Why obsess over getting into gifted program?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i know too many parents with kids in aap who have a tutor 3 days a week.

My daughter has a friend in her 6th grade AAP class that has a tutor three days a week. He has a tutor because he is advanced in math. He is taking Algebra I this year at middle school.

The parents of AAP kids that you know may have tutors to further challenge their children.

Last year, there was a boy in my kid's AAP class who went to some weekly after school math tutoring program.

He was also in the tiny group of kids sent to the next highest grade's more advanced AAP math group instead of doing math with the rest of the class.

One can only assume his math tutoring was for enrichment above and beyond what the AAP class provided for him.

None of us know what is really going on with the other kids, nor do we know who tested as a ''genius'' or profoundly gifted and who was in the middle of the pack or at the bottom of the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i know too many parents with kids in aap who have a tutor 3 days a week.

My daughter has a friend in her 6th grade AAP class that has a tutor three days a week. He has a tutor because he is advanced in math. He is taking Algebra I this year at middle school.

The parents of AAP kids that you know may have tutors to further challenge their children.

Correct! I realized that elementary teachers are not "math teachers". Math teachers from AAP center school that my DD attended did struggle with teaching algebra to 5th and 6th graders. I had no choice but hire a math tutor. DD is in 7th grade, AAP taking honors algebra 1 this year.