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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems to me that arguing that AAP-eligible kids would be nerds or outcasts at their base school is just a clever way of arguing they deserve favorable treatment.  It sounds better than explicitly arguing that the other kids are a bunch of Neanderthals, but the intent is essentially the same.  You're just prepared to use slightly pejorative language about your own kids to secure the same special benefits denied other children.  There are very few children who really have the combination of smarts and idiosyncrasies that would lead them to be ostracized in a typical classroom, if they were properly socialized, but AAP parents have a vested interest in making sure the skin of their children remains very thin.

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YES.  It's interesting that it's the AAP parents who keep referring to their own kids as "nerds, outcasts," etc.  The AAP kids at our center are anything but.  Most of them are very athletic and super popular.  I think it's almost reassuring to these parents to say these things in order to keep up the farce of their kids being special and different.  There will always be a [i]few[/i] kids who actually are so different as to be outcasts, and this is unfortunate - but it's deliberately misleading to imply that this could only happen among the AAP population.  There are children like this in General Ed too, yet they don't get the option of leaving the base school to seek out their "peer group" at a center.

I have had it with this group expecting their kids to be treated more favorably than others.  They don't deserve to go to special schools, any more than all the other kids deserve that opportunity.  I'm imagining the outrage if General Ed students were offered the opportunity to go to a different school, but the AAP kids were expected to remain in the base school.  Oh, what an outcry there would be!  But instead, all we hear is how "unfair" it will be for the AAP kids to have to remain at the base school.  You know, like everyone else.[/quote]

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