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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is in the 7th grade AAP in a top-rated school. She is a B student in general. Sometimes Cs, sometimes As - very creative, but has difficulty sustaining attention, needs support in planning, time management etc. Also, she just doesn't care enough to put extra effort into her schoolwork. FWIW, she effortlessly tested into the program back in elementary.
I compare her assignments with what her friends in non-AAP programs are doing. The AAP ones - at least in this school- are by far more complex. They're generally open-ended, require quite a bit of research and, in my diletantic view, high-school level analytical thinking and writing skills. And I'm jealous. I see her friends making straight As, and I wonder if she would be better off in a program where you can score an easy A by filling in a simple worksheet. So how do I deal? What's the significance of middle school grades anyway? What will matter in the nearest few years - excellent GPA or what she can actually do? [/quote]

How did she do in elementary school? Did you find her grades then were a good predictor of how she is doing now in middle school? [/quote]

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