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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand what school your children are in where the not so advanced kids are slowing the AAP class down.

My child is in a center school in 4th grade and the teachers aren’t slowing down for anyone. They are going at the scheduled pace. Math unit tests are every two weeks and there’s a brand new topic every two weeks.

The kids who aren’t understanding the material don’t do well on tests and get a bad score. There’s no hand holding in AAP. I’m not sure I believe these people who are posting about how ‘watered down’ AAP is. It’s not. It’s a perfectly fine program for advanced kids who are focused on learning. If you feel your genius child deserves better it’s best to seek a private education. In an AAP class of 22 kids how many do you think are truly truly ‘gifted’. Probably 2 or 3? Maybe none. How do you expect to have such a small separate class? Even if there two or three AAP classes we are looking at most 8 kids! [/quote]

It depends on the center and the teacher.  My kid attended a center that was so easy that basically nobody dropped back to gen ed.  My kid's classroom spent an entire month at the beginning of 5th grade on negative numbers, because some of the kids weren't getting it.  My kid was sent outside with the student teacher and half of the class for a bonus recess on many days while the teacher did math remediation for the other half of the class.  My kid's reading group almost never saw the teacher, because she was working with lower groups all of the time.  My kid was always partnered with kids who were below grade level in writing for projects.  Even the AAP classes at the school spent an entire month doing dedicated SOL review and practice.  The kids had absurd amounts of free reading time or unstructured free time when they supposedly were researching things on their own but really were just hanging out with friends.  5th and 6th grade AAP math were exactly identical to gen ed math, just given one year earlier.  There were none of the special projects or M^3 or any differentiation upward.  The principal hates AAP and doesn't want them to get anything at all special compared to gen ed.  Feel fortunate that your kids attend a strong center.  I know someone will ask.  Mosby Woods/Mosaic. [/quote]

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