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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So every other child I know is in Mathnasium or Kumon. The center owner said they have a TON of AAP kids. So I guess they ALL must not be gifted or advanced. [/quote]

This.  At least half of the kids in my child's AAP class were in Kumon, Mathnasium, RSM, AoPS, or some other tutoring system.  If they're trying to guess which kids are being tutored and then keep them out of AAP, they're doing a miserable job.

Also, LOL at the PP who thought that kids who have very high IQs and are advanced are not necessarily AAP material because they aren't showing enough curiosity or enough excitement to be learning.  PP, you obviously know nothing at all about gifted ed and gifted children.  Gifted programs were created primarily to help the high IQ kids who were underachieving and who were falling through the cracks.  It has been documented for a long time that many gifted kids disengage when they already know the material being taught and can't make themselves slog through another worksheet.  Or they start having behavioral problems because everything is so incredibly slow.

The kids who the teachers view as curious and excited to learn are the kids who will thrive in any educational setting.  If they're stuck in gen ed, they would create their own assignments or challenges, or they would read the entire classroom library.  They really don't "need AAP."  Kids who have gifted IQs genuinely need gifted programming. [/quote]

Well, we we joined our younger one in kumon during this summer after she got into AAP as she bored at home and wanted to keep her occupied. Our older kid (also in AAP) started once a week math tutoring (with some homework each day) around 4th grade, which is a little ahead of his class instruction, but gives him more practice and problems to solve. In our experience tutoring isn't really required until 4th grade, but definitely helps afterwords. Also, I believe most of my older kids AAP class goes to some sort of after school enrichment and we thought he would probably fall behind if we didn't do the same :(.  Alternatively, if parents could provide enrichment, it would be great! [/quote]

Same experience here.  You see more tutoring around and after 4th grade.  Probably to prepare for IAAT and honors Algebra.[/quote]

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