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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The pot of gold is having a child who is confident, knowledgeable, a good writer, socially competent, intellectually curious, and who can get into the program that he/she wants to pursue in college (whatever that is).

After that, it's 100% on them -- but I hope that being around other motivated, creative kids in ES/MS/HS cements that mindset and those habits in my kids' minds.[/quote]
Nicely put.  I'm glad someone mentioned writing, too.  My favorite parts of the AAP curriculum so far have been the increased opportunities for my child to organize and present answers and ideas in writing.      
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I'm the PP quoted at the top -- [b]we have definitely seen a difference in how the process of writing has been taught and then enforced in non-AAP vs. AAP schools.  Sadly, my 4th grader (AAP) has received better writing instruction than my 6th grader (non AAP).  I am very seriously considering putting 6th grader into a summer writing "camp" with Fairfax Collegiate this summer to make up for the lack of grammar/structure or to hire a tutor for DC for the summer.  This is a child who scored in the 99th percentile for verbal ability on the CogAT, but[/b] didn't make the pool back in 2nd grade.  We didn't push it -- we didn't know.  It might just be this particular ES school (the non-AAP one), but the standards have been pretty lackluster and we are now seeing that DC is falling behind the 4th grader (who is in AAP).[/quote]

Wow.  My 9th and 11th graders are extraordinary writers and they just came up the old Gen Ed route.  Their AAP sibling on the other hand struggled in writing and ultimately took a summer class.

If your child doesn't write well, I don't see it being a gen ed v. aap thing. It's been our experience that writing is really emphasized throughout the FCPS curriculum. More likely it could be your child's teachers or a hang up he's developed (btw, "enforce" is a word that should never go with writing unless the goal is to write badly -- writing requires practice, but isn't like drilling in math problems. )  I think you're right that a different voice -- ie. a summer class, is probably not a bad idea.  [/quote]

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