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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don't like AAP parents then why are you on the AAP section of this forum.  Please go to the VA schools area to discuss information regarding your school and class structure.  The only reason you are on this site is to make trouble and create argumentative points.  Find something else to do please.[/quote]

I am an AAP parent and while I like most of the other AAP parents there are some that are complete Jerks.  As are some of the GE parents.  I think the OP has some valid points, if you are an AAP parent don't act like if your child has to interact with GE kids they may catch a disease.

I have also been an OM coach, and if it were not for the GE kids on our team the problem would have never been solved, the AAP kids were too busy over complicating the solution, eventually a GE kid came up with a great idea, and once I made the team sit and listen to the proposal the whole team decided to move forward with the idea.  One of the AAP parents was very upset that her son's idea was not used and she sent me a nasty email about it, and how I should take advantage of having AAP kids on the team.  I spoke to her son about it and found out the reason her son never told us about his idea was because it was his mother's idea and he understood that outside assistance was not allowed.  I spoke to her about outside assistance in a non-accusatory manner and reminded her that we have a rule on my team that if kids fail to report help from their parents they would be kicked off the team.  She went to the coordinator and told her that I was being unfair to her son.  I had already let the coordinator know what had happened and the coordinator let her know that if her son was her team she would have already thrown him off the team for not informing her about the mother's outside assistance immediately.

Our team finished 3rd that year, the father pulled me aside at the season end party to tell me this is what happens when you ignore his son's ideas, to which I informed him that his son had told me it was his mother's idea.  The father and the mother got into a huge fight, she had apparently left that part out.  A couple of days later, after he talked to his son he called me to see if we could meet up for coffee, he apologized and said he was unaware that his wife had been trying to cheat and let me know that his son told him everything including that he was glad that I let him stay on the team after it all happened.  He did ask me to never tell his wife we spoke about it.

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