what do you think about haycock?

[Anonymous]

There was an ugly exchange at the last PTA meeting that aired some of the resentment that some Haycock families feel toward the center kids. I don't know how widespread it is, but it's definitely there, simmering below the surface.

As a center parent, I think it's shortsighted of the general ed Haycock parents to think our kids are causing the problems. Our kids add to the school in a very positive way, I think (certainly the center money and resources help everyone there). Also, as someone mentioned in the PTA meeting, the answer is re-districting and then some of the complainers might be REALLY unhappy.

It's a shame that those feelings are there, but I can somewhat understand where they come from. I just think the anger and resentment is misplaced.

[Anonymous]

I really think that we shouldn't generalize the feelings of that one angry person at the last PTA meeting to the population of neighborhood families. I am a neighborhood parent and that was the first time I had heard of those kind of feelings and, even since that meeting, I have not heard them from anyone other than that one, very angry woman. While we would love to have facilites to accomodate our population, I feel quite strongly that the vast majority of neighborhood families do not feel resentment or anger to the Center. We need to get FCPS to give us the building we need during the renovation process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was an ugly exchange at the last PTA meeting that aired some of the resentment that some Haycock families feel toward the center kids. I don't know how widespread it is, but it's definitely there, simmering below the surface.

As a center parent, I think it's shortsighted of the general ed Haycock parents to think our kids are causing the problems. Our kids add to the school in a very positive way, I think (certainly the center money and resources help everyone there). Also, as someone mentioned in the PTA meeting, the answer is re-districting and then some of the complainers might be REALLY unhappy.

It's a shame that those feelings are there, but I can somewhat understand where they come from. I just think the anger and resentment is misplaced.

If students need to be redistricted, the primary options are to send some in-boundary students to Lemon Road or some out-of-boundary AAP students to another center. Neither would be the end of the world, and no current Haycock student adds to the school in any more positive way than any other student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was an ugly exchange at the last PTA meeting that aired some of the resentment that some Haycock families feel toward the center kids. I don't know how widespread it is, but it's definitely there, simmering below the surface.

As a center parent, I think it's shortsighted of the general ed Haycock parents to think our kids are causing the problems. Our kids add to the school in a very positive way, I think (certainly the center money and resources help everyone there). Also, as someone mentioned in the PTA meeting, the answer is re-districting and then some of the complainers might be REALLY unhappy.

It's a shame that those feelings are there, but I can somewhat understand where they come from. I just think the anger and resentment is misplaced.

If students need to be redistricted, the primary options are to send some in-boundary students to Lemon Road or some out-of-boundary AAP students to another center. Neither would be the end of the world, and no current Haycock student adds to the school in any more positive way than any other student.

You may have understood me (I'm the quoted PP). I didn't mean that the Center students add more of a positive than other students. I think what they add is a different perspective. I think certainly Haycock benefits from the extra money the center gets the school.

You're right. The answer is probably redistricting. I suppose the parents who end up at Lemon Road wouldn't be so happy about that (although from what I know of Lemon Road, it's a great school) because Haycock was probably a factor in their home purchase.

[Anonymous]

Redistricted parents are never happy, but sometimes it is the only way. An address is never a guarantee of school assignment.