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If the child respects their education then the child will be finishing their work and doing extra work without prompting leading the higher GBRS's and fewer complaints about the child being disruptive.

And let's keep in mind that we are talking about 7 and 8 year olds here. A child may very well go to tutoring and do the extra work because their parents make them. That does not equate with "respecting education." That means that his/her parents respect education and the kid knows better than to say no. FCPS discounting those activities is a way of saying "where would you child be if they didn't do an extra 2 hours of math at AoPS every weekend." Is your child doing well because they are gifted or because they being pushed ahead by their parents? My kid asks to do robotics and chess and coding club because they are fun and engaging. He gets to hang out with friends for an extra hour, build things, and play games. My kid has never asked to go for extra math tutoring. He does ask his Dad to make up math problems for him and he does love solving logic puzzles. we asked him about math tutoring this past spring because DL was not exactly exciting and he looked at us like we were crazy. 
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You pretty clearly think that your kid is better and more deserving of AAP than all of the people posting here whose kids got rejected with high scores.  The committee could have just as easily looked at your kid and assumed that a child doing chess, coding club, and robotics clearly has over-involved tiger parents and wouldn't be nearly as impressive without this level of enrichment.  Your kid also could have had a teacher that was a bad fit, and ended up with a poor GBRS in 2nd.  Your kid isn't more deserving of AAP than the PP's kids.  Your kid is just luckier with a very random, biased system.  [/quote]

No, I don't. I thought my kid wouldn't get accepted because he is a quieter kid and not someone who looks to stand out. He was in pool with his test scores. He enjoys those activities and that makes me smile. I love seeing him involved in those type of programs but I love seeing him in his athletic programs as well because he is doing something he enjoys. I think he would do great at AoPS and have suggested to him that it is a possibility if he wanted to do more math but he wasn't interested. I have no problem saying that those types of programs provide an enrichment that helps him in school and when he is tested. It is simply a different type of tutoring.

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