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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dd was in AAP at Haycock and Longfellow and is in college now. Honestly, if I could go back, I wouldn’t have done it. They were pushed ahead for what? So they could take the same exact classes in high school as the kids who weren’t in AAP (with the exception of some math classes)? So they can feel smarter/superior/more capable than the general public and struggle with the idea that some things are still difficult, even when your ES teachers always told you that you guys were smarter than the gen ed kids? (Two actually did this on a regular basis) It all seemed great at the time to be getting something others were not, and she was honestly very bright and scored extremely high on everything...but the outcome was no different than it would have been in a regular classroom. [/quote]

This 100%!!!!!!  My daughter tells me she wishes we had never put her in AAP.  It was too much pressure to be "smarter" and turned her into a perfectionist (she may have been anyway, but she links it all back to AAP).  Her whole identity is being smart and it shatters her confidence when she cannot get things.  That whole study about praising kids who work hard, not telling kids they are smart totally played out with her.

If I had it to do over again, I would not have put her in AAP and I probably would have moved out of FCPS so the craziness was not even around.  She eventually transferred to private for high school, which was a much better experience.

Your kid not getting in may be a gift.[/quote]

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