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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I do understand that schools must be keeping kids separate from managing perspective.  It is heart aching to see the kids feel that they have a restricted/almost no  access in school  to the friends that they made in k-2, or they have made in other activities that they do outside of school because they are AAP / Gen Ed or vice versa. i wish the schools could come up with more innovative ways to mingle the kids. I am not trying to say one is superior than other or so. I have respect for both the programs,just wish that  outside of the boundaries of academic needs, kids should not have to stay away from each other. [/quote]

I also think your complaint is school specific.  Our AAP center has very few kids coming from the non-AAP part of the center school.  There are something like 13 schools feeding into the AAP part of the school.   The AAP kids are not pining to sit with "friends" in the non-AAP part of the school.  They simply don't know them.  And the reverse would be true as well.  The non-AAP kids don't know anything about the AAP kids (except for a few kids in each grade who moved over).

I do find it strange that you put the onus on the people who are new to the school and blame them for not interacting with the non-AAP kids and parents.   [b]The AAP kids are welcomed by being assigned to the trailers.  If anything, the AAP kids have an argument for being treated like 2nd class citizens who aren't yet welcomed into the school![/b]  [/quote]

I'm sorry, but I just can't get too worked up about this.  The AAP kids are the ones who are given a choice between two schools - their base and the center.  Gen Ed kids are given no choice whatsoever about which school they'd like to attend.  If anyone is being treated like "second class citizens," it's the Gen Ed students.  Now, if everyone was given a choice regarding school preference, that would be entirely different.  But with the system as it is, I can't feel too badly for kids "being assigned to trailers".   :roll: [/quote]

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