Kids are snarky too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. As I said it is not the kids but the parents hum...like you...that are causing/fueling the better than thou attitudes coning fron...yes... the AAP kids. Can't blame the kids - kids learn by example and believe what their parents tell them.

I am a NP.
It looks like you choose to hold on to your feelings of humiliation and anger and pass them along to your kid(s).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. As I said it is not the kids but the parents hum...like you...that are causing/fueling the better than thou attitudes coning fron...yes... the AAP kids. Can't blame the kids - kids learn by example and believe what their parents tell them.

I am a NP.
It looks like you choose to hold on to your feelings of humiliation and anger and pass them along to your kid(s).

You make absolutely no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. As I said it is not the kids but the parents hum...like you...that are causing/fueling the better than thou attitudes coning fron...yes... the AAP kids. Can't blame the kids - kids learn by example and believe what their parents tell them.

I am a NP.
It looks like you choose to hold on to your feelings of humiliation and anger and pass them along to your kid(s).

What are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. As I said it is not the kids but the parents hum...like you...that are causing/fueling the better than thou attitudes coming from...yes... the AAP kids. Can't blame the kids - kids learn by example and believe what their parents tell them.

BTW, I also said that I am very happy our neiborhood school is not a center school. No need for an elementary school AAP program for my child to be successfuk and brilliant! You seen to be the one with anger issues. I am happy no anger or dissapointment here that will only come if they try to make our school a center.

Our center school has provided countless opportunities for both our AAP and GE children. We are grateful to have it as our neighborhood school.

I'm glad you seem to like your neighborhood school, too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. As I said it is not the kids but the parents hum...like you...that are causing/fueling the better than thou attitudes coning fron...yes... the AAP kids. Can't blame the kids - kids learn by example and believe what their parents tell them.

I am a NP.
It looks like you choose to hold on to your feelings of humiliation and anger and pass them along to your kid(s).

PP you quoted: No humiliation and anger here. As I said I am very happy! Anger will only come if they try to change our neighborhood school to an AAP center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP. Your comments are really mean and kin to the disrespectful behaviors non-AAP kids are having to deal with from many of their AAP kid peers and neighbors. It happens a lot and it seems you are blind to it. Thank you if you are teaching your children respect and acceptance but many others are not. However, I have a hard time believing you are when you are telling the PP to basically get over it and move. This is not respect and tolerance. I have seen the behaviors OP is speaking about, my children have been targeted by it, my children have lost friends because of it. And honestly it is not the children it is the parents who are teaching this by leading their children to believe they are superior, smarter, etc... While most rational adults know this is just not true. Yes there are a small percentage of very "smart" kids in AAP and also GE. So for parents to teach their children this elevated sense of reality is a very disturbing behavior. When reality hits the fan and precious gets looked over for that favorite university, first job, or, promotion, what are mommy and daddy going to do then - what are these children going to do then?

There are a few kids in my kid's AAP class who are bullied by the non-AAP kids. Things like name calling, shoving, slamming doors in their faces. It actually happened to my kid a couple of times.

Do I blame the gen ed program? Do I lump those kids all together just because of a few rude ones? No. They are just a few mean kids and at the age where kids start to do not so nice things to each other. It happens in the neighborhood, at sports, dance, band, everywhere tweens and pre-teens gather. It is not unique to AAP.

Do I call them "precious" and "snowflake" and they myriad of slams directed towards kids in AAP? No. I don't do that either. Why? Because I am a rational adult who does not get my jollies off of saying mean things about kids.

[Anonymous]

You people are awful!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If your neighbor with AAP kids really do want to keep their kids together with their siblings and neighborhood friends they have that option to keep their kids at the base school. But they didn't so they might not feel as passionately about the subject as you do or as they lead you to believe.

As for the neighborhood kids remaining best buddies, that likely would not have occured even if the kids stayed at the same school. It is very natural and normal for children's friendships to change around 2nd-6th grade. At that age, they go from friendships that are mostly about proximity and accesibility (ie parent compatibility and friendship) to friendships that are more true and are based on shared interests and compatible personalities.

This happens with all kids and likely would have happened to your daughter and the neighborhood friends, whether or not anyone went to AAP. It is a natural part of tween friendship and helps them to form more mature relationships. You just associate it with AAP because it all happened about the same time.

While it may be "natural and normal for children's friendships to change" during elementary school, AAP speeds the process along with its segregated classes and centers. If the kids were all in the same school and/or classes, there wouldn't be such a stark division of friendships, and kids would be much more likely to retain old friends along the way.

You eo not know that.

Besides, if they were all at the base school but in a single local level IV class from third through sixth, it would be far worse of a situation.

Why don't you let go and move on? Teach your kid resiliance instead of a victim mindset. Friendships wax, wane, evolve and end due to all kinds of outside influences. Use this as an opportunity to help your own kid grow stronger and more confident. Stewing about it and attacking not only your neighborhood kids but also tue thousands of normal, wonderful and kind kids who just happen to be in AAP is not healthy and is not good for you or your daughter.

I'm not sure to whom you are responding because I'm the PP and don't have a daughter. There are quite a few people posting here who feel the same way.

[Anonymous]

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Besides, if they were all at the base school but in a single local level IV class from third through sixth, it would be far worse of a situation.

Agree with this. If the concern is "setting kids apart" and defining AAP versus Gen Ed, nowhere would that be more clear than in a LL4 school where the same class of Level 4 is kept together 3rd through 6th grade. Better to be at a larger school, a center, where there are multiple classes of both AAP and Gen Ed.

[Anonymous]

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Besides, if they were all at the base school but in a single local level IV class from third through sixth, it would be far worse of a situation.

Agree with this. If the concern is "setting kids apart" and defining AAP versus Gen Ed, nowhere would that be more clear than in a LL4 school where the same class of Level 4 is kept together 3rd through 6th grade. Better to be at a larger school, a center, where there are multiple classes of both AAP and Gen Ed.

Unfortunately, the opposite is now happening at center schools. There are only two Gen Ed classes in several of the grades - and four AAP classes. So the Gen Ed kids are now the ones having to be in class with the same kids, year after year. If it's not fair to do that to AAP kids, then it's also not fair to do it to Gen Ed kids.