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Yes, and the reasoning is to provide a cohort to the students.  If it's just some kids going to advanced math, that's not a cohort, or at least not a cohort as is currently being provided.  All those posters who say that AAP was great socially for their child because they found their people, that's a cohort.

You may be correct that cohorts provide no value to any gifted student and that schools shouldn't provide that.  That's what you're arguing for.  [/quote]

Now we're back to the elitism argument.  If the argument is that kids "need AAP" to find their cohort, that's saying that AAP kids and non-AAP kids are not peers.  It's pretty elitist to feel as if your child cannot possibly find peers among the gen ed kids, and it's also elitist to feel as if a middle-of-the-road AAP kid is different at all from a bright gen ed kid who missed the cut.

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Exactly. This mindset isn't just "my kid is better at math than yours so needs extra work to challenge him" it's "my kid shouldn't even have to eat lunch with yours." [/quote]

Interesting that you view it as elitist. While I love him to pieces, I think my kid can be a little dorky which is what I mean when I consider that he found his tribe in AAP ;). Other kids who like to read on play dates rather than play ball ;)[/quote]

There are dorky kids who like to read who are in gen ed. Your kid will find them. Why not give him some credit and let him develop that skill before he enters middle school, when it will only become more difficult? [/quote]

her kid can't find them, because he kid can't assign himself to the class he'll be in. Her kid also won't be able to pick who he goes to class with. The school administration is in charge of what they think is the right fit, teacher and peer wise. In this case the school administration, has decided that this kid needs to be in AAP where he can have more peers, intellectually and socially.

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