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[quote=Anonymous][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]

What resources, besides busing, are AAP kids getting? The AART spends most of their time preparing 2nd grade packets and doing pull outs with Level I-III kids.  The AAP kids often have significantly larger class sizes, especially in Centers (DCs 4th grade class was 34 kids) and the classes are taught by a single teacher. They don't go on extra field trips or get extras in the classroom, like their own laptop or tablet.  Laptop carts are shared by an entire grade's team.  Academic extracurriculars in our school are PTA sponsored and open to all (and lots of GE kids participate).  The teachers get some extra training, but [b]AAP is a special Ed program[/b], and all special Ed teachers get this. So, please tell me, what resources is my AAP DC getting from the school that your Gen Ed DC, or a Special Ed DC is not?  [/quote]

The bolded, above, is just so ludicrous there are no words.  At one time, perhaps GT was considered a "special ed" program.  Today?  Absolutely no way.  Why do teachers need special training to teach utterly mainstream kids?[/quote]

But some kids in each classroom are.  Or maybe you'd like to have an LLIV program (no Centers!!) with one classroom per grade for just those you deem truly worthy-- all 2-3 of them. The problem with all the make the LLIV only include only a small fraction of the current kids dogma is that you end up with one teacher and 2-3 kids.  Which really does take resources from Gen Ed.  Remember, this debate started because they need to cut costs, not because they have star money around to lots of new teachers.  It sucks when ideology runs head First into economic reality, doesn't it?[/quote]

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