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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will say I know one family whose kids went gen ed and went to W&M and UVA. Smart kids - took all honors/AP in HS. That said, I know one family. If you are serious about academics I suggest you have your kid ready in second grade if they are on that path. If they can't, no shade. But if its your wanting to live organically and be lazy, you will have the troubled kids in the class with your gen ed kids taking 80% of the oxygen. Its not right, its not fair, its reality.  Part of the pledge of meeting the educational needs of every student. Students in AAP are not that much smarter but they are smart enough to get in the right lane, or their parents are.[/quote]

I don’t agree with this take at all. Some kids aren’t going to do really well on the NNAT and CogAT (or whatever they use now) even if they can do well on SOLs and handle Honors and AP classes in MS and HS. Not everyone is good at those pattern recognition/spatial type questions. You can’t blame parents for not wanting to push their 7 year olds into being good at something they’re not just because of an unfounded fear that Gen Ed is some kind of wasteland. Stop playing on people’s fears and making them feel guilty. Kids with involved parents will be good either way. [/quote]

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