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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good.  It's about time.  It's a tremendous waste of money and resources.

"Base kid" is a common taunt at our center school.

The AAP students are so segregated and operate in their own rarefied air beginning as young as third grade.

Very much an "us v. them" mentality fueled by hyper-competitive parents.

Enough!

The ugly reality is that FCPS is back to ersatz segregation, with the "elites" getting preferential treatment and in some center schools, "base kids" are the minority.

Interesting to note that some of the FCPS center schools HAD to become centers to avoid permanent closure.[/quote]

School? [/quote][/quote]

Are you saying this happened at Louise Archer?  That is different than the school my DD finished at.  She had numerous friends in both programs (LA is our base).  If it is happening, go to the principal.  She is responsive to bullying issues (we had one that was a kid teasing my DD about my cancer).[/quote]

This happens all the time at Colvin Run too.  Those of you who have kids in AAP will continue denying that this happens at "your" school, because you aren't in a position to see it or hear about it.  Why?  Because your kid is in AAP!  Also, it's convenient for you to pretend it's not happening since AAP parents love the whole idea of AAP and don't want to see it go away or become a smaller program.  Why would any of this affect you?  If you have a child in Gen Ed, then you know this is happening, regardless of the school.  [/quote]

Our family joined a new pool a few years ago. My older elementary kid was at diving practice with a group of non AAP kids, who did not attend our center. They might have attended a different center or they might have been from one of the base feeder schools. They way they talked about AAP kids was terribly unkind and gave the impressions that they were doing a bit of bullying. Talking about how they hated them, what geeks they were, making fun of them.that they did not want to get to know any of them. They did not know mu kids was in AAP and he kept his mouth shut on that one.  My kid asked why and they said that they didn't know but loved to make fun of them.

I think that kids who will bully will bully, for whatever reason.  Not because they they are AAP or gen ed or jocks or whatever. Because they are bullies. AAP has nothing to do with it.[/quote]

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