Reply to Aside from math, what's the difference with AAP vs GenEd?

Forum Index » Advanced Academic Programs (AAP)

Reply to "Aside from math, what's the difference with AAP vs GenEd?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We've noticed a lot of assignments in AAP are just handed out with little background. Lessons are short and there is not a lot of repetition. One week they are reading non-fiction. The next week, they are writing poems, the next week working on vocab. The activities never repeat. It's expected the children already know what is being taught I guess. I had been of the impression that children would be doing work quicker and with some less repetition, but that they would still be building on previous tasks they've learned. We are wondering if general ed might be a better fit. Our child is advanced and is doing well, but could use more reinforcement with each task assigned.[/quote]

AAP was originally designed for kids who catch on quickly.  If your child needs reinforcement, at least in the old days,  GT/AAP would not be for him/her.   I guess the question to be considered is is your child advanced because he/she has had more and earlier exposure to advanced material or because he/she is constantly pushing the boundaries and learning new things.

Kids who have received a lot of enrichment often seem advanced and end up in AAP, but once everyone else catches up and is being exposed to the same material, the kids who are slower to catch on can fall behind.  If your child doesn't mind working extra  hard to keep up and is happy in AAP, then perhaps being there is fine.  If, on the other hand, his/her inability to keep up or need to do extra work is overly frustrating or affecting his/her confidence, Gen Ed might be a better fit.  They all end up in the same place by high school anyway.  In middle school my Gen Ed kid has better grades than many of his AAP peers (in the same honors classes, too). [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics