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[quote=Anonymous]I think you are more likely to end up with lower-scoring kids in AAP in zones where parents are the pushy-est... and that is usually NOT the lower end pyramids.  Having lived in a zone where people don't really even know about AAP (or just tangentially have heard about it), I know that some areas simply don't care about it.  It's not that the AAP Center is bad -- in fact, it's excellent.  But it's out of sight and out of mind... and people generally like the atmosphere at the base school.

Contrast that with the central and western parts (where I am now) and it is AAP/IAAT/TJ crazy.  Just a vastly different attitude.  FWIW, the first school wasn't a high farms school.

So, some of it may be the parents' intensity level and some of it is just the awareness (or lack of AAP awareness) in some parts of the county vs. others.

Those who are around people talking about AAP and who have a center close by (or even in that school) are more likely to want to push into it.  Those who aren't around competitive parents or who don't have a center nearby don't really think about AAP much at all (if ever).  I know that last part is hard to believe on this board![/quote]

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