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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good.  It's about time.  It's a tremendous waste of money and resources.

[b]"Base kid" is a common taunt at our center school.

The AAP students are so segregated and operate in their own rarefied air beginning as young as third grade.

Very much an "us v. them" mentality fueled by hyper-competitive parents.[/b]

Enough!

The ugly reality is that FCPS is back to ersatz segregation, with the "elites" getting preferential treatment and in some center schools, "base kids" are the minority.

Interesting to note that some of the FCPS center schools HAD to become centers to avoid permanent closure.[/quote]

I'm sorry this was your and your child's experience at your one center school, but in six years of AAP center schools (ES and MS) this was nothing like the experience our kid, our family or the many other families we knew well through school ever had.

DCUM is full of people saying their center schools are hotbeds of "hyper-competitive parents." I knew only one family like that in six years (and the school at one point told those parents to cool their jets and wouldn't allow their kid to do some stuff the parents insisted was the kid's "right"--yes, administrators CAN say no to parents who are pushy).

And there are lots of depictions on DCUM of AAP kids as arrogant little jerks taunting other kids. Never saw it and I was in both our center schools -- a lot. There certainly may be some centers like that, but if that was the case at YOUR child's school, did you or other parents (of AAP students or general ed students) ever do anything about it? Come up with some ways for the kids to mix more? Point out to anyone in authority that teasing was taking place and needed to be addressed? Volunteer to make the school [i]as a whole [/i]a more cooperative, positive environment?
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