future at Haycock?

[Anonymous]

Because the school is ridiculously overcrowded now (960 something enrolled) and needs that number to go down now. Haycock has been overcrowded for many years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's a summary of the construction stuff: http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20121025/NEWS/710259827/1117/%5C&template=fairfaxTimes

Good write up-- from the article this about sums it up
The school currently has a student population of 962, roughly 65 percent over its core capacity of 579 students. In 2008, FCPS raised Haycock’s core capacity limit to 620 students, although no additional space was added to the building. In 2009, modular buildings were added to accommodate the overflow. The school currently utilizes 22 of these outdoor classrooms that contain no plumbing, hallways or connection to the main school building.

The crowding has caused the school to no longer accept new students.

“The school is completely closed right now,” said FCPS board member Janie Strauss

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because the school is ridiculously overcrowded now (960 something enrolled) and needs that number to go down now. Haycock has been overcrowded for many years.

Class size will not change when these kids leave. Class size is determined by the number of kids in that grade, not the number in the school. If 155 kids leave, at least 6 teachers will go with them.

[Anonymous]

class sizes are much better this year so if they stay the same after the 150 leave that's fine.

[Anonymous]

Why are there even AAP Centers in the first place?? Why doesn't every FCPS have a AAP program(a class or 2 each 3-6th grade) for the students from their own schools to be enrolled in if they test into?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: All we want is to be part of the planning process to ensure that our new center is every bit as good as the Haycock center and to make sure that our children's wellbeing is considered

can you be more specific?

[Anonymous]

Why wouldn't it be? Can't some of the teachers from Haycock switch to the new center?

[Anonymous]

Haycock's program has been in place for decades and runs like a well-oiled machine. It is considered significantly more challenging than other area AAP centers. A new center with only 155 kids or so is not going to be able to provide the level of differentiation that an experienced center with over 400 kids can.

[Anonymous]

As a parent of a "regular" student at a school that could become a new AAP center, the behavior of some here is making me not want to welcome the newcomers with open arms. Do you all realize how you sound?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a "regular" student at a school that could become a new AAP center, the behavior of some here is making me not want to welcome the newcomers with open arms. Do you all realize how you sound?

How do we sound? Like parents who just want to make sure our kids have stability in their education? Parents who want to make sure that FCPS takes care of their kids?

You do realize that some of the nastiness is not coming from the Haycock AAP parents, right? There are all sorts of posters on this thread. They are not all Haycock AAP parents.

Your attitude illustrates the problem. No one wants our children and all we want is for them to get a good education. Perhaps FCPS should create AAP magnets like MoCo so no one gets "stuck" with our kids.

[Anonymous]

Great school if you want to have 40 kids a class in some crappy fema trailor

[Anonymous]

You need to get a life. You don't know anything about the school at all.

Anonymous wrote:Great school if you want to have 40 kids a class in some crappy fema trailor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great school if you want to have 40 kids a class in some crappy fema trailor

Doubt you know anything about Haycock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a "regular" student at a school that could become a new AAP center, the behavior of some here is making me not want to welcome the newcomers with open arms. Do you all realize how you sound?

How do we sound? Like parents who just want to make sure our kids have stability in their education? Parents who want to make sure that FCPS takes care of their kids?

You do realize that some of the nastiness is not coming from the Haycock AAP parents, right? There are all sorts of posters on this thread. They are not all Haycock AAP parents.

Your attitude illustrates the problem. No one wants our children and all we want is for them to get a good education. Perhaps FCPS should create AAP magnets like MoCo so no one gets "stuck" with our kids.

This is exactly the problem. No one wants our kids.
The three cluster 2 schools in question do not even have LLIV programs for the kids to fall back on.
Free and appropriate education, sure. But it comes with a lot of hostility.

[Anonymous]

It's odd that no one wants them, isn't it? They score pretty well on SOL tests. You'd think schools would want them if only to pull their pass advanced test scores up and increase the property values.