Why I hate AAP Parents - vent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:again who cares about AAP

everybody gets put back together again after it ends in Middle School

It does absolutely nothing long term for anyone

tons of people.
Do you know where we should go to get our WISC?
How much supplemental info should I sub,it for our appeal?

As far as all going back together for high school, grades 3-8 are super important academically.

If your child did not make the cut, do him/her a favor and don't set them up to fail at an AAP center. Nor drag down the environment for the kids that belong there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What makes a student "gifted"? This study says we're getting it wrong.

http://www.vox.com/2014/9/24/6835643/gifted-education-classrooms-nber-study

Unfortunately, the people who most want to keep AAP are the parents of these students. It's a way for them to feel their bright children are something special academically even if they're not gifted. I had a gifted child (and all the challenges that entailed), but had the GT program he was in disappeared, I wouldn't have fought for it. It was nice to have, but he would still have been off the charts smart and special without it and not had his intelligence diminished without it.

any parent who doesn't feel that AAP should be relabeled special ed, doesn't really have that bright of a kid. I love my AAP off the charts kid, but really it's difficult to be an outlier no matter what tail you are on.

We are wrong to assume that kids not in AAP are dumb. My son is not in AAP and I know why he is not (if I push him hard he will make it). He likes to be him playing enjoying life as opposed to my daughter who is a geek, each one is different and one day both my kids are going to make us proud in their own way and that is all that matters to us. This AAP madness in here in fairfax rest of the country is pretty sane we moved from a different state BTW.

You can't use logic on most DCUM AAP parents. Many (not all of us) are the jerks that this thread was started about. Their AAP/TJ kid will probably end up working for a West Springfield, or Woodson grad anyway because their parents tell them they are smarter than everyone not in AAP/TJ their whole lives and many of them while intelligent are not smart enough to recognize this is not true and people like that make horrible managers/leaders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Man yall are so stupid

Look I'm in my 30s-40s now probably like most of you

I was in the equivalent of Gifted and Talented in elementary school and I am assuming most of you probably were too and guess what. IT DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. NOTHING. I even was a grade ahead in math and again NOTHING NO IMPACT on anything longterm.

Who F^&*ING cares what grade you take Algebra I in

And for the bleeding heart liberals out there. Keeping the smart kids with everyone else actually INCREASES the "smartness" of the other kids in the classroom and DOESN"T harm your precious snowflakes

What will harm your precious snowflakes..... obsessing about this AAP and TJ bs. Let your kid have a normal childhood.

Bringing up the bottom is true if you have a critical mass of kids at higher end of the spectrum in the classroom. I'm not a fan of
The centers. Having said that, my advanced reader stopped liking to read in class because of the attention (not necessarily positive) he was getting from his peers. That was a classroom admin problem that teachers had a hard time dealing with. There is a lot going on especially at a Title I school. Reluctantly I put that kid into an AAP center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man yall are so stupid

Look I'm in my 30s-40s now probably like most of you

I was in the equivalent of Gifted and Talented in elementary school and I am assuming most of you probably were too and guess what. IT DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. NOTHING. I even was a grade ahead in math and again NOTHING NO IMPACT on anything longterm.

Who F^&*ING cares what grade you take Algebra I in

And for the bleeding heart liberals out there. Keeping the smart kids with everyone else actually INCREASES the "smartness" of the other kids in the classroom and DOESN"T harm your precious snowflakes

What will harm your precious snowflakes..... obsessing about this AAP and TJ bs. Let your kid have a normal childhood.

Bringing up the bottom is true if you have a critical mass of kids at higher end of the spectrum in the classroom. I'm not a fan of
The centers. Having said that, my advanced reader stopped liking to read in class because of the attention (not necessarily positive) he was getting from his peers. That was a classroom admin problem that teachers had a hard time dealing with. There is a lot going on especially at a Title I school. Reluctantly I put that kid into an AAP center.

Reading level is not one of the determinants for determining AAP eligibility. My DC was well below grade level in reading (dyslexia) and qualified for AAP. reading is a skill and not a reliable way to determine intellectual ability.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Bringing up the bottom is true if you have a critical mass of kids at higher end of the spectrum in the classroom. I'm not a fan of
The centers. Having said that, my advanced reader stopped liking to read in class because of the attention (not necessarily positive) he was getting from his peers. That was a classroom admin problem that teachers had a hard time dealing with. There is a lot going on especially at a Title I school. Reluctantly I put that kid into an AAP center.

Reading level is not one of the determinants for determining AAP eligibility. My DC was well below grade level in reading (dyslexia) and qualified for AAP. reading is a skill and not a reliable way to determine intellectual ability.

Do the posters even read before they respond. Yet another example of the OPs reason that hating some AAP parents is justified.

The GE classmates were giving the son of the first parent quoted a hard time about reading so much so her son started reading less. She sent her son to a Center hoping to change the environment. Things did not go perfectly. For god sakes take a few minutes to actually digest what you are reading before ignorantly posting something in response, this will make it less likely that you give the rest of us a bad reputation and giving people a reason to post about hating us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Man yall are so stupid

Look I'm in my 30s-40s now probably like most of you

I was in the equivalent of Gifted and Talented in elementary school and I am assuming most of you probably were too and guess what. IT DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. NOTHING. I even was a grade ahead in math and again NOTHING NO IMPACT on anything longterm.

Who F^&*ING cares what grade you take Algebra I in

And for the bleeding heart liberals out there. Keeping the smart kids with everyone else actually INCREASES the "smartness" of the other kids in the classroom and DOESN"T harm your precious snowflakes

What will harm your precious snowflakes..... obsessing about this AAP and TJ bs. Let your kid have a normal childhood.

70% of the kids at TJ are from a certain group. This is their normal childhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man yall are so stupid

Look I'm in my 30s-40s now probably like most of you

I was in the equivalent of Gifted and Talented in elementary school and I am assuming most of you probably were too and guess what. IT DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. NOTHING. I even was a grade ahead in math and again NOTHING NO IMPACT on anything longterm.

Who F^&*ING cares what grade you take Algebra I in

And for the bleeding heart liberals out there. Keeping the smart kids with everyone else actually INCREASES the "smartness" of the other kids in the classroom and DOESN"T harm your precious snowflakes

What will harm your precious snowflakes..... obsessing about this AAP and TJ bs. Let your kid have a normal childhood.

70% of the kids at TJ are from a certain group. This is their normal childhood.

Well stated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man yall are so stupid

Look I'm in my 30s-40s now probably like most of you

I was in the equivalent of Gifted and Talented in elementary school and I am assuming most of you probably were too and guess what. IT DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. NOTHING. I even was a grade ahead in math and again NOTHING NO IMPACT on anything longterm.

Who F^&*ING cares what grade you take Algebra I in

And for the bleeding heart liberals out there. Keeping the smart kids with everyone else actually INCREASES the "smartness" of the other kids in the classroom and DOESN"T harm your precious snowflakes

What will harm your precious snowflakes..... obsessing about this AAP and TJ bs. Let your kid have a normal childhood.

Bringing up the bottom is true if you have a critical mass of kids at higher end of the spectrum in the classroom. I'm not a fan of
The centers. Having said that, my advanced reader stopped liking to read in class because of the attention (not necessarily positive) he was getting from his peers. That was a classroom admin problem that teachers had a hard time dealing with. There is a lot going on especially at a Title I school. Reluctantly I put that kid into an AAP center.

Reading level is not one of the determinants for determining AAP eligibility. My DC was well below grade level in reading (dyslexia) and qualified for AAP. reading is a skill and not a reliable way to determine intellectual ability.

You missed my point. The Reading example was just one reason why we put our kid in aap. Kids were making fun of him for being smart and he no longer wanted to perform at that level. He wanted to fit in at school, and not made to feel odd because he likes reading more advanced thing. On vacation he's the person taking and reading the free hotel copies of the newspapers including the Times and WSJ. If not for this peer reaction at the base, we would have opted out of the aap center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Bringing up the bottom is true if you have a critical mass of kids at higher end of the spectrum in the classroom. I'm not a fan of
The centers. Having said that, my advanced reader stopped liking to read in class because of the attention (not necessarily positive) he was getting from his peers. That was a classroom admin problem that teachers had a hard time dealing with. There is a lot going on especially at a Title I school. Reluctantly I put that kid into an AAP center.

Reading level is not one of the determinants for determining AAP eligibility. My DC was well below grade level in reading (dyslexia) and qualified for AAP. reading is a skill and not a reliable way to determine intellectual ability.

Do the posters even read before they respond. Yet another example of the OPs reason that hating some AAP parents is justified.

The GE classmates were giving the son of the first parent quoted a hard time about reading so much so her son started reading less. She sent her son to a Center hoping to change the environment. Things did not go perfectly. For god sakes take a few minutes to actually digest what you are reading before ignorantly posting something in response, this will make it less likely that you give the rest of us a bad reputation and giving people a reason to post about hating us.

Thank you PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Bringing up the bottom is true if you have a critical mass of kids at higher end of the spectrum in the classroom. I'm not a fan of
The centers. Having said that, my advanced reader stopped liking to read in class because of the attention (not necessarily positive) he was getting from his peers. That was a classroom admin problem that teachers had a hard time dealing with. There is a lot going on especially at a Title I school. Reluctantly I put that kid into an AAP center.

Reading level is not one of the determinants for determining AAP eligibility. My DC was well below grade level in reading (dyslexia) and qualified for AAP. reading is a skill and not a reliable way to determine intellectual ability.

Do the posters even read before they respond. Yet another example of the OPs reason that hating some AAP parents is justified.

The GE classmates were giving the son of the first parent quoted a hard time about reading so much so her son started reading less. She sent her son to a Center hoping to change the environment. Things did not go perfectly. For god sakes take a few minutes to actually digest what you are reading before ignorantly posting something in response, this will make it less likely that you give the rest of us a bad reputation and giving people a reason to post about hating us.

My point was that she might not solve her problem. She seemed to imply that advanced reading ability woud be typical in AAP and her son would not standout. Ther are students in AAP that have reading issues too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Bringing up the bottom is true if you have a critical mass of kids at higher end of the spectrum in the classroom. I'm not a fan of
The centers. Having said that, my advanced reader stopped liking to read in class because of the attention (not necessarily positive) he was getting from his peers. That was a classroom admin problem that teachers had a hard time dealing with. There is a lot going on especially at a Title I school. Reluctantly I put that kid into an AAP center.

Reading level is not one of the determinants for determining AAP eligibility. My DC was well below grade level in reading (dyslexia) and qualified for AAP. reading is a skill and not a reliable way to determine intellectual ability.

Do the posters even read before they respond. Yet another example of the OPs reason that hating some AAP parents is justified.

The GE classmates were giving the son of the first parent quoted a hard time about reading so much so her son started reading less. She sent her son to a Center hoping to change the environment. Things did not go perfectly. For god sakes take a few minutes to actually digest what you are reading before ignorantly posting something in response, this will make it less likely that you give the rest of us a bad reputation and giving people a reason to post about hating us.

My point was that she might not solve her problem. She seemed to imply that advanced reading ability woud be typical in AAP and her son would not standout. Ther are students in AAP that have reading issues too.

No she didn't, you didn't read it carefully.

[Anonymous]

Do all AAP topics end up being about TJ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do all AAP topics end up being about TJ?

Since AAP is, essentially, the TJ Farm Team, yes.

[Anonymous]

So, after 8 pages of GE parents "venting" about why the "HATE" AAP parents-- 99% of whom they have never met, BTW-- is it now fair to start a thread called "Why I hate GE parents -- A Vent," and talk about the butthurt parents of special snowflakes who can't cope with Larla not being chosen for AAP, or whatever other stupid stereotypes are out there about GE parents. Because on this thread, it is the GE parents being hateful about parents and kids they have never met and know nothing about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, after 8 pages of GE parents "venting" about why the "HATE" AAP parents-- 99% of whom they have never met, BTW-- is it now fair to start a thread called "Why I hate GE parents -- A Vent," and talk about the butthurt parents of special snowflakes who can't cope with Larla not being chosen for AAP, or whatever other stupid stereotypes are out there about GE parents. Because on this thread, it is the GE parents being hateful about parents and kids they have never met and know nothing about.

Please, let's not.