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[quote=Anonymous]We declined AAP for my oldest child.  He is now in 7th grade taking two high school classes (algebra & language I).  Kids who went AAP are only in one (we had special circumstances that let us start foreign language at 7th grade).

AAP doesn't matter in middle school. Math placement is based on your Iowa and SOL scores. And although we also turned down going to the magnet AAP Middle school to attend the local middle school.  The school groups all the level 4 kids together.  So there is a fraction of 28 kids who have their core subjects together.

My kid is way smart - was doing exponents (on his own) in first grade and was reading at age 3.  My husband and I both have strong liberal arts under graduate degrees and have a "liberal arts" mind set.  We wanted him to learn how to get along with people of all backgrounds.  AAP to me just looked like "Big Bang Theory" - kids in there own world.  But, I want my kids to be able to get along and communicate with anyone.

We didn't want the extra homework and projects that I saw on the wall.  We turned down AAP in 3rd grade, and we said, we can also go in later years.  We never did. Again, this would all depend on your base school.  We had some great teachers.  We also had time to do sports, after school activities and other things.

I also had two neighbors who regretted sending their kids to AAP. Both kids are in college now. The one felt that their DD self confidence would have been higher if she wasn't always looking at the uber smart kids. She would have been in the top 10% in a mixed classroom, but in her AAP class she felt that she was in the bottom. The other suffered when he went to high school and ended up in a the base high school group. [/quote]

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