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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ I bet they don't think twice about dedicating their evenings and weekends to their kids' sports.[/quote]

DS is in LI and plays a rec sport and does Scouts. It is pretty normal for kids to have extra curricular activities. There is nothing wrong with that.

There are also parents who see school as the schools job and don't get involved in school because that is not their job. Some parents see it as their responsibility to be engaged in school and make sure that they know what their kids are doing and that the Teachers have what they need to work with all the kids. I tend to find that the parents of the kids the LI program fall into the engaged category and that the parents of the kids in Gen Ed tend to be less engaged with school. There is nothing wrong with either approach, they are simply different. And there are parents who are too involved in their kids schooling and parents who are not involved enough, but that happens at every school.

AAP is not a brain drain. There are kids who are ahead who deserve to have a chance to be challenged in school. Since we have decided that tracking is bad, Teachers have kids who are 2 years behind and kids who are ahead. Teachers need to focus on the kids who are behind to help those kids catch up. That means that there is less time for kids who are on grade level and no time for the kids who are ahead. AAP allows kids who are ahead a chance to to be in a classroom where they are engaged. It also reduces the Teachers in the Gen Ed class work load by allowing the Teacher to focus on the kids who are behind and on grade level. If we allowed for tracking, there would not be a need for AAP since the kids who are ahead and above grade level would be in the same class anyway.

But no, I don't want my kid who is ahead to sit in his ES classroom and twiddle his thumbs for 6 years while waiting for MS when he can move into Honors classes and finally be able to be challenged in school. I don't want the kids who are struggling and behind to feel like crap because my kid completes his work quickly and is free reading or coloring or doing whatever the Teacher says that he can do while the other kids are doing the class work. I don't want my kid to turn into a tutor to help other kids because he is done with the work early and has the time, that is not his job.

The complaint should be that Teachers are being required to differentiate too much because of how classes are set up and that it benefits no one. The kids who are behind are not catching up. The kids who are on grade level could use more but are not getting it. The kids who are ahead are ignored in the Gen Ed classroom. Teachers cannot teach to 6-8 different levels in the same classroom. It isn't possible. It is burning out the Teachers and it is not helping the kids. 
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