your kid isn't going to shelter the kid from hearing about AAP. Other kids who go will talk about it, and the only difference is that your kid will assume that they didn't get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you need to bring your kid to the orientation?

No, but not taking your kid isn't going to shelter the kid from hearing about AAP. Other kids who go will talk about it, and the only difference is that your kid will assume that they didn't get in.

Not necessarily true. At our center school, the kids didn't talk about AAP at all in 2nd grade. Not on their radar.

[Anonymous]

Orientation is optional. Bringing or not bring them is optional too.

[Anonymous]

I know it’s all optional. Is it beneficial to bring your kid? Do they get a lot out of it? Or will they be bored?

[Anonymous]

At our orientation, we were divided into groups, and were given a tour of the school by a teacher and a couple of kids currently in the program. The kids entering the program could ask questions, and mostly, that’s what happened. Kids talking to kids.

There was also an adults only segment where the principal presented the program to the group and opened it up for questions.

Both my daughter and I got something out of it.

[Anonymous]

I told my kid 10 min before orientation. I later found out Kids asked him if he got in and he’d said he didn’t think so - but only bc he didn’t know. Kids are way too involved in the process.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s worth it to attend the orientation for the adults. If it’s your center it will depend on your kid. It’s pretty boring but some kids find it interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it’s all optional. Is it beneficial to bring your kid? Do they get a lot out of it? Or will they be bored?

If it's the same school, it's not worth having your kid attend. If it's a different school, it give your DC an opportunity to see the new school. Other than that, it's really not worth taking your DC.

[Anonymous]

Having been through this for 3 kids - do your kid a favor and say nothing. The 3d graders who announce to the teacher and the other kids that "they are in AAP/the smart class" are universally mocked by the staff and other parents and can be insufferable. Your child is very young, has very limited social filters, and does not understand what being in AAP means. In my personal experience, BTW, the kids who trumpeted their AAP acceptance at age 9 were not the strongest students in the program by 8th grade... It will come up eventually from some child, so wait until then to explain to your child that they have the same opportunity as all the other kids to do their best at school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having been through this for 3 kids - do your kid a favor and say nothing. The 3d graders who announce to the teacher and the other kids that "they are in AAP/the smart class" are universally mocked by the staff and other parents and can be insufferable. Your child is very young, has very limited social filters, and does not understand what being in AAP means. In my personal experience, BTW, the kids who trumpeted their AAP acceptance at age 9 were not the strongest students in the program by 8th grade... It will come up eventually from some child, so wait until then to explain to your child that they have the same opportunity as all the other kids to do their best at school.

I tend to agree with this, but if I take her to orientation don’t I have to say something?

[Anonymous]

If you are at the center school already, please don't tell your child anything. Taking him/her to the orientation basically just means them getting out of class and getting a tour of a school they already go to. Please don't turn your child into one those children who tell everyone they are in the smart class.

If you are not already at the center school, please just tell your child that you are going to check out a new school with additional opportunities. No need to mention AAP or the smart class.

Its insane to me that parents would tell their kids enough for them to go to school and tell other kids they got in the smart class. (This happens all the time by the way.)