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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s make AAP the standard curriculum. Win-Win.[/quote]

I work with a after school program at our ES. I am always shocked by how much farther behind the gen ed kids seem than the AAP kids. Their reading ability is worse, their comprehension is worse, etc. No way some of those kids could handle the AAP workload my DS has (I say that not to brag, but it's an observation repeated again and again). I'm not sure making AAP the standard curriculum wouldn't just leave more kids behind.[/quote]

Oh honey, don't you realize your child is ahead because he's getting the extra attention and rigor of AAP? If all our kids were put on the same pedestal AAP kids are put on, they'd all be so much further ahead. The whole AAP/Gen Ed divide is disgusting. [/quote]

NP here.

I have volunteered for classes for my kids for over a decade and substitute teach.  And I am going to tell you- [b]you can tell the aap kids from the gen Ed kids before third grade[/b]- in fcps and other districts. Aap is worth it. It is significantly different. I know you think that if they had AAP in school they would be able to handle it, but it’s simply not true. Most kids can’t handle it.

The other thing is that that is totally ok. I really hate this idea that aap should be the norm. The reality is that it like putting lipstick on a pig- putting a gen Ed kid in aap isn’t always going to work- the gen Ed kid would struggle and feel bad about themselves. Sometimes it might, but the reality is that it won’t. They can’t just be smart- they have to have that ambitious streak too.

I really wish people would stop knocking gen Ed. Most kids are fine with gen Ed. They just need time to figure out what they really want to do.  This concept that kids can handle the harder coursework is really not true. If you have ever seen kids faces as they struggle to even do the first few math problems on a worksheet when the aap kids fly through the sheet and do extra credit in second grade- you would understand it’s better.   Kids all have different velocities.

It disgusts me how people think that aap should be applied for all kids. It would be torture for those kids. They would just give up.

Finally- I’m actually happy with fcps and the gen Ed and aap program. I want my kids to be happy- and they are in gen Ed and aap. Each kid is different. And that’s great- because they enjoy school. [/quote]

PP who works with the after school program here, and I agree with this. I've been with a lot of these kids since kindergarten, and as they aged it was clearer which were the brighter kids. Even before any of them were AAP, it was pretty easy to tell who would potentially be in the program.

I don't understand the stigma around gen ed either. AAP is rigorous and that environment isn't right for every student. [/quote]

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