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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmm, well, if you look at it, the AAP student is unable to access a service at his/her base school. So the student is provided transportation to receive the service at a center.

What "service" or program would the general education student be seeking at another school? None really.[b] The general education student is still able to receive their general education at the school which happens to also be a center for AAP students. [/quote]

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Which happens to be a center overrun by AAP students in many cases.   And don't even get me started on many of these AAP students  not "needing" these "services."

I think OP asked a perfectly legitimate question.  What if what they value is a normal school not infected with AAP madness?   Doesn't seem too much to ask.  Once again highlights the lopsidedness of current system.    [b]The forerunner of the AAP system, the GT program was justified on the basis of "gifted" students having special needs.   Hardworking bright students who are not gifted don't have special needs.[/b]   Hence, the bloated AAP system is not even support by Virginia state law.   [/quote]

Exactly.  AAP is not a 'special education' program, as GT was.  I don't mind having my taxes spent to support special education, on both ends of the spectrum.  But an advanced academic program for the non-gifted?  Including busing?  No thanks.[/quote]

I don't know about that since the majority of children in the program are consider 2E.  Basically "bright with issues".  The problem is the labeling of all of these children as advanced.  Many are special needs just not what most would consider necessarily  advanced academically but FCPS doesn't know what else to do with them.  Most do need special classrooms but a seperate school?  Maybe if it was labeled correctly as an alternative learning center.  I would humble these parents a little.[/quote]

This is a ridiculous assumption based on what?  FCPS didn't recognize 2E or keep track of students desginated as such until recently- after the AAP name change.    Thanks for advancing an unsubstaniated stereotype.  My DC is a 2E student and it has been an extreme uphill battle to get and keep appropriate services for him.  We have had to be the teachers and educators of the teachers and educators (with the support of the Asst Superintendent of Special ED).  Many AAP teachers are not experienced 2E teachers and many special ed teachers are not expereinced with GT students.  (Been there done that got the scars to prove it.)[/quote]

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