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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess I don't get it. I don't see some big red carpet laid out for AAP students. Just an accelerated curriculum. Not broadcast on the school intercom everyday. [/quote]

When one group of kids is given a [b]choice [/b]as to which school they'd prefer to attend (or their parents would prefer) - along with free busing to the chosen school - then yes, that group is being given preferential treatment.  You don't see Gen Ed kids offered a choice of two different schools, and their parents engaging in long discussions over the minute details of each school, its teachers, curriculum, after-school offerings, "peer group," and more.  Nope, the Gen Ed kids go to the school they are assigned to, period, end of story.  The only exception might be if they are in language immersion, but that's a very rare exception.

It's true that the AAP curriculum itself is no big deal in and of itself (though some very naive parents look at it as the Holy Grail).  But the fact remains that you can't offer one entire group of kids these options but not the other and call it an equitable system.  It absolutely isn't.[/quote]

Free busing? Not one child FCPS is charged for busing so how is this a perk?[/quote]

Seriously?  You are obviously being obtuse, purposefully or otherwise.  You're actually contending that kids who are bused to a school [i]which is not their base school[/i], simply so they can be in AAP, [i]which they could be anyway at their base school[/i], is not giving them something that Gen Ed kids aren't getting?  The vast majority of elementary schools in FCPS offer LLIV.  There is no need for these kids to get a free ride over to another school just to join a massive cohort there.

I'd like my child to attend another elementary school which has a larger proportion of Gen Ed kids.  Could I get free busing to this school?  No way, that's just "not done".  It's incredibly hypocritical and anyone pretending it's not is doing just that - pretending.[/quote]

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