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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child has aged out of AAP; she is now in high school.

For her, the curriculum and the teachers provided her a way to grow intellectually, to explore the areas she is interested in in greater depth.

Last spring I was helping out had her ES, and I was talking to her fifth grade teacher, who (three years later) went on and on with how expressive my daughter was in writing -- how thorough.  Sure, she could have done that in Gen ED, assuming the questions were open ended, and not worksheets (I can not question that).

What DD really liked was that less time was spent on review:  the assumption was the children would get it.  Now, she is taking all honors, and so far, her classes are all review, even Algebra II honors.

[b]BTW, the other advantage is the mean girls (in her case) were not in AAP[/b] and she does not have to interact with the worst offender (in the 6th grade, this girl offered DD's best friend $5 / week to stop being DD's friend).[/quote]

This is the complete opposite of my daughter's experience.  She was in Gen Ed at a majority AAP school, and the clique of mean girls was in AAP.  She had to deal with them in specials, at lunch, and at recess.  My daughter was so glad to move onto middle school and out of that environment.[/quote]

Yours is the opposite of my daughter's experience. She was bullied at our base school by a group of "Mean Girls", and we started seeing a counselor as she developed a tic and had nightmares due to the experience. She went to the Center and she immediately found friends, and was so pleased to be away from the Mean Girls environment.

Personally I think it varies from school to school and for each child.[/quote]

Same here- at a local level IV with a lot of AAP kids- they were a handful to put it mildly.  Parents were superficial and clique-y.  It became apparent early on that to "fit in" you had to either be friends with the cliques or what they determined to be ok.  I was ok for a long time but had a chance to move my kid to the center.  Now we are mud- but I don't care.  That local level IV was unhealthy and to boot academically inferior to the center.  My child is happy there (me too but my child is the most important part).[/quote]

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