AAP Forum

[Anonymous]

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/501321.page

Good evening Jeff.

If you have time, can you please take a look at this thread in the AAP forum?

OP posed a couple of specific questions about the AAP program, in a nutshell A) how does the workload affect activities and B) are there any parents who have sent one child to a center school at a new location while the other sibling remained at the base school and whether this caused problems between the siblings.

Unfortunately, like every other thread in the AAP forum, this thread immediately devolved into a prolific poster or two posting repeatedly about why centers should close, budget arguments, and how being a non AAP kid at a center just sucks. None of these things have anything to do with OPs questions. All of these things are discussed ad naseum in almost every single other thread in the AAP forum, including some very active threads currently going on that are specifically about these hot button topics, so it is not as if there is no other place to discuss those concerns.

From the verbiage and tone of the most anti AAP posts, it sounds as if many of them are being written by the same handful of posters, over and over, in multiple threads. It doesn't matter what the thread is about, because a page into it the same posts appear in every thread which usually do not have anything to do with the question being asked. It is redundant and makes that forum very impractical.

I know you can't monitor every post, but since those close AAP arguments are sooo far from what the post is about, would you consider cleaning up that thread so those who want to answer OPs question can do so without being drowned out by a tiny handful of repetitive posters (I assume is is a handful...is that a fair assumption?)

Thanks in advance for considering my request.

[Anonymous]

Incorrect to think it's a few poster. It's a common aggravation, these complaints re AAP. AAP itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Incorrect to think it's a few poster. It's a common aggravation, these complaints re AAP. AAP itself.

Well, then perhaps Jeff could add a sticky to the AAP forum for each of these topics:

-I hate AAP/AAP should be disbanded
-Kids in AAP are not gifted, just average
-It is upsetting to me that my kid is not in an AAP classroom and here is why

Then folka coukd duke those issues out there instead of turning every post into battling those topics over and over again for pages and pages. OP in the post linked here asked about two specific issues: activities vs homework at centers and whether anyone had experience sending one kid to center while the sibling remained at the base school. What she go was approximately 9 out of 10 pages of people who did not have answers or experience with either of those questions arguing once again about those topics listed above.

Jeff, it someone started a thread in the special needs forum asking about how their ADHD kid manages homework load and activities and if anyone had experience dealing with a sibling's feelings of not getting accomodations for extra time, homework support, etc, and a handful of posters with no kids with special needs and no siblings inbolved in special edjumped in and for ten pages started arguing that ADHD is not any different from any other kid and does not deserve accomodation, that the accomodations are unfair and upsetting to typical kids that do not receive the accomodations, that most kids with 504s are not REALLY in need of them and don't deserve a different education or accomodations, that special ed is bloated and a joke and most kids will do just fine in the same class as everyone else, and that it takes up too much of the budget and should be cut, and that only the most extreme of 99.8% of above of special needs students should receive any accomodations, would you let that happen? Would it be allowed to go on in one thread, let alone most threads?

It is one thing to voice those opinions in a thread on these topics (such as the current thread about identification) but in a thread specifically about a different topic altogether it gets very tiresome.

[Anonymous]

I apologize for the typos that make my post difficult to read. It is hard to proof read on my phone.

[jsteele]

Just report the off-topic posts (using the "report" button), preferably early in the thread. If I remove enough of them, people will get the message. It is very time-consuming to go back through long threads, but if you report the messages when they come up, I'll deal with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Incorrect to think it's a few poster. It's a common aggravation, these complaints re AAP. AAP itself.

+1
I love how the PP dismisses all of them by insisting it's "just a few."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Incorrect to think it's a few poster. It's a common aggravation, these complaints re AAP. AAP itself.

Well, then perhaps Jeff could add a sticky to the AAP forum for each of these topics:

-I hate AAP/AAP should be disbanded
-Kids in AAP are not gifted, just average
-It is upsetting to me that my kid is not in an AAP classroom and here is why

Then folka coukd duke those issues out there instead of turning every post into battling those topics over and over again for pages and pages. OP in the post linked here asked about two specific issues: activities vs homework at centers and whether anyone had experience sending one kid to center while the sibling remained at the base school. What she go was approximately 9 out of 10 pages of people who did not have answers or experience with either of those questions arguing once again about those topics listed above.

Jeff, it someone started a thread in the special needs forum asking about how their ADHD kid manages homework load and activities and if anyone had experience dealing with a sibling's feelings of not getting accomodations for extra time, homework support, etc, and a handful of posters with no kids with special needs and no siblings inbolved in special edjumped in and for ten pages started arguing that ADHD is not any different from any other kid and does not deserve accomodation, that the accomodations are unfair and upsetting to typical kids that do not receive the accomodations, that most kids with 504s are not REALLY in need of them and don't deserve a different education or accomodations, that special ed is bloated and a joke and most kids will do just fine in the same class as everyone else, and that it takes up too much of the budget and should be cut, and that only the most extreme of 99.8% of above of special needs students should receive any accomodations, would you let that happen? Would it be allowed to go on in one thread, let alone most threads?

It is one thing to voice those opinions in a thread on these topics (such as the current thread about identification) but in a thread specifically about a different topic altogether it gets very tiresome.

Perhaps you should have a forum all to yourself. You certainly do enjoy long rants about how AAP kids should be equated to special needs kids.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for considering my request. Sorry for the hassle. Please have a virtual beer on me.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for considering my request. Sorry for the hassle. Please have a virtual beer on me.

If you are the one making the reports, I'm probably not going to do all of them. When you say, "from here to the end of the page", the end of the page changes as soon as a post is removed. It also seems that you are asking for a lot more posts to be removed than I expected. I'd prefer to handle this moving forward rather than eviscerating an existing thread.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for considering my request. Sorry for the hassle. Please have a virtual beer on me.

If you are the one making the reports, I'm probably not going to do all of them. When you say, "from here to the end of the page", the end of the page changes as soon as a post is removed. It also seems that you are asking for a lot more posts to be removed than I expected. I'd prefer to handle this moving forward rather than eviscerating an existing thread.

Thank you for taking any time to look into it.