Reply to AAP Screening for a rising 2nd grader who choose 100% DL

Forum Index » Advanced Academic Programs (AAP)

Reply to "AAP Screening for a rising 2nd grader who choose 100% DL"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What planet are you from?

Been through G&T, TJ, Ivy, now with AAP kids and their goody two shoes friends. Close to 20 years of experience with gifted kids.

Gifted kids on average are not hyper. They sit at the computer way too long, they spend hours reading. They are rule followers.

There are some trolls on this board giving out bad information.

Did your kids not make it into aap and now you have a vendetta or something?[/quote]

There are gifted kids who are quiet, rule followers. There are gifted kids with ADHD who are constantly in motion. There are gifted kids who are somewhere in between. Gifted kids are like any other kid. Increased intelligence does not influence personality and disposition.

AAP is not a gifted program. It is a program for kids who are academically advanced, some participants are gifted and some participants are hard workers. I would guess that the vast majority of participants are in the 85th percentile for intelligence, but that is a guess. I don't feel like digging out the numbers from the recent AAP report.

That said, there are well behaved kids and mischievous kids and disruptive kids in AAP classes, just like in any other class. I would guess that there is less of an issue in AAP due to the number of kids whose parents are spending money on tutoring and enrichment programs to push their kids ahead. The parental involvement is more likely to lead to most kids being better behaved then the norm because the kids know that their parents take academics seriously and do not want to get in trouble at home. This should make it easier for the Teacher to keep the kids who are more active in control.

Admission into AAP does not mean that your kid is extra special, it means your kid met certain arbitrary conditions. But it doesn't change that there are all kinds of kids, regardless of their level of intelligence.[/quote]

So what is your point? It seems to be the same as my point. I said “on average” they can sit still. Do we need to get into a math lesson on what that means? Average vs generalizing for a population?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics