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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of the highest votes for budget cuts is elimination of aap centers. Hopefully this happens the tax payer public has voted.

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BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

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Not the PP, but I can't imagine what you find funny about this.  Voters are trying to tell the school board what matters to them.  AAP is not one of those things for most people.[/quote]

That is extremely narrow-minded view.  In that case, let's just cut special needs, music, arts, etc. since none of that matter to a lot of people as well.[/quote]

Special-needs programs [i]are for kids with special needs[/i].  AAP doesn't qualify.  It is simply an enrichment program, which could easily be implemented in all classes.  Music and art benefit all kids - not just a certain contingent.

If the enrichment offered by our [b]public school system [/b]doesn't meet with your approval, there's always private school or homeschooling. [/quote]

This simply isn't true.  Special needs covers both the upper and lower bounds of kids intellectual and educational needs.

For kids that are highly gifted, they need something different than what is provided in the general classroom.  If they chose to do away with the centers, I'd be fine with that as long as the base schools have teachers and curriculums to support kids that are truly gifted.

The problem IMO is that they don't have enough kids in each school to support having them pulled out for every academic class for special instruction.  This would isolate them even more socially.

Having these kids together provides an opportunity to see that there are other kids like them which provides a social acceptance and acknowledgement of their abilities that they don't receive otherwise.  They have plenty of other time in their day to socialize with kids of different abilities outside of the academic instruction time.

If you have a kid that excels in a sport and plays on a travel team, do you feel the same way about the travel team as you do AAP?  If my kid isn't as good as your kid why should your kid get higher level instruction and mine does not.  My kid could learn more skills by being around you kid - that's not fair.  Your kid should be forced to play that sport with kids of much lower ability during the whole season and never be allowed to play on a team with kids of their high skill level because you'll make my kid feel bad.

If my kid excels intellectually (very high IQ; 1:10,000 kids) why don't they need a different curriculum outside of the gen ed curriculum?  Your highly skilled sports kid would get bored and quit their sport if forced to play with kids that were of average skill.

Please have some sympathy for parents with kids like mine ([b]which I know are not ALL kids in APP[/b]).  The truly gifted kids know who the other highly gifted kids are and who the high achiever kids are in AAP right away, but this doesn't mean they don't want to play or work with any other kids.  They just know who to go to when they want to talk about subjects that their other classmates won't be interested in or understand.  Adults are the same way, so you can't judge gifted kids for this behavior.  [/quote]

This is exactly the point.  The vast majority of kids in AAP are NOT highly gifted, and this is no secret.  The point is that segregating kids who are virtually identical to most other kids in Gen Ed - i.e. the lower end of kids in AAP and the higher end in Gen Ed - is destructive.  It teachers those in Gen Ed that they are somehow inferior to their counterparts who are in AAP, when they clearly are not.  No one, to my knowledge, has suggested doing away with gifted instruction for those who are actually unable to function in a Gen Ed classroom.  But the idea of admitting huge numbers of basically average kids into a segregated program like AAP, while keeping others in Gen Ed who are perfectly able to do AAP work, is moronic.

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I agree - signed a mom with 1 highly gifted kid and 1 smart, high achiever (but not nearly as highly gifted).  The youngest isn't old enough for AAP, but if I had to guess he'll probably qualify for AAP, but it's because he's a hard working, high achiever.  His sister, however, is naturally gifted and only tries hard at what she wants to.  Big difference in educational needs and I'd be happy with DS in gen ed and DD in a better suited gifted program.  However, if they take away AAP and leaver her with no considerations it would be a disaster.[/quote]

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