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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.

[b]The typical AAP kid is maybe mid 120s on the cogat and 1 or so year ahead in language arts and math[/b].  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]

With a cutoff of 132, this seems like an overly-broad statement.  I assume that you are referring to parent referred children as "typical AAP kids".  Other than neighborhood gossip, I don't know that there's much to support this.  [/quote]

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