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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is dyslexic. I have to pay for very expensive afterschool tutoring that my ADHD kid has to sit through after 7 hours in school.

Is she getting FAPE?  According to FCPS she is.

But AAP kids who would do just fine in a regular class with pull outs is apparently a huge injustice?

Please. These parents of high academic achievers are the most asinine, arrogant people in the world. [/quote]

Judging from the amount of time I spent with the Asst. Principal, Guidance Counselor and school psychologist when DC was K-2, you really don't want my bored, highly gifted, ADHD kid in your child's classroom. While he was waiting for your kid to catch up to him in 2nd grade, he was reading Tom Sawyer and Swiss Family Robinson for fun instead of listening to the teacher,  and constantly interrupting, and acting out.  In the 6 years he's been in the AAP Center, we've had no behavioral complaints.  Fortunately, he heads to HS next year, so he has no stake in the continuation of AAP. But if you had moved him back to a GE classroom 3 years ago, you would be the parent on DCUM griping that my DC was taking all of the teacher's time & attention, and making it hard for your DC to learn. No matter how good a teacher is, they can't differentiate instruction for 30 Kids with an IQ range of 70 (b/c Sped kids are pushed in) to 150.  People like you will find a reason to gripe no matter what the situation is. [/quote]

Let's not get carried away here. I have children in both AAP and Gen Ed, and I can assure you that the difference is not so stark that a kid who was "constantly interrupting and acting out" would suddenly start behaving. I volunteered a fair amount in my child's AAP classroom one year, and the level was good, but nothing extraordinary (my AAP kid has in fact been bored throughout AAP but she just sucks it up), and there were a few kids acting out while I was there. Most likely your child just matured, or his meds if he's taking any worked well enough until he did. Otherwise, is he planning on acting out again when he heads to HS? Because he's going to be in Honors classes with a lot of erstwhile Gen Ed kids.[/quote]

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