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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Welcome to the wonderful world of AAP vs. Gen Ed.  Enjoy your stay for the next six years.[/quote]

Were things ALWAYS like this? With parents on these boards going on and on about an alphabet soup of tests and "when will we get notification" and "should we get our child tested independently" and (worst of all) "how can I prep my preschooler so he gets into AAP"?

Maybe it was just our school and our parents whose kids were there, but kids were tested in school (we weren't even told it was coming and were never given anything on paper re: scores) and we were told if they were in the pool and asked if we were interested in a center (zero chance of anything in our base school except once weekly pull-outs). I never even heard of these tests by name until I saw this board (after my kid had been in AAP a few years) and I guarantee I never heard any parents, at our original school or at our center school, talk about these tests, ever. We were just told at the end of second grade, your child qualifies for the pool and here's what happens next.

This was in about 2008. And our original, assigned school was and is one with issues that mean it does not have many kids who go on to AAP centers, so this wasn't on the radar for most of the school. I just know that it was a surprise to me that so many parents are so focused on retesting, getting outside testing done, etc.[b] It just wasn't even something we were aware of at that time. Not sure if that's a function of our base school's quiet attitude about AAP, or if the times have really changed since 2008....[/quote][/b]

There was none of this in 2006 when my son was being tested either.  I do think times have changed and with social media and outlets like DCUM there is more information out there now.  (And more places for people who tend to stress about these things to go and get anxious with like-minded folks.  If you google AAP, you'll get one of these threads pretty quickly.

Hopefully, over time, or when AAP centers get so unwieldy or things get so insane that most of the programs are in base schools, some of this hyper focus and hysteria will go away.  Until then, I think it's sad that 1st graders have to have these kinds of conversations.  It's all parent-generated BS as far as I'm concerned.  As the supposed adults in this scenario, we should all be ashamed. [/quote]

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