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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is NOT AAP and is having a great experience at Carson in Honors classes. That said, I don't think she has any exposure to the AAP kids outside of maybe in her electives. I believe Carson keeps them completely separated from the normal kids, so it's possible that there is a totally different culture amongst AAP kids that my child has not been exposed to in the normal Carson community. I haven't heard anything about racist comments, etc., but I have heard in the past that the AAP friend groups in Carson are very ethnically driven (e.g. white kids, Indian kids, Chinese kids all have their own cliques). We haven't had this issue in the normal classes.[/quote]

My kid is in AAP but his team has kids not in AAP as well. He has electives, PE, lunch, and the like with non-AAP kids. The AAP kids have their own classes and I think that the Algebra 1H and Geometry class my kid has taken/is taking are all AAP kids, but I am not sure about Geometry.

I think friend groups are based a lot of ES and EC. My kid talks a lot with the kids in the clubs that he is in and his ES friends. He is in some of the STEM type clubs as a white kid and talks about his non-white friends a lot. He mainly hangs out with his ES friends after school.

As for the Counselors at Carson, the number of Floris ans Fox Mill kids who have gotten awful advice from the Counselors for attending SLHS is high. We know a lot of families who were told that there was no rush to take a foreign language and waited until 9th grade, only to find out that they need 5 years of a language for the IB Diploma. They were caught totally off guard. I don't know how kids are assigned to Counselors at Carson but it would be nice if they had one or two that were devoted to the SLHS kids only and understood the IB program requirements, it would be help the families a lot.  [/quote]

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