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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, if your kid was really one of the 2% "gifted" children, you wouldn't be posting this. I suspect that you have spent a lot of time and money on test prep and want a return on your investment. I'm sure your kid is smart and you should spend more time figuring out how to maximize their opportunities within the school system...or go private.[/quote]

I am op. As it happens, my kids are profoundly gifted, in AAP, and without any prep whatsoever (unless you call Legos and other toys prep.)

I had such high hopes that the AAP program would serve my children adequately, and waited so eagerly for it, and it doesn’t. We’re still in public school, because so far we think that there is a real life benefit there, such as being around all kinds of kids, as we believe that everyone has something valuable to offer. Having said that, AAP is a joke, and it’s only gonna get worse. No one is thinking of the real gifted kids, and they’re pretending to care by abolishing AAP. What needs to be done is more differentiation, so the really smart kids can be served, which is also their constitutional right. I don’t care if it’s not economical to do so. We serve the mentally handicapped because it’s the humane thing to do, but let the gifted fall through the cracks because it’s not economically feasible.

I’m so surprised to read all the hate for AAP kids in all those other threads. You’re not well equipped and qualified to know who is gifted and who isn’t. This area is full of gifted parents, who only naturally would have more gifted kids than the general population. You can’t compare the gifted rate of rural America to the ultra urban environment we live in.

The point is to serve all the kids, not to compromise. The gifted kids do move the wheel forward in their respective areas: science, leadership, etc. [b]The rest are followers.[/b] There is nothing wrong with being a follower, but so many teach their kids that they are snowflakes that’ll never fall. [/quote]

No. You are wrong about this. [/quote]

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