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Puhlease!  You know full well by saying to someone, especially a child, that you got this because it is for smart, quick moving academically, etc. kids, anyone would have to interpret it to mean that those NOT having those characteristics are in. Gen. Ed.  If you really meant what you wrote, you'd then say that kids in Gen Ed. are equally smart, work fast, etc.  I've personally heard AAP kids say things about how other kids aren't in AAP and they aren't smart enough 3 times, this year alone.  [/quote]

There are obviously going to be some gen ed kids who have some or all of the qualities that are looked at for AAP kids. There are also going to be some gen ed kids who don't have all, or perhaps even some, of the qualities that are looked at for AAP kids. There are also going to be AAP kids who don't have all the qualities looked at for AAP kids; there might even be some AAP kids who have none of the qualities but I can't speak to that personally.

I guess I don't get the problem. If I say to my kid that kids on the A soccer team are the kids who are the best soccer players, the fastest kids, the kids with the most training, the kids who know how to play their positions, the kids who can intuit how the play is going to go ... No, my child does not then believe that kids on the B and C teams suck. My child's well aware that there are a limited number of spaces, and there can easily be kids on the B team who are excellent players and didn't make the A team for whatever reason. On average, the kids on the B team probably aren't quite as good at soccer as those on the A team. And my kid (a C team player) is also well aware that being on the right team for you is more important than being on the "best" team - whatever that is.
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