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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience, the people with completely average kids couldn't care less about AAP.  The people most strongly opposed to AAP seem to fall into one of these categories:

1.  Parents of the gen ed kids who are gifted in one subject but average in the other.  They may be denied access to advanced language arts or advanced math, even though their kids would be more highly qualified for that subject than most kids in AAP.

2.  Parents of the many bright kids stuck in gen ed who are indistinguishable from the bottom half of the kids admitted to AAP.

3.  Parents of highly gifted kids in AAP who are bored out of their minds from the watering down of the program.

4. Social justice warriors who don't like the demographics of the program.
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You missed a couple:

5. People who were gifted themselves and don't think this is a good model.

6. People who work with individuals who are book smart, but since they've been sequestered away with all of the other smart kids since grade 3, don't know how to deal with "real-life" situations.[/quote]

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