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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honors is open to all - it is in middle school. No math testing is needed in middle school, and it should be the same in elementary school.

VA should be more like NY. Regents and non-regents. One is harder material for those going to college. The other is more business focused for house going into technical training or non-college related fields of work.

GE is basically a wash for any high-achieving child. Any parent who has a hard-working child with smarts is going to push for AAP. 
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I had one child in AAP.  Our second child is very bright and hard-working, but wasn't in-pool.  We didn't push for AAP for this child because the whole system seems completely blown out of proportion - too many pushy parents, kids who think they're superior just because they got into AAP, and a whole lot of busy work.  It would be great if Gen Ed was a more challenging curriculum, but after having one child go through AAP, we realized the AAP curriculum isn't what we had in mind (project after project isn't our idea of an "advanced curriculum").  We just decided to do a lot of supplementing at home and it's been working out great.  In fact, I'd say this child has gotten a better, more focused education than the one who was in AAP.

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Can you give an example of what you preferred in general ed to AAP?[/quote]

Sure.  We prefer less projects and more focused class work in core classes.  I imagine some parents think of projects as this great extension or enrichment, but we saw if for what it was.  Busy work that consumed far too much time, including weekends.  Our child in Gen Ed has only had a couple of projects and they were relevant to the curriculum and nothing that we'd consider a time-waster.  I think the students (and their parents) in Gen Ed are more down-to-earth and relaxed about life in general.  My child in Gen Ed has learned the [i]exact same things[/i] as the one who went through AAP, but had a much happier and less stressed time doing so.  
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I have to disagree...The nice things about projects is they allowed my DD to think outside the box....sometimes the results were special, other times, not so much.

Without the projects, the kids would be doing worksheets:  drill and practice.  That is fine until you have the child that gets it on the first problem...then they are told they are not completing the assignment?  And told they are not working at there potential -- because the homework is usually incomplete...

Yes, I have seen it happen...A's on the tests, F's on the homework made me a C student.  [/quote]

Great post, PP. Thank you.
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PP here.  Thanks.  The other thing is both kids will learn the same thing, but the project learning may know it better...so it appears that both understand it equally well, but one will know the scientific facts, for example, whereas the other may understand the implications.
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