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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At some schools they are generally the same on paper but different in practice due to the feel of the class / group of kids in them. [/quote]

This is complete and utter bullshit. They are the same. The kids are the same. [/quote]

Wrong. I've taught both. The depth and speed of the AA class is far greater. There are always at least 5-8 (15-20%) kids in the honors section who have zero business being there, but there are enough of them that I need to slow stuff down, skip advanced topics, and do a little extra review to keep them from failing. When I do activities involving talking to their peers, those 5-8 kids contribute nothing, and their peers end up tutoring them. in the AAP class, it's more like 1 kid who struggles, and they usually switch out into honors pretty quickly.

It's true that the top 50% of the honors class is the same as the bottom 50% of the AAP class, and the top honors kid can hang with the AAP kids with no discernable difference, but the class makeups are definitely not the same.[/quote]

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