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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^If you want to make snarky comment about my perception of the needs of my "snowflakes," who you've never met, I might argue that your GE kid is fine with a mediocre teacher who wants AAP but never makes the cut. I have never understood, why GE parents feel entitled to insult, put down and name call AAP ES students (who are aged 8-12, FFS, not adults), while AAP parents have to walk on eggshells to make sure they never suggest that GE kids just aren't that exceptional. [/quote]

Not the PP to whom you're responding, but you've got to be kidding.  You see it all the time on these boards - AAP parents insisting their kids are "exceptional" and that said kids "need" special teachers, special centers, and special "peers".  They argue that GE kids don't need the option to switch schools, as their kids have, because, well, they're just not as exceptional!  What could they possibly need that they don't get at the base school, they ask?  Meanwhile, it's perfectly fine with these parents to fully acknowledge their kids are getting a "superior" education than the GE kids - and that's just fine with them, because their kid is in AAP.  If the shoe were on the other foot, however, and their snowflakes were getting the short end of the stick, you can bet we'd never hear the end of it.

So, quite honestly, I don't see anyone "walking on eggshells" to avoid offending GE kids or parents.[/quote]

First, [b]my arguing that my child should have access to a special program is my own perception of what my child needs.[/b] It in no way insults or puts down your kid. Honestly, I'm not in a position to say what is best for your kid or kids. AAP parents are advocating for what they believe their child needs.  I do not see them belittling GE kids. [b]But parents of GE kids on this board seem to have no problem with taking a swing at ES AAP students [/b](not just parents or the AAP process, but the ES aged kids)-- with all of the your kids is not as bright as you think and special snowflake in a snow globe crap. Given the age of the kids we're talking about, insulting the children and calling them names crosses a line in my book.

Second, yes, I get that You think it's unfair that some AAP kids have school choice and your DC does not (base school Center kids have no choice).   But I have never seen a GE parent articulate how school choice for GE would work. Do you want a better magnet system? Charters?  For you child to be able to choose between the 2 schools closest to your house?  Everyone has a right to got to immersion (not lottery)?   If Centers are here to stay and AAP kids will keep havIng school choice, what choice do you want from FCPS to make it seem fair for your kid?  [/quote]

NP here.   Problem is AAP is too many parents' perceptions of what their kid needs.  If AAP disappeared tomorrow, my guess is all but a very tiny amount of kids would be just fine.  My oldest was in the program, but had it not existed, his intellectual peers would have stayed at his base school instead of all of them being bused across town.

Secondly,  like many parents on here who are critical of AAP in its current form, I also had kids in Gen Ed.  Kids, btw, who were received great educations in their base schools and have gone on to succeed as honor students in high school.   The problem with parents who talk about how their kids [i]NEED [/i]AAP, is quite frankly, that these parents haven't yet seen the rest of the movie.  They don't see how these kids who are told they are special from age 7 fare in high school and beyond.  They refuse to even acknowledge the inequity of a program that might find 1/3 of kids in affluent areas "gifted," while failing to recognize many equally bright kids from lower SES areas who haven't been spoon fed enrichment from birth and don't have parents working 24-7 to game their way into AAP.  [/quote]

I bow at your feet.  Thank you for these wise and sensible words.  +100[/quote]

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