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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our child is at a center school, in AAP.  Other than math, I think the program is not that great.  The math IS compacted and moves extremely quickly.  My child is doing fine in math but for the first time she has to actually work to learn the material.   Homework is 5 minutes of math, but then every few weeks there is a comprehensive test and that is where she has to do the work to learn it.  I think that most kids WOULD have trouble with the speed of math if not in AAP.  Before I get jumped on, I said "most" - some could certainly do it, but to be able to go soooo slowwwww in math for years and then be whizzing through it would be difficult for many kids.[/quote]

But math aptitude/performance is only one aspect of the AAP screening.  It is possible to be not great at math and get into AAP and it is also possible to have high math aptitude / grades and not get into AAP (low GBRS, lower scores on other sub tests).  And then supposedly Advanced Math should be available for the Gen Ed students but in some schools it is and some schools it really is not.  And if differentiated math is really the main feature of AAP then while all the noise about "kids who think differently"?[/quote]

I also wonder why the schools really need a separate AAP program. DS is a level III student in a center school.  The school "levels" the math classes thoughout AAP and Gen Ed. DS is in the highest math group and doesn't have a problem with it.  Some of the AAP students are in the on-grade-level math class. Those students are labeled AAP and DS is labeled Gen Ed. I don't understand why they need separate base classes. Why don't the school's just level the classes as needed. Isn't this what is going to happen in middle and high school?  [/quote]

Exactly.  This is what so many of us wonder as well and why the concept of AAP centers has been so criticized.  And yes, once middle and high school roll around, things absolutely do even out as the kids can choose which class levels they want to take.  I've had two go through high school so far and can absolutely attest that elementary school AAP has no bearing on high school success, whatsoever.[/quote]

It sounds like all you can attest to is that kids who didn't attend AAP centers can succeed, and few would argue to the contrary.  [/quote]

Most anyone can succeed in high school if they put in the effort.[/quote]

AAP in elementary/middle school is an entirely separate matter from success in high school.[/quote]

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