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[quote=Anonymous][/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 [b]virtually identical in ability[/b] to those who were, you'd be singing a different tune.[/quote]

But you have no idea unless you live with the child and know their IQ, work samples, letters of recommendation, NNAT and CogAt scores. My kid is 2E and introverted and shy. No one who meets her is blown away by her. She's practically mute. Her GBRS in 3rd grade was low (8) because even her teacher was not impressed with her.

She scored in the 140s on the NNAT and CogAT and we got her IQ tested when we did a neuropsych exam. She scored a 151. We didn't even believe it. Nothing about her screamed gifted at the time. Even now I KNOW there are people who wonder why she was admitted to AAP, but you know who doesn't wonder, her AAP teachers and us now that we see the level of work she is capable of handling. We had a Woodcock Johnson abilities test done on her and she scored several grades above 3rd grade. Again, we had no idea because she was so quiet and never really ask to be pushed or showed she needed to be pushed. She's in 5th grade now. Been at a center for 2 years and she is doing great and even come out of her shell a tiny bit. Her teachers rave about her work but still comment on her needing to self advocate more and participate more, but if someone saw her and then looked at their precocious little star, they'd think, "they let her in and not my Larla? They let everyone in who isn't even gifted." She's probably the kid 1/2 of you think doesn't belong. [/quote]

NP here.  No.  She sounds like a kid I'd expect to be in a gifted program. Quietly brilliant.  Not [b]a people-pleasing above average child whose parents brag about how she has all 4's on her second grade report card and still get her tutors to keep up with AAP work[/b] that would be a breeze to a child like yours.  [/quote]

Nailed it.  This description sums up most of the kids in AAP at our center school.  [/quote]

Oh dear Lord...again the ridiculous overexaggertion.  Our center is our base so we've been there for 6 years. How can YOU know that most AAP kids at your center are tutored?  I know of literally zero. [/quote]

Well, let's see.  Our center is [i]also [/i]our base, so we've [i]also[/i] been there for 6 years.  We've known most of these kids since kindergarten, and therefore their parents too.  Many of the parents talk quite openly about tutors, sharing names, etc.  It's not much of a secret.   :roll: [/quote]

You actually said "most" not "many" have tutors.  Still a lie. Name of school, please. Let me guess...you won't say. [/quote]

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