If you don't support the program, why are you teaching AAP?

Actually, I am an AAP teacher in a center school. And yes I have reviewed each kid's file. I don't care about their scores but what behaviors they display in class.....

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's insulting! Have you ever seen the kids' files? Do you know what scores they had? What WISC did they have?

Psssst.

She is not a real teacher. She is just playing one on the AAP forum.

She is really a bored mom just like the rest of us.

Yes, it's insulting! Have you ever seen the kids' files? Do you know what scores they had? What WISC did they have?

No, you're not an AAP teacher. You're insulting!!

Anonymous wrote:Lol. Nice try OP. Teacher...riiight.

actually it was pretty lame

Anonymous wrote:Center teacher here. Class of 28 and at best 3 are truly in need of AAP. The rest would be best served in gen ed. they are bright and work hard but FAR from gifted, what the program was meant to serve before it was so watered down. I am so tired of the parents who insist their children "need" aap. It is elementary school!

Center teacher - that doesn't mean AAP teacher.
Same old drivel posted ad nauseam by a few disgruntled posters with a burr under their saddle.
If you were an AAP teacher you'd know it isn't a "gifted" program.

Used to teach G&T in another state. Agree with the OP. The kids who really needed it were for the most part those who are now called 2E. Really smart, but lack practical skills or had emotional issues. All the other kids should be in basic tracked classrooms in a regular school. I don't know how tracked classrooms got to be such a dirty word.

*down

Lol. Nice try OP. Teacher...riiight.

The reason I hoped my daughter would get into AAP was because the gen ed curriculum has been so watered down with zero chances for creativity or problem solving. At our school 2nd grade was made up of mind-numbing SOL-minded stuff like spending two whole weeks filling in the names of rivers in the US on ditto sheets over and over again. The teacher said she had to keep going over just the basic facts until EVERY child could do it, even if some kids learned the material in the first day.
The AAP curriculum is really what the standard curriculum should be. And so many parents have pushed their kids into the center (because of the terrible gen ed) that AAP has been so slowed done it no longer challenges gifted students.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Center teacher here. Class of 28 and at best 3 are truly in need of AAP. The rest would be best served in gen ed. they are bright and work hard but FAR from gifted, what the program was meant to serve before it was so watered down. I am so tired of the parents who insist their children "need" aap. It is elementary school!

Preach!

Word.
+1000

Do you think they don't need to be in a gifted program or do you think they don't need the curriculum you're teaching. Is it way too hard for them or is it just challenging but with teaching they get it? Could another teacher teach 6 children at the same level as you are now while teaching 4 other levels in her class of 28? Would the 3 remaining children be better served by a center 30 minutes away from their home and a completely different curriculum? Contrary to what most people say on this board, the primary reason parents want their children in this program is for the academic challenge, not the status.

Anonymous wrote:Center teacher here. Class of 28 and at best 3 are truly in need of AAP. The rest would be best served in gen ed. they are bright and work hard but FAR from gifted, what the program was meant to serve before it was so watered down. I am so tired of the parents who insist their children "need" aap. It is elementary school!

Preach!

Center teacher here. Class of 28 and at best 3 are truly in need of AAP. The rest would be best served in gen ed. they are bright and work hard but FAR from gifted, what the program was meant to serve before it was so watered down. I am so tired of the parents who insist their children "need" aap. It is elementary school!