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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AAP is open to any parent who can afford to privately test and push.  Does it mean their child belongs there? Absolutely not! so many parents push/appeal and so many students should not be there.  As a center AAP teacher I would hazard to guess that two thirds of your very average snowflakes do not belong.  No matter what you may think, they are not gifted or advanced. but please push to get them into AA P and make that program even weaker.[/quote]

Parents did not invent the system, the criteria, or the rules. The AAP group is what it is, even if you think it should be otherwise. I'm sure that the two-thirds of your students you feel don't belong pick up on your opinion of them and suffer for it. It isn't fair to them for you to remain in your teaching position if this is how you feel. For your own sake you may wish to move on. It sounds like you may have been teaching for a long time and remembering a bygone era. You may be close to retirement and feel you have no other options. But I would try to work positively in the new framework and come to terms with the fact that your job is now to teach the top 15, 20, or 25 percent and not the top 5 percent. That is the job.[/quote]

I bet this is my DD's teacher.  She repeatability lectures the class about how lucky they are to be in the program, and how some do not belong.  She lectures about working harder to make sure they pass(ed) the SOL's.  I am really hoping that the teacher is not back next year.   And not just for that, but also for teaching factually incorrect information in science.  [/quote]

Oh, my!  I wouldn't want my child anywhere near a teacher like this.  Which school is this?[/quote]

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