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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school is having a field trip just for the AAP kids.  :roll: [/quote]

If you're talking about Keene Mill, that trip is organized and pair for by the parents of the AAP kids, and not every AAP kid even goes on the trip. It is not run or paid for by the school. 
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You're proving the point of the OP, though.  The fact that [b]parents and kids there desire an "AAP only" field trip[/b] shows that they're being elitist and promoting separation.  [/quote]

Without knowing all the facts you have jump to conclusion! Keene Mill AAP class has students from seven (7) feeder schools.  If few parents AAP decides to have field trip why do they need to invite other classes? Most likely parents from these feeder schools knows only AAP parents through parties etc. Maybe they wanted to keep group small, Maybe non-aap had their own field trip or didn't want to participate? Don't all field trips like these goes through PTA?

Do you get offended when scout troops has their own field trips and all non-scout students are not invited?  Stop over analyzing!![/quote]\

Just stop.  You're not helping your case at all, but instead you're reinforcing the idea that AAP kids need to be isolated from gen ed kids.  I would be horrified if my kids were invited to an AAP only field trip, just as I would be horrified if they were so isolated from the gen ed kids that they didn't count any of them among their friends.  If it's a party among friends, stick with that.  If it's a party only for Ms. Larla's class, that's fine.  Turning the whole thing into an AAP parents and kids only want to associate with other AAP parents and kids smacks of exactly the type of elitism from the OP.

Also, your analogy to scout field trips is poor, as scouts are a self-selected group with reasonably equal access. A better analogy would be a school explicitly having an "AAP only" scout troop, and then giving that scout troop preferred treatment.  Yes, I would be offended by that.  Let's face it: when even the majority of AAP parents think that what Keene Mill is doing is pretty shitty, then it's pretty shitty.  [/quote]

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