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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is not in AAP and I have definitely heard her friends tell her that they go to a school "for smart kids." They aren't really saying it in an obnoxious way--more matter of fact. I don't think it matters if you tell your kids not to talk about it because they will... and they will repeat whatever you told them. [/quote]

Exactly.  Last year, my DC came home in tears because all the kids at the lunch table had been asking who was "in" and who was "out".  DC didn't even know what AAP was as we honestly didn't see how talking about it could be in any way healthy or productive.  After I explained what it was, DC was super upset that more than half the class had gotten in, but not DC.  Thanks, parents, for sharing that with your kids.  Do you not know this is how the ridiculous hierarchy that is AAP gets started?[/quote]

My child got in and doesn't know yet.  I am so sorry this happened.  I don't want talk about "in" or "Out" or a perception of smarter or not.  :([/quote]

Parent of older AAP kids here. I'm also very sorry this happened. If I have one piece of advice for parents on this thread, it's to not draw any conclusions about the children based on whether they they got in or not. Kids develop at different rates, and being precocious is not necessarily a sign of long term intellectual superiority. In fact, there are a lot of studies that show a pattern of reversion to the mean in IQ over time (which given the strict definition of IQ, basically means that some of the faster kids slow down and the slower ones speed up).
I've run a number of extracurricular activities and also volunteered in the classroom over the years and time after time, I've run into kids who weren't in AAP but were outstanding performers, as well as the reverse. We will be in high school shortly and I expect honors and AP to be the great equalizers.[/quote]

And there are plenty of kids not in AAP who would do just fine there and perhaps if a WISC were done on them, it would be determined the are more apt than someone else who is actually in AAP.[/quote]

Absolutely.  There just isn't enough difference between AAP and Gen Ed kids to make separating them worthwhile.  It causes massive resentment academically, socially, and economically (the latter referring to the special busing AAP kids receive).[/quote]

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