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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the mother of a totally unmotivated super smart slacker who is in AAP. He tested into the pool and into the program without any intervention on our part. We seriously considered not putting him in the program because we didn't know if he would be able (read: willing) to do the work. Ultimately we decided to go for it because we thought he may rise to the occasion.

So now he's in 5th grade. Socially, AAP is the right place for him. He has good friends and relates well to his peers. But academically he is so the wrong fit for this program, which relies heavily on kids being driven to do well. If he's interested in the subject he is a man on fire, doing all sorts of extras and digging up his own information. But if it doesn't catch his attention, it's like pulling teeth to get him to do even the minimum amount of work necessary. His teachers agree that he can do the work but that he just doesn't want to. And because of the pace that AAP moves, especially math, that means he gets left behind a lot. So we end up needing tutoring to catch him back up when he can no longer keep up with the class.

I don't know that a gen-ed classroom would change his work habits but at least he'd have a better chance of not being left behind so fast. That said, if I had to do it all over again I probably still would choose AAP for him, just because he's so much happier at school now than he was before he started in the program. It's a lot easier to hire a tutor than it is to have a kid who is miserable and lonely all the time.[/quote]

Believe it or not, there's plenty challenge in Gen Ed. with accelerated courses.[/quote]

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