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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If people were being honest, they would acknowledge that the impact of sorting kids into AAP and GenEd tracks at public schools is of a different nature than a kid making a travel soccer team.  Not that one predicts success, or the other guarantees failure, but the message delivered and longer-term consequences are more significant.

But, please, carry on with the rationalizations.  It's fairly amusing to watch the rhetorical somersaults when the truth is fairly obvious.[/quote]

Absolutely agree.  The tired travel soccer analogy is comparing apples to oranges.  It's one thing for a child to know that he or she isn't athletically talented enough to compete on a travel team.  Obviously, travel teams are all about competition and want to win, so they'll only accept the best players.  (And no, my kids aren't athletes, so I don't have anyone on a travel team).

It's quite another thing to tell one group of kids they're "smarter" than the other group.  Labeling based on something as basic as innate knowledge can follow one through life.  And what makes the AAP system even more egregious than simply offering a GT program for the exceptionally gifted, is that it sorts the entire population of students into two groups, with an incredible amount of overlap in each.  Most AAP kids no smarter than most Gen Ed kids, but all of these kids will grow up falsely believing that they are either smart or not.  Nothing about the system as it stands is right.[/quote]

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