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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To keep my kids out of the general population and with kids whose families at least moderately care about academics and future success.[/quote]

This is the correct answer. My kids are in the top 0.1% of IQ but all I really want is to get them away from the miscreants [/quote]

Wow—-what an insult to all the children who don’t happen to get in but are great kids.[/quote]

There are a lot of great kids in the general classes. But there are also a lot of kids who don't care about school, and get in trouble a lot.

I was in advanced classes when I was a kid in Kentucky. One year, the school decided to mix the advanced and regular classes for one hour a week for "seminar", where we would read passages from a book and discuss. I remember reading an excerpt from "The Red Badge of Courage". When the teacher asked questions about it, no one answered. Finally I raised my hand and gave an answer about the meaning of one of the paragraphs. The teacher, who normally taught the regular classes, looked stunned, and there was a few beats of silence until one of the kids from the regular classes said in a robot voice "Translation please!", and the rest of the kids laughed.

That's the kind of stuff that our kids will be subjected to if they aren't in AAP. [/quote]

We are in LI and not AAP but it is similar. I have friends who have had kids in Gen Ed and LI, they all comment on the difference in the behavior and focus of the kids in LI vs the kids in Gen Ed. We see it at various activities were the different classes are mixed together.

That said, DS reports kids coming into his LI class bragging about not doing their homework and not doing well on tests. There are regular reminders from the Teachers that kids who complete their homework do better on the unit tests. He pouted a good amount during distance learning because we insisted he do all the asynch work plus the extras while a lot of his friends did not have to do the extra and some kids in his class did none of the asynch work.

There is truth to the ideas that the kids who are curious and end up ahead behave differently in class. It is not because the other kids are bad kids, they are kids being kids. But their interests are different and that leads to different attitudes in class. DS enjoys going to RSM because it is a math class where all the kids are good at math and enjoy math. The class moves more quickly and there are fewer distractions.

I would not call the kids miscreants or badly behaved or anything along those lines, they are kids. I would say that some of the kids are less focused and might not be as interested in school. More time is spent focusing and refocusing kids. There is a different level of focus in the LI program because the kids have to be more focused and the Teachers demand more focus. But that doesn't mean that the kids are more curious or interested in school. I can see AAP being more comfortable for kids because the kids in the class are probably more curious and interested in school work.

That said, I know one kid who was suspended in 6th grade for looking at porn on their computer in AAP, the kid had openly bragged about hacking the school computers to watch whatever they wanted. The kids were sharing hacking tips. There are kids who act out and are behind in AAP, just like in Gen Ed. It is not a perfect classroom and there is still bad behavior and imperfect kids. [/quote]

The best summary of why some parents prefer AAP.[/quote]

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