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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Yes, the pp is arguing that centers are unnecessary because 10 years ago GT students were "always" in their base schools. I pointed out this is not true.

The [i]point[/i] is that separate education (centers) for AAP kids is unnecessary.  They can be taught in their own base schools, as they used to be.  It's interesting that AAP parents think their kids need to be taught separately, but that it's just fine for the kids at the opposite end of the spectrum to be fully integrated in the General Ed. classes.  If it's fine for those kids, then it should be fine for the AAP kids.  Right?  Or are AAP kids somehow entitled to a separate educational experience?

I disagree.

You disagree with what part?  That kids on the lower end of the spectrum should be included in "regular" classrooms, or that AAP kids should be?  Because if we're going to push for inclusion of [b]all[/b] kids, then why should AAP be any different?  No need for a special learning environment.

I disagree with your post.[/quote]
I disagree too.  Dunno where you got the not-so-interesting idea that all AAP parents think its just fine for every child but their own to have the same educational experience.  Try again without the straw man. [/quote]

Gosh, I don't know... maybe I got that idea after hearing AAP parents demanding ad nauseum to send their kids to centers and have them in AAP-only classrooms.  Just a wild guess.  [/quote]
Wild as in reckless and wrong.  Hearing AAP parents defend their kids' rights to get the education mandated by state law has nothing to do with whether kids "at the opposite end of the spectrum" should be grouped in General Ed.  Why do you keep trying to connect the two?  [/quote]

Actually, the two have everything to do with one another and the fact that you can't (or won't) see that says a lot about your ability to connect the dots.  If it's supposedly ok to educate one end of the spectrum together with Gen Ed kids, then it should be equally acceptable to also educate the other end of the spectrum with Gen Ed students.  What makes you think AAP kids should have a [i]separate[/i] learning experience, but all the other kids should be grouped together, regardless of learning abilities?  [/quote]
Sorry but that's just dumb.  You are trying, desperately it seems, to draw some inequitable parallel where none exists.  Who says it's "supposedly OK" to educate the other end of the spectrum in this or that way?  You're the only one talking about it.  AAP parents have absolutely nothing to do with decisions about what's best for kids with other types of needs.  If professional educators believe "mainstreaming" or whatever you call it benefits certain kids so be it.  Why would you have a problem with that just because the same educators believe another group of kids benefits from being together in a classroom of their peers?  We understand that you don't like AAP kids having centers and classes of their own.  There are reasonable arguments to be made on this topic, but the one you're fixating on is not one of them.  Maybe try going down to the hospital and insisting that doctors treat hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia in the identical manner.  After all, aren't they on opposite ends of the spectrum? [/quote]

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