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[quote=Anonymous]Wow.  After reading this thread, it seems there is NO RIGHT WAY to explain to my child why he is in AAP without offending someone.  For those offended, it appears that you are simply offended that AAP exist at all (at least the way that FCPS is currently administering the program.)  I concede that there are parents who are just obnoxious about it, but even the parents who try to downplay it or explain it in a fair, sensible way, someone finds the wording offensive.

Soon after DC was found AAP eligible, he tried out for travel soccer and didn't make it when half his team did - the reason given was that he "wasn't quite ready yet."  I think he was proud to have been found eligible for AAP and I think he was disappointed not to have made travel soccer - but neither made him feel superior or inferior to his friends.  He knows everyone has strengths and weaknesses and we should celebrate our differences and not feel competitive or threatened about them.  AND he understands that being in AAP does NOT mean he is smarter that the awesome friends he still has that remained at the base school and he knows that not making the travel team has not doomed him to a life of being an inferior athlete.  He gets that these things are fluid and do not define him, his friends or his future opportunities.  [/quote]

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