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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The drama as it stands now is limited to certain schools at certain parts of the county.

It is certainly not widespread, and in most areas it is really just limited to the time in the spring right around results, or just at the center schools.

For most people and at most schools in this county AAP drama and controversy is completely off the radar. [/quote]

[b]You realize you are posting this in a forum that had to be specifically carved out of the VA Schools forum because of the constant drama, right?[/b]

[quote]Putting a LLIV at every school 100% guarantees the drama becomes widespread and long term. It is borrowing trouble where there is none[/quote]

Yeah, I think that ship has sailed.[/quote]

Maybe your school and your part of the county, but not elsewhere and not to the degree that it happens on this forum.

How many AAP centers are in the county?  Elementary?  Middle School?

To read the AAP forum, one would think that there are about two, maybe three AAP middle schools county wide, and maybe 4-6 AAP center elementary schools.  According to this forum, ALL of them are full of drama, backstabbing, bullying, mean competitive overstressed kids and crazy out of control tiger parents, and all of them are hated passionately by the entire general ed population.  All of them are primarily in one part of the county.

There is one elementary that is mentioned here from time to time in a mostly positive light.  In fact, I have not seen any drama filled or disparaging posts about that school or between its parents.  There are a handful of schools in other parts of the county where parents might post a question about the program and receive 1-6 helpful and courteous responses.  None of the schools mentioned occasionally or with only neutral or positive comments are from the part of the county with the schools alluded to above.

So no, the AAP program is not a source of constant drama, bitterness and backstabbing.  No, it is not this terrible, cut throat program ruining Fairfax County Public Schools.  No, most of the general ed population does not hate the AAP population, and no, the AAP kids and parents are not swooping in trying to destroy the lovely neighborhood schools that the county has foisted them on.  And no, most of the parents, AAP and non AAP, spend hour after hour obsessing over who was prepped, who was not or who is "truly gifted" and "deserving" of AAP.

In fact, other than when the placement decisions come in, AAP is completely off the radar for the majority of parents in Fairfax County.

I am very sorry that your school and area is not the way that most of the county is.  It must be a very stressful way to live to have that much vitrol and drama over an elementary school program and placement decision that may or may not affect your child.[/quote]

+100000

FABULOUS post!  [/quote]

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