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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AAP is trying too hard to serve too many different groups of kids in the same program.  Kids who are 2E, kids who are gifted but underachievers, kids who are gifted and high achievers, and kids who are not gifted but high achievers all have different needs.  The first two groups need a lot more scaffolding and supports in place.  The third groups needs significantly more acceleration than they're getting.  The fourth group is well served in the current model of mild acceleration, except they resent the presence of the first two groups.  [/quote]

With all respect, the fourth groups should not resent the first two groups because the fourth groups are not gifted.  There is no law (federal/state) that we need to support kids who are "only" advanced.[/quote]

PP here, and I agree.  I think AAP is catering to the fourth group at the expense of the other groups, despite the fact that the other groups are the ones covered by the gifted mandate.  I have one kid in the third group and one in the fourth group.  My kid in the third group finds school intolerably slow and wants to be homeschooled.  My kid in the fourth group benefits from AAP but doesn't strictly need it.  [/quote]

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