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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I told my dd that some kids who think differently learn better in an AAP classroom. I made no mention of better, smarter, faster, or gifted. However, it only took a few months there before she had adopted the lingo and was talking about being with the[b] "smart kids."[/b]
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And herein lies the problem.  It needs to be reinforced to these kids - and clearly their parents too - that AAP students are not the only "smart" kids.  I think it's far too easy to forget just how very many Gen Ed kids almost got into AAP, had similar test scores, etc.  The cutoff is so arbitrary that it creates a false sense of just who is capable of what.  If the minimum threshold for admittance were much higher, then it would be clear that only those kids who are [i]actually [/i]gifted and [i]might[/i] need specialized classes are receiving these services.  The way the system is run right now, it's more like half the population are Star-Belly Sneeches and half are Plain-Belly.  But in most cases, they are completely interchangeable.  [/quote]

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