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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole problem is that you are defending those mean girls.  NO one should bully other kids.[/quote]

Right.

For the record, yes a kid in grade six should step in.  Why should he sit by and listen to these girls be demeaning to their peers?[/quote]

Interesting that, on the AAP forum, a poster started a thread called "Why I Hate AAP Parents" and then a few days later a thread appears that might have been entitled "Why I Hate AAP Kids."  Lots of free-floating resentment out there against AAP that is being channeled in unproductive ways. [/quote]

Perhaps many parents have reached their limit with the superiority complex AAP seems to breed in many of its participants.  If the program were much smaller, you wouldn't see these kinds of problems.[/quote]

If the program were [i]more[/i] selective, the AAP students and parents would supposedly have [i]less[/i] of a superiority complex?

The logic here escapes me.  I guess you might have fewer insecure parents worried because their own kids aren't in AAP if the GenEd population were larger, and they'd feel less of a need to post crap about AAP all the time.  [/quote]

This is perfectly logical.  The original small GT program was very selective and it was understood that these were the kids who actually needed such a program.  Nowadays, with AAP, there is the widespread feeling that far too many children are in this program, creating divisiveness between students and parents alike. [/quote]

It's not logical at all.  Parents of current AAP students generally believe that their kids benefit from the program, or they wouldn't enroll their kids in AAP.   I understand there are some parents of kids who aren't AAP-eligible who are upset about that decision, and constantly look for new ways to express their unhappiness, but there have always been parents who felt the criteria should be adjusted to allow their own kid into the most rigorous academic program available, , and that will remain the case so long as AAP is around.    [/quote]

I disagree.  If the standards of today's AAP program were as high as they were for GT, then there would not only be far fewer kids qualifying for it, there would also be far fewer upset parents.  There are only so many kids who could make a high cutoff and parents know this.  However, when the qualifying score is lower, many more kids can attain it or at least get close enough to parent refer or appeal with a WISC score.  This just opens up a whole Pandora's box of problems. [b] Can't believe FCPS hasn't gotten fed up enough yet with all the angst this program has caused to give it a major overhaul,[/b] raise the qualifying score, and refuse to base decisions on anything other than the score of an in-school only test.  [/quote]

[b]There rally isn't a lot of angst. Just a few disgruntled osiers like yourself. [/b]
It is incredibly popular program; more people are worried about how to get in than those wanting to "give it a major overhaul."[/quote]

sorry about the spelling -- should be: there really isn't a lot of angst. Just a few disgruntled posters like yourself.[/quote]

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