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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 3 kids, all in AAP. It really doesn’t matter that much by high school. The only slight difference may be the friend group in middle school. If your kid is in the AAp track, they will only be in classes with other AAP kids. By high school, anyone can pick honor or AP classes.

Just apply for Level IV AAP for your older child.[/quote]

Who you're in class with can make all the difference. I think it's too late to apply for Level IV [/quote]

Honestly the caliber of students in honors and full time aap in middle school are not that different.  If anything, I tend to think that honors might be the better place to be because all of the kids there chose to be there and had to earn the grades/ scores to be there.  Whereas, the full time aap group has kids who were prepped in/ decided by mommy and daddy, and they don't all want to be there.  We've heard anecdotally some group project horror stories from the aap group that doesn't seem to happen in honors.  Also, by middle school they realize that they don't have to just be friends with the kids in their class or with who mommy and daddy decide for them.
The years where it makes the biggest difference is while the groups are segregated in elementary school... because the younger kids tend to make closer bonds with the kids in their class, the aap parents seem to think that their kids need to be fully immersed in their cohort, the future honors but non full time aap kids don't get tracked honors/ not honors and have to endure classes with some really disruptive kids who don't want to be there/ don't want to learn.  It's a long 4 years!  But, if you're not at a center school and you are getting principal placed you might be getting the best of both worlds [/quote]

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