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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]This is true in my version in MCPS. Parents have us well-trained that behaviors are part of being gifted.[/quote]

My friend quit teaching when she was told she was going to have all AAP classes - the students were obnoxious and the parents were worse. [/quote]

Well it was pretty stupid of her to go to all the trouble of getting an AAP certification then. Or you are lying.

AAP kids have a lot going for them. Bright, motivated, hard working, great support at home and love learning.  But, higher end of intelligence seems to come with LDs. Good AAP teachers can support LDs and stop behavioral problems.

Speaking of which, 90% of obnoxious, entitled kids have one thing in common. Not AAP.  Not GE.  Obnoxious, entitled parents. Which exist in AAP and GE in most higher SES schools. Of course, lower SES is a different set of kid and parent problems.

[b]You shouldn’t  go into teaching if your goal is to only deal with ideal students. Probably a good thing your “friend” got out if her expectations were so unrealistic. [/b][/quote]

Yes, but things have gotten much worse since we were in school. Also, the DMV area is just more intense than other places around the country.[/quote]

And in the areas where it is intense, almost all of the kids have parents who are involved in their education (okay, sometimes too involved), supervise their kids after school, make sure homework gets done, willing to get extra help, for kids that needed.  Come to school with full stomachs and clean clothes and good medical care are ready to learn.

In some places in the country, the 4th grade kids wouldn’t eat breakfast, would not have a parent who never came to a PT conference or PTA meeting, would lack good medical care, would have parents with substance abuse issues, would be in foster care and would go home to watch a younger sibling and start dinner, and any LDs or mental illness would not be treated— or even formally identified. .  Again, there are no ideal classrooms and ideal kids.  And there weren’t in the 1980s when I went to a school that had a lot of kids like the ones I just described.

No one said teaching was an easy job. And schools full of kids with perfectly behaved kids who learn above the curve with no issues and parents who are supportive but not too supportive are unicorns. We live a country where half of kids are FARMS and there is a growing wealth gap.   [/quote]

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