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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is absolutely no need for a child who is already at a center school to go to an orientation for AAP at that center. I never understood this. They already know the school and the teachers. It just promotes the hierarchy like others have mentioned. They all talk after that. [/quote]

How do they already know the teachers?  [/quote]

I'd really like to know this, too. Teacher changes happen all the time in schools. We just received a letter from the school principal (of an AAP Center school) explaining that teachers move around in the school and in and out of the school. I am not sure how the originally quoted PP already knows the teachers at the center school.[/quote]
My kid knows several teachers in above grade levels for both AAP and Gen Ed in their center school. The teachers are all awesome and they have a way interacting in halls at lunch, outside recess, after school with all kids. Of course teachers change schools or leave all of the time but how about you think of it this way:
A prospective AAP student gets to go to their base school which is already center  to "meet" the AAP teachers for a "special" orientation(in second grade they already know most of the third grade teachers). So why don't the  Gen ED kids get to go to an orientation to "meet" their teachers on a special day? I get it if the kids will be NEW to the school but its senseless otherwise.[/quote]

EXACTLY.  There is such a double standard where AAP and GE kids are concerned.  AAP kids are treated like special little snowflakes who have to see if they would "like" to go to the center school or if they would "prefer" to stay at their base school -- both options of course amounting to the same thing except that free busing goes along with the center option (at taxpayer expense).  And yes, LLIV and center are identical, no matter how badly some parents love to spin it by saying LLIV is "AAP-lite," or the center offers a "better peer group".  These excuses are simply absurd justifications for an excessive, redundant program being offered to one group of kids but not another.  Center schools have only furthered this entitlement mentality.

And I totally agree with you about kids who already attend a center as their base school; why are they even at the orientation?  They're not switching schools, so what is the big deal?  Honestly, this kid-glove handling of AAP students is so over the top.  [/quote]

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