Reply to Prepping for entry into AAP

Forum Index » Advanced Academic Programs (AAP)

Reply to "Prepping for entry into AAP"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I've seen this, too, and also with TJ kids. Really, kids in AAP and especially TJ should not need outside help to keep up. It does make a person wonder if they're only there because of test prep.[/quote]

We understand many kids in AAP and TJ kids who prep don't need outside help to keep up.  So what's new?  Hard work, preparation, and TJ prep is not engaged in by people who only need outside help to keep up.  [/quote]

Sure, but those kids never really needed the test prep to get in to those programs. Those kids could have been spending the test prep time doing any other worthwhile activity and they still would have been identified for AAP or accepted to TJ.  It's the kids who wouldn't have been accepted without the test prep who end up needing outside help to keep up.

And at TJ, if they can't keep up, they are asked to leave. So it really disrupts that child's life to get into TJ but then not be able to handle the work. Kids in my child's class at TJ have been asked to leave and the ones my child knew worked just as hard as anyone else there. The material was just covered too quickly and was too challenging for the kids to keep up, even though they had been prepping all through middle school for TJ. It is difficult and disheartening for the kids and their families when this happens. The children in this situation would have had a healthier and more successful experience at the regular high school.
[/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