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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of you are missing the point I was trying to make in favor of AAP centers vs gen ed for a bright child. Of course there are kids in AAP centers with issues. Our kids have been in various AAP centers (as we moved around the county) for quite a few years. We've seen it all. There are now a few too many kids who were prepped and who struggle in AAP centers, who would be better served staying in a good gen. ed setting, with flexible ability tracking in place.

However, we are "poors," and have had our kids in several base schools with the highest FARMS and non-English speaking rates in the area. Our kids weren't taught much of anything new in school until they left for AAP centers. The difference in the amount of attention and challenge the kids got at their various AAP centers has been much higher than the base schools had been able to offer. [b]If you go from one higher SES school to its AAP center, you're not going to see how big a difference it makes for less privileged children to get to go to AAP centers. [/b]

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i think this is completely true.  I also think this is why there probably should be centers that pull primarily from low SES schools.   That's where you'll find the kids missing a critical mass of intellectual peers to challenge them.  Not in McLean or Vienna, where AAP  has basically become a very disruptive form of getting bragging rights.  [/quote]

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