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The AAP program is for "gifted" children. These scores are good and you do have a bright kid but is not gifted. Please don't force your kids or they will turn into depressed teenagers later on.  I do volunteer in the  AAP class and I see the "average" kids who were pushed into the program and are struggling (now in 6th grade), rememeber that the program gets harder as they advance into elem classes. The classes become crowded only because parents think being in AAP is kind of social status, it is not, really leave your kids be happy. This is a bright kid who would do very well in gen ed which helps build his/her self steem and same kid would struggle in AAP which will destroy his/her self steem. [/quote]

What about the possibility that it can go both ways? 
How about that fully capable child who didn't get referred into AAP but is far too advanced for Gen Ed?  (and I call this kid "advanced" rather than "gifted" because it IS the Advanced Academics Program, not the Gifted and Talented Program.  What happens to this child's self esteem? Will this kid be happy? Ever been in a job you were overqualified for?  Surely that didn't make you feel challenged. We worry too much about those average kids whose self esteem might tank from not being able to keep up with the geniuses at AAP.

Even those geniuses at AAP can have poor self-esteem. Just because you have a high IQ doesn't mean you will have high self-esteem.[/quote]

I agree with you with one exception:  AAP kids are not geniuses, by any stretch of the imagination.  Hopefully you were just being facetious?[/quote]

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