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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I absolutely won't be signing that petition.  It's clear the authors care only about one group of kids - AAP - and will do and say anything to continue the favoritism shown to them.  So many families, including my own, have had it with the constant inequity between what is offered to AAP students and what is "offered" Gen Ed students (hint:  not nearly enough).  General Education students aren't given the option of either staying at their base school or transferring to another school.  In fact, they're given no options whatsoever.

Enough with AAP parents complaining that their kids have to "share" a classroom with Gen Ed students, and that the AAP kids "need" a special learning environment.  I'm waiting for someone to look around at the non-AAP kids and realize that they, too, might just need a better curriculum and some attention directed their way, and that these students are, for all intensive purposes, no different than the vast majority of "AAP kids".  Stop treating General Education students like second-class citizens and start realizing that AAP kids aren't somehow more worthy of extra funds and smaller classes.

As a taxpayer, I would be very happy to see AAP services cut.  Enough is enough.

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There are plenty of options. Have you considered applying for a magnet school or language immersion school?[/quote]

Let's say it agin, because some parents are slow: on average, AAP classes are larger, not smaller.  And the only extra funds are bussing (which many kids would use anyway) and testing (which all kids get).  There are no extra instructional costs associated with AAP Level IV (unlike levels I-III, which use resources for pull outs).  [/quote]

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