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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dp here--what about social impacts from academic competition/pressure? Are kids allowed to be kids still?[/quote] I don't think the AAP curriculum is crazy or stressful - they are still 3rd graders or whatever. It depends on whether your own kid for personality reasons does better being a big fish in small pond or not or gets stressed out being around some smarter kids or not.[/quote] Agreed. AAP is not some crazy 1980s-Russian-gymnastics-team-style intense experience. It's just a little accelerated. My child is no genius, but has navigated the AAP coursework just fine, and has never once mentioned feeling like she doesn't fit in because others are hyper-focused on coursework. It's far from a pressure-cooker, in our experience. But it has kept her challenged, in a way that was lacking pre-AAP when she was really, really bored in class.[/quote]
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