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[quote=Anonymous]My kid is not a bully and usually stands up for kids being bullied. He has been bullied himself, but no more no less than any other elementary kid. He is well liked and has a  ice group of friends.

In my opinion as the mom of a center kid who is socially fine, one of the very best things about the center school format is that there ends of being a very high concentration of quirky, geeky, thinks out of the box, often twice exceptional kids.  They have a peer group. They have friends. They are able to go to school with far less bullying than they face in other school and social situations.  They have other kids who not only think at their level-because they are usually very smart-but they also have kids who struggle at their same social level.

And because they have a peer group, friends, and classmates who either have been outsoders too, or get used to kids like them because there are so many of them, they are able to develop at a pace and without torment so their EQ is able to catch up with their IQ.

Many of them end up well liked and well adjusted. They end up with circles of friends instead of none or just one.  Heck, some of them even become class leaders by the end.

I have a nephew with Aspergers who is also highly gifted. He is so very similar to a lot of kids in my child's AAP program.  I look at his public school experience compared to the kids in AAP who are like him and it makes me sad. I onlg wish he had access to an AAP type program in his state. I think it would have made all the difference in school for a kid like him because I see that happening every day with my kid's classmates.

AAP has many benefits to our entire school community. And this is one of them.

I hope they really tread carefully and do not throw the baby out with the bathwater when planning for the future of AAP.[/quote]

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