Too many in AAP and the new F.A.T.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. I don't assume to know all about my friends' kids. I'm sure they have many talents and strengths. I'm an ex-FCPS teacher so my friends ask me over and over about their kids' DRA scores, math groupings, and report cards.

I used to teach at a school in a high income area back when many fewer kids were accepted into the centers. We were told to look for children who truly stood out from the pack and who were consistently 'outside the box' thinkers. In my classes, I would always have several kids who were working above grade level in all subjects but who were NOT outside of the box thinkers. They were high achievers but they did not need an AAP program. At my local school, where the majority of the class is English learners, my friends' kids do seem to stick out when they would have probably been middle of the pack or lower at the school where I worked.

Another issue is that if these schools didn't slow the curriculum down so much in order to teach to the test then more parents would be content with gen-ed and wouldn't feel so desperate to get their kids into AAP.

This is the most accurate and intelligent post about AAP ever written. Bravo!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

They're not better (even if they are brighter!)

[list]Exactly the proplem here.

Teach your kids to be smart and do their very best, to become responsible, caring, kind and considerate, honest, human beings not envious, backstabbing, boasting, rude, obnoxious, takers.

Could you further explain your meaning here?

Are you saying that children who are at the ends of the educational spectrum and need particular programs are "envious, boasting, rude, obnoxious, takers" and not "responsible, caring, kind and considerate, honest, human beings"?
I'm thinking that that is not what you mean there.
No one is saying that children who need special programs think they are better than others.
Why would we not want to provide an appropriate education to children with different abilities at both ends of the spectrum?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They're not better (even if they are brighter!)

[list]Exactly the proplem here.

Teach your kids to be smart and do their very best, to become responsible, caring, kind and considerate, honest, human beings not envious, backstabbing, boasting, rude, obnoxious, takers.

Could you further explain your meaning here?

Are you saying that children who are at the ends of the educational spectrum and need particular programs are "envious, boasting, rude, obnoxious, takers" and not "responsible, caring, kind and considerate, honest, human beings"?
I'm thinking that that is not what you mean there.
No one is saying that children who need special programs think they are better than others.
Why would we not want to provide an appropriate education to children with different abilities at both ends of the spectrum?

[list]Just read the thread and figure it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They're not better (even if they are brighter!)

[list]Exactly the proplem here.

Teach your kids to be smart and do their very best, to become responsible, caring, kind and considerate, honest, human beings not envious, backstabbing, boasting, rude, obnoxious, takers.

Could you further explain your meaning here?

Are you saying that children who are at the ends of the educational spectrum and need particular programs are "envious, boasting, rude, obnoxious, takers" and not "responsible, caring, kind and considerate, honest, human beings"?
I'm thinking that that is not what you mean there.
No one is saying that children who need special programs think they are better than others.
Why would we not want to provide an appropriate education to children with different abilities at both ends of the spectrum?

[list]Just read the thread and figure it out.

Can you elaborate on that?

Seriously, I can't figure out what is being said here, it is rather cryptic. Who exactly are the

envious, backstabbing, boasting, rude, obnoxious, takers?

Are they the children on either end of the academic spectrum who need special programs to be educated appropriately? Their parents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They're not better (even if they are brighter!)

[list]Exactly the proplem here.

Teach your kids to be smart and do their very best, to become responsible, caring, kind and considerate, honest, human beings not envious, backstabbing, boasting, rude, obnoxious, takers.

Could you further explain your meaning here?

Are you saying that children who are at the ends of the educational spectrum and need particular programs are "envious, boasting, rude, obnoxious, takers" and not "responsible, caring, kind and considerate, honest, human beings"?
I'm thinking that that is not what you mean there.
No one is saying that children who need special programs think they are better than others.
Why would we not want to provide an appropriate education to children with different abilities at both ends of the spectrum?

[list]Just read the thread and figure it out.

Can you elaborate on that?

Seriously, I can't figure out what is being said here, it is rather cryptic. Who exactly are the

envious, backstabbing, boasting, rude, obnoxious, takers?

Are they the children on either end of the academic spectrum who need special programs to be educated appropriately? Their parents?

[list]Really? Ha!