What will be the future purpose of "Advanced Academic Programs (AAP)" forum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I teach AAP and taught Gen Ed for many years. My class curriculum is completely different. I am not even at a center, just a Local Level 4. There is absolutely curriculum materials that should be used for each subject.

Unfortunately, not every teacher or center uses the AAP curriculum materials. I had one kid in gen ed with advanced math and another at the center. I couldn't see any differences at all between what they were doing, other than that the gen ed advanced math was moving faster and using more of the AAP materials than the center class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly, if everyone can get into AAP and TJ is lottery, what is the purpose of this forum ? How else can parents motivate their children to compete in academics ?

Since when was academics a competition? I view my children's education as fostering a lifelong love of learning, teaching them about the world, and most importantly helping them to rightly order the things they love so they can rightly order their lives. It just so happens that at least one of them is in AAP because the curriculum is the best fit.

It's always been a competition. You know there used to be things like class ranks and kids in the top cohort would compete over it.

In other countries where academics are prioritized, grades are publicly posted and things are far more competitive than here.

[Anonymous]

Can't have competition here. Someone would feel bad. Seriously though, not that I'd want grades posted, but our title 1 middle school will not even announce that the honor roll exists in the parent information email. Parents get a private email if their child is on it.

[Anonymous]

Future AAP programs will be hosted by universities. High school AAPs are ersatz anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Future AAP programs will be hosted by universities. High school AAPs are ersatz anyway.

lol

ersatz is not the word you're looking for here

[Anonymous]

I think the whole system should be done away with

It seems like the only purpose most folks care about is accelerating through math as fast as possible which serves no purpose and actually hurts people in college

Skipping more than one semester of College Math aka Calculus is usually a recipe for disaster

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the whole system should be done away with

It seems like the only purpose most folks care about is accelerating through math as fast as possible which serves no purpose and actually hurts people in college

Skipping more than one semester of College Math aka Calculus is usually a recipe for disaster

Uh huh. Like it or not, AAP is for high IQ kids, which are a real thing, and the program does bring more high IQ families to the county than elsewhere. It's good for the students (when and where properly implemented), it's good for the county.

The report that came out earlier this year had several suggestions for improving the admissions process, probably none of which will happen now during the pandemic but may happen in the coming years.