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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To keep my kids out of the general population and with kids whose families at least moderately care about academics and future success.[/quote]

This is the correct answer. My kids are in the top 0.1% of IQ but all I really want is to get them away from the miscreants [/quote]

Wow—-what an insult to all the children who don’t happen to get in but are great kids.[/quote]

There are a lot of great kids in the general classes. But there are also a lot of kids who don't care about school, and get in trouble a lot.

I was in advanced classes when I was a kid in Kentucky. One year, the school decided to mix the advanced and regular classes for one hour a week for "seminar", where we would read passages from a book and discuss. I remember reading an excerpt from "The Red Badge of Courage". When the teacher asked questions about it, no one answered. Finally I raised my hand and gave an answer about the meaning of one of the paragraphs. The teacher, who normally taught the regular classes, looked stunned, and there was a few beats of silence until one of the kids from the regular classes said in a robot voice "Translation please!", and the rest of the kids laughed.

That's the kind of stuff that our kids will be subjected to if they aren't in AAP. [/quote]

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