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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience, the people with completely average kids couldn't care less about AAP.  The people most strongly opposed to AAP seem to fall into one of these categories:

1.  Parents of the gen ed kids who are gifted in one subject but average in the other.  They may be denied access to advanced language arts or advanced math, even though their kids would be more highly qualified for that subject than most kids in AAP.

2.  Parents of the many bright kids stuck in gen ed who are indistinguishable from the bottom half of the kids admitted to AAP.

3.  Parents of highly gifted kids in AAP who are bored out of their minds from the watering down of the program.

4. Social justice warriors who don't like the demographics of the program.
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Very insightful breakdown. I think the first category is one that deserves attention form policy makers. Mathematically gifted kids who are average readers and writers really get screwed unless their parents are paying for outside enrichment from a private company like AoPS or RSM. Category 4 can go to hell.[/quote]

Can't the kids in the first category qualify for advanced math or Level 3 pullouts? Two or three kids from the gen ed classroom come into my DC's AAP class for math. IME, the Level 3 pull-outs are more language arts based, so the advanced LA kids can access the L4 curriculum there.[/quote]
LIII pullouts are not equivalent to an advanced language arts curriculum and often aren’t even language arts based.  Advanced math is not available until 5th grade at some schools.  Capacity limitations in some center or LLIV programs may cause math gifted kids to be bumped from placement in advanced math. LIV kids automatically get priority for placement in advanced math, even if they’re not particularly good at math.  [/quote]

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