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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AAP mom here.

If an aap kid need a tutor, he shouldn't be in aap. 
If an honor kid needs a tutor, she shouldn't be in honors.

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Why?  If a child has a tutor to make sure s/he is living up to his/her potential and reinforcing material learned in school why is that wrong?  I don't get why "AAP mom" would care what another person's child does during non school hours.  I suppose you could answer that it is holding back your "gifted" child if the teacher needs to slow down, but, again, AAP is NOT a gifted program and there is no rule that AAP is limited to kids who don't need reinforcement at home.   [/quote]

Because this woman said so, that's why.  Essentially the bar for admissions seems to be set at whatever level each poster's kid(s) are at.  So, for example, if poster A's kid was in the pool with a 140 on the CogAT, that poster will say that the cut off should be a 140 on the CogAT and no other way for admission. If poster B's kid has low group test scores from the school but an FSIQ of 132, then that poster will say that is the cut off.  This woman's kids don't need tutors and therefore her bar is set so that other kids shouldn't need tutors.  I'm speaking as a mom who has both kids in AAP, none have ever used tutors, but think it is ridiculous how parents look down on kids who are, in their opinion, beneath their kids' abilities because it (fill in the answer of your choice):

a.  Waters down the program
b.  Dumbs down the curriculum
c.  Makes their kid wait until your kid catches up
d.  Has their kid essentially teaching the other kids in the class
e. Makes their kid Claim he is bored
f.  Results in their kid learning nothing all year (aka it was a "wasted year")
g.  Makes it no longer a gifted program, which is really what their kid NEEDS to "thrive" in school[/quote]

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