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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids went through AAP at a base school. In high school and middle school, most of their friends are still AAP because that is who they spent time with during the school day but they've also kept non-AAP friends from earlier grades. It just takes a little more effort to keep in touch when they are not sitting next to each other in class. I get the impression that the middle schools (or at least ours) try to disperse the elementary school AAP groups by separating them into different cohorts, but that only goes so far since they are going to be concentrated in honors classes. Our elementary school is also trying to dilute the AAP identity by mixing up the 5th and 6th grades via "houses" but again that only goes so far since the kids have to be together to be taught the AAP curriculum. For what it's worth, I think most of the AAP groups are driven by proximity rather than some sense of superiority or ill-intention. I can't speak for every family but we didn't encourage any distancing from non-AAP friends and made the effort to keep up with the families we had relationships with. For sure, there are going to be cliques around academics, just like there are around clubs, sports, ethnicities, and interests, [b]but I don't think any of that needs to be understood as mean-spirited. [/b]You find the people you click with, and it's not going to be everyone.[/quote]

I would tend to agree that it's not mean-spirited generally but...some parents are legit snobs about academics and other things and that carries over to kids' attitudes. My hope is that there are many kids within AAP who don't have parents who think having a high IQ makes them superior.[/quote]

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