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Anonymous wrote:So, you are not even part of that community, but you find something so wrong with that field trip, because of the gossip that it creates.

You should run for the school board and really make a positive change.

You think the AAP program will last forever here and your little field trip doesn't make a difference. It does. Things change. I like AAP for the academic rigor it provides my child. I hate your field trip for the elitism it promotes.

DP. I'm not sure that AAP will continue in any recognizable form much longer, because of threads like these. Hyper competitive parents who think that AAP is elitist, because their kids did get in, or didn't get in, may bring about the dismantling of the program.

I hope that doesn't happen, honesty. But we'll see.

Anonymous wrote:Google the emotional needs of gifted kids and asynchronous development.

Being gifted is effectively a special need in that there are huge challenges these kids face related to the fact that they have such high intelligence.

Having a been a gifted kid, and having spent most of my time in undifferentiated classrooms where I truly was a freak to everyone else, I can tell you that those programs are a good thing.

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Anonymous wrote:PP, do you know which neighborhood OP is looking to move into? Can you speak for all of FX County?

I'm curious if OP will move to some schools rated as 1-5 on great schools, or is she looking to move to a neighborhood with school ratings more comparable to FCC. Maybe, since OP loves diversity so much she should move her kids to some school where 90% of the students don't speak English. That will provide her true diversity, and a chance to do a lot of good.

PP, also, if your kids are in HS, that means that they would have been part of the old program which was truly GT, and not expanded like today's program. And what's your school rating? From the way you speak, I bet it is 8-10.

OP here. Because of commuting proximity to our work, we are looking at the Pimmit Hills area, specifically, Westgate Elementary, Lemon Road Elementary, Kilmer MS, and Marshall HS. We are open to other suggestions/ideas. (need to be able to drive into NW DC). We are also looking at Arlington, but housing prices are harder for us there.

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Anonymous wrote:So, you are not even part of that community, but you find something so wrong with that field trip, because of the gossip that it creates.

You should run for the school board and really make a positive change.

You think the AAP program will last forever here and your little field trip doesn't make a difference. It does. Things change. I like AAP for the academic rigor it provides my child. I hate your field trip for the elitism it promotes.

Anonymous wrote:So, you are not even part of that community, but you find something so wrong with that field trip, because of the gossip that it creates.

You should run for the school board and really make a positive change.

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I didn't create AAP and I didn't prep my kid for it. When offered a slot, I thought about it a lot, and we ultimately accepted. I don't think it is end all, be all.

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Yes, and the reasoning is to provide a cohort to the students. If it's just some kids going to advanced math, that's not a cohort, or at least not a cohort as is currently being provided. All those posters who say that AAP was great socially for their child because they found their people, that's a cohort.

You may be correct that cohorts provide no value to any gifted student and that schools shouldn't provide that. That's what you're arguing for.

Now we're back to the elitism argument. If the argument is that kids "need AAP" to find their cohort, that's saying that AAP kids and non-AAP kids are not peers. It's pretty elitist to feel as if your child cannot possibly find peers among the gen ed kids, and it's also elitist to feel as if a middle-of-the-road AAP kid is different at all from a bright gen ed kid who missed the cut.

Exactly. This mindset isn't just "my kid is better at math than yours so needs extra work to challenge him" it's "my kid shouldn't even have to eat lunch with yours."

Interesting that you view it as elitist. While I love him to pieces, I think my kid can be a little dorky which is what I mean when I consider that he found his tribe in AAP . Other kids who like to read on play dates rather than play ball

There are dorky kids who like to read who are in gen ed. Your kid will find them. Why not give him some credit and let him develop that skill before he enters middle school, when it will only become more difficult?

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Yes, and the reasoning is to provide a cohort to the students. If it's just some kids going to advanced math, that's not a cohort, or at least not a cohort as is currently being provided. All those posters who say that AAP was great socially for their child because they found their people, that's a cohort.

You may be correct that cohorts provide no value to any gifted student and that schools shouldn't provide that. That's what you're arguing for.

Now we're back to the elitism argument. If the argument is that kids "need AAP" to find their cohort, that's saying that AAP kids and non-AAP kids are not peers. It's pretty elitist to feel as if your child cannot possibly find peers among the gen ed kids, and it's also elitist to feel as if a middle-of-the-road AAP kid is different at all from a bright gen ed kid who missed the cut.

Exactly. This mindset isn't just "my kid is better at math than yours so needs extra work to challenge him" it's "my kid shouldn't even have to eat lunch with yours."

Interesting that you view it as elitist. While I love him to pieces, I think my kid can be a little dorky which is what I mean when I consider that he found his tribe in AAP . Other kids who like to read on play dates rather than play ball

There are dorky kids who like to read who are in gen ed. Your kid will find them. Why not give him some credit and let him develop that skill before he enters middle school, when it will only become more difficult?

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Yes, and the reasoning is to provide a cohort to the students. If it's just some kids going to advanced math, that's not a cohort, or at least not a cohort as is currently being provided. All those posters who say that AAP was great socially for their child because they found their people, that's a cohort.

You may be correct that cohorts provide no value to any gifted student and that schools shouldn't provide that. That's what you're arguing for.

Now we're back to the elitism argument. If the argument is that kids "need AAP" to find their cohort, that's saying that AAP kids and non-AAP kids are not peers. It's pretty elitist to feel as if your child cannot possibly find peers among the gen ed kids, and it's also elitist to feel as if a middle-of-the-road AAP kid is different at all from a bright gen ed kid who missed the cut.

Exactly. This mindset isn't just "my kid is better at math than yours so needs extra work to challenge him" it's "my kid shouldn't even have to eat lunch with yours."

Interesting that you view it as elitist. While I love him to pieces, I think my kid can be a little dorky which is what I mean when I consider that he found his tribe in AAP . Other kids who like to read on play dates rather than play ball

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Interesting that you view it as elitist. While I love him to pieces, I think my kid can be a little dorky which is what I mean when I consider that he found his tribe in AAP . Other kids who like to read on play dates rather than play ball

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Yes, and the reasoning is to provide a cohort to the students. If it's just some kids going to advanced math, that's not a cohort, or at least not a cohort as is currently being provided. All those posters who say that AAP was great socially for their child because they found their people, that's a cohort.

You may be correct that cohorts provide no value to any gifted student and that schools shouldn't provide that. That's what you're arguing for.

Now we're back to the elitism argument. If the argument is that kids "need AAP" to find their cohort, that's saying that AAP kids and non-AAP kids are not peers. It's pretty elitist to feel as if your child cannot possibly find peers among the gen ed kids, and it's also elitist to feel as if a middle-of-the-road AAP kid is different at all from a bright gen ed kid who missed the cut.

Exactly. This mindset isn't just "my kid is better at math than yours so needs extra work to challenge him" it's "my kid shouldn't even have to eat lunch with yours."

Interesting that you view it as elitist. While I love him to pieces, I think my kid can be a little dorky which is what I mean when I consider that he found his tribe in AAP . Other kids who like to read on play dates rather than play ball

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Yes, and the reasoning is to provide a cohort to the students. If it's just some kids going to advanced math, that's not a cohort, or at least not a cohort as is currently being provided. All those posters who say that AAP was great socially for their child because they found their people, that's a cohort.

You may be correct that cohorts provide no value to any gifted student and that schools shouldn't provide that. That's what you're arguing for.

Now we're back to the elitism argument. If the argument is that kids "need AAP" to find their cohort, that's saying that AAP kids and non-AAP kids are not peers. It's pretty elitist to feel as if your child cannot possibly find peers among the gen ed kids, and it's also elitist to feel as if a middle-of-the-road AAP kid is different at all from a bright gen ed kid who missed the cut.

Exactly. This mindset isn't just "my kid is better at math than yours so needs extra work to challenge him" it's "my kid shouldn't even have to eat lunch with yours."

Anonymous wrote:^^^ Also, to add to the previous: Why can't AAP kids find friends during the advanced math and language arts classes, or during nerdy after school activities? Do they truly need to be completely isolated from gen ed kids to find friends or fit in?