Haycock vs Kent Gardens

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow. Just wow. And not in a good way. I think we may revisit Arlington and Falls Church City. I had no idea what this AAP nonsense is, but it certainly isn't something we want our children to get caught up in, and it's definitely not our family's style. This is elementary school for goodness sake. These poor kids will all be on ativan and Zoloft before they are 10!

If you are concerned about the AAP hype, make sure you do not buy into a center school (which is different than local level IV) because if your child is in AAP, you might be very unhappy. At certain center schools, the non-AAP kids are a minority and it can be upsetting for the children and the parents. The concern is that they are a minority at their neighborhood school. There are threads on this if you search.

Haycock is a center school.

Really? Who would have guessed that?

I saw someone recommend Lemon Road. It's a center school, too. And I think some other posters recommended Shrevewood. It's not a center school, but it feeds into a middle school that's an overcrowded center school, Kilmer. Yikes.

You are so defensive!!!! Yes, LR is a center, but so far, it's a small center and the parents there have not been complaining that the Gen Ed kids are outnumbered or that the center has taken over the school as they have at Haycock if you read the existing threads. As for Kilmer, no one here is really talking about middle school, but if you read the Cooper thread, the Longfellow parents seem to be more concerned about overcrowding than the Kilmer parents (of course, that could change at some point). I don;t think anyone is saying that Haycock is a bad school. People are just pointing out things OP might want to consider. Every school has flaws, including Haycock.

Yeah, right. Pointing out that Haycock is a center school on page 8 of a long thread, much of which discusses the AAP center at Haycock, is really helpful for the OP.

If you want to hit the reset button now, fine, but many of the comments about Haycock have not been constructive. As for Lemon Road, it is a new center, so the AAP enrollment as a percentage of the total enrollment is going to increase. As to the Longfellow/Cooper thread, there have definitely been Kilmer parents suggesting on that thread that AAP kids there should be moved to Cooper, just as some Haycock parents supported the move of some AAP kids from Haycock to Lemon Road to relieve overcrowding.

[Anonymous]

You do realize, PP, that not everyone reads every single page of these ridiculous threads, right? It's possible, the poster didn't see other references to Haycock being a center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow. Just wow. And not in a good way. I think we may revisit Arlington and Falls Church City. I had no idea what this AAP nonsense is, but it certainly isn't something we want our children to get caught up in, and it's definitely not our family's style. This is elementary school for goodness sake. These poor kids will all be on ativan and Zoloft before they are 10!

If you are concerned about the AAP hype, make sure you do not buy into a center school (which is different than local level IV) because if your child is in AAP, you might be very unhappy. At certain center schools, the non-AAP kids are a minority and it can be upsetting for the children and the parents. The concern is that they are a minority at their neighborhood school. There are threads on this if you search.

Haycock is a center school.

Really? Who would have guessed that?

I saw someone recommend Lemon Road. It's a center school, too. And I think some other posters recommended Shrevewood. It's not a center school, but it feeds into a middle school that's an overcrowded center school, Kilmer. Yikes.

Touchy touchy....so sad.

[Anonymous]

Lemon Road and Kilmer are both center schools, and that the worst overcrowding in the area is projected at Shrevewood and Kilmer. It does seem like this thread expanded to discuss other schools besides Haycock and Kent Gardens, so these facts certainly seem relevant.

[Anonymous]

Why doesn't anyone mention Timber Lane? It feeds into McLean, as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't anyone mention Timber Lane? It feeds into McLean, as well.

Because they are afraid of the brown people who don;t speak English. The other McLean parents are busy trying to get Timber Lane redistricted to Falls Church HS to get the minority and low SES'ers out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't anyone mention Timber Lane? It feeds into McLean, as well.

You can find past threads on Timber Lane if you use the search function. It's a split feeder to Longfellow/McLean and Jackson/Falls Church. It's not an AAP center like Haycock, and doesn't have a language immersion program like Kent Gardens, but it does offer LLIV services. There are some nice older homes in that area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't anyone mention Timber Lane? It feeds into McLean, as well.

Because they are afraid of the brown people who don;t speak English. The other McLean parents are busy trying to get Timber Lane redistricted to Falls Church HS to get the minority and low SES'ers out.

BS. I've seen a few threads from people here noting that those neighborhoods are closer to Marshall and Falls Church than to McLean, which is true. It's also the case that, if there is a lot of growth in Tysons closer to McLean and Marshall, it might make sense to consider moving the half of Timber Lane that goes to McLean to Falls Church, which has the lowest enrollment of any high school in the county, just as FCPS may decide to move other parts of McLean and Marshall to Langley.

But no one is currently trying to get Timber Lane redistricted. If McLean parents were as hostile to diversity as you suggest, Timber Lane would never have been assigned to the McLean pyramid. And there are people who seek out the McLean pyramid because it has more SES diversity than the Langley pyramid. That would largely be lost if all of Timber Lane was moved to Falls Church.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't anyone mention Timber Lane? It feeds into McLean, as well.

Because they are afraid of the brown people who don;t speak English. The other McLean parents are busy trying to get Timber Lane redistricted to Falls Church HS to get the minority and low SES'ers out.

BS. I've seen a few threads from people here noting that those neighborhoods are closer to Marshall and Falls Church than to McLean, which is true. It's also the case that, if there is a lot of growth in Tysons closer to McLean and Marshall, it might make sense to consider moving the half of Timber Lane that goes to McLean to Falls Church, which has the lowest enrollment of any high school in the county, just as FCPS may decide to move other parts of McLean and Marshall to Langley.

But no one is currently trying to get Timber Lane redistricted. If McLean parents were as hostile to diversity as you suggest, Timber Lane would never have been assigned to the McLean pyramid. And there are people who seek out the McLean pyramid because it has more SES diversity than the Langley pyramid. That would largely be lost if all of Timber Lane was moved to Falls Church.

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[Anonymous]

bump any updates now that the whole AAP landscape has changed?

KG vs Haycock?