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[quote=Anonymous]I get what you're saying Op.  My two boys are like your child - nice, well behaved, good (but not necessarily gifted) students.  I often felt that they were ignored and not really encouraged to improve on their skills because they were deemed "good enough".

It seems that the choice was to keep them at the Gen Ed (easy A) level or try to push them into AAP.  In Gen Ed I was afraid they were coasting, in AAP I felt that the work might be a bit over their developmental readiness (too stressful).

The thing that made me sad is that my kids' writing, reading assignments in particular all seemed so dumbed down.  Way below what they could do (and way below what I recall doing at that age) and there were times that the low expectations at school made me feel that my good learners were actually regressing.  Concerned, I actually started to "assign" them books to read at home and I gave them tests on their reading along with a writing assignment.  It helped quite a lot actually.  And to a degree I think we managed to find that middle ground that was *right* and appropriate for my kids.  FCPS does encourage kids to read at home and FCPS does encourage kids to do SOL practice at home even though they do all of that at school already.  Do it.

There is an advantage to learning some things at a slower pace - they can really get the material down.  That does wind up paying off down the road.[/quote]

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