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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think  fcps should allow you to select gen ed if you don't want your kid in a center school.  Unfortunately if it is based on social issues you have to stay under doctors care an apply for a waiver every year.  Ridiculous in my opinion.[/quote]

You can always chose general education instead of center placement.  If the question is transferring schools, that is a different issue.  Nominally, the AAP center provides similar academics for Gen Ed as the non-center school.  In my area, Vienna, it probably is easy to get placement in Cunningham Park, but harder if not impossible to get placement in Vienna Elementary.[/quote]

You're missing the PP's point. He/She is saying that a gen ed kid should be able to select out of getting gen ed in a school that also acts as a center. PP wants child to be able to attend another school that only serves gen ed kids. The only way this can happen is if the child has a doctor's note saying there is some type of psychological hardship attending the gen ed/center school, or if the family has a childcare issue and can only get childcare in the catchment area of the non-center school. [/quote]

Yeah, well, good luck with that.  [b]I don't think Virginia recognizes the "hostile educational environment" cause of action for parents of GenEd kids who think their children should be allowed to attend out-of-boundary schools with no AAP students[/b].   I think the best you can hope for is that FCPS will expand the availability of LLIV at more schools, so that the AAP population comprises a smaller percentage of students at the existing centers.

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What, you mean "not wanting to go to school with THOSE kind of people" isn't a legitimate educational need? Shocking![/quote]

Seriously.  I mean, parents of AAP kids would [b]never, ever[/b], under any circumstances, complain that they don't want their kids in class with  Gen Ed students.   :roll:  After being told for so long that their children just aren't worthy of being "mixed" with the AAP crowd, it's no surprise to me that parents of Gen Ed students would speak out about wanting a much smaller AAP presence in their schools.  Why wouldn't they?  They've sat back and watched FCPS cater to AAP students for years, creating special centers for them and busing them there to boot, even when most already have LLIV in place in their own schools.  It's such a shame that FCPS has divided the kids in such a way to begin with.  They need to rectify this enormous mistake by eliminating centers and sending AAP students back to their own neighborhood schools.  Perhaps then, Gen Ed students who have to attend centers would begin to feel at home in their [b]own[/b] schools.[/quote]

Is railing against AAP in FCPS your full-time occupation?  Because you sure seem to post frequently, and with great bitterness, on the topic.  It is very hard for me to read your posts and think that you aren't passing a tremendous amount of hostility and insecurity on to your own kids.  In a few years, they'll get to high school and few people will remember or care who was in the AAP program in elementary or middle school.  
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If you prefer to avoid posts which bring up the all too real negative aspects of AAP, then please feel free to skip.  But rest assured, if the situation were reversed, I'm certain you would be the first one leading the charge against AAP.  As long as your child is benefiting though, it's quite easy for you to sit back and call others "bitter".   We do agree on one point, however: once high school rolls around, AAP becomes an insignificant memory.[/quote]

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