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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right?  Reading through some of the messages on this forum is making me reconsider whether I would even send my daughter if she is selected.  She already had a friend this week telling the other kids at lunch she probably wouldn’t be at their school next year because she’d be going to the ‘smart school.’  My daughter asked what she meant because I haven’t even mentioned any of this to her.  I had to explain to her that it’s just going to a school for more challenging work in some areas.

Hate to break it to some of you, but if your child is that smart they’ll be fine no matter where they end up, it’s Fairfax County.  And short of the Ivy Leagues, personality and people skills often get people farther in the real world than advanced classes at seven years old.  The toxicity and life or death mentality displayed on here by some (not all, but some) is truly concerning.[/quote]

Ok, as someone with relevant expertise I am not sure I'd agree with you that a smart kid will be fine no matter where they end up (and I'm also not leaving that to chance with my DC)--some will and some won't. But I do agree that there's a problem and I'm almost certain it has more to do with how parents talk in the presence of their kids than it has to do with the sheer fact that kids are divided in this way. I mean, let's say there was no AAP, would all this talk about smart vs not go away?

For the record, I never tell my kid AAP is the smart class and my kid actually can distinguish between being smart vs advanced (which honestly even impressed me... maybe they belong in AAP  :lol: ). [/quote]

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