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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our local elementary is Stratford Landing, and it's a center school.  Does it have similar issues as other schools mentioned here?  Do all center schools?[/quote]

Most are Centers are fine, normal ESs, where all the kids, GE and AAP, mix for lunch, specials, after school activities, academic or sports teams, Scouts, etc.  and that incidentally may  have more academic extracurriculars offered through the PTA than you might otherwise expect.  But almost all Center schools do have 1-2 moms whose noses are very out of joint that their special snowflake did not place into AAP.  Or who are otherwise OTT/ nuts (like the FIRST GRADE mom who was on here a couple weeks ago talking about how she didn't know if she could hang on for another year until her DD was in AAP, because being in GE in her ES was such a terrible experience-- Come on! All k-2 are GE, and it's hard to believe it is that terrible when no one in the grade is AAP.  That's just a parent with a screw loose).  Some GE parents are angry and bitter, and cannot let it go. They are the ones who come on DCUM and gripe, threaten to move, post thriumphantly about some "failure" by an AAP kid (not success by their kid, mind you.  They've been tracking what happened to all the AAP kids and one experienced this road bump in HS, and it made them feel so awesome  :( ), etc.   Most kids, and most parents, don't draw a distinction. In fact, among 6th grade DD's school based Scout troop, I'm not sure whether several of the girls are AAP and GE.  To the extent I do know, it's because they are or have been in DD's homeroom.  Most parents and kids deal with it much better than DCUM might make you think. DCUM specializes in crazy. [/quote]

It kind of sounds like [i]you're[/i] the crazy one, what with your documentation of people on DCUM who dare to express their dissatisfaction with the way in which AAP is implemented in their schools.  You seem to be tracking anyone who isn't an AAP cheerleader.

There are many reasons AAP centers are undesirable places for Gen Ed kids to go to school.  If you're viewing the AAP/GE dynamic as someone who only has kids in AAP, then you really don't know what you're talking about.  [/quote]

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