Anonymous wrote:Not OP

I don't understand why ppl have to bash OP if the parent is interested in having the chind go into AAP? It's their choice. Its a competitive world and I don't see any issue even if kids are aware of AAP.
Just because you guys were ignorant, doesn't mean that everyone needs to be.

OP, forget the previous PPs, I would just send an email to the class teacher asking her the details. Go for it. Haters will always bash. You need to think for urself and ur daughter

AAP in FCPS is NOT competitive. Each child that is found eligible is offered entry to the program.

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP

I don't understand why ppl have to bash OP if the parent is interested in having the chind go into AAP? It's their choice. Its a competetive world and I don't see any issue even if kids are aware of AAP.
Just because you guys were ignorant, doesn't mean that everyone needs to be.

OP, forget the previous PPs, I would just send an email to the class teacher asking her the details. Go for it. Haters will always bash. You need to think for urself and ur daughter

First, please learn the definition of "ignorant" so that you use it correctly in the future. How are we, as parents, ignorant? Second, what should she tell her kid if her kid doesn't get into the program?

Choice 1: It is for smart kids, and you are not one.

Choice 2: They looked at a package I prepared on your behalf but you clearly had some deficiencies and they didn't accept you.

Choice 3: I can't believe they didn't take you! You're brilliant! We will appeal and, if need be, apply next year.

I didn't need to worry about any of the choices because my child knew nothing.

Choice 4: it's not the right school for your learning style.

After telling the child that it is an application process, some get selected and some don't, we are submitting paperwork on your behalf (which will indicate to the child that we, as your parents, believe you belong in that learning environment), your child will know that it is far more than just not the right school for him/her. (Additionally, that doesn't address kids who would not change schools because they attend centers.) Your Choice 4 is PERFECT as an answer for a kid who was kept out of the fray of the process and then happened to come home in the spring asking what AAP is because kids at school were talking about it. Choice 4 is NOT a good answer for a kid who was in the know, to his emotional damage, throughout the process.

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP

I don't understand why ppl have to bash OP if the parent is interested in having the chind go into AAP? It's their choice. Its a competetive world and I don't see any issue even if kids are aware of AAP.
Just because you guys were ignorant, doesn't mean that everyone needs to be.

OP, forget the previous PPs, I would just send an email to the class teacher asking her the details. Go for it. Haters will always bash. You need to think for urself and ur daughter

First, please learn the definition of "ignorant" so that you use it correctly in the future. How are we, as parents, ignorant? Second, what should she tell her kid if her kid doesn't get into the program?

Choice 1: It is for smart kids, and you are not one.

Choice 2: They looked at a package I prepared on your behalf but you clearly had some deficiencies and they didn't accept you.

Choice 3: I can't believe they didn't take you! You're brilliant! We will appeal and, if need be, apply next year.

I didn't need to worry about any of the choices because my child knew nothing.

Choice 4: it's not the right school for your learning style.

Anonymous wrote:Not OP

I don't understand why ppl have to bash OP if the parent is interested in having the chind go into AAP? It's their choice. Its a competetive world and I don't see any issue even if kids are aware of AAP.
Just because you guys were ignorant, doesn't mean that everyone needs to be.

OP, forget the previous PPs, I would just send an email to the class teacher asking her the details. Go for it. Haters will always bash. You need to think for urself and ur daughter

First, please learn the definition of "ignorant" so that you use it correctly in the future. How are we, as parents, ignorant? Second, what should she tell her kid if her kid doesn't get into the program?

Choice 1: It is for smart kids, and you are not one.

Choice 2: They looked at a package I prepared on your behalf but you clearly had some deficiencies and they didn't accept you.

Choice 3: I can't believe they didn't take you! You're brilliant! We will appeal and, if need be, apply next year.

I didn't need to worry about any of the choices because my child knew nothing.

Not OP

I don't understand why ppl have to bash OP if the parent is interested in having the chind go into AAP? It's their choice. Its a competetive world and I don't see any issue even if kids are aware of AAP.
Just because you guys were ignorant, doesn't mean that everyone needs to be.

OP, forget the previous PPs, I would just send an email to the class teacher asking her the details. Go for it. Haters will always bash. You need to think for urself and ur daughter

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Anonymous wrote:^^ or I should amend that to say someone has talked way too much about AAP in front of her. it's a sad state of affairs that kids are even thinking about this nonsense at ages 7 and 8.

My daughter surprises me with the amount of things she registers in her mind. It's not about AAP but other stuff too. It's probably that her teacher is very good at explaining stuff or the school teaching style. I don't remember grasping this much when I was @ school. But again I was in a country where the teaching style is drastically different....

"AAP" would only register in her mind if she knew what the initials meant. (You aren't born so bright that you know what an acronym means just because of your brightness!) Additionally, even a kid who happened to know what AAP meant, would have no idea what it would mean to be referred into the program OR that it was important enough to report back to mom what the kid heard. My kidS would be clueless about this (the first one, before she got into AAP and the second one, now a second grader.)

Totally agree. I've had three kids in AAP and they never knew anything about it before being put in it in third grade. I hardly mentioned it to them even then. I've had a few parents over the years talk to me about the conversations they have with their 1st and 2nd graders and my mind is blown. I've heard stories of kids running to the mailbox every day anxiously waiting for "the letter." It's so crazy to me that parents think this is appropriate.