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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cluster 2 families were told last year they had to send their kids to a new AAP program at Lemon Road ES with no track record, so Cluster 1 families can send their kids to a new AAP program at Cooper MS.  You don't have a right to send your kids to Kilmer or Longfellow just because you pay property taxes. [/quote]

The stakes are higher in middle school for the AAP kids-sorry, that is just the reality. It makes more sense to have more local centers and level IV centers at an elementary school level.[/quote]

Did I seriously just read this?  You feel that the stakes are higher for AAP kids?  That, in a nutshell, is what is so very wrong with the AAP program as it is today.  The parents actually believe their kids are more special and more important than the general ed. kids, and so everything must revolve around them.  What this area needs are far fewer centers and FAR fewer AAP kids.  General Ed kids deserve the same amount of focus and energy that AAP has been getting from FCPS.[/quote]

Please...there is no point in arguing AAP vs. GE-and in fact, Cluster 1 schools have adopted the AAP curriculum standards in GE this year, at least at our center school. I was simply making the point that having the critical mass of AAP students matters more in middle school than in elementary and it makes more sense not to have more local level IV centers in middle school. You need to get the chip off of your shoulder.[/quote]

When you say that "the stakes are higher in middle school for the AAP kids-sorry, that is just the reality," you leave yourself wide open to criticism.  I absolutely disagree with this statement.  Not only is it pretentious and condescending, it's also incorrect.  The Gen. Ed. kids deserve to attend a middle school where there is not the constant AAP division that there currently is in elementary school, especially in elem. centers.  The prospect of attending a middle school where AAP is finally non-existent is extremely refreshing to these kids who have had it shoved in their faces since 3rd grade.  The world does not revolve around AAP.  [/quote]

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