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The only reason some of the kids appear to "keep up" is that they are going home to Mommy or Daddy or a paid tutor going over all their work with them and helping them to understand. There were kids in my child's AAP who had no other activities after school. They'd go to their tutor or a storefront math place...sometimes a math or science oriented club. No playing in other kids backyards, no running or riding bikes up and down the sidewalks. No sports as they got older.

They could not keep up just by going to school and doing the assigned homework. They needed a lot of extra help to understand their schoolwork. One of the mothers asked me, when our children were in third grade, how much time I was spending at night going over my child's homework. I looked at her in a puzzled way and said my child did homework quickly after school and then went out to play all afternoon with the other kids in the neighborhood. Apparently, the other child was not completing schoolwork and needed to finish work from the day in addition to homework every night. This child stayed in AAP but I suspect continued to need help. My child is at TJ now and the other child is not, so I don't know what is happening now for this child.

So, it is not  necessarily true that just because a child stays in AAP, they must be doing fine. There are definitely kids in AAP who can only stay there because of hours of extra help and re-teaching every night, with little time for other aspects of their growth and development.
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Wow, your kid's at TJ, he must be a genius :roll:   Once your child gets past high school, no one in the real world will care, beck, colleges barely care.  [b]How many TJ kids actually go to ivies?  Answer, not that many[/b].[/quote]

plenty go to MIT though. In fact, MIT takes more kids from TJ than any other high school. [/quote]

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