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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question isn't whether some kids who don't have AAP can succeed in HS.  The question is whether many more kids would have greater success in HS if they had been given the AAP curriculum.

All these anecdotes of "I know a kid who wasn't in AAP and ended up in Harvard..." are beside the point.  I, too, know a child who didn't get into AAP and then went to TJHS and Cornell.  The question is how many more kids would succeed in AP classes or SATs or whatever IF they had been given AAP access.  We have some data on that with the math classes -- they DO show that kids exposed to adv. math lessons achieve more than kids who aren't exposed to adv. math and that continues through HS.

We simply don't have the data on other subjects.  Anecdotes are not dispositive.[/quote]

This is true.  I'm one of the PPs with an anecdote (actually, I have many) about how Gen Ed and AAP kids wind up doing equally well once in high school, given the same type of kids - good students, etc.  I guess my point was that so many younger parents, who haven't yet had kids go through high school, insist that their kids be in AAP or else they "won't succeed" later.  I find it kind of pathetic that these parents actually think AAP is what will give their kids that "edge" over kids who were in Gen Ed.  It's because of this rampant mythologizing about AAP - which is really just a slightly accelerated curriculum - that so many parents obsess over getting their kids into the program in the first place.  And it's that obsession which has made the entire subject of AAP so very, very tiresome.  [/quote]

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