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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you are projecting the cause on the center.  Your child's personality is what it is.  AAP doesn't make a child a perfectionist.  It might exacerbate the child's anxiety or perfectionism, but it was there already.

Every center is different.  Every kid is different.  Don't blame AAP as a whole for whatever proclivities your child has.[/quote]

I don't blame AAP.  My child does.  My point was that it is a tough culture and not right for every kids (including many, like my child, that had high IQ scores).  I want people to think through whether it's right for their child and not be minded by the prestige or whatever.  My DD is bright, artsy and incredibly introverted.  For her, it fed on her weaknesses and insecurities.  Like I said, it could be a good fit for other kids.[/quote]

OP I applaud your pointing this out.  The AAP centers and [b]some[/b] parents really can unintentionally put a lot of pressure on the kids to be perfect and some of the kids pick this up as well.  Kids wanting to know what my DD got on her assignments and tests to see if they did better than her, she does really well but doesn't like to compete on grades.  Kids bragging to their parents that they got a better score than the smartest kid in the class on an assignment, I have seen this first hand.  There are generally enough of those kids who feel they need to compete to create some pressure.  Our DD is fine so far, but she tries to avoid those kids.  SOLs are the worst though, in 3rd grade our DD got really stressed because a group of kids were telling everyone that if you don't get passed advanced on all of your SOLs they kick you out of AAP.  The teacher had already sent an email with a list of practice sites and said she was sure the kids would all do well and not to get the kids stressed out for the SOLs and that the kids should do their best and no one should be upset if their kid doesn't get all pass advanced. 
 We actually contacted the teacher on this so she could stop the rumor.  [/quote]

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