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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. A lot of assumptions have been made. [b]We have told her nothing about AAP, which is why she is asking questions.[/b] We didn't tell her she was in pool. We didn't tell her when we got the acceptance letter. She is getting information from school and asking us questions. I said we are thinking about staying at LLIV but we're not 100% so we did bring up yesterday that we're going to two orientations to find the school that is the right fit for her for 3rd grade. The reason I mentioned being in class with the same kids from 3-6 is because she mentioned wanting to be in classes with her friend X and now, that won't happen unless and until X gets into AAP. [/quote]

If your child is asking "How did I get in," then you have told her about AAP.

She knows she is "in", therefore she knows she is in the club.

[b]If she is asking "How do I get in the club? I want to get in the club because my friend is in the club," then she would not have known about the letter of eligibility [/b](and see how I'm referring to it as "eligibility" rather than "acceptance" to a club)

I too have one kid in AAP and one in Gen Ed. We are totally careful about what we call these things.

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Not the PP, but regarding the bold statement, it's unfortunate that many parents choose to share this information with their kids.  When my child was in 2nd grade, he knew nothing at all about AAP.  Zero.  He had never heard of it before because we had never discussed it.  He came home one day, saying all the kids at lunch had been talking about getting into something called "AAP" and was he in it?  (He wasn't).  Clearly, all of the other parents had shared this information with their kids.  I then had to explain what it was.  I didn't make a big deal about it, but I was factual.  He was devastated that all his friends had "gotten in" except him.  It was very much like a club type of thing among the kids, and still is (now in 5th grade).

I am so tired of posters saying that if the parents don't make a big deal about it, then neither will the kids.  Yes, it would help immensely if the parents would treat this as a non-issue.  But it's flat-out ridiculous to say the kids themselves don't brag about it at school and use it as a way of seeing who's "in" and who's not.  Especially at center schools where it's a huge topic of conversation, for obvious reasons.[/quote]

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