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[quote=Anonymous]Would like to hear from other parents who either decided not to pursue AAP for their smart but unmotivated child...
Or from those who did, and got in... what happened to your kid?  how was his/her experience?

My son is a really smart 2nd grader (at least according to me, and a bunch of standardized tests).  He is also HUGELY unmotivated when it comes to school.  He does not have an ounce of self-discipline.  And he's smart enough to figure out exactly where the "line" is (the line for how much of something bad he can do without getting into trouble, or how little effort he can expend and still "pass" the task), and then do .01% better than that.  His 1st grade grades were pretty good, but some were mixed -- although the teacher said the low ones were 100% caused by a lack of effort on his part.

I'm curious if people have thoughts about whether AAP is appropriate for these kids, whether they benefit from it, or whether it is generally a bad fit?  My older son is in AAP, and while I think the kids in his class are mostly smart -- it is also mostly full of kids who are very mature and self-motivated -- which I think is 90% of the reason they're in the class.

I'm not interested in rehashing the whole "should AAP be for truly gifted children? or should it be for hard-working test preppers" argument.  It is what it is.  I would love to hear some first hand feedback about parents' experiences with their own kids who were not highly motivated when entering AAP.

For what its worth, some of the lack of motivation might be due to boredom.  But most of it is that he has the attention span of a gnat.[/quote]

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