AAP Work Session Scheduled for Jan. 14, 3:30 pm

[Anonymous]

Imagine you are in an elevator and it is full, every time the door tries to close, someone pushes the button and a few more people get on. It keeps happening until the elevator has reached an unsafe weight and can't move. The people who got on first can't do anything---they are crammed in the back of the elevator. This is not fault of anyone because the elevator is put there for everyone's use. How do you get the elevator to work properly? Some of the people have to get off.
Haycock is like this elevator. It is unsafely overcrowded and is in danger of breaking down. Population growth is due to neighborhood and AAP growth. The AAP growth has caused the balance between Gen Ed and AAP to be way out of balance and this creates dysfunction. AAP needs to be reduced. No program at a school should overwhelm the school--this is not good for the health of the school. The % of children entering the AAP program has grown exponentially but not the facilities that house AAP. It makes sense to open new AAP centers.
The families within the Haycock boundaries are as much a victim of the FCPS lack of planning as Cluster 2. However it is much easier for Cluster 2 to claim they are the victims than the neighborhood families. The Haycock community has been advocating for years to reduce the numbers coming to Haycock. They have stood on their heads trying to convince FCPS that their capacity projections are wrong. Consistently WRONG. It is right for the principal to admit that Haycock is overcrowded and needs relief---at some point the safety of the students needs to acknowledged and the negative impact that being crammed into the elevator has on everyone.
This is a very unpleasant situation for everyone and unfortunately everyone can't be winners. Please try not to place blame. Sometimes hard decisions need to be made for the best interest of the everyone, even if it doesn't make everyone happy.
I wish the best for the new Lemon Road center and hope that friendships that will be separated can be kept out outside of school.

[Anonymous]

What a condescending post!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a condescending post!

Wow we are not currently involved in any of this but have young children and are trying to decide on a place to live and for our kids to go to school. I didn't think the post was condescending in the least. It actually put a good perspective outfit what is happening in this entire area. Makes us closer to choosing a private school. So hard to still justify the $$$$

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a condescending post!

Wow we are not currently involved in any of this but have young children and are trying to decide on a place to live and for our kids to go to school. I didn't think the post was condescending in the least. It actually put a good perspective outfit what is happening in this entire area. Makes us closer to choosing a private school. So hard to still justify the $$$$

No disrespect but if it were your kids that were being moved out of their school community and you are at the school regularly so you fully understand the overcrowding situation, you might find it condescending too. The elevator analogy could play in our favor, though. By that poster's analogy, the Cluster 2 AAP students would actually have more right to be at Haycock than the K, 1st and 2nd base kids. After all, they were on the elevator first.

I agree with the poster that things have gotten too nasty and there are a lot of hard feelings. Hopefully, everyone can begin to put those feelings behind them. I think the Cluster 2 parents are getting there. I think there are many families who don't feel very welcome so they are ready to go. It will be hard for the kids to leave their friends, though.

[Anonymous]

And amendments are now posted:

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=943RXE701BA8

[Anonymous]

Where's the Reed amendments from the prior recommendations? Are they noe off the table?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where's the Reed amendments from the prior recommendations? Are they noe off the table?

The amendments posted are the amendments that will be considered. Patty's are not there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where's the Reed amendments from the prior recommendations? Are they noe off the table?

Looks to be that way.

Patty Reed (or any School Board member, for that matter) may offer amendment(s) to the posted amendments during the Regular Meeting on Thursday (1/24).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
most of Colvin Run Elementary crosses Rt 7. No big deal.

There are other areas closer to Haycock and Timber Lane that now cross Route 7 to get to Lemon Road (i.e., the area that recently got redistricted from Freedom Hill).

That doesn't make sense. If they cross 7 to get to Lemon Road, they would cross 7 to get to Haycock.

Was simply saying the area that got redistricted from Freedom Hill to Lemon Road and has to cross Route 7 is closer to Haycock than the Colvin Run area mentioned by the other poster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a condescending post!

I didn't think it was condescending at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a condescending post!

I didn't think it was condescending at all.

I didn't think it was condescending either...just a bit corny and overdramatic.

[Anonymous]

Need to have the topic renamed as "Haycock AAP" so that un-interested ones can save time by not reading about all the fighting that is going on.

[Anonymous]

18:55 Moving the Lemon Road daycare should not be such a pipe dream with Pimmit Center right down the street and with open classrooms that are ADA compliant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:18:55 Moving the Lemon Road daycare should not be such a pipe dream with Pimmit Center right down the street and with open classrooms that are ADA compliant.

And it could be a larger daycare center with more paying students. Dunn Loring could become an elementary school and what is at Dunn Loring could be moved to Pimmit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Other than the Freedom Hill kids who were just switched from Louise Arche last year and had to make all new friends, I don't understand why Cluster 2 families are so against Lemon Road when they'd have to move under any of the proposals because of the renovation. The three schools currently feed into Haycock for AAP, so their children would be with many of their current friends through AAP. It would be a smaller version of the annex proposal. This would alleviate parents from having to pick up children at Haycock and Lemon Road. And their children would get a better facility next year while the renovation is underway. Can't FCPS propose some upgrades and teacher transfers at Lemon Road to smooth things over there?

First off for those of you that do not really know. Lemon Road is a Split Feeder School and about 25% of its students ARE CLUSTER 1 STUDENTS THAT GO TO LONGFELLOW/MCLEAN just like your precious Haycock Cluster 1 students
AND #2. LRES actually physically sits in the ares that these students that go to LMS and MHS reside which is YES, CLUSTER 1. WHEN ( not if ) they do an area wide boundary study in a few years I guarantee some of the students that are currently Haycock base students will end up at Lemon Road just as they used to be years ago.