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Anonymous
I see what you are saying, but what do you make of this from the slides: “Focus on feeder patterns where less than 25% of students from a lower school (elementary or middle) are split off to a different upper-level school (middle or high).” The way I read that, they would leave both Chantilly/Oakton in Franklin (both more than 25% of the Franklin population), and remove the Westfields feeder (less than 25% of the Franklin population). Is that how others understand the 25% cutoff? |
Anonymous
Ah, I think I was confused then, and it should have been the other way around. Basically, eliminate the AAP Center at Carson, it is totally unnecessary since Franklin has AAP classes. It's not like ES where the school has to pull in non-AAP kids, Franklin has DEDICATED AAP classes. I don't understand why there are Navy kids there. |
Anonymous
This is such a stupid AAP-Centric thing to say. 1/5 of those kids are AAP, mama. You can't move all those kids to an AAP center just because one out of every five of them may end up in AAP. So stupid. There is a teeeeeny tiny portion of Franklin Glen that is east of Fairfax County Parkway. Really, Franklin Farm should just annex those houses like they've done for other neighborhoods, it's so awkward for the families who live there. We specifically did not buy one of those houses because we didn't want our entire neighborhood to be on the other side of a major road. |
Anonymous
| Split elementary is fine if a sizable percentage but we should try and limit split ms/hs where possible. |
Anonymous
| I think connecting the timber lane island with a bit from falls hill so it’s “connected” on map is fine if it’s needed but don’t think we need to extend to 50. My kid went to timber lane. Longfellow, and now is at McLean. We are equal distant to McLean, Marshall, and Falls church but the kids by 50 are much closer to falls church. |
Anonymous
Just because you were ignorant, doesn’t mean others were too. My kids went to nursery school where the kids went all over. I kept up friendships with several families. We belonged to a pool where many of the families were from all the area schools. Plenty of interaction with people whose children went to the area ES. It even reached, gasp, beyond our pyramid. If you know who your pyramid rep is, why not contact them to make sure they know about what unique neighborhood issue you fear is going to be overlooked. |
Anonymous
Yes, where possible. Many of these split feeders are there by necessity. Limiting review to the “less than 25%” threshold appears to recognize that some spilt feeders will remain. |
Anonymous
Can we please stop calling people we disagree with ignorant? A few days ago, several posts called people ignorant if they pointed out that it was unlikely that FCPS was going to issue a statement pausing boundary review. How well did all those posts “you are ignorant” posts age? |
Anonymous
I agree. Let’s be kind, considerate and understanding of one another. Everyone has a unique perspective to share and we should be thoughtful. |
Anonymous
You're correct. Franklin has had dedicated AAP classes for at least 12 years, and their program, at least when two of my kids were in it, was very strong. There is no reason not to move all the Franklin kids back to Franklin. |
Anonymous
Yes, and moving the kids south of Route 29 to Longfellow but not McLean makes no sense. It would reduce Jackson’s enrollment to 900 and create a split feeder at Longfellow where only about 5% of the kids go to Falls Church. Conversely if they leave Timber Lane as a split feeder it would be about a 60-40 split to Longfellow/McLean and Jackson/Falls Church, which is fairly even and not the type of split (where one school gets less than 25% of the kids from the sending school) that they have flagged as a concern. |
Anonymous
Kindly F off with your “AAP mama” BS. My children are not in AAP. It’s simply a fact that moving kids from Navy to Crossfield creates a situation where some would end up right back at Navy. Oak Hill eliminates that issue. I think the Navy to Crossfield thing would actually be unfair because then some kids would get to choose to go back to their old school whereas others wouldn’t get that choice. Getting rid of AAP centers seems like it would solve some problems all over, but I will be very surprised if they do it. Try getting rid of the massive chip on your shoulder about your kids not being in AAP and realize we are probably in agreement here that not moving these kids at all would be the preferred action. |
Anonymous
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Just trying to focus the conversation a bit here.
There things FCPS has started, publicly and in writing, that will inform its next proposal. For example “feeder patterns where less than 25% of students from a lower school (elementary or middle) are split off to a different upper-level school (middle or high).” I do not see “eliminate AAP centers” anywhere in the boundary review materials. Just like I did not see “a pause after Spring Break” anywhere from FCPS. Is it helpful to focus on what appears to be an agenda/wishful thinking/goal that is entirely separate from anything that FCPS is considering in its proposals? Give me a link. One link. Show me where FCPS mentions ending AAP centers in connection with a boundary review proposal. If you can’t, all the AAP discussion comes across like the “they are going to pause” discussion. |
Anonymous
They are doing anything to bump capacity up at Cooper and Langley to cut FHES to Herndon. |
Anonymous
Wonder if this is what they are doing to Chantilly with Franklin Farm move to Oak Hill. That move defies common sense, |