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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not all about taunting or bullying.  It's just a pervasive feeling that the GenEd kids are an afterthought.  That they are lesser.  That they aren't worthy.[/quote]

Exactly.  I've never seen outright bullying - but exactly what PP said.  It's a constant superiority complex on the part of the AAP kids (and parents) that is very obvious.  Even some of the staff acts like AAP kids can do no wrong.  It's ridiculous.  [/quote]

Please share the name of the school.[/quote]

It's already been mentioned and I'm not going to name it again.[/quote]

As pp said, there is LA or Colvin Run. Did we miss it? Is it another center? Certainly if it is schoolwide then your anonymous post isn't going to bring unwanted attention to the problem.[/quote]

Except it's not. What happens when your center school loses more than 50% of the kids in 4 grades? FCPS is way too overcrowded to let those schools sit that under enrolled.  FCPS would have to make up the difference from somewhere. And that means more boundary readjustments and rezoning, which always upsets someone (usually lots of someone's) and creates split feeder schools, which also upsets people.  And, once you pull out the AAP center, get ready for your school's average SOL scores to drop, which makes your school's Great Schools number drop, which hurts your real estate values.  Louise Archer GE parents may hate  having the AAP kids at the school, but they don't complain about their Great Schools 9.  Be careful what you ask for...[/quote]
I'm pretty sure LA would do just fine on the SOLs without the center students. SES is the biggest driver of test scores. Vienna's median household income is between 105K--151K. I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but it is. [/quote]

SES helps, and LA is in no danger of becoming Dogwood Elementary.  But all those AAP kids taking 5th Grade math and the 4th grade SOLs don't hurt either.  [/quote]

+1. DS just graduated from a local level IV program in a high SES school.  There was 1 AAP classroom, and 4 Gen  Ed.  At awards day/ graduation, they gave out the Presidential Medals.  The higher one requires a pass advanced on all ES SOLs and no grade lower than a 3. In DSs class, they awarded about 15--  12 of them to the AAP class and 3-4 to the other 4 classes combined.  You don't get into AAP by being bad at taking standardized tests. [/quote]

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