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I never claimed second grade teachers or the commitee know how to detect it. All I said was that the units suggested for use by the central office require higher level thinking and creativity. I speak from experience.[/quote]

What experience?[/quote]
I want to know this too.  I've witnessed several activities "requiring" creativity and higher level thinking for my 3rd grade AAP kid, and all of those activities were also completed by gen ed kids.  One activity was an invention that had groups of mixed AAP and gen ed kids.  The AAP kids had higher quality ideas than the gen ed kids, but it was more that the AAP kids' ideas better solved the problem and used better analytical reasoning.  The gen ed kids were every bit as creative as the AAP kids.  Another involved looking at creative work products in the hallway.  The biggest difference between the AAP kids and the gen ed kids was that the AAP kids' sentences were much stronger, more grammatically correct, and with better spelling than the gen ed kids.  The AAP kids' work also looked more artistically pleasing than the gen ed kids' stuff.  I didn't see any more evidence of creativity or outside-the-box thinking in AAP vs. gen ed.

True outside-the-box thinking is quite rare, and very few of those kids who are marked as "Consistently" for creativity in the GBRS form are any more creative or outside-the-box than any other kid.  Also, if the higher level thinking activities can be completed by gen ed kids, then they should be offered to the gen ed kids.  There's also no reason to pull people into AAP or exclude them from AAP based on creativity when those activities can still be performed by everyone.  [/quote]

Just one note - having kids in both AAP and gen ed, a lot of the differences you mention are not differences between the kids themselves, but is what the teacher makes the kids believe is acceptable or not. [/quote]

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