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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]17:35:  The main differences: 1) the children seem to have a bit more freedom, 2) they go into things in more detail, and 3) compacted math.

In the AAP classes, there is less "drill and practice", and more exploration and understanding.

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We are waiting for the scores and referral, etc for our DC.  She just started at FCPS this year in third grade and is bored to tears with the "drill and practice."  The teachers think she will do better in AAP and so do we, but if it doesn't happen it will be okay.  She spends a lot of time investigating things she wants to know more about and learning on her own - and the only negative at her recent conference was that she often finishes her work early and then pulls out a book to read or reads when she should be doing something else.  This girl needs more work!  A friend of hers is in AAP in the same school because her mom did the whole outside testing and referral last year, and the work sounds exactly like what my girl wishes she were doing, but not so much that she couldn't handle it.  When my daughter's class reads something, the AAP class reads it and writes a paper on it or does a project on it.  So it seems like the same curriculum but more in-depth study and work on the same topic.[/quote]

Is your child older for the class?[/quote]

Maybe you should have kept her in private school.

Actually, no.  She is one of the youngest.  She was born August 3 and just turned eight before starting third grade.  She just moved to FCPS from a private school where they did a lot more work than what is expected of them now.  Her own biggest complaint about school is why the spelling words are for "babies" and the math is things she did in first grade.  From hearing my girlfriend tell me what her daughter does in AAP in the class across the hall from my daughter, it is much more what she is used to doing.[/quote][/quote]

We would have kept her in private school if we could have afforded it - she was in the school since she was four.  My husband has been out of work and underemployed a long time - we held on as long as we could.  I figure a bright kid is bright no matter what is happening in school.  We do plenty outside of school and she is a good thinker.  If she gets AAP that is great, if the "scores" don't make it, then she is no less bright than she is today.  Not a biggie.  She seeks out education on her own and always asks questions and we feed her all she wants in answer.  There are plenty of kids who don't get in AAP who grow up fine.  IMO the drive has to come from  inside - parents and family and love of learning mean more than the classroom they sit in.

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