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I have volunteered for classes for my kids for over a decade and substitute teach.  [b]And I am going to tell you- 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. 
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Many of the kids who stand out in K-2nd are pretty average kids from upper middle class families with involved, educated parents who are artificially far ahead due to their privilege.  Kids who are brighter but from disadvantaged backgrounds start out pretty far behind and are less likely to stand out by 2nd grade, even though they're making great progress.  Then, they get stuck in gen ed, where things move at a snail's pace.

Really, though, any kid who is at least average and is a reasonably hard worker would be fine in AAP.  It's not that impressive of a program, and in many centers, it's not significantly different from gen ed.  [/quote]

DP.  And you're speaking from over a decade's worth of experience with both average kids from upper middle class families and kids from disadvantaged backgrounds, at many centers?

How many kids have you interacted with?[/quote]

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