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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid still does not know AAP. He thinks he is in a regular class. In fact, the boys from his second grade class all think they are in a gen ED class as they were classmates last year and there is no difference this year.[/quote]

That's exactly my DD's situation! She had no idea about the distinction between AAP and GenEd (since we were in a center school already). She just thought that her classmates from last year were shuffled among the various teachers, as it typically happens every year. No kid should care whether they are in AAP or not. It should feel normal to them, and they will be acting normal towards their classmates and everyone else. If the parents make a big deal about it, of course the kids are going to act differently, but whose fault is it? [/quote]

Lucky you.  Our DC found out at lunch in the [u]2nd grade[/u], after the acceptance letters had gone out to the AAP-selected kids.  DC came home very upset, saying that all the kids at DC's lunchtable were asking, "Are you in it?  Are you in it?" and all of them were (except DC).  So obviously the parents had been crowing to their kids that they got in and making a huge deal about it, or else had been prepping madly for months.  Otherwise, how would they have known about it?  DC didn't even know what AAP was as we hadn't mentioned it at all at home.  Doesn't seem like something a 7 yr. old needs to worry about.  Also, when the school has the meeting inviting all the parents of new AAP kids to attend:  why are the KIDS invited too?  I have a friend who went and she said all the kids were checking out who was and wasn't there, etc.  Seems like the perfect way to instill division in these kids.  IMO, this whole process needs to be much more selective and kept very quiet at school.  That way, it's only for the kids who absolutely need a different learning environment (i.e. incredibly high scores) and everyone else can be in differentiated General Ed. classes.  [/quote]

PP, I couldn't agree more with everything you said.[/quote]

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