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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our school, I have not found that AAP = more homework or more stress.  My kids have very little homework.  My older child is more "stressed" but he brings that on himself.  It is not born out of any competition with his peers.  My younger child is far less stressed (dare I say he could care quite a bit more about his schoolwork?).  I'm encouraged that he is surrounded by peers in AAP who seem to care about school.  That is helpful for him.

[b]But the primary benefit I have observed at our school (and it may not be this way everywhere)-- is that in 1st and 2nd grade, I felt like the poor teachers spent 80% of their time and energy dealing with 1) kids who were really struggling academically; and/or 2) kids with discipline problems.  That meant that my kids were spending 7 hours in school, and getting about 30 minutes worth of learning each day.  In AAP, I think they're getting closer to 4 hours of honest to goodness "learning" each day.  That makes it worth it for me.[/quote]
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To be fair to the teachers, in K-2 the students come in at such a wide range of abilities. Just getting down the basics of letter recognition, reading, numbers, social skills takes a lot of time and energy.

Around 2-3 grade is when it starts to even out. So although AAP offers a good structure, the 3rd grade GE classes are also taught and structured in a way that wasn't possible before.[/quote]

Well, I'm very happy that you think now your kid[b]s [/b](I love it how entire families are Advanced or Gifted, btw).  But it does beg the question of why kids in GE who perhaps are also quick to catch onto things are left with the teachers who are too busy with kids who are struggling or discipline problems.   Would seem to me that a super smart/advanced 
AAP kid could still proceed on his/her own while the teacher was working with slower kids.  It is difficult to see how a kid who is merely advanced but not gifted (as perhaps yours are) needs to be hot-housed in a special program at a separate school, when other kids are actually being held back in GE classes because the teachers are too busy to meet their needs.

So much entitlement.  This whole system is screwed up.  And I say that as a mom who has had kids in both AAP and GE.  [/quote]

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