Moving Back to McLean (KGES) and Feeling Unsure About School System of AAP and Immersion in Fairfax

[Anonymous]

What bothered me most about KG is that the student body lacks diversity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What bothered me most about KG is that the student body lacks diversity

Really? My daughter has friends from Turkey, France, and South Korea and she has friends who's parents are from Ethiopia, China and Latin America. How are you defining diversity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What bothered me most about KG is that the student body lacks diversity

Really? My daughter has friends from Turkey, France, and South Korea and she has friends who's parents are from Ethiopia, China and Latin America. How are you defining diversity?

+1 school has 70 different nationalities...international night has some of the best food in the area. Now if you are talking economic diversity, that’s a different question...and one that is NOT unique to KGES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP Here. Thank you to all who gave me their thoughts. It has helped ease anxiety.

I think what I am uncomfortable is a system that physically separates AAP and non-AAP for many reasons...and in the case of KGES a third separation where those who got into language immersion get physically separated.

I don't know if Arlington or Falls Church City place AAP kids in the same classes as general kids but I think that is what I would prefer as a parent. There seems something unhealthy to both the AAP kids and non-AAP kids by physically removing them from each other a la Dr Seuss's Sneetches.

At the same time I also think it will be fine and maybe I should worry about international move issues; I just feel like Fairfax County has indirectly opened a channel that allows aggressive parenting to payoff; and that worries me but to think that doesn't exist in FCC or Arlington is naive also.

Can we assume that if you settled in FCC or Arlington you would also worry about the economic segregation in those districts? Falls Church City essentially was created as a separate jurisdiction to exclude minorities and the schools in much of North Arlington are whiter than anywhere else in NoVa. If you think this doesn’t also “physically separate” wealthier kids from those with less privileged backgrounds, you’d be quite mistaken.

The same thing is true in FCPS too. Langley looks a lot different than Mt Vernon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What bothered me most about KG is that the student body lacks diversity

. KG has the highest % of AA students in McLean.

[Anonymous]

We came from overseas and did not bother testing for AAP. That said, the AAP/Gen Ed split was not a big deal. My kids took some AAP-level courses in elementary school and then moved up to middle school, where they took honors. They did just fine, made friends in both AAP and Gen Ed, and are happy. We are very satisfied with FCPS (at least in the McLean area -- we are in the Langley pyramid, which is basically the same as the McLean pyramid.)