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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have also heard that about the  AAP centers.  That there are alot of very involved parents there, compared to some base schools.  Have other parents found that to be the case?[/quote]

I am the room mom of a 5th grade class at a center and it is my experience that the SOME of the AAP parents have been quick to send in money if requested, but will only volunteer to help if the help involves them getting in the classroom to make sure that their snowflakes are doing better than everyone else.  I have one parent who demanded in the beginning of the year that I bug the teacher about getting a group of parents to help with grading, etc.......Needless to say, I ignored her.  I DID tell the teacher about it, but she laughed and said, 'No thanks.'  The same Mom volunteered to help with the Holiday party only to wander around following her child and talking about him compared to other kids to anyone who would listen.  Another Mom calls me bi-weekly to give me her opinion on what I should be doing and what the teacher should be teaching (because, as room mom, I have the ability to go tell the nice lady with the teaching degree what she should be doing.)  The same lady demands that I call her after every e-mail I send out to discuss the contents (I don't, but I always hear from her).  Then we have a Dad who cornered me after Back to School night to discuss why there were not separate groups in Math for the kids who are even smarter than the smart kids.  They were new to the county, and I guess that he didn't really understand the role of the room mom?

Luckily, the majority of the parents ARE sane and I can't imagine that they are anymore whacky than other 4th grade parents.  There are obviously nuts in every group, but three out of 30 isn't bad.

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I also have a 5th grader in an AAP center and I wonder if we are at the same center. This describes about half the parents I have met at the center. It has been hard to connect with the parents because I am easygoing and don't concern myself with comparisons or other people's kids.  My younger child will be at the center also next year, and I'm hoping that the new 3rd grade crowd has a few more normals than the 5th grade crowd. [/quote]

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