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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Newsflash: MS AAP is not stressful or that hard.  I can't imagine honors is more so. I have a kid in a MS AAP program with an excellent reputation and excellent TJ placement. He spends maybe an hour a day on homework, plus music practice. Most homework is actually from honors level math & foreign language, which is not done at the honors level.  Straight As, so this is clearly enough. He is never losing sleep for homework, and never seems stressed about tests, grades, etc.

He is very involved in 2 school based extracurriculars-- one of which requires up to 20 hours a week of outside time, plus weekend competition. The other one is arts based and has outside performances.  so he is busy-- but not because of course selection. You are deluding yourself if you justify GE placement in MS by saying you are saving your kid from mountains of homework. [/quote]

And one might also say you are deluding yourself if you actually think a not particularly hard track (as you yourself stated), such as middle school AAP or honors, is necessary to be "prepared" for high school honors/AP/IB.  It's not.

How do you people explain kids who transfer to FCPS for high school, who have never been in gifted programs or had access to honors classes?  Perhaps their parents are in the military or government and they've been stationed overseas, attending school there.  Now they're back for high school, and dive right into honors and AP classes without missing a beat, and without ever having had middle school "AAP" before.  And they do great.  Kids transfer here all the time for high school; you're making up a problem where there is none.  ANYONE can decide to take high school honors and AP classes without previously taking honors classes.

I think some of you wish to make your kids sound special or somehow more prepared.  The fact is, nothing they take in middle school, other than foreign language and math, are relevant to their high school success.[/quote]

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