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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The “dismantle AAP” crowd are privileged white parents angry that their precious snowflakes didn’t get accepted into the program.

And LLIV is not Level 4. It’s a watered down version of an already watered down program that inevitably brings more children of various capabilities into a classroom and forces the teacher to teach to the bottom. The only equity achieved is that everyone loses.[/quote]

I am from one of those countries where some kids kill themselves due to the academic pressure. Yet, I never had this type of ES experience myself, or heard anyone else did. I never even had to take an IQ test of any sort. And I grew up in the center of competition craziness.  Just put yourself in the shoes of your poor children, eligible or not for AAP. The intent and the needs of a GT program is real—why it’s mandated statutorily. Reality is, AAP has been watered down to include 20-30% of total student population and became a social/class division. With this current model, it would be more beneficial to mimic AP courses. It’s available for anyone who can handle it, by subject (math and LA).  If you call it “AAP for all” sure, why not. As long as we continue this model, we cannot do better, as parents, students, and teachers. (What’s wrong with a teacher encouraging her AAP students, “You are in AAP, we have high expectation, you can do this.” Or a parent that wants and tells her child to be in that top 30%  academic cohort where teachers give that kind of encouragement? Damn, it’s 30%… not 3% or 0.3%. It’s almost like being identified for Realschule in Germany in 4th grade—that eventually goes to college rather than trade school and workforce. And for some parents this is the biggest fear—all they know is to study in school and go to college to get a job. They know no other kind of life or connection or entrepreneurship or old money.) [/quote]

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