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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an AAP student at Carson this year and I met all their teachers before the school year.  Every single one had 10-20 years experience teaching AAP at Carson.  I find it hard to believe you get that kind of stability at most schools (but I can't speak for Herndon MS). Our elementary school certainly didn't.  
Carson is an AAP center so it draws AAP kids from outside its boundary. They have so many they can offer multiple instances of most all AAP classes, which allows your student to more easily fit in the other electives they may want.  It also had a reputation of being a TJ feeder school (more so before the TJ admission changes) so you have a lot of "tiger mom" families that specifically chose to go there. There is a much higher percentage of involved families who push their kids to do well. A lot of test-prepped and highly tutored kids too to make sure they made it into AAP and then to try to get into TJ.  That may or may not be a good thing, just stating what I know first hand.[/quote]

There are also a lot of kids who are not prepped at Carson who are smart and enjoy the Honors or AAP selections at the school. [/quote]

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