The OP is obviously contrived. I don't know whether to laugh or cry about the fact that some people here were so gullible as to fall for it. It's like only watching a cable channel that tells you what you want to hear.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes I read it. I am really sad for these AAP kids -also some of the GE kids. I think the lack of social etiquette is a symptom of parents being to busy making ends meet. The kids extra time is filled with extra curricular activities and school work. How awful is that. How would you like to work every waking hour? I really feel most parents around here are truly failing their children by not allowing them to be kids. What happened to chasing fireflies in the summer, family cookouts and teaching your kids to be nice? No one has time! Just very very sad to me.

I read the article and it doesn't seem like a bad thing that you have to feel sorry for the kids about. It just seems like socializing with an emphasis on being polite. My kids love being with their friends. This is just a different setting to be with friends. Lighten up.

It's just along the same lines as the AAP bumper stickers just not as overtly boastful. It is funny more than sad.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't realize the job description for "safety patrol" includes monitoring the editorial content of conversations of younger students for political correctness. Sign me up!

I'd like to take this seriously, but OP has layered on so much BS and made so many assumptions that it makes that all but impossible. But I'll reconsider when OP reports back that her kid has also laid down the law for the GenEd boys who make fun of the athletic skills of AAP kids on the bus, on the playground, and in the classroom.

OP here. The job description for patrols includes stepping in when students are being bullied. In my son's view, and mine, the one girl was being bullied by the other two. Imagine being told you're not "smart enough" to be in a certain class. I'm proud of him for intervening and telling them to cut it out. And of course he would step in (and has) if he saw bullying going on in any form, including non-athletic kids being bullied by the jocks. Wondering why you assume it would be the AAP kids who aren't athletic though. AAP includes so many children these days that it's hard to believe that old cliche about them not having athletic skills. In most ways, these kids are really no different from those in Gen Ed (which is kind of the point of this whole topic). He's had to speak up for several kids on the bus due to various types of similar behavior. This particular instance, however, was about two AAP girls trying to make another girl feel bad about not being in AAP. And if you and PP don't view that as bullying, then so be it.

I agree with you, OP. Good for your son for defending a child who was being bullied.

+100

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't realize the job description for "safety patrol" includes monitoring the editorial content of conversations of younger students for political correctness. Sign me up!

I'd like to take this seriously, but OP has layered on so much BS and made so many assumptions that it makes that all but impossible. But I'll reconsider when OP reports back that her kid has also laid down the law for the GenEd boys who make fun of the athletic skills of AAP kids on the bus, on the playground, and in the classroom.

OP here. The job description for patrols includes stepping in when students are being bullied. In my son's view, and mine, the one girl was being bullied by the other two. Imagine being told you're not "smart enough" to be in a certain class. I'm proud of him for intervening and telling them to cut it out. And of course he would step in (and has) if he saw bullying going on in any form, including non-athletic kids being bullied by the jocks. Wondering why you assume it would be the AAP kids who aren't athletic though. AAP includes so many children these days that it's hard to believe that old cliche about them not having athletic skills. In most ways, these kids are really no different from those in Gen Ed (which is kind of the point of this whole topic). He's had to speak up for several kids on the bus due to various types of similar behavior. This particular instance, however, was about two AAP girls trying to make another girl feel bad about not being in AAP. And if you and PP don't view that as bullying, then so be it.

I agree with you, OP. Good for your son for defending a child who was being bullied.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes I read it. I am really sad for these AAP kids -also some of the GE kids. I think the lack of social etiquette is a symptom of parents being to busy making ends meet. The kids extra time is filled with extra curricular activities and school work. How awful is that. How would you like to work every waking hour? I really feel most parents around here are truly failing their children by not allowing them to be kids. What happened to chasing fireflies in the summer, family cookouts and teaching your kids to be nice? No one has time! Just very very sad to me.

I read the article and it doesn't seem like a bad thing that you have to feel sorry for the kids about. It just seems like socializing with an emphasis on being polite. My kids love being with their friends. This is just a different setting to be with friends. Lighten up.

+1.

Don't see the problem. I think every kid could benefit from etiquette courses.

Anonymous wrote:Yes I read it. I am really sad for these AAP kids -also some of the GE kids. I think the lack of social etiquette is a symptom of parents being to busy making ends meet. The kids extra time is filled with extra curricular activities and school work. How awful is that. How would you like to work every waking hour? I really feel most parents around here are truly failing their children by not allowing them to be kids. What happened to chasing fireflies in the summer, family cookouts and teaching your kids to be nice? No one has time! Just very very sad to me.

I read the article and it doesn't seem like a bad thing that you have to feel sorry for the kids about. It just seems like socializing with an emphasis on being polite. My kids love being with their friends. This is just a different setting to be with friends. Lighten up.

All of the incessant bitching about everything instead of working together for the best of all kids instead of just "my" kid is also a very sad state of affairs in our area. I just try to bridge the gap where I can but this truly breaks my heart.

Yes I read it. I am really sad for these AAP kids -also some of the GE kids. I think the lack of social etiquette is a symptom of parents being to busy making ends meet. The kids extra time is filled with extra curricular activities and school work. How awful is that. How would you like to work every waking hour? I really feel most parents around here are truly failing their children by not allowing them to be kids. What happened to chasing fireflies in the summer, family cookouts and teaching your kids to be nice? No one has time! Just very very sad to me.

Did you read the article? The cotillion classes are social skills classes. Just what you said AAP kids need.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/cotillion-classes-offer-students-a-leg-up/2012/03/19/gIQApc2aRS_story.html

Anonymous wrote:I remember this thread and it still strikes me as a made-up scenario by a poster who wanted an excuse to call AAP kids "insufferable." There was a whole string of threads last year in which AAP kids were supposedly bullying or belittling non-AAP kids in different situations and then the threads seemed to stop. It was more than a little suspicious.

A lot of the AAP kids are bullies. I have heard it straight out of their mouths. Of course I intervened. This absolutely comes from the parents. Hands Down! Maybe it is their parents way of convincing their children of leaving their neighborhood school to go to another. My first child was horrified at the thought of leaving what was safe for DC in 3rd grade. If I had not listened to DC and instead coerced DC into going I might have used some of the same language to help my DC feel better about leaving. It is traumatic for most of these kids to be pulled out of school with their friends. I think this is why this sort of thing goes on but it doesn't make it right. The AAP parents should start listening to their children and guiding them in social etiquette as well as to be their best academically. IMO it is the social etiquette part that is missing however I am not sure many of these parents have this themselves as it seems the latest rage at the AAP centers is cotillions. Which I find interesting because when I grew up these were only for very wealthy children to meet like children in hopes of finding a "like" husband or wife. Cracks me up!!

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Anonymous wrote:I remember this thread and it still strikes me as a made-up scenario by a poster who wanted an excuse to call AAP kids "insufferable." There was a whole string of threads last year in which AAP kids were supposedly bullying or belittling non-AAP kids in different situations and then the threads seemed to stop. It was more than a little suspicious.

I would imagine there will be teasing thrown both ways. Plenty to go around. I found the comments by parents defending the girls even in a made up scenario disturbing.
I remember some assholes back in the day used to taunt the TJ kids when they switched from their base schools over to Jefferson.
The TJ students used to chant back, " it's ok. It's ok. You'll be working for us someday!"
I loved them for that.

I think it was "it's alright, it's OK..." and it was the standard TJ response at sporting events when kids at other schools chanted "do your homework." Interesting that you'd defend the former, but label the latter "taunts " by "assholes." TJ parents think TJ students can never do anything wrong, similar to parents who would defend AAP students calling another girl "not smart enough."

Exactly what I was thinking when I read PP's post.

Just in case you missed it.


Well, you don't have me pegged at all...
DC isn't out of diapers. No idea what kind of student I've got on my hands. These are recollections from the 90's. Just a non TJ kid's observations from back in the day. As I said, plenty of teasing to go around. However, I don't remember the TJ kids to be the instigators in these scenarios. It was a different school then as I understand it to be now. However, that is truly a discussion for a different thread.

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Anonymous wrote:I remember this thread and it still strikes me as a made-up scenario by a poster who wanted an excuse to call AAP kids "insufferable." There was a whole string of threads last year in which AAP kids were supposedly bullying or belittling non-AAP kids in different situations and then the threads seemed to stop. It was more than a little suspicious.

I would imagine there will be teasing thrown both ways. Plenty to go around. I found the comments by parents defending the girls even in a made up scenario disturbing.
I remember some assholes back in the day used to taunt the TJ kids when they switched from their base schools over to Jefferson.
The TJ students used to chant back, " it's ok. It's ok. You'll be working for us someday!"
I loved them for that.

I think it was "it's alright, it's OK..." and it was the standard TJ response at sporting events when kids at other schools chanted "do your homework." Interesting that you'd defend the former, but label the latter "taunts " by "assholes." TJ parents think TJ students can never do anything wrong, similar to parents who would defend AAP students calling another girl "not smart enough."

Exactly what I was thinking when I read PP's post.