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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's amazing to me just how many kids who were so gifted in 2nd grade that they needed to be isolated from the general population and placed in a self contained gifted program aren't even at the 97th percentile as 11th graders.  [/quote]

Yes! This needed to be said! 😆

What happened to the MS AAP students who get school choice and have their own safe cohort due to their giftedness?[/quote]

I would bet that most of the commended kids at TJ are kids coming out of Carson, Rocky Run, Longfellow, and Cooper who were in the AAP program.

I don’t understand why so many parents hold on to this bizarre jealousy of AAP. It is an imperfect selection process. Some kids who belong in the program are not accepted. Some kids who are accepted would be fine in Gen Ed. We all know plenty of kids taking AP/IB classes who were not in AAP. I would guess we know kids who were in AAP who don’t do great in school. Move on. Support your kid regardless of AAP or not and celebrate their success.

People in this forum have a weird fixation with AAP/TJ. They either think that it is proof that their kid is a genius and superior or they think that their kid was unfairly snubbed. It is kind of crazy.[/quote]

Some of us think that it's very damaging to tell a 7 year old that they are so gifted that they need a completely isolated program to meet their needs, and to tell other 7 year olds that they're not smart.  Parents may think that they're framing the AAP vs. not-AAP situation better than that, but the kids undoubtedly internalize the "gifted" and "not smart" labels.  There's such huge overlap between the bottom 2/3 of AAP and an equal number of top gen ed kids who weren't admitted.  It's pretty awful to apply such strong, disparate labels to kids who are indistinguishable.

The only "need" met by a lightly accelerated program like AAP is feeding the egos of the parents.  [/quote]

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