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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People suck. I help my high schooler with math all the time. Does that mean she belongs in a lower level? If a child is able to do challenging work with some extra hard work (and it isn’t damaging their mental health/stressing them out), isn’t that how people do well in life? By putting it work? AAP isn’t just for kids for whom everything comes naturally. It’s for kids who want to excel and can persevere.[/quote]

AAP is for kids in grade 3-8, AAP math runs grades 3-6. Most of the people I know who needed tutoring in ES were struggling with the math portion. The only advanced element in AAP in ES is math, everything else might dive deeper but really, not by that much. Kids who are struggling with the math in AAP in ES are holding back the kids who are able to do the math and are looking for a challenge. But they don't get that because the teacher needs to work with the kids who are grade level in math so that they can keep up with the accelerated math.

There is also a difference in needing some help from a parent and requiring an hour or so of help from a specialist

Challenging yourself is great but if that challenge requires a tutor to keep up then you might be in over your head. I say this as a kid who struggled with math and never did any type of honors math classes. It is ok to be at grade level. The AAP mania that exists in some schools is crazy enough that there are parents who do send their kids to math centers so they learn the material in advance and can do well in class or pay for multiple hours of tutoring because they want their kid in the accelerated program. There is a pressure there that is unreasonable for their kids all in the name of being advanced. [/quote]

This will continue until there is a corresponding AAP for kids gifted in language arts/social studies. Which will be never. [/quote]

What does being gifted in social studies look like?[/quote]

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