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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]PP here.   I had kids in AAP so that's not the issue. Funny, how it's always the assumption that it's a GE parent complaining about AAP.    I just don't think it's a fair program that serves the needs of the kids it's designed for.  Too much spillover to kids who are above average bright (which ain't rare at all in these parts) and too many URM kids not identified and served. It's also damaging to neighborhood schools and communities.

Most parents of athletic kids, including myself, would happily pay a participation fee, so that is also a non-issue.  Also, it's fairly difficult to excel in the athletic arena if you aren't any good.  Unlike AAP if you get on the team but don't produce you'll find yourself on the bench or dropped.  AAP is in and done, even if a kid can't handle the rigors without tutors. So no comparison really.  Also, schools aren't in the business of providing athletic opportunities or acting. They are supposed to provide an appropriate education.   The lions share of funding for sports at our school, theatre and other extracurriculars at our schools comes from fundraising.

And if you're begrudging dollars spent on ESL kids you should be ashamed of yourself or go live somewhere without the diversity.  [/quote]

The fact that you would even suggest PP was actually begrudging dollars spent on ESL shows you're either grasping at straws or missing the point.     [/quote]

Go reread her message.  You don't get to choose what you fund, she says, lumping ESL with sports.

More importantly, taxpayers do get to choose that funds not be misallocated.   Using tax dollars to segregate schools along economic lines (and that's what happens in many AAP center s(McLean and Vienna) because the kids there are supposedly "gifted" is not an appropriate allocation of public school funds -- unless you think rich or prepped kids around here need deserve a special advantage in a public system.  
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