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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I just troll, too....

when I fought like hell this past year to get the school board to change a decision re: our school.  Wrote multiple letters, showed up at meetings, etc.  And believe it or not, they did actually change their original position based on our input.

Thanks for playing this game.
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I absolutely believe they did. But not because you posed anonymously on DCUM. Because you became actively involved IRL. There's a huge difference. [/quote]

Not the PP, but isn't that what every single one of us is doing here (including you) - venting our frustrations on an anonymous message board?  As another PP said, why shouldn't we come here vent AND be involved "in real life" in changing policies?  It's so ridiculous to call someone a troll simply because you disagree with their opinion.

As the mom of two GE students who attend a center school, you'd better believe I'm also going to post on this forum whenever I feel like it.  I think AAP parents pay a lot of lip service to the whole "we're all one big happy family/school" mantra, but when it comes to the GE parents discussing their experiences at center schools, the AAP parents love to shoot them down with moronic statements like, "Why are you here?  It's kind of creepy for a non-AAP parent to be "trolling" or posting here".  Kind of exemplifies the whole AAP parent mentality.[/quote]

But I don't see the AAP parents consistently demonize the GE parents as we're often characterized as being driven, misdirected, self-serving. You don't see that?[/quote]

GE parents aren't the ones insisting on special schools, programs, and busing for their kids.  They don't act as if a public school system is there for one purpose only - to focus on the education of a select sub-group of kids.  Why should GE parents be demonized?  If anything, their kids aren't getting half the attention and resources that AAP kids are getting.  And if your children were in this situation, you'd be speaking up too.[/quote]

Take a deep breath. I am an AAP parent and I don't insist on special schools, programs and busing for my child. It is the system set up by the county and DD is part of it. As an AAP parent I don't act as if a public school system is there for the one purpose, to focus on my child and her classmates.

So when you lump us all together you are dead wrong. I do not lump all GE parents together. They are friends and neighbors and it doesn't matter whose kid is in which classroom. Whereas you, specifically, with your chip place firmly on shoulder should take this fight back to the administration. DCUM isn't going to help you practically and it doesn't seem like venting is good for you either, TBH.[/quote]

Then let me ask you something:  why are you here on this forum?  It seems there are just as many AAP parents "belly-aching" (to use one of the choice words used earlier) about keeping center schools.  Why shouldn't the other parents at centers voice their opinions on this forum as well?  The only reason we've been called "trolls" and other dismissive insults is because the pro-center posters don't want our voices to be heard.  And again - you seem to assume there's only one poster who feels this way.  There are many.

So why is it that it's ok for [i]you[/i] to vent your frustrations on this forum, but when the other side of the coin is expressed, we must have a "chip on our shoulders"?  Many of us HAVE taken this to the administration already.  Of course this forum isn't here for any reason other than to let off steam.  But that goes for you as well.  Mighty hypocritical to say that only some of you can vent here (if you believe centers should stay), but all the rest of us who want them gone, well, it's just [i]creepy[/i] that we'd come here!  [/quote]

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