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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think anyone would say that being in an AAP center program is a bad thing for a student who is identified as gifted, via the usual tests and observation.

I don't think anyone would say that special programs are a bad thing for kids with learning disabilities, autism, or who don't speak much English.

So leave those programs alone, as they are doing the job in helping meet those students' needs.

Change your focus to the kids in gen ed who desperately need the attention and more differentiation and more challenging work. Stop trying to blame the one program you can blame and still feel PC. It's misguided.

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This is a great point. ELL has to have as many kids as AAP, and certainly makes huge demands on the resources. Special Ed is smaller, but again, is very resource intensive. AAP cost nothing extra except busing. And certainly there is an argument to be made that it brings in tax dollars that more than offset it's cost if parents and business move here, instead of MD, Alington, DC, Loudon, PW County, etc because of AAP.  As the Arlington vs FCPS NMSF debate on the other thread (why is FCPS so much more successful than Arlington at having kids get NMSFs?). AAP also creates a successful pipeline to TJ and produces students who make the whole school system look good.  [b]Nevertheless, it's the program GE parents want to target-- because it looks bad to gripe about Special Ed and ELL. And because they aren't jealous of the kids in Special Ed and ELL. [/b][/quote]

Uh, no.  The reason AAP is such a target is because ALL taxpayers are funding this program, but unlike Special Ed, most kids admitted to AAP are not gifted and don't need special services.  No one is arguing that we need to do away with programs like Special Ed - obviously, there's a tremendous need for those kids to receive services.  Taxpayers are happy to help.  What we're [i]not[/i] happy to do, however, is spend money on frivolous programs for enormous groups of mostly average kids who don't need special intervention at all.  In fact, that "enrichment" we're paying for could easily benefit ALL kids, but isn't.  If calling inequity "jealousy" makes you feel better, then so be it.  But as long as we're all footing the bill for your kid's extra (and unnecessary) enrichment, expect some push back by those of us who realize this is a PUBLIC school system, not an exclusive private school within a school for some but not all.[/quote]

oh well! Get over it, it's not going anywhere. Thank God![/quote]

Glad you're appreciative of my tax dollars benefitting your child.[/quote]

NP here - Oh please...if your child was in it, you'd not say a peep.[/quote]

And if your child wasn't, but was virtually identical in ability to those who were, you'd be singing a different tune.[/quote]

I might be doing what I could to ensure my kid was admitted in the next admission cycle, if I felt they would do well with the program.  I would not be on DCUM insulting the parents and kids in the program, or saying all the kids in the program should lose the opportunity to participate.  Because I would have enough insight to realize that I was disappointed my kid had missed an opportunity, and worried that it would affect them down the road.  Neither of which was the fault of the parents and kids who were admitted.  Just like if my kid missed selection for travel sports, I don't come on DCUM and rant about how all travel sports should be eliminated.  Instead, I help my kid get the skills they need to be competitive the next time.  It's how kids learn resilience.[/quote]

This.  I wouldn't even be bitter that kids I KNEW got in who I would be surprised got in because I'd know that I would have no idea what their total file looked like.  You're totally guessing that kids in the program are "virtually identical in ability" to your child.[/quote]

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