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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]20:23, I'm not sure how you concluded that "most Vienna parents want their child there."  Vienna parents who are looking for academic rigor want their kids in the AAP Center in Kilmer or Luther Jackson.  More and more parents in the Thoreau boundary are opting for Luther Jackson because Thoreau just doesn't provide a challenge for AAP kids. (The academics at LJ are outstanding and the kids are completely prepared for high school.)  Thoreau is a nice school, but the homework is minimal, everyone is in "honors," and I have heard of many kids who feel totally overwhelmed in 9th grade because they don't know how to manage a high school workload.  If your child is an average student, Thoreau will be just fine.  Socially, etc. it is a nice environment and your child will have fun because she won't be spending lots of time on schoolwork.  Just an FYI on the honors issue at Thoreau - the decision to make some classes honors for the entire school was not made for substantive reasons (to challenge all of the kids); it was made to accommodate the scheduling difficulties of having trying to have honors and base-level sections of every academic subject.[/quote]

Right.  Only AAP kids can handle a high school workload.   :roll: 
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Seriously... parents of AAP kids who actually believe this must not have kids in high school yet.  Visit any NoVA high school and you will find boatloads of high-achieving students, most of whom were never in AAP.  The AAP label certainly gives parents and their kids a false sense of accomplishment.  Once those kids get to high school, they are just one of many and no one remembers or cares who was in AAP way back when.  [/quote]

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