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[quote=Anonymous][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]

If you don't even think that the AAP curriculum is a "big deal" then why the big cry about preferential treatment?  Its about busses and switching schools for you?  If its just the parents talking about it that annoys you, walk away!  I'm a parent of kids in AAP and I didn't prep, refer, appeal, scheme, steal, lie or beg to get them in.  And I don't talk about it either.

Listen, my kid didn't make travel soccer and I don't think that the kids that DID make it are these super elite athletes bound for the World Cup, but I don't begrudge the program or the parents or kids that are a part of it! Its not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

If your kid is feeling badly about it, it is likely because the label is a big deal to you.  I can't imagine little Johnny brooding over how the neighbor kid "gets" to have longer school bus commute and "gets" to leave his friends for a center school.  Shouldn't even be on his radar. [/quote]

In my son's case, and the case of so many other students, "little Johnny" [i]attends a center school by default[/i].  He doesn't see kids leaving for the center, in which case they'd be out of sight, out of mind.  So, yes - it's very much on his mind as he ponders, along with his classmates, why there are four full AAP classes in his grade, and only two Gen Ed.  You truly don't get it.  And yet, you and all the other AAP parents call foul when there isn't a "critical mass" of other AAP kids.  So why is it ok for Gen Ed kids not to have their own critical mass?[/quote]

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