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[quote=Anonymous]I just need to vent.  I was at a middle school event at my middle school this week, (which is not an AAP middle school, but does keep all the level IV kids together for their main classes.)  While at an Odyssey of the Mind  meeting for starting a team at the school (yup - geek warning) this one mother was interrogating this a 7th grade boy as to if his was in the AAP program.  The boy looked a little clueless (as I think most 7th grade boys look when adults they don't know talk to them). I have no clue what his AAP status is.  I know he is friends with my DS and they are in Hn. Algebra together (in 7th grade) and play on a sports team together (and was at our non-AAP base elementary school together).

Really, you are going to judge kids as to if they are AAP or not, still at the 7th grade level? I realize that OotM is a total geek activity, but your need to talk about what AAP level your kid is is not directly related to the creative problem team activities that happen at Odyssey of the Mind (yeah, I know many AAP kids do OotM, but it's not a requirement!).

But why in meeting a kid for the first time do you need to ask him his AAP status? You just re-affirmed for me that the choice I made 4 years ago not to go to the AAP school was the best choice. I like all my DCs parents we talk about the whole kids.  Never have I seen such judgmental behavior at my base school toward kids (Judgmental toward parents, hell yes, but not the kids)

I know it's like when I get asked what do I do, but I at least know you are judging me, and can answer appropriately.

thank you 
vent over (or add your own AAP parents behaving badly here) glad they have their own forum so I don't have to deal with them too much![/quote]

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