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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]14 pages in, it's striking that GE parents hate AAP, but they can't really string together a rational reason. AAP helps the kids in AAP, is good for FCPS, is good for the county, probably brings in more money than it costs to bus the kids, takes nothing away from GE kids, except a subset of the students that the GE parents loudly disparage as unexceptional at best and socially awkward disruptive troublemakers at worst.  And, in general, the FCPS GE curriculum is very good-- stronger than most of the country and comparable to APS. So the problem is???

It seems like lots of DCUM over privileged helicopter type parents have bumped up against a major area where they can't buy or do "the best" for Larla for the first time ever.  With AAP in play, they have to settle for something less prestigious for Larla in the area of education. And it's not that they need FCPS GE to be better for their kid (or they would focus on that).  They just don't want there to be something perceived as "better" they don't get. Even if it's not better for their specific kid-- they still have live with their friends and neighbors knowing that they were not invited to the party.

And it's sad-- because the kids really don't care who has the harder spelling list or math worksheet. But it eats the parents alive, and they turn around and make their kids miserable. [/quote]

I would agree with this but for the fact that you don't shy away at all from ascribing a uniform set of views to "GE parents," as if all GE parents think and act the same.  It creates the impression that you'd be more than happy to band together with all the other AAP parents and have a good laugh about the angst-ridden, bummed-out GE parents whose kids didn't quite make the cut.

A more nuanced view would allow for the possibility that, DCUM diatribes notwithstanding, most parents of GE kids are find with their kids being in the GE program and that, conversely, there are more than a handful of AAP parents who bend every rule in the book just so that their own Larlas can be part of the AAP program and afford them local bragging rights.

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Mic drop.  Best post ever.[/quote]
Yawn, you have very low standards. [/quote]

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