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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm another who was gifted and stuck in regular classrooms. [b] I don't think that grouping me in a gifted class with the top 20% of my classmates would have made one bit of difference or would have been substantially different from just switching classes.[/b]  I still would have been bored and well above the instructional level in that classroom.

By including almost 20% of the students in the grade, the current system creates elitism and separation without even serving the kids who are actually gifted and need it.  [/quote]

This is what you think, but not what you know.

I have a profoundly gifted child in all areas, who feels a lot better in the AAP classroom, even though DC can handle much much more. DC is not extremely motivated, so DC enjoys where DC is in. The peer group may not all be profoundly gifted, but they're smart enough for my child to be content. Being profoundly gifted can be very isolating, and being able to be with peers closer to your level is very beneficial. There is always someone who gets/laughs with my DC's joke, and DC loves playing with the friends.

Also, keeping gifted children in the regular classroom makes them lazy, because they will think that things are always easy, and when things get hard, which they inevitably do for everyone at some point, the gifted child has no work ethic, because the gifted child was not challenged and put to work.[/quote]
Meh.  Having AAP be so watered down that gifted kids coast through with minimal work isn't solving the problem.  If your child is profoundly gifted, he would be an extreme outlier in AAP.

The typical AAP kid is maybe mid 120s on the cogat and 1 or so year ahead in language arts and math.  These kids hardly have extreme academic or social needs that require being separated from the rest of the school in a full time gifted program.  And yet, it seems like just about every parent on here is convinced that her Larlo "needs" full time AAP centers and couldn't possibly handle any of the other potential solutions, such as flexible grouping or LLIV at all base schools.  I have no grudge against parents for trying to get their children into AAP as the system stands now.  I just wish (most) people would just admit that their kids want and benefit from AAP, but don't need it, they enjoy having their kid labeled as "gifted", and they're happy to limit their child's peer group.  [/quote]

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