Dear AAP Parents

[Anonymous]

Your kids are great. So are gen ed kids. So are special needs kids.

Please keep this in mind as you make these "huge decisions".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kids are great. So are gen ed kids. So are special needs kids.

Please keep this in mind as you make these "huge decisions".

Don't need to silo them. Some kids are AAP in some classes and Gen ed in others, some are special ed and gen ed, some are AAP and special ed.

[Anonymous]

Mix all the kids, offer advanced classes to any child who is able to do the work, and regular classes for all others. FCPS won't really know who can do what until they let all the kids try. Of course, current AAP parents will just hate that, as they're the ones who crave the labeling and separateness that AAP creates. But FCPS has catered to them for far too long. Time for the pendulum to swing back to reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mix all the kids, offer advanced classes to any child who is able to do the work, and regular classes for all others. FCPS won't really know who can do what until they let all the kids try. Of course, current AAP parents will just hate that, as they're the ones who crave the labeling and separateness that AAP creates. But FCPS has catered to them for far too long. Time for the pendulum to swing back to reality.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mix all the kids, offer advanced classes to any child who is able to do the work, and regular classes for all others. FCPS won't really know who can do what until they let all the kids try. Of course, current AAP parents will just hate that, as they're the ones who crave the labeling and separateness that AAP creates. But FCPS has catered to them for far too long. Time for the pendulum to swing back to reality.

Oh, see you started off with me nodding and then you went to that attacking place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mix all the kids, offer advanced classes to any child who is able to do the work, and regular classes for all others. FCPS won't really know who can do what until they let all the kids try. Of course, current AAP parents will just hate that, as they're the ones who crave the labeling and separateness that AAP creates. But FCPS has catered to them for far too long. Time for the pendulum to swing back to reality.

Why do you put AAP parents together into one giant group of narcissists and make such blanket statements? I have one in AAP and one in GenEd - FWIW I've never craved labeling and separateness, I just want what's best for both of my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mix all the kids, offer advanced classes to any child who is able to do the work, and regular classes for all others. FCPS won't really know who can do what until they let all the kids try. Of course, current AAP parents will just hate that, as they're the ones who crave the labeling and separateness that AAP creates. But FCPS has catered to them for far too long. Time for the pendulum to swing back to reality.

Why do you put AAP parents together into one giant group of narcissists and make such blanket statements? I have one in AAP and one in GenEd - FWIW I've never craved labeling and separateness, I just want what's best for both of my kids.

Unfortunately, narcissistic is a great word to describe parents who insist that one "peer group" is markedly different (or 'better') than the other. It's nice to know not all AAP parents feel this way, but too many of them do, as evidenced by the many posts to that effect here on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

I don't think one peer group is better, but I do think the classrooms are probably better. I am wrestling with the decision to accept AAP level IV placement at the expense of racial and ethnic diversity and exposure to a perhaps broader peer group, which I think is very important. But I feel like AAP classrooms are very fun, engaging environments and I want that for my child too since it's being offered to him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think one peer group is better, but I do think the classrooms are probably better. I am wrestling with the decision to accept AAP level IV placement at the expense of racial and ethnic diversity and exposure to a perhaps broader peer group, which I think is very important. But I feel like AAP classrooms are very fun, engaging environments and I want that for my child too since it's being offered to him.

As with so many things in public education, it's all different based on the teacher, and there are great teachers at every level, just as there are terrible teachers at every level. Add this to the fact that the teacher who might be great for 90% of students doesn't do it for your kid. There's no one right path.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mix all the kids, offer advanced classes to any child who is able to do the work, and regular classes for all others. FCPS won't really know who can do what until they let all the kids try. Of course, current AAP parents will just hate that, as they're the ones who crave the labeling and separateness that AAP creates. But FCPS has catered to them for far too long. Time for the pendulum to swing back to reality.

Why do you put AAP parents together into one giant group of narcissists and make such blanket statements? I have one in AAP and one in GenEd - FWIW I've never craved labeling and separateness, I just want what's best for both of my kids.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mix all the kids, offer advanced classes to any child who is able to do the work, and regular classes for all others. FCPS won't really know who can do what until they let all the kids try. Of course, current AAP parents will just hate that, as they're the ones who crave the labeling and separateness that AAP creates. But FCPS has catered to them for far too long. Time for the pendulum to swing back to reality.

Why do you put AAP parents together into one giant group of narcissists and make such blanket statements? I have one in AAP and one in GenEd - FWIW I've never craved labeling and separateness, I just want what's best for both of my kids.

+1

[Anonymous]

Some of the highest votes for budget cuts is elimination of aap centers. Hopefully this happens the tax payer public has voted.

https://fcps.uservoice.com/forums/302115-what-are-your-ideas-for-balancing-the-potential-1/filters/top

[Anonymous]

I thought this forum is for AAP mom not the anti-AAP mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of the highest votes for budget cuts is elimination of aap centers. Hopefully this happens the tax payer public has voted.

https://fcps.uservoice.com/forums/302115-what-are-your-ideas-for-balancing-the-potential-1/filters/top

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of the highest votes for budget cuts is elimination of aap centers. Hopefully this happens the tax payer public has voted.

https://fcps.uservoice.com/forums/302115-what-are-your-ideas-for-balancing-the-potential-1/filters/top

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Not the PP, but I can't imagine what you find funny about this. Voters are trying to tell the school board what matters to them. AAP is not one of those things for most people.