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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With such a high cut off, I’m not really seeing it reflected in the AAP classroom instructions. The curriculum in language arts, social studies and science is not advanced at all and they just have a few more projects I believe. Math is advanced but only picks up speed in the middle of the 4th grade. I have two kids already in AAP and I’m not that impressed by the curriculum. It’s basically the same and for my younger one the cohort actually has a few very disruptive kids in their class which undermines the peer argument. [/quote] define disruptive.  If you are referring to Defiant, argumentative, and constantly correct teachers and telling teachers a more efficient way, making passive aggressive jokes and emotional outbursts when not heard, that’s not disruptive, that’s an exceptionally gifted mind at play ( IQ test above 99.9%, usually above 145 on WISC tests). These kids cannot function in a normal classroom, general ed classroom teachers don’t understand them, they don’t obey, they process information very differently.  If they remain in those class they will not thrive academically. The general classroom’s mission is to train future workforce that follow rules and obey society’s standards, and don’t thin on their own.  Like most adults today, they get the news and believe it as it is, and never think of the deep implications and meaning, and whom might want you to believe that way. These kids mind don’t work like that they find issues and make things better, the last thing they want to do is learn something and accept it as it is, they test what they learned until it doesn’t work.  Human society moves forward because of these type of people that challenge the status quo.  When these kids move to a place with similar minds they feel heard and challenged the teacher together, AAP teachers are usually ok with these, half of my older kids’ class are like this, they pack together and challenge the teacher and back each other up.  When he was in general ed classroom in 2nd grade, he was the one being yelled at constantly by the teacher, and eventually he told the teacher that she should go back to school instead of teaching. [/quote]

Disruptive as in taking a classmates project and stomping on it, taking another classmates folder and throwing it across the room or pushing their classmates for fun. Also an AAP classroom is not filled with budding Einsteins! I know because I’ve already had two in this program in a very highly regarded center school. As the PP said, it is mainly a classroom of hard working kids who are ambitious and want to excel but in no way are they all going to challenge the status quo and change the fabric of human society.

Also if your child told their teacher to go back to school instead of teaching, that just reflects on your poor parenting. No matter how academically advanced a child is, disrespect and unkindness should never be tolerated. [/quote] I don’t know anything about kids stomping a classmate’s project and throwing homework across the room.  But as human beings living in this world, we are all here to learn from each other and to experience, regardless your age, your label (teacher, student, parent).  If a teacher is teaching something wrong, and the student is letting her know that, and because of her ego, she yells at the student to shut up, maybe she shouldn’t be a teacher, a teacher should be humble enough to learn from a student too.  Like like us parents should be constantly learning from our children.[/quote]

And your child should be humble enough to not yell at an adult and learn to follow the classroom rules. If you don’t like the classroom setting try homeschooling. Your thinking is so weird and odd! All the best to your little Newton/Einstein! Can’t wait till they figure out a way to populate life on Mars while yelling at their teachers! [/quote] he did not yell at the teacher, after a year of teacher yelling at him to shut up for him telling her the method is wrong, or the calculation is wrong.  He just told her to go back to school.  Respect go both ways, you can’t just think that you are an adult and you don’t need to respect a child.  If you clearly see something that your boss is doing wrong managing the business, and you choose to tell him that( we are adults we can choose to tell them or not, not all kids know this, many of them will tell you the raw truth, it takes time for them to be emotionally and socially mature enough to not say anything), instead acknowledging and improve his management, he yells at you all year for pointing things out, I would think any normal person would end up wish their business fail and quit.  I spoke to the school before I don’t believe the teacher is still teaching in FCPS.[/quote]

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