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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IMHO: The only real benefit to AAP is that the teachers have more advanced training and that in theory, your child is surrounded by other children and parents who have the same focused drive on education and its importance.

The reality is that AAP was initially designed for the top 5% of kids that are actually really smart, those kids that are on a different intellectual level.  Today, we have many kids that have tested into the program due to parental prepping.  People will tell you that they didn't prep, or that prepping does not work...but it they do and it does. I prepped and so have many others.

People Redshirt their kids when possible as that also helps their kids get into AAP (testing over a grade allows you to either skip or go into AAP).

In a way it is sad because all kids should benefit form from teachers with better training etc., but the bureaucracy of the public school system will never allow this, so parents do everything they can to get their kids into AAP and hope for a more focused, enhanced, richer curriculum, etc. The reality is that the AAP label is not all that much better than GenPop....but is sounds good I suppose.

[b]Those kids that are true geniuses are again not really surrounded by others of their intellectual calibre.[/b]
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When I think of geniuses, I think of people like these: http://listverse.com/2007/10/06/top-10-geniuses/ or more recently: http://www.teachthought.com/interest/the-10-youngest-college-students-of-all-time/

I wonder how many true geniuses are around us and if they were to be separated from the rest, wouldn't they be in a classroom more or less alone?[/quote]

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