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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the parent of a child in AAP at Keene Mill.  I have a younger child that may very well not be in the AAP program (which I will be 100% fine with because I fully believe and teach my children that everyone has their own  unique talents, gifts and things they excel in). I'm already fully preparing to organize a camp weekend for general ed. students if the time comes.  If my child is in general Ed and asks me why there isn't a camp he can attend the answer that general ed kids can't go wouldn't fly because my child would respond with "why can't YOU help organize it?".  I also believe in and teach my kids to take responsibility for things that can be changed.  I can't understand why parents would rather put in the effort to shut down the experience instead of putting those efforts toward planning a similar weekend for the general ed kids. The Alfresco planning committee clearly doesn't have a problem sharing details of the program.  It's already been mentioned that the camp isn't big enough for all students.  Maybe the solution is to have three weekends, one for each grade.  I should also point out that the camp isn't widely discussed at school.  Not all AAP kids attend the camp so I made sure to tell my child not to discuss the camp in school to make sure no one felt left out (similar to when you receive a bday party invitation but you don't know if the entire class is invited).  I was told that no one had talked about it and in fact when I first told my child about it, she had never heard of Al Fresco and I had to explain what it was. [/quote]

Why does AAP and gen ed have to be divided to this extreme?  There are clearly kids that matter and kids that don't when a program thqt is so divisive is allowed to continue at one school.

And up until the past year or two, didn't the AAP kids skip school to attend Al Fresco?

It is hard not to be aware of something like this when half the kids were missing school to attend.[/quote]

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