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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How would that help anyone, but parents who feel bad that their kids didn't get into AAP?

Kids who are advanced wouldn't be challenged in school.  Kids who are on grade level would be left behind by the speed of the program, especially math.  Kids who are behind grade level would be stigamized as going to the dumb school.

That is just a terrible terrible terrible idea.  [/quote]

How so? I said make the AAP curriculum standard. It seems like they're in the majority anyway, and the kids who are "left behind" are fewer and farther between. So, get rid of the tier system, make the smart kid program the standard, and sequester the remedial programs.

Don't give me the argument about stigmatize. That already exists. So, really, what you're trying to do is remove the illusion of exclusivity of AAP. Make it so that AAP is no longer a commodity.[/quote]

I thought AAP was 20%...not the majority. [/quote]

I think it's more, but even 20% strikes me as a statistical improbability that most of the 20 are really gifted. [b]And therein lies the problem.[/b] [/quote]

First, nobody said these are the gifted kids, or that this program is for only the gifted.
And then, why is it a problem?
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Because it has a spawned a cottage industry of tutors and testers and psychologists whose sole purpose is to help marginal kids get into these programs. It also creates unhealthy dynamics in this Type A land, whereby parents chest-thump and trying to "game" the system to appease their own egos, rather than serve their kids.[/quote]

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