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[quote=Anonymous]My experience is a bit older, and it obviously varies by school.  Center is a mid SES school.  Base is a mid-low SES school.

Kid 1 at the base school was ignored by the teachers because she was advanced in all subjects.  The teachers did not feel the need to load her up with busywork, and she spent enormous amounts of time reading at school.

Advanced math was fine and often moved faster, with more depth, and with more projects than the AAP math at the center.  Only kids who had a pass advanced on the previous year's SOL or had a high CogAT Q were allowed to be in the advanced math class.

Kid 2 at center:  Was still ignored often in language arts block because the teacher needed to focus on the kids who were below(!) and at grade level.  There was a lot of busywork.  Math was slower since some of the AAP kids were only average at math, and the entire class had to slow down for them.

Both kids for every project got stuck with unmotivated kids who were academically struggling, and then had to do all of the work while dealing with deadweight on the team.  Both learned early that group projects suck.

Socially, it was bad at both places.  Kids at both the base school and center did talk about AAP, and there was a feel of "smart kids" and "not smart kids."  My first kid struggled with being made to feel like she was "not smart."  Her peer group of motivated, bright kids at the base school was very small.  The center had an extremely strong divide between AAP and base kids.

So, the whole thing was a mixed bag and wasn't great.  If you have a motivated kid who will make good use of their time, they'll thrive fine in either AAP or gen ed.  If I could go back in time, I would have homeschooled.  But YMMV.[/quote]

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