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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Man yall are so stupid

Look I'm in my 30s-40s now probably like most of you

I was in the equivalent of Gifted and Talented in elementary school and I am assuming most of you probably were too and guess what.  IT DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.  NOTHING.  I even was a grade ahead in math and again NOTHING NO IMPACT on anything longterm.

Who F^&*ING cares what grade you take Algebra I in

And for the bleeding heart liberals out there.  Keeping the smart kids with everyone else actually INCREASES the "smartness" of the other kids in the classroom and DOESN"T harm your precious snowflakes

What will harm your precious snowflakes..... obsessing about this AAP and TJ bs.  Let your kid have a normal childhood.

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Bringing up the bottom is true if you have a critical mass of kids at higher end of the spectrum in the classroom.  I'm not a fan of
The centers.  Having said that, my advanced reader stopped liking to read in class because of the attention (not necessarily positive) he was getting from his peers.  That was a classroom admin problem that teachers had a hard time dealing with.  There is a lot going on especially at a Title I school.  Reluctantly I put that kid into an AAP center.[/quote]

Reading level is not one of the determinants for determining AAP eligibility.  My DC was well below grade level  in reading (dyslexia) and qualified for AAP.  reading is a skill and not a reliable way to determine intellectual ability.  [/quote]

You missed my point.  The Reading example was just one reason why we put our kid in aap.  Kids were making fun of him for being smart and he no longer wanted to perform at that level.  He wanted to fit in at school, and not made to feel odd because he likes reading more advanced thing.  On vacation he's the person taking and reading the free hotel copies of the newspapers including the Times and WSJ.  If not for this peer reaction at the base, we would have opted out of the aap center.[/quote]

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