Anonymous
Post 06/26/2014 14:30     Subject: Getting kicked out of AAP
Anonymous wrote:OP here: She's completed 4th grade, so two years in and, overall, a very successful student. She has pretty severe anxiety for which we see a therapist. We try to distinguish when her anxiety is a reasonable response versus her hyper-worrying. I was thinking it might help if (when she is calm) if I show her documentation that she won't be kicked out. She also has similar worries when she gets advanced in dance class, so it's not just school.


I'd check in with the therapist, but to me, it sounds like you need to treat the anxiety, not respond to whatever particular topic is causing her anxiety at that time. It's about developing tools to manage stress, any stress. If she wasn't stressed about AAP, it would be something else.

Signed,
Parent of kid dealing with some anxiety issues
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2014 14:23     Subject: Re:Getting kicked out of AAP
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:That isn't true though. We've known two families who've been counseled out of the program.


Very rare,, and the parents could have refused.


I know of two children who were having a hard time keeping up and the parents were strongly encouraged to return the kids to their base schools. One did, one didn't.