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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have several friends who have kids at a center school where some are AAP and some are not. The experiences that they relay is not at all what you are experience. In fact, they often recommend their center school to people moving into the area as a wonderful school. If what you are describing was happening to them they would jot be recommending their school to others or if they did the recommendation would come with a big BUT...

At my non center kid's school, the classes shuffle from year to year and my kids are never with their best friends.  It happens. No tears. It is all in how you approach things.

At my AAP kid's school, they shuffle classes as well from year to year. Out of the 3 AAP classes, my kid never had a single class with half of them. There were more non AAP kids my kid got to know/have classes with in specials, recess and after school clubs.

Your experience is not universal, and might be happening at some centers but not all.

If your childis crying over AAP you need to look at what role you have innher being perpetually and perhaps unreasonably upset about AAP for so long. Having this type of sustained reaction is not reasonable or healthy. You need to focus on what you can control which is how you teach your child to react to and overcome the hands that you are dealt.

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Oh, please.  Do you know how many parents are in this same situation and talk about it amongst themselves, and not with their kids, as you seem to imply?  It's amusing (and incredibly off-putting) that you can't imagine how you would feel if your child was the one in this scenario.  If the shoe were on the other foot (i.e. the choice of center schools offered to the General Ed. students, but not the AAP kids), you and parents like you would be furious.  So don't pretend this is an equitable situation and that GE students should just "overcome the hands they are dealt."

It's interesting to compare this to the outcry seen on this thread from AAP parents who are "frothing at the mouth" (to use a favorite, repeated expression) at the very idea of closing centers.  I'm wondering if centers do eventually close, will you be teaching your child how to react to overcome the hands [i]they[/i] are dealt?  Doubtful.  It's easy to tell people to suck it up when you're happy with your own child's situation, isn't it?[/quote]

I want my kid to stay at the base school: with neighborhood friends, closer to our house, shorter bus ride, not having to change schools in 3rd  But we can't get an AAP program there. I would love my kids to go to our base MS, which has a great reputation and is walkable.  But only 15-20 LLIV kids attend, so nowhere near a full team. If my kids could get the right education for them at base schools, I's be fine without going Center. And I would not have an issue if you had the option to move you child to a different school an educational program that met there needs: like language immersion, magnet, special Ed, etc. Delighted in fact. But-- wait-- you do have that option. [/quote]

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