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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the real difference, and it is truly unfortunate, is in how the teachers treat the kids.  Kids in AAP and honors were given more respect and given more enjoyable work, while kids in gen ed seemed to be yelled at a lot, and given work often beneath them and then punished if they were bored.  Due to the team structure, these could be the same teachers but due to the labels the kids are treated differently and understandably start to behave differently and think about themselves differently.  Kids got in trouble in gen ed and sent to the principal for a small violation that an aap kid would not even be reprimanded for.  This is based on what my honors and aap kids have said- I do not have a kid in gen ed but I have observed enough to notice this extremely unfair and negative pattern as well.  [/quote]

Yes and no.  I do have a child in Gen Ed.  I haven't noticed much of what your kids have told you, but I do think the labeling makes teachers, consciously or not, treat the two groups differently - though I think it's more subtle than what you describe.  I volunteer at school a lot and I've certainly seen plenty of AAP kids hauled out into the hallway for misbehaving/disrespect, etc.  That group of kids, like any other, definitely has its share of behavior problems.

But the labeling of one group as "Gen Ed" does make that group of kids think less of themselves - how could it not?  Especially in centers where they're surrounded by kids labeled "AAP."  Somehow, it's become less-than to be working at grade level, which is bizarre.  It's a very us-and-them mentality, and not healthy for anyone.  I think it's unfortunate (to say the least) that FCPS sees fit to give labels like these to kids, most of whom aren't that different from one another, and who, a decade ago, would have been learning side-by-side in the same classrooms with no issues.  [/quote]

A small, but important correction, AAP and Gen Ed are what the different curriculums are called. The children themselves are not 'labeled'  anything. Students are not seen or defined by that one single factor. [/quote]

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