PP here, to be clear:

Snowflake person: rude

Gen Ed and AAP parent: thinks it qualifies him/her to make blanket students about all AAP and Gen Ed kids, when they should probably just speak for their own kids

Ok, so there's the snowflake person, and the person who has a kid in aap and gen ed. And they make sure to follow, post, and regurgitate on every thread. Or maybe more than once in the same thread.

Hi you two!

Anonymous wrote:More class than you.

Clearly. You have WAY more classes than me. Well at least your kid does. Little stinker is in AAP, no?

I don't recall insults being thrown at GE kids. Feel free to post links to what you have seen. But even if it has happened it is nowhere on par with the number of insults hurled at AAP kids and parents. Those are daily occurrences. The most recent galling ones were on the "why do AAP students argue so much" thread. The things on there were just vicious. It made me think my AAP kids should never go over to play at a Gen Ed kids house because they would be insulted and mistreated by that child's parents.

The fact that postings on an anonymous thread would lead you to that conclusion -- or that you actually think of kids as AAP kids or Gen Ed kids --is a tad worrisome

Remember, FCPS labels services not kids. Perhaps if more parents would remember that these different curriculum offerings wouldn't be so divisive. And yes, I had kids in both AAP and Gen Ed, for what it's worth. I agree with PP that their are plenty of kids in both programs who could switch and do just fine.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of GE parents sound extremely serious in their tales of woe and mistreatment. They feel free to insult AAP children and parents (insults without making a case too often) but are not insulted themselves. So, it is fine for AAP parents to launch into baseless insults upon GE kids and parents now, I guess.

Right, GE kids have never, ever been insulted on this forum before. Nope, no one has called them stupid or slow or other completely ridiculous, derogatory, and baseless names. You AAP parents would never do such a thing, would you?

I don't recall insults being thrown at GE kids. Feel free to post links to what you have seen. But even if it has happened it is nowhere on par with the number of insults hurled at AAP kids and parents. Those are daily occurrences. The most recent galling ones were on the "why do AAP students argue so much" thread. The things on there were just vicious. It made me think my AAP kids should never go over to play at a Gen Ed kids house because they would be insulted and mistreated by that child's parents.

Anonymous wrote:Winner of the Most Boring DCUM Thread - Ever.

Wow, that was a constructive comment! You're free to move along if we're boring you.

Winner of the Most Boring DCUM Thread - Ever.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The postings I've seen aren't attacking. They are pointing out flaws with the current system. You're mistaken if you think all AAP parents have the same view how schooling should be within FCPS.

Calling kids snowflakes and parents entitled is not "pointing out flaws with the current system." It's the grown-up version of schoolyard name-calling: Juvenile, rude and useless.

There are plenty of these posts attacking AAP and offering nothing constructive. They're usually the ones that refer to AAP students and parents disparagingly and insist that AAP just shouldn't exist other than for a tiny handful of students. They have offer no ideas for improvement (other than the disbanding just mentioned). I can't believe they are parents with one AAP student and another general ed student; I would hope those parents would be more constructive than merely putting down the entire program, as if it were one single, identical, monolithic program that is identical across the board at every school.

Those are the "attacking" posters you say you haven't seen.

Curious why you can't believe these parents might actually have kids in both AAP and GE and don't agree with your viewpoint. I'm one of those parents and while I know my AAP child is a smart cookie, I don't see how it's putting him or the entire program down by freely admitting he's not gifted and would do just great in a (improved) GE setting, as would many of his classmates. How is it insulting to say that your wonderful, funny, intelligent child isn't gifted? I also think his friends who are in GE (and my other child, by the way) would do perfectly well in AAP as it is administered today. The two programs just are not that different, however much you might want them to be. And most kids in both AAP and GE are also not that different.

And now I'll just sit back and watch you people moan and groan about how offensive what I just said was. Even though nothing I said was offensive in the least; just not what you want to hear.

Anonymous wrote:It's all Haycock parents

Probably!

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of GE parents sound extremely serious in their tales of woe and mistreatment. They feel free to insult AAP children and parents (insults without making a case too often) but are not insulted themselves. So, it is fine for AAP parents to launch into baseless insults upon GE kids and parents now, I guess.

Right, GE kids have never, ever been insulted on this forum before. Nope, no one has called them stupid or slow or other completely ridiculous, derogatory, and baseless names. You AAP parents would never do such a thing, would you?

Anonymous wrote:The postings I've seen aren't attacking. They are pointing out flaws with the current system. You're mistaken if you think all AAP parents have the same view how schooling should be within FCPS.

Calling kids snowflakes and parents entitled is not "pointing out flaws with the current system." It's the grown-up version of schoolyard name-calling: Juvenile, rude and useless.

There are plenty of these posts attacking AAP and offering nothing constructive. They're usually the ones that refer to AAP students and parents disparagingly and insist that AAP just shouldn't exist other than for a tiny handful of students. They have offer no ideas for improvement (other than the disbanding just mentioned). I can't believe they are parents with one AAP student and another general ed student; I would hope those parents would be more constructive than merely putting down the entire program, as if it were one single, identical, monolithic program that is identical across the board at every school.

Those are the "attacking" posters you say you haven't seen.

It's all Haycock parents

More class than you.

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of GE parents sound extremely serious in their tales of woe and mistreatment. They feel free to insult AAP children and parents (insults without making a case too often) but are not insulted themselves. So, it is fine for AAP parents to launch into baseless insults upon GE kids and parents now, I guess.

Bring it, Crazy AAP Lady! Whatcha got?

Plenty of GE parents sound extremely serious in their tales of woe and mistreatment. They feel free to insult AAP children and parents (insults without making a case too often) but are not insulted themselves. So, it is fine for AAP parents to launch into baseless insults upon GE kids and parents now, I guess.