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Anonymous
AP vs IB, yeah. That’s a built in loophole. AAP Centers, however would require a lot of boundary adjustments. Many centers have been used to boost enrollment without changing boundaries. There are more than 300 kids transferring out of Franklin to attend Carson and Rocky Run, so lines would have to be redrawn if you sent them all back. Otherwise, I do agree. I understand AAP centers at an elementary level, because not every school has enough students to stand up a class. The AAP centers they go to should be on their high school pyramid, though. At a middle school level, I don’t understand why it exists when there are honors classes, but if it must be a program, why is it not offered at every middle school? If there are more than 100 kids transferring out of a middle school for AAP that’s enough to fill two AAP sections at their home school. |
Anonymous
Well it is a conspiracy to not supply user friendly information when conducting a county wide comprehensive boundary review. Arlington annual transfer report https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2023/08/2022-23-Transfer-Report.pdf FCPS has the 2024-25 transfer numbers for sending/receiving. Receiving should have rows under each site for iB, AP, Edison Global STEM, academies, immersion, language, sped, other. TJ one row . Column after sending for membership. |
Anonymous
If they go that route doesn’t look like HMS would be overcrowded very much or for very long, if at all. They’d have no problem with the “optics.” |
Anonymous
But what about *reads off list of canned talking points* the massive HTOC and TRG developments that are still in the early stages of planning. |
Anonymous
There is a relevant FCPS memo for TRG that makes this so much more than a “canned talking point.” Have you seen it? |
Anonymous
Just because your wish it, didn’t make it so. Why would you want to overcrowd that school? |
Anonymous
What is HTOC and TRG? |
Anonymous
High level: https://www.ffxnow.com/2024/05/01/herndon-transit-related-growth-area-plan-adoption/ |
Anonymous
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How does this compare with the even larger growth plans still in the works for Tysons?
Does Langley just wash its hands of all of this, or is it just saying send some of Tysons there but leave Forestville alone for now? |
Anonymous
I for one am just interested in them getting the data right, Tyson’s included, so they don’t break the system even more with short-sighted changes. Seems pretty non-controversial, unless you are looking to screw over certain neighbors with an equity agenda. |
Anonymous
| One way to limit transfers out/in is to have each HS offer the same set of languages and AP classes regardless of how many students sign up for each. It would make offerings equal in each HS. The only differences would be how many classes of each are offered. |
Anonymous
What data? They know how many kids in FCPS live in Tysons. It’s easy to argue for inertia when you’re sitting at a currently under-enrolled school. |
Anonymous
+1 there’s no need to move Forestville or anything else in western Great Falls/Herndon out of Langley right now. However if more development comes to Tysons and overcrowds McLean and Marshall, leading to spillover into Langley (MHS and LHS are pretty physically close to each other), some tough choices may have to be made. But if they really are looking at the borders every 5 years, there is plenty of time to make a decision at that time. But isn’t there more development slated for the Herndon area as well? This is where the Mythical Western High SchoolTM could certainly come in handy. I realize there’s a lot of capacity in other areas of the county, but capacity at Lewis and Mount Vernon doesn’t help McLean. |
Anonymous
It’s also been proposed that some languages be offered on-line. Currently some schools have to spend large amounts on their budgets on ESOL and others spend money on foreign languages not offered at other schools. If you’re a non-ESOL kid at the former you simply don’t have access to the same opportunities. You might be able to pupil place but that means arranging your own transportation, which isn’t feasible for a lot of families. |
Anonymous
This is such an obvious idea but there is SUCH resistance to it on the part of FCPS and the school board. They should dump IB at most schools and have the same core AP classes everywhere. Maybe the bigger schools can offer the more unusual AP’s, and can accept some transfers from kids who can’t be served at their base school, but the majority of students will be served just fine with the top 10: English (Language or literature), US history, World history, psychology, US government, Calc AB, CS A, biology, chemistry, physics. Throw in Spanish and French for languages too. The number of kids pursuing AP Chinese or studio art or whatever and needing a transfer should be pretty small if they can take most AP’s at their own school. |