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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]The OPs question is soliciting negative experiences so take this with a grain of salt when deciding where to send your child ..[/quote]

And gee, let me see, that would weigh against [b]the multitude of threads praising the AAP experience[/b].  Hopefully, anyone with a kid smart enough for AAP knows how to evaluate these responses.

It absolutely kills me [b]how fearful some people are on this forum to hear ANYTHING negative about AAP[/b].  Just for the record my son had a great experience in AAP, though ironically his best friends are AAP kids who went to his base school.  So much for not having a group of peers.

I know of three kids, two girls and a boy [b]who have returned to our base school because they didn't like the AAP experience[/b].  One was pushed in in 5th grade because her mom thought she'd have a better chance of making friends there. The others I don't know why.

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New poster here. Not sure where these many threads praising AAP are...I see almost nothing but AAP bashers all over DCUM and then a handful of posts trying to balance things with positive takes on the program. As for your examples of kids moving out of AAP because it wasn't for them, please realize there also are also kids who move into AAP because their base schools couldn't meet their needs. I know three families who have done just that, -- moved kids who were bored from their base schools to AAP.

We're not afraid to hear anything negative; we're just sick of so many posts advocating dismantling of AAP from people who seem never to have had a child in the program. Full disclosure: DC was at a center all of elementary and MS as well and the experience was excellent, DC liked it and the quality of the teaching seemed great (DC's opinion, not just ours). Yeah, I can recognize issues in the program but it worked for US, at our particular schools.

OP, your post is a bit puzzling as you do, as someone else mentioned, see to be soliciting negative examples by the way you worded the post. Are you not really sold on the idea of sending your child to a center, so you're basically hoping for confirmation that it's a bad idea? That's frankly how it might come across. Not sure if you meant it that way.

I would find and talk to parents of kids currently at whatever center your kid would attend and talk to them. Every center is different. On here you will get a lot of posts from people whose kids went to different centers. And the thread's already been sidetracked with discussions of whether some centers meet the needs of 2E kids -- which was not your question.

If you havent' done so already: Tour the center. Visit the center. Ask the counselor to see you and tell you about the school. Talk to parents of kids who are there right now (and not parents of kids who were there a few years ago, or who don't have kids there yet but have "heard" this or that about it. Talk to your base school about what it can and can't provide to your kid if you stay at the base school. An anonymous forum gets you anonymous answers that may or may not be applicable to the particular center you are looking at.[/quote]

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