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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't send your two kids to different schools. That will be their predominate memory - that they were so different from each other, they couldn't even go to the same school.

Don't do this to kids[/quote]

That's ridiculous!  My kids go to different schools (one for AAP, the other not).  They do not harbor any resentment -- unless you count the fact that the AAP kid resents that he has more work than the non-AAP kid.  [/quote]

Not the PP, but I think that's wishful thinking on your part.  Have you ever seriously wondered what your non-AAP child thinks (not says) about the fact that his sibling gets to go to a different school, but s/he does not?[/quote]

Not wishful thinking at all.  Yes, we have asked non-aap kid if she wants to go to aap  and her answer is a forceful "no!"  She sees all the work sibling has and she is quite happy with her friends and workload at local school.  Our kids know they are both smart and capable...aap is good for kids who "want extra challenges".  (That's what we've always told them).  It's not about being "smarter."   FWIW, non-aap kid missed the cut off by one percentile in a year when your composite has to be 132....subscores were nit enough.  She was 99th percentile in verbal, but lower in quantitative...so if she really had wanted what her sibling has at aap, we probably could have made it happen.  We do what works for each kid independently of the other...it's not a competition or a comparative process of parenting.  Each gets what each needs...no more, no less.[/quote]

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