FCPS comprehensive boundary review

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Anonymous wrote:No one is going to create an entirely new administrative system full of hassles for a small group of 9th graders just to prevent Langley kids from being sent to Herndon.

Langley parents will use the money and connections. No Langley kids will move to Herndon schools. It will cost them too much social capital to let that happen.

Good! I was not looking forward to having to work the concession stand with a disgruntled ex-Langley parent anyway!

I really don’t want to deal with the insufferable Langley parents (‚cause those will be the ones we’re sent) at our school. I do hope they get hit by a large karma bus though.

It’s fascinating to see you so desire to move Forestville kids to your school pyramid and then hate them so much at the same time. Someone could write a dissertation on your cognitive dissonance.

H*ll no. I really do not want them at our school. Keep them in their pen.

Please let your school board rep know your feelings!

Thank you, I have. I truly hate the people over there. All we would here about is their children who poop unicorns and daisies being unable to cope at HHS while their SES peers at HHS run circles around them academically. We’d need to set up a nursery for those and their parents.

You don't believe that.

Neither that the upper middle class at Herndon is equal in net worth and income to Langley, nor that they are academically superior.

That's why you're so angry.

I promise you it's not that serious. Herndon is obviously a perfectly fine school academically and I hope you haven't embittered your children with this toxic inferiority complex.

Actually, it is true that HHS scores are good if you factor for SES.

+1. Yesterday the Langley parents were talking about all those govt employees in Great Falls but now they’re back to telling us they’re richer & smarter. The humility didn’t last very long.

Different posters of course. It’s fact that GF has a number of government employees. You like to conveniently ignore that for your own purposes, but it’s absolutely true.

I honestly think a big reason for the perception of wealth is that infrastructure out here doesn’t support large scale development. We are on septic and well water. Of course there are big houses out here too, but they don’t go to public schools for the most part.

Nobody feels this way about Oakton and parts of Vienna that are also on well water and septic.

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I think it says a lot that this thread ended up just being about Langley when there are, what, 2 dozen high schools in the area?

Can we stop talking about this school and the republican parents association? Can we move on to other topics now?

I would like to talk about getting rid of AAP at the middle school level. It's completely unnecessary and redundant and a huge waste of money.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it says a lot that this thread ended up just being about Langley when there are, what, 2 dozen high schools in the area?

Can we stop talking about this school and the republican parents association? Can we move on to other topics now?

I would like to talk about getting rid of AAP at the middle school level. It's completely unnecessary and redundant and a huge waste of money.

I wonder if they’ll have to keep it because of the K-5/K-6 elementary mismatch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it says a lot that this thread ended up just being about Langley when there are, what, 2 dozen high schools in the area?

Can we stop talking about this school and the republican parents association? Can we move on to other topics now?

I would like to talk about getting rid of AAP at the middle school level. It's completely unnecessary and redundant and a huge waste of money.

Something that will come up repeatedly in the regional meetings is the need for the School Board to make decisions about programs before the consultants starts coming up with boundary scenarios.

It’s not just AAP. Many would like to see AP at every high school so people aren’t redistricted into IB schools against their will.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it says a lot that this thread ended up just being about Langley when there are, what, 2 dozen high schools in the area?

Can we stop talking about this school and the republican parents association? Can we move on to other topics now?

I would like to talk about getting rid of AAP at the middle school level. It's completely unnecessary and redundant and a huge waste of money.

FYI, I’m one of the posters, and I’ve always voted blue, so your comment is just completely off base.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it says a lot that this thread ended up just being about Langley when there are, what, 2 dozen high schools in the area?

Can we stop talking about this school and the republican parents association? Can we move on to other topics now?

I would like to talk about getting rid of AAP at the middle school level. It's completely unnecessary and redundant and a huge waste of money.

I wonder if they’ll have to keep it because of the K-5/K-6 elementary mismatch.

They aren’t going to put AAP in each school because there isn’t enough demand and it’s a waste of money if there aren’t enough kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it says a lot that this thread ended up just being about Langley when there are, what, 2 dozen high schools in the area?

Can we stop talking about this school and the republican parents association? Can we move on to other topics now?

I would like to talk about getting rid of AAP at the middle school level. It's completely unnecessary and redundant and a huge waste of money.

I wonder if they’ll have to keep it because of the K-5/K-6 elementary mismatch.

I don’t think so. And if that is the case, the could have AAP in 6th, and only 6th and middle schools.

It’s trending towards becoming local and centers will go away for elementary. I’m sure they are taking that into account.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it says a lot that this thread ended up just being about Langley when there are, what, 2 dozen high schools in the area?

Can we stop talking about this school and the republican parents association? Can we move on to other topics now?

I would like to talk about getting rid of AAP at the middle school level. It's completely unnecessary and redundant and a huge waste of money.

And aap centers break up communities and in some schools create a divide with the school with the kids in its Gen ed boundary.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it says a lot that this thread ended up just being about Langley when there are, what, 2 dozen high schools in the area?

Can we stop talking about this school and the republican parents association? Can we move on to other topics now?

I would like to talk about getting rid of AAP at the middle school level. It's completely unnecessary and redundant and a huge waste of money.

FYI, I’m one of the posters, and I’ve always voted blue, so your comment is just completely off base.

Blue voters are blue until blue policies have an effect on their schools. You see it when they talk about inner city schools like Baltimore and DC all the time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it says a lot that this thread ended up just being about Langley when there are, what, 2 dozen high schools in the area?

Can we stop talking about this school and the republican parents association? Can we move on to other topics now?

I would like to talk about getting rid of AAP at the middle school level. It's completely unnecessary and redundant and a huge waste of money.

And aap centers break up communities and in some schools create a divide with the school with the kids in its Gen ed boundary.

So are you OK with AAP as long as the program only comprises kids who live within the base boundaries of the school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it says a lot that this thread ended up just being about Langley when there are, what, 2 dozen high schools in the area?

Can we stop talking about this school and the republican parents association? Can we move on to other topics now?

I would like to talk about getting rid of AAP at the middle school level. It's completely unnecessary and redundant and a huge waste of money.

FYI, I’m one of the posters, and I’ve always voted blue, so your comment is just completely off base.

Blue voters are blue until blue policies have an effect on their schools. You see it when they talk about inner city schools like Baltimore and DC all the time.

Yep, that’s me. I’m so sick of these unaccountable Dems. Not voting blue anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it says a lot that this thread ended up just being about Langley when there are, what, 2 dozen high schools in the area?

Can we stop talking about this school and the republican parents association? Can we move on to other topics now?

I would like to talk about getting rid of AAP at the middle school level. It's completely unnecessary and redundant and a huge waste of money.

I wonder if they’ll have to keep it because of the K-5/K-6 elementary mismatch.

They aren’t going to put AAP in each school because there isn’t enough demand and it’s a waste of money if there aren’t enough kids.

BS. Complete BS. The problem is that they don’t want to differentiate like they used to do. Yet, in ES, they will spend more time with the strugglers, because the strugglers today are more behind than the used fo be. Consequently, the schools land up helping no one even if they have great teachers. My DC’s teachers in more than one grade told me this. He behaved and did well on his own. After winter break was the worst. One year his teacher admitted that she had not worked with his reading group for five weeks because the kids at the lower end fell back over break. I felt bad for her, but I worse for my kid and his group. I volunteered and worked with students during and after school.

The schools need to acknowledge and deal with kids at all levels. There are solutions like combining classes across 2 grades if necessary for aap (or TAG).It has been done before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it says a lot that this thread ended up just being about Langley when there are, what, 2 dozen high schools in the area?

Can we stop talking about this school and the republican parents association? Can we move on to other topics now?

I would like to talk about getting rid of AAP at the middle school level. It's completely unnecessary and redundant and a huge waste of money.

Your kid didn’t get picked, huh? Maybe you could’ve had him study more?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it says a lot that this thread ended up just being about Langley when there are, what, 2 dozen high schools in the area?

Can we stop talking about this school and the republican parents association? Can we move on to other topics now?

I would like to talk about getting rid of AAP at the middle school level. It's completely unnecessary and redundant and a huge waste of money.

And aap centers break up communities and in some schools create a divide with the school with the kids in its Gen ed boundary.

So are you OK with AAP as long as the program only comprises kids who live within the base boundaries of the school?

Yes. At least the kids in Gen ed and aap are more likely to socialize with each other in and/or out of school. The kids biased to aap centers tend to not socialize much with the kids on the block or the gen Ed kids at the center.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it says a lot that this thread ended up just being about Langley when there are, what, 2 dozen high schools in the area?

Can we stop talking about this school and the republican parents association? Can we move on to other topics now?

I would like to talk about getting rid of AAP at the middle school level. It's completely unnecessary and redundant and a huge waste of money.

I wonder if they’ll have to keep it because of the K-5/K-6 elementary mismatch.

They aren’t going to put AAP in each school because there isn’t enough demand and it’s a waste of money if there aren’t enough kids.

BS. Complete BS. The problem is that they don’t want to differentiate like they used to do. Yet, in ES, they will spend more time with the strugglers, because the strugglers today are more behind than the used fo be. Consequently, the schools land up helping no one even if they have great teachers. My DC’s teachers in more than one grade told me this. He behaved and did well on his own. After winter break was the worst. One year his teacher admitted that she had not worked with his reading group for five weeks because the kids at the lower end fell back over break. I felt bad for her, but I worse for my kid and his group. I volunteered and worked with students during and after school.

The schools need to acknowledge and deal with kids at all levels. There are solutions like combining classes across 2 grades if necessary for aap (or TAG).It has been done before.

You need to tie this to a boundary discussion or take it to the AAP forum.