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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of newly accepted kid question: should I even bother having kid do it? Is there any payoff? Sounds like my child is signing up for lots more stress in AAP, during remaining childhood years before becoming a teenager.[/quote]

There is pretty literally, no stress.  Our center has a no homework policy, so my child has never done homework.  She finishes all her work in school, and even this year, when the teacher has split the classes into differentiated groups and assigned more/harder work to one of the groups, she still finishes all her work in school.  Maaaaybe there is a little stress in feeling that she has to ace the IAAT (coming from the teacher; she's one of the better math students in class) and get into Algebra I in 7th grade, but I've countered that with telling her that it is not something we as her parents feel comfortable with, and there is high likelihood that she will take Math 7H regardless of her scores.

The one differentiator for us, and what does make me glad she went to AAP (and something we didn't know about at the time), is that the middle school is different.  Better course offerings, but for DD, a *much* better orchestra.  She LOVES ensemble playing, and will have a peer group that can play at higher levels than she has in ES.[/quote]

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