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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with you about facilities not being the most important reflection of quality, but you chimed in to agree with a poster who was voicing similar antagonism to AAP but advocating for the opposite of the outcome you actually want. That's the disconnect I was trying to point out. That prior poster wants the AAP students to leave Longfellow and come to Cooper, while you don't want them at Cooper.

I think it's interesting that you so unabashedly oppose your child attending school with anyone in aap. Why does that make you so uncomfortable? Do you think that's the real world for your child to be insulated from those students? Do you plan to send your child to a HS that does not allow kids to take too many APs or otherwise be allowed to be more accelerated than your child? Is this really good for your child or just about your issues?[/quote]

Please see 6:56.  I believe your questions are answered there.  I have no problem with kids taking APs, as long as these classes are open to [b]all[/b].  In high school, they are.  Completely different environment, as the playing field is level from the get-go.[/quote]

My point is that the only difference is a label that drives YOU crazy -- same smart kids, both AAP & GE, it's just so gotten so under your skin that your kids didn't have that label?  So crazy that you will fight to keep "those kids" -- the very same ones that will attend high school with your children -- out of the entire school?  That is ridiculous.[/quote]

It is a label that bothers many parents, not just me.  And frankly, if the shoe were on the other foot, I have no doubt that you and other AAP parents would feel the same way.  That is, if your children were in Gen Ed as opposed to AAP, you would be sick to death of the labeling.  If AAP classes were open to all, as AP is in high school, I would have no problem with the program.[/quote]

See 8:13 post.  Also, I have kids in both programs.  It's my job as a parent to make sure that my children have the best & most appropriate education; that is different for different kids.  Simple as that.  I would not want to be in a public school system that did not offer programs needed by lots of different kinds of learners.  It's too bad that virtually everyone in this debate seems to only be looking out for #1.[/quote]

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