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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The AP pass rates vary by school.  One would think the top kids are raking the AP math and science classes....and yet, some schools have a 25%  passrate and others have an 85% passrate on the same test.  No way the "just trying AP"  kids are taking AP calculus.  Is it the teaching?  Lack of drive of the kids? Lack of challenge leading up to it? A who cares about the test philosophy?  I don't know.

Op, your question assumes a child will stand out.  Surely it is easier to be noticed in a crowd of just-getting-by.  Do you already know your kid is going to stand out?  Most kids don't...there is something to be said for harnessing the positive value if peer pressure in a school where most kids are trying to study, do well, (take and pass APs) and get into college.

In some schools, the athletics and basic behavioral compliance  take more attention than the studying and achieving.  [/quote]

Please. Areas like Springfield are hardly Compton. This sort of thinking is about parents, not children. It’s about fear. It’s about racism. It’s about classism. [/quote]

It’s ironic that you slap a series of labels on PP while at the same time casually using “Compton” as a synonym for a dysfunctional community.

Central Springfield has plenty of crimes, drugs and poverty, courtesy of an aging housing stock, proximity to two major interstates, and the Obama Administration’s casual policy to allow undocumented minors into areas like NoVa and suburban Maryland.  The difference between Springfield or Langley Park and South Central LA is not as great as you seem to think.[/quote]

NP here. Did not read the whole thread. My kid is in the Springfield Estates AAP center and we live in FCPS Alexandria. There are five full AAP Level IV classes in each grade. We live in a paid off single family home that is right off 395/495/95. DH and I are ivy educated. We have neighbors who are physicians, lawyers and engineers. I see Harvard, Yale and Penn sweatshirts around our neighborhood. This is not Compton.

We can easily afford to move to Mclean. We can afford private school. We feel our child is getting an excellent education and is challenged. I’m so impressed with the kids I have encountered at this AAP center. Not everyone is rich but everyone is smart. Love the diverse community.[/quote]

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