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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was reading another post in the Gen. Education Forum about how elementary school (especially the lower grades) is not especially well-suited to the way boys learn or the ways boys are developing.  We have been thinking we wouldn't send our son to AAP if he got in (he did) in large part b/c he isn't a typical "good student" in his current 2nd grade class (same with 1st grade).  He doesn't like doing the fine-motor skills tasks like creative writing, he's easily distracted by other kids, and he's always been a wiggly-jiggly person so he has trouble sittng still.  On the flip side, he is pretty quick with logic and reasoning through arguments and loves math (for MLK day they had to write what their "dream" was and he said his dream was to learn multiplication!  He is working on that by choice now.)

Anyway -- after reading some of the other discussion, it made me wonder if maybe the things we've been seeing as his deficiencies at school are common for a lot of boys.

How does the AAP curriculum work for boys?  Does it exacerbate the challenges boys have with the "sit still and write reports" type of learning?[/quote]

I'll echo every other comments, this sounds like my son.  All he asked about AAP was if he was going to have more homework, that's all he cared about.  But my friend who has 3 boys in AAP told  me it was a blessing for her because of the way things are taught.  She told me it was more hands on and visual, which is better for boys.  Like for example, instead of learning economic concepts through general instruction and memorization, the class created a town with shoe boxes and other recycled goods.  The town had a bank, restaurants, new homes, older homes.  The families in town had to work, go to school, buy homes, lost jobs, etc.  She thought it was brilliant and the kids got the concepts down without having to memorize so much.[/quote]

Frankly, this sounds like an exercise for kids who have difficulty in school, not kids who are supposedly advanced.[/quote]

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