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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hunt Valley or Orange Hunt.

Great neighborhoods, great people with smart kids that seemingly could care less about AAP. [/quote]

Wow, the anti-AAP attitude on DCUM is finally becoming, "I want to avoid any chance of my child being in a school with an AAP center even if my child is in general ed." Without regard for the quality of the general ed in that school, or the overall "community feel." Yes, center schools are also community schools with community involvement.

Seriously, OP, look at any school as a whole. AAP students are just kids, and in four years when my child has been in an AAP center I haven't seen the kind of elitism or crazed intensity that DCUM posters constantly claim exists in the kids and the parents. I just never saw it, and I spent a lot of time in the school every week working directly with kids and teachers.

[b]Don't make assumptions about an entire school just because it has a center or Level IV classes, and don't dismiss a school outright for just that reason. You might be denying your child a very good general ed program just because it is under the same roof as a center[/b].[/quote]

OP here:  Why would you think a Gen Ed program in a non-center might be inferior to GE within a center?  And I haven't jumped to any conclusions or made any assumptions here.  My child has been at a center school since kindergarten and while you may not have experienced any of the above (crazed intensity, etc.), I certainly have.  The children are constantly comparing who is in which class and it's not healthy at all.  So thanks for your advice, but I'll keep searching for a more wholesome environment for my child.[/quote]

Sorry you misunderstood but I do not "think that a gen ed program in a non-center might be inferior to GE within a center." I never said that above. I only said that there might be a very good general ed program at some theoretical center school but you'd apparently refuse to send your child to that general ed program solely because it shared a roof with an AAP center. That is not saying that somehow non-center general ed is therefore inferior.

It seems it would be more productive to compare general ed to general ed among schools if you have a choice of schools, rather than refusing to send a child to a particular school's general ed program [i]solely[/i] because it happens to be in a school with a center. In other words, it would seem to be more productive to seek out the general ed program that's best for your kids rather than focusing on avoiding another program in which you don't plan to participate anyway.

Those assumptions I said you're making aren't about your own school. You do have your own real observations there and the atmosphere may have been truly awful. But you are making assumptions when you dismiss any school with a center because you had a bad experience at [u]one[/u] school with a center. There are center schools where the kids and parents are not like you experienced.[/quote]

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