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[quote=Anonymous]I suspect that the bloating of the AA Program has caused parents to get fed up with the program as a whole and has caused them to be willing to "vote" against it. In the late nineties, it was a smaller program and the local school offered very good differentiation within the regular classrooms. No one had a problem with kids going off to the center because the local school did such a great job with the rest of the kids.

Now, it has become a bigger and bigger program which parents see as consuming more and more resources (rightly or wrongly). My kids went through AAP and then to TJ and I see the good in it, but I also see the point of other parents who see the program as hogging resources which could be spread around to benefit more children. Possibly if they could reduce the size of the program and assure appropriate differentiation, parents might have fewer problems with it.

As it stands, I believe that many people are fed up with AAP and what they see as its expenses, and they will not be supporting it. Even as a parent whose kids have benefitted from the program, I can see other parents' point of view and can understand why they see the program the way they do. 
I know that there are kids who need the program, but because FCPS has expanded it so much, support for it has unfortunately been reduced rather than increased.

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