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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The postings I've seen aren't attacking. They are pointing out flaws with the current system. You're mistaken if you think all AAP parents have the same view how schooling should be within FCPS.[/quote]

Calling kids snowflakes and parents entitled is not "pointing out flaws with the current system." It's the grown-up version of schoolyard name-calling: Juvenile, rude and useless.

There are plenty of these posts attacking AAP and offering nothing constructive. They're usually the ones that refer to AAP students and parents disparagingly and insist that AAP just shouldn't exist other than for a tiny handful of students. They have offer no ideas for improvement (other than the disbanding just mentioned). [b]I can't believe they are parents with one AAP student and another general ed student[/b]; I would hope those parents would be more constructive than merely putting down the entire program, as if it were one single, identical, monolithic program that is identical across the board at every school.

Those are the "attacking" posters you say you haven't seen. [/quote]

Curious why you can't believe these parents might actually have kids in both AAP and GE and don't agree with your viewpoint.  I'm one of those parents and while I know my AAP child is a smart cookie, I don't see how it's putting him or the entire program down by freely admitting he's not gifted and would do just great in a (improved) GE setting, as would many of his classmates.  How is it insulting to say that your wonderful, funny, intelligent child isn't gifted?  I also think his friends who are in GE (and my other child, by the way) would do perfectly well in AAP as it is administered today.  The two programs just are not that different, however much you might want them to be.  And most kids in both AAP and GE are also not that different.

And now I'll just sit back and watch you people moan and groan about how offensive what I just said was.  Even though nothing I said was offensive in the least; just not what you want to hear.  [/quote]

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