Anonymous wrote:On the other hand, your academically excellent child will be one of the BEST at Herndon, while they were be merely average at Carson. Similarly, your child can into any enrichment activity or elective they want at Herndon, whereas it's wildly competitive at Carson. Thankful that my Carson child is non-AAP and a theatre/art kid. Less competition there, LOL!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have an AAP student at Carson this year and I met all their teachers before the school year. Every single one had 10-20 years experience teaching AAP at Carson. I find it hard to believe you get that kind of stability at most schools (but I can't speak for Herndon MS). Our elementary school certainly didn't.
Carson is an AAP center so it draws AAP kids from outside its boundary. They have so many they can offer multiple instances of most all AAP classes, which allows your student to more easily fit in the other electives they may want. It also had a reputation of being a TJ feeder school (more so before the TJ admission changes) so you have a lot of "tiger mom" families that specifically chose to go there. There is a much higher percentage of involved families who push their kids to do well. A lot of test-prepped and highly tutored kids too to make sure they made it into AAP and then to try to get into TJ. That may or may not be a good thing, just stating what I know first hand.
There are also a lot of kids who are not prepped at Carson who are smart and enjoy the Honors or AAP selections at the school.
Yes, mine is one of them. I just know that many of his friends go to RSM or AoPS or Kumon, etc. Usually the same kids that make some of the after school clubs so competitive to get into like Science Olympiad or Math Counts. They (their parents) want it on that TJ resume.
Your child thrives in the rich academic environment which is result of kids hard work and their responsible parents. Instead of showing gratitude, you envy them?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have an AAP student at Carson this year and I met all their teachers before the school year. Every single one had 10-20 years experience teaching AAP at Carson. I find it hard to believe you get that kind of stability at most schools (but I can't speak for Herndon MS). Our elementary school certainly didn't.
Carson is an AAP center so it draws AAP kids from outside its boundary. They have so many they can offer multiple instances of most all AAP classes, which allows your student to more easily fit in the other electives they may want. It also had a reputation of being a TJ feeder school (more so before the TJ admission changes) so you have a lot of "tiger mom" families that specifically chose to go there. There is a much higher percentage of involved families who push their kids to do well. A lot of test-prepped and highly tutored kids too to make sure they made it into AAP and then to try to get into TJ. That may or may not be a good thing, just stating what I know first hand.
There are also a lot of kids who are not prepped at Carson who are smart and enjoy the Honors or AAP selections at the school.
Yes, mine is one of them. I just know that many of his friends go to RSM or AoPS or Kumon, etc. Usually the same kids that make some of the after school clubs so competitive to get into like Science Olympiad or Math Counts. They (their parents) want it on that TJ resume.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have an AAP student at Carson this year and I met all their teachers before the school year. Every single one had 10-20 years experience teaching AAP at Carson. I find it hard to believe you get that kind of stability at most schools (but I can't speak for Herndon MS). Our elementary school certainly didn't.
Carson is an AAP center so it draws AAP kids from outside its boundary. They have so many they can offer multiple instances of most all AAP classes, which allows your student to more easily fit in the other electives they may want. It also had a reputation of being a TJ feeder school (more so before the TJ admission changes) so you have a lot of "tiger mom" families that specifically chose to go there. There is a much higher percentage of involved families who push their kids to do well. A lot of test-prepped and highly tutored kids too to make sure they made it into AAP and then to try to get into TJ. That may or may not be a good thing, just stating what I know first hand.
There are also a lot of kids who are not prepped at Carson who are smart and enjoy the Honors or AAP selections at the school.
Yes, mine is one of them. I just know that many of his friends go to RSM or AoPS or Kumon, etc. Usually the same kids that make some of the after school clubs so competitive to get into like Science Olympiad or Math Counts. They (their parents) want it on that TJ resume.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have an AAP student at Carson this year and I met all their teachers before the school year. Every single one had 10-20 years experience teaching AAP at Carson. I find it hard to believe you get that kind of stability at most schools (but I can't speak for Herndon MS). Our elementary school certainly didn't.
Carson is an AAP center so it draws AAP kids from outside its boundary. They have so many they can offer multiple instances of most all AAP classes, which allows your student to more easily fit in the other electives they may want. It also had a reputation of being a TJ feeder school (more so before the TJ admission changes) so you have a lot of "tiger mom" families that specifically chose to go there. There is a much higher percentage of involved families who push their kids to do well. A lot of test-prepped and highly tutored kids too to make sure they made it into AAP and then to try to get into TJ. That may or may not be a good thing, just stating what I know first hand.
There are also a lot of kids who are not prepped at Carson who are smart and enjoy the Honors or AAP selections at the school.
Yes, mine is one of them. I just know that many of his friends go to RSM or AoPS or Kumon, etc. Usually the same kids that make some of the after school clubs so competitive to get into like Science Olympiad or Math Counts. They (their parents) want it on that TJ resume.
Anonymous wrote:I have an AAP student at Carson this year and I met all their teachers before the school year. Every single one had 10-20 years experience teaching AAP at Carson. I find it hard to believe you get that kind of stability at most schools (but I can't speak for Herndon MS). Our elementary school certainly didn't.
Carson is an AAP center so it draws AAP kids from outside its boundary. They have so many they can offer multiple instances of most all AAP classes, which allows your student to more easily fit in the other electives they may want. It also had a reputation of being a TJ feeder school (more so before the TJ admission changes) so you have a lot of "tiger mom" families that specifically chose to go there. There is a much higher percentage of involved families who push their kids to do well. A lot of test-prepped and highly tutored kids too to make sure they made it into AAP and then to try to get into TJ. That may or may not be a good thing, just stating what I know first hand.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have an AAP student at Carson this year and I met all their teachers before the school year. Every single one had 10-20 years experience teaching AAP at Carson. I find it hard to believe you get that kind of stability at most schools (but I can't speak for Herndon MS). Our elementary school certainly didn't.
Carson is an AAP center so it draws AAP kids from outside its boundary. They have so many they can offer multiple instances of most all AAP classes, which allows your student to more easily fit in the other electives they may want. It also had a reputation of being a TJ feeder school (more so before the TJ admission changes) so you have a lot of "tiger mom" families that specifically chose to go there. There is a much higher percentage of involved families who push their kids to do well. A lot of test-prepped and highly tutored kids too to make sure they made it into AAP and then to try to get into TJ. That may or may not be a good thing, just stating what I know first hand.
There are also a lot of kids who are not prepped at Carson who are smart and enjoy the Honors or AAP selections at the school.
Anonymous wrote:I have an AAP student at Carson this year and I met all their teachers before the school year. Every single one had 10-20 years experience teaching AAP at Carson. I find it hard to believe you get that kind of stability at most schools (but I can't speak for Herndon MS). Our elementary school certainly didn't.
Carson is an AAP center so it draws AAP kids from outside its boundary. They have so many they can offer multiple instances of most all AAP classes, which allows your student to more easily fit in the other electives they may want. It also had a reputation of being a TJ feeder school (more so before the TJ admission changes) so you have a lot of "tiger mom" families that specifically chose to go there. There is a much higher percentage of involved families who push their kids to do well. A lot of test-prepped and highly tutored kids too to make sure they made it into AAP and then to try to get into TJ. That may or may not be a good thing, just stating what I know first hand.
Anonymous wrote:Isn't AAP level 4 material the same across for all schools? what makes one school's AAP program stronger than another school's?