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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AAP has enough space for everyone who qualifies, so what some other families do has no bearing on your child.
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Sure it does. The teacher has had to give up trying to do much that requires real thinking and going more into depth now in my child's AAP center classroom, because half the class is the product of prepping and can't actually think at the level that a gifted program should bring out in gifted children.[b] Oh but they can study and grind their little worker bee hearts out.[/b] They belong in gen ed, and gen ed should be higher quality. Ultimately I don't blame anyone for clawing and cheating their way out of the teach-to-the-lowest-ability gen ed mindset. Just don't kid yourself that it is without consequences.

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And that's why Asian kids are admitted at lower rates to elite schools than their scores would suggest.  They're hard workers, but they aren't creative or innovative thinkers. They aren't as smart IQ-wise as the white kids who have the same scores.  Their scores overestimate their abilities.  [/quote]

I don't think this is actually true.  I think this is something white people tell themselves to feel better.[/quote]

I think the poster meant...They aren't as smart IQ-Colorwise...since color has so much to do with IQ.[/quote]

Colleges see the test scores, they don't see IQ scores. So how can this poster say Asians aren't as smart IQ-wise as the white kids with the same scores?

Nevertheless, the Asians are significantly overrepresented at all the elite academic institutions, so maybe the alleged lack of creativity and innovativeness isn't such a
 terrible handicap like this poster wants us to believe.[/quote]

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