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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kid is not going to be served well by going to AAP, do NOT push AAP on your kid.   It's not about bragging rights, it's about the child.

But don't post falsehoods about AAP kids to make your point.   The kids aren't overloaded with projects or homework.  They aren't pushing us to go to TJ or join a math or chess club,  the kids do have time for afterschool activities,  the kids DO play and have fun and are silly.   [/quote]

And to the poster I quoted, I just had a conversation this week with a woman whose child was staying up late trying to get two projects done for 3rd grade AAP and the mom wanted to go to bed.  The child also got an "N" for the first time when s/he was used to getting "Os."  This was not an appeal admittance (if that's what you're thinking).  The mom was wondering what they had gotten themselves into.  So, these are not falsehoods.  These are real life examples of the downside of AAP.[/quote]

I'm that poster you quoted.   It didn't cross my mind that your friends child was an appeal admittance.    What did cross my mind is that perhaps your friend needs to work on the time management part of aap.    The monthly projects we get are given at the beginning at the month and aren't that hard.    If you budget 15 minutes a night to work on it, you'll easily be done at the end of the month when projects are due.     We purposefully did not overload our child with too much afterschool stuff so she would have playtime and homework time.    Our 30 minutes of homework a night is 10 minutes of math, then 20 minutes of weekly or monthly project work....longer if dd is on a roll and it's not too late.     I don't know anyone in my school who is having a problem with staying up late doing work, unless they had too much other stuff going on and couldn't get to it.     DD also had an adjustment to the aap curriculum the first month.   One she realized that she would have ato work for that o, she responded to the challenged, got it together and is back to getting her g+'s and O's.     [/quote]

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