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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]My DC was in AAP a few years ago - now in high school.  I can compare his experience with my other children who are currently in GE, learning exactly the same material AAP child learned, and [b]having a much happier school experience[/b].  Had I only known, we would have kept him in GE.  [/quote]
So you've had no connection to AAP for years and never will again.  Yet you still come here to point out your disappointment?  That's dedication.  For better or worse, when AAP is no longer relevant to my family I'll find something else to do with my time than visit this board.   [/quote]

No connection to AAP?  Considering my two younger kids have to attend a center, and also considering they're outnumbered at this school by AAP kids, I'd say we have quite a connection.  I'll keep posting here as long as I like, but thanks for your sage advice![/quote]
Outnumbered by AAP but having a much happier school experience than AAP kids.  Sounds like a winning formula.  [/quote]

Should have clarified:  their academic experience is happier and less stressful.  The social experience is another story entirely, and not a very happy one.  I was only addressing the question about the academic differences.[/quote]
Were you as concerned about Gen Ed kids when your older kid was in AAP?[/quote]

When my son was in AAP, the program was vastly smaller.  The AAP kids made up just a couple of classes per grade at their center and some grades had only one AAP class.  Most kids were in Gen Ed and happy to be there.  There weren't the social problems we're seeing today, where kids with identical abilities are being siphoned off into one of two groups.  Now that the program has become enormous, there are centers where most of the kids are in AAP and this is thought to be "normal," when it should be anything but.  Kids at centers who aren't in AAP feel they are somehow less-than, when the reality is anything but.  That's what happens when a school system makes it appear that far more of its kids are "gifted" than they actually are. That's the experience my kids are having.  
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