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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At most middle schools in the county, there will be about 20% in AAP, 80% gen ed. There are exception.  For example, Luther Jackson is about 50% AAP, but that is because they are the only center that serves Madison, and possibly Oakton.  When they finish the renovations at thoreau, The madison students will probably go to Thoreau.

Here is the problem:  you, the sanctimonious one, are failing to look at the big picture.  THIS IS TEMPORARY.  The Louise Archer kids that made AAP so big at CR will not be at the same middle school; they will go to Luther Jackson, Thoreau or Kilmer.

As for your attitude, your selfishness truly amazes me.  I mean, you chose to live in Colvin Run, which has been an AAP center for quite a while (maybe since it was built?).

Because your brat, I mean snowflake did not get in to AAP, you want to torch a system that works.  Maybe the problem is your kid [/quote]

Thank you for demonstrating just how ugly and self-serving the typical AAP parent is.  Wow.[/quote]

Not the PP, but really?  Because the crazy CR mom has called AAP parents selfish, and said that AAP kids are snowflakes, brats, and all that is wrong with the AAP system.  Pretty much on every thread on a daily basis. Most AAP posters are just too restrained/ nice to fight back, or say what we are all thinking, which is that you think your child should have been selected for AAP, are are pissed that  s/he was not. Otherwise, you would confine your posts to the issues at your school-- in relevant threads, rather than attacking everything and everyone associated with AAP in every thread.  And really, people who act like this take a lot of sympathy away from your legitimate concerns about legitimate problems, like the situation in the 6th grade at CR.  [/quote]

Again:  WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?  FFS.  There are several parents from Colvin Run who post here, not just one.  You seem to be addressing all your posts to this one person.  My kids don't even go to CR (they unfortunately attend another center), but I agree with every word these people have to say.  I haven't seen [b]anyone [/b]call AAP kids brats, but I sure did see the recent post calling GE kids brats.  Seems that's ok by you.  And to say that "most AAP posters are just too restrained/nice to fight back" was hysterical.  Some of the nastiest posters on DCUM are the AAP parents right here on this forum.

As for me, I'm not at all upset that my child wasn't selected for AAP.  I never assumed s/he would be, so that wasn't an issue.  The issue arises when the GE classes are depleted because of pushy parents clamoring, appealing, and WISC-ing their kids into AAP.

The problem I and other parents have with AAP is the entitlement mentality that so many parents involved with this program have.  If this were a private school, no problem.  But as it's a public school system, many of us are fed up with this one program taking up so much bandwidth.  And by the way:  the thread title is "One Compelling Reason Centers Need to Go," so those anti-center posts you're talking about are perfectly relevant here.  I can think of far more than one reason and I'm not going to be intimidated by you or anyone else into keeping quiet about it.  The basic reasons centers need to go have to do with all centers, not just CR.  [/quote]

[b]I am the PP that called the poster's kid a brat.  That was mostly because, well, I have never met the kids, so I can't say.  I figured, though, anyone raised by someone so dense they could be considered a black-hole, or to be more generous, a Neutron Star, had to have raised snowflakes, aka DCUM speak for brat.  [/b]

My complaint remains unanswered:  The Neutron Star is looking at a combination of two anomalous events:  the 2013 surge due to ridiculously high CogAT scores in some populations, and 2) the extreme overcrowding at Louise Archer.  Both issues have been dealt with; however, with a goal to minimize the impact on the students, many kids were grandfathered in.

Perhaps, though, there is an issue with the administration at CR in favoring the center kids over the gen-Ed population?  That is grounds to work through the PTA and school system, not to [b]torch a system that is functioning at the 95% level.
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At Louise Archer, I never saw any harm to the GenEd kids, except for the extreme overcrowding of the school (which has improved significantly; now it is just overcrowded).

But, without AAP, my DD would have always been one of the top 3-5 kids in every class.  She would have become bored with the worksheets, and would have become disruptive.  If we had LLIV, at her school, there would have been one class, and she would have been with the same students from 3-6.  On the other hand, her arch-nemesis would have never gone to LA.

[b]The biggest problem with the system, though, is people like the Neutron Star, who apparently chose the school because of the good test scores (great Schools ranking?) without looking at why.  Centers have better SOL pass rates because AAP kids are, on average, significantly smarter than non-AAP kids.  So, they will tend to pass and a near 100% rate with little effort.  [/b]

(Side comment:  TJ has a 100% SOL pass rate because they only take kids from the top 6% of the county.)[/quote]

You sound like a charmer.  Perhaps you don't realize that many people didn't "choose" Colvin Run?  It became our base school when it was built and boundaries changed.  Great Falls Elementary was our base school until this boundary change occurred.  So your silly theory that most people choose CR due to its high test scores is simply untrue for almost everyone I know.  The school was assigned to us.  I would never in a million years choose to send my children to center schools.

It's amusing that you claim the AAP system is functioning at "the 95% level."  How on earth would you know?  You complain about those of us who are unhappy with how AAP is implemented at our centers, yet all you can say is that your own center (Louise Archer) seems to be just fine to you.  So essentially, you're doing exactly the same thing - saying your little corner of the world is just peachy, so everyone else's must be too.  Hypocrite.

Your comment that "AAP kids are, on average, significantly smarter than non-AAP kids" just makes it clear to all what a boor you are.  Most educated, informed people know that the vast majority of AAP kids overlap with the vast majority of non-AAP kids and are not, on average, "smarter."  I know that's a hard pill to swallow though when you continue to insist that your own snowflake would have "always" been one of the top kids in every class without the magical nirvana of AAP.  And we certainly wouldn't want Larla to become bored.

High school will be a healthy wake up call for you though.  All of a sudden, Larla's going to be a little fish in a big pond and I'm wondering how on earth you'll cope with the letdown.[/quote]

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