Anonymous
Post 09/01/2017 10:57     Subject: Re:Why I hate AAP Parents - vent
Op, hate is a strong word!
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2017 10:48     Subject: Why I hate AAP Parents - vent
Holy verbal diarrhea.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2017 21:54     Subject: Why I hate AAP Parents - vent
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Volunteers, anywhere, aren't/can't be held to much of a professional standard. She should probably to reported to the OM headquarters though ...

Unfortunately the segregation of AAP students means there will always exist @sshole parents.




Indeed. Easy to spot, because they are the ones on DCUM reserecting 3 year old threads about how much they hate AAP parents. On the second day of the school year. So already off to a great start. It takes a special kind of b@tchy person to search through 3 years of threads, and not be this angry on the second day of school.


The responses seem to show a lot hostility, but given the number of parents (a very vocal but not insubstantial minority) I have seen who can't have a conversation about children without first blurting out their kid is AAP, it makes me avoid mentioning that my kid was AAP. But then again we let our DS decide if he wanted to be at an AAP school, a significant number of his friends were non-AAP, I once had an AAP parent ask why I didn't have my son play with the AAP kids (my son refused to play with his son because the boy always told the non-AAP kids he was AAP). I think an earlier poster is correct, there are a few AAP parents that are complete jerks, if you are an AAP parent and don't recognize that you probably are one, because all of AAP parents I knew that were not jerks could tell you which ones were and understood how bad of an impression they gave for the rest of us. But one thing I can tell you is that running around telling everyone including your child how much better they are than everyone else will likely make your kid a jerk as well, that was my observation at least. And the OP yes back in 2014 saw the same things I saw. Parents who were so pathetic that they would criticize another child for not being AAP because they might be on a OM team with their super intelligent AAP kid. I saw they exact same behavior at my son's AAP school. I was the OM coordinator, guess whose kid did not make it on to a team? I was not going to give a coach a parent like that to deal with. That same parent was infamous for doing their child's projects for them (really not good for OM), clearly because their brilliant AAP child was unable to do the level of work the mother thought they were capable of. And if you needed to know who the super jerk parents were at our school you just had to go to a school event and see what crowd she hung out with. There were even other Jerk parents that distanced themselves from that crowd. So while the original post made some generalizations, those of us that are not Jerk AAP parents are probably able to sympathize. If one parent making a statement that clearly has some validity makes you that insecure that you need to attack, you may be one of the Jerks. There were times that I wondered if allowing my DS to choose to go to an AAP school was the right thing to do, but when I saw that he could tell which kids were jerks and he made friends with the kids he liked (AAP or not) and he did not judge people based on whether they were AAP I always felt better about the decision. But I always hated seeing parents behave similar to what the OP saw. Actually I am glad this thread resurfaced, it reminds me how glad I am that my son turned down TJ, because when I hang out with the TJ parents I see some of them are jerks as well.


Ah, but at least they do not capitalize Jerks and, better still, use paragraphs.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2017 08:30     Subject: Why I hate AAP Parents - vent
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Volunteers, anywhere, aren't/can't be held to much of a professional standard. She should probably to reported to the OM headquarters though ...

Unfortunately the segregation of AAP students means there will always exist @sshole parents.




Indeed. Easy to spot, because they are the ones on DCUM reserecting 3 year old threads about how much they hate AAP parents. On the second day of the school year. So already off to a great start. It takes a special kind of b@tchy person to search through 3 years of threads, and not be this angry on the second day of school.


The responses seem to show a lot hostility, but given the number of parents (a very vocal but not insubstantial minority) I have seen who can't have a conversation about children without first blurting out their kid is AAP, it makes me avoid mentioning that my kid was AAP. But then again we let our DS decide if he wanted to be at an AAP school, a significant number of his friends were non-AAP, I once had an AAP parent ask why I didn't have my son play with the AAP kids (my son refused to play with his son because the boy always told the non-AAP kids he was AAP). I think an earlier poster is correct, there are a few AAP parents that are complete jerks, if you are an AAP parent and don't recognize that you probably are one, because all of AAP parents I knew that were not jerks could tell you which ones were and understood how bad of an impression they gave for the rest of us. But one thing I can tell you is that running around telling everyone including your child how much better they are than everyone else will likely make your kid a jerk as well, that was my observation at least. And the OP yes back in 2014 saw the same things I saw. Parents who were so pathetic that they would criticize another child for not being AAP because they might be on a OM team with their super intelligent AAP kid. I saw they exact same behavior at my son's AAP school. I was the OM coordinator, guess whose kid did not make it on to a team? I was not going to give a coach a parent like that to deal with. That same parent was infamous for doing their child's projects for them (really not good for OM), clearly because their brilliant AAP child was unable to do the level of work the mother thought they were capable of. And if you needed to know who the super jerk parents were at our school you just had to go to a school event and see what crowd she hung out with. There were even other Jerk parents that distanced themselves from that crowd. So while the original post made some generalizations, those of us that are not Jerk AAP parents are probably able to sympathize. If one parent making a statement that clearly has some validity makes you that insecure that you need to attack, you may be one of the Jerks. There were times that I wondered if allowing my DS to choose to go to an AAP school was the right thing to do, but when I saw that he could tell which kids were jerks and he made friends with the kids he liked (AAP or not) and he did not judge people based on whether they were AAP I always felt better about the decision. But I always hated seeing parents behave similar to what the OP saw. Actually I am glad this thread resurfaced, it reminds me how glad I am that my son turned down TJ, because when I hang out with the TJ parents I see some of them are jerks as well.
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2017 14:33     Subject: Why I hate AAP Parents - vent
Anonymous wrote:Volunteers, anywhere, aren't/can't be held to much of a professional standard. She should probably to reported to the OM headquarters though ...

Unfortunately the segregation of AAP students means there will always exist @sshole parents.




Indeed. Easy to spot, because they are the ones on DCUM reserecting 3 year old threads about how much they hate AAP parents. On the second day of the school year. So already off to a great start. It takes a special kind of b@tchy person to search through 3 years of threads, and not be this angry on the second day of school.
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2017 14:13     Subject: Why I hate AAP Parents - vent
Volunteers, anywhere, aren't/can't be held to much of a professional standard. She should probably to reported to the OM headquarters though ...

Unfortunately the segregation of AAP students means there will always exist @sshole parents.


Anonymous
Post 08/29/2017 14:02     Subject: Why I hate AAP Parents - vent
2014 called. It wants it's annoying thread back.
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2017 13:59     Subject: Re:Why I hate AAP Parents - vent
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yes because all AAP parents are the same, just like all black people eat watermelon and chicken wings, all Asians are bad at driving, all Hispanics are illegals and all white people hate those that aren't white.

(eye roll) x infinity


She said it was a vent. Get off your soapbox, jerk!


Not the PP, but you are a troll. I have 3 kids, all going through AAP and I have never met an insensitive parent like that. The OP did generalize. Look at the title of the post. How about posting something like "I hate parents with poor sense and social skills"?
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2017 13:25     Subject: Why I hate AAP Parents - vent
Why dig up a three-year-old thread? It was stupid three years ago.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2017 13:35     Subject: Why I hate AAP Parents - vent
Anonymous wrote:OP: we hate you too. Pesky moms with stupid non-AAP kids are totally unbearable!


Of course they are, they have socially well adjusted kids who have friends and play sports and can talk about something other than how they did their kids science project.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2017 13:33     Subject: Why I hate AAP Parents - vent
Not all AAP parents are jerks, but I have been exposed to enough of them that fit that category, those that are not jerks are less visible because they are not constantly talking about AAP, and how great it is is and how much more their children are learning than all of the kids in, god forbid, GE. But I know parents that have paid hefty sums to get their kid privately tested because the school testing did not allow little Suzy or Jim to fully show their potential. Not surprisingly certain testers in the area routinely find that these kids are definitely AAP material for the right amount of money.

If you want to know which AAP parents are jerks, just listen to their kids who will tell you how much better they are that other kids because they are in an AAP level 4 school. I know many of them. It is a 100 percent predictor of one or both parents being an AAP jerk.

Thanks to all of the parents that do not feel the need to trash anyone child or parent whose child in an AAP center.
Anonymous
Post 10/11/2014 16:04     Subject: Why I hate AAP Parents - vent
Anonymous wrote:OP: we hate you too. Pesky moms with stupid non-AAP kids are totally unbearable!


Case in point.
Anonymous
Post 10/11/2014 15:36     Subject: Why I hate AAP Parents - vent
Anonymous wrote:OP: we hate you too. Pesky moms with stupid non-AAP kids are totally unbearable!


Re-read the post. She is too good for AAP, and high horses for turning it down.
Anonymous
Post 10/11/2014 00:33     Subject: Why I hate AAP Parents - vent
OP: we hate you too. Pesky moms with stupid non-AAP kids are totally unbearable!
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2014 18:48     Subject: Why I hate AAP Parents - vent
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's rude. Just as it's rude to ask little kids other personal things like what their parents do or things like that.


What is rude about asking a kid what his/her parent(s) does (do)? Is a 7th grader "little"? I ask my kid's friends what their parents do - nothing rude asking what mom/dad does.


What is the relevance of such information unless asked in the context of a specific subject?