Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:23:45, I think there are several posters in that quote.
These were my questions:
As a parent of an AAP child at a center elementary school, how many new friends did your child make at the center who were not in K-2 with them or in AAP? How many of those new kids did you had over to your house during grades 3-5? How about their parents?
My AAP kid came in from out of state in an upper grade. Most of the truly new friends he made were the four other kids that moved in from out of state, who happened to end up in his AAP class. They were all the new kids, and new kids tend to hang together. They also had similar life experiences, which combined with proximity makes for an easy friendship.
The only AAP vs non AAP kid drama or exclusion he experienced was actually from a kid who we assume was not in AAP and did not go to a center school who proudly announced how much he hated AAP kids, even though he didn't really know any of them, and that he didn't want to get to know any of them and no one he knew liked them either (my kid was new so the other kid did not know he was in AAP) My kid asked why and the boy responded that he had no reason, he just hated them even though he didn't know any of them.
It happens.
Some kids are jerks and jerkiness knows no distinction between AAP and non AAP.
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