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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just got back from BTSN at CR where my kid is a gen ed 3rd grader.  It's really not that bad - or rather, I don't think it's that big of deal.  The teachers met with all the parents together to talk about the curriculum, and then we broke out into our individual classrooms.  The principal also came into our gen ed classroom to meet with parents.

I think when people listen to all the hype on DCUM, then no matter what, they are going to see what they want to see.  Maybe the opposite works for optimists, but I have had three kids cycle through Colvin Run - all in gen ed - and I have been very happy with both their education and social environment.   I have no complaints whatsoever.[/quote]

But that isn't what the pp said. They said only the AAP classes went to their individual classrooms. So which is it?[/quote]

Initially, AAP were to meet in their classrooms and gen ed were to first meet in the library, then go to their classrooms to meet with their teachers - there is a brand new 3rd grade teacher (as in, he's been there only 2 weeks), so they wanted to have the gen ed parents meet in one room so the more experienced teachers (who knew the curriculum and school norms better than the new teacher) could brief the curriculum portion of the presentation.  (My guess is that if the teacher hadn't been so new, both gen ed and AAP parents would have met in their individual classrooms.) In the end, the principal decided to have all the parents (AAP and gen ed) together for the curriculum briefing and then break for their classrooms.  Regardless, I don't think it's such a big deal to separate the AAP and gen ed briefings -- one AAP parent I talked to was super-concerned about whether her child could do the AAP curriculum, so I can see how the briefing could have been derailed by numerous questions about AAP that weren't relevant to the gen ed students.

I just think people are seeing conflict where there is none.  [/quote]

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