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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sorry, but you don’t seem to have a good grasp of the strengths and weaknesses of most AAP ES students.

While there could be somewhere some who are failing, I haven’t met parents of any failing AAP students just yet. No one I talked with feels there is a need for supplementing either.

Math enrichment at our school implies learning math outside of the school altogether and often in an environment that is far more demanding and comprehensive than the AAP school math itself. These are the kids that go to regional and international competitions. The stronger the group of the students, the more likely is your “exclusively-learning-at-school” kid to “struggle - as compared to the rest of the class” (as in not get 100%, or get a 3 instead of a 4) when teacher bypasses instruction simply because majority of students learned the topic somewhere else.

By the time Middle School comes, the knowledge gap becomes an obstacle to take higher level math courses. And this is not because your kid did not pay attention, but because they were expected to learn many concepts outside of the school and their parents thought they can just rely on the school.

As a matter of fact, I would argue that if you are not doing any enrichment, you shouldn’t do AAP math at all because they are flying over some important math concepts that are covered at a better pace in GenEd. By the time your kid reaches Middle School they will have to go back to the same level of math courses as kids who did not attend AAP program at all. But, you do you. [/quote]

I know where you are coming from and know some who feel that way.

Almost everyone who take AOPS or RSM in the hopes of doing well in competitions fade out by late middle school. I do agree they tend to do rather well upto that point around AMC 8 to AMC 10. They bomb out in AIME and AJMO/AMO. There is a reason for that. Dont let all the IMO team are in AOPS WOOT BS fool you.

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I am the PP you responded to.

Do you mind to elaborate? I am genuinely curious and don’t know anything about benefits/or lack of benefits of acceleration and enrichment pass middle school. Why do kids bomb out at a later point? Does it not matter to them anymore (because they got to a school of their dreams?) or is is that they cannot keep up?

I never expected AAP math to be what it is at our center school, and aside from having to do the “proper” learning part elsewhere, I like our teachers and the school in general. I find it interesting that our school is an outlier compared to an experience of some of the posters here (at least in terms of quizzes and videos to check where the students are before deciding how much instruction is necessary).
 
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