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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

1.  How exactly do you know that more than one CR parent posts on an anonymous Internet forum, especially if Your kids don't go there?  Are you Jeff?

2. 17% of the kids in AAP don't "deplete" anything.

3. You clearly aren't reading a large portion  of the posts, because there are indeed one or more GE parents who don't constructively criticize, but are just nasty about the AAP program, the AAP parents, and, yes, the AAP kids. [/quote]

1.  I know that more than one CR parent posts here because I'm friends with two of them, and I know which posts are theirs and obviously which posts are mine.  Therefore, the other posts are written by other people.  Get it?  I know it's difficult to comprehend that more than one person isn't aboard the AAP center fan club train, but it's true.

2.  17% (more is actually likely) when compounded into a center school create a ginormous imbalance between the few GE classes and the many AAP.  And because this thread is about centers, the center environment is what I'm referring to.  Not a typical base school.

3.  I've read every one of these posts, though I don't chime in often.  There are absolutely some ugly comments written by AAP parents about GE kids.  Please don't pretend it's only GE parents.  [/quote]

[b]Even more reason why I feel like I should disqualify a lot of the anti-AAP comments.[/b] I just really feel like Langley is their own little bubble and doesn't speak for FCPS as a whole. So if they want to do something different for their pyramid because of the huge numbers of AAP students which FCPS has also agreed to, go right ahead, but don't drag down the rest of FCPS with you. You don't speak for all of FCPS.[/quote]

[i]You[/i] should disqualify a lot of the anti-AAP comments?  Because you fancy yourself the arbiter of what is and isn't acceptable on these forums?  Umm... I think not.   :lol: [/quote]

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