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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why parents with no AAP children spend their time on the AAP threads[/quote]

Many parents here, like me, have have kids in both AAP and Gen Ed.  We see the disparity and we how the program has been diluted over the years and with so many AAP students in a lot of districts, we're also confused with why we are still busing kids out of their neighborhoods.  [/quote]
That still doesn't answer the question.  How will bugging this board, for years apparently, do anything to address your confusion?  It just seems like an endless pattern of pestering to elicit a sassy response that allows ypu to remark how that's "in a nutshell" why you hate AAP.  So pointless.[/quote]

You assume that "bugging" this board, which I guess is any comment that doesn't applaud the handling of AAP in FCPS, is the only thing I or others are doing about it.

You also assume that a person who questions the wisdom waiting to open a center at a school that already has a healthy Level IV population, like Cooper, until everything is perfectly to the liking of members of the Cooper catchment area, while other centers are bursting at the seams in part to meet the needs of Cooper area AAP kids is the same person who hates AAP.   I've got news for you, there are tons of different people making these comments, as they should be, as it involves a decision about how to educate all of our children and spend all of our tax dollars.

When we get to a point where parents whose children are attending AAP centers pay an additional fee for that service, then you might have a point about why others would care to post on this forum.  Until then, you're probably going to have to get used to it.  [/quote]

A fee for service model has some issues-- a big one being that Level IV does not cost one cent more than GE, except busing. But Levels I, II, and III cost a big chunk extra, because you have an additional resource teacher. So I'll pay for private busing, when you pay for the level I, II or III resource teachers. And the actual cost of HS sports (including conditioning) and the real extra cost of having band and strings. And art. And TJ.  Etc. but, I'm sure you see the point.

Here's the bigger picture. Nobody has a problem with someone having an opposing viewpoint on AAP, when they have something substantive to contribute. But, your constant temper tantrums are keeping the adults from having a conversation. Your tax dollars give you the right to engage in meaningful conversation about the local public schools.  But you seem intent.on PREVENTING a substantive AAP conversation from occurring. And throw the same temper tantrum on every single thread in this forum.   That is out of line. [/quote]

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