LEMON ROAD AAP CENTER

[Anonymous]

Everything about AAP districting, centers, base schools, etc. makes my head spin. The whole "system" of who goes where is so chaotic and needlessly confusing. And by "needlessly," I mean there is absolutely no need for any of this. These kids could easily be educated in their own neighborhood schools, if it wasn't for a certain contingent of parents who are always clamoring for more, more, more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I remember correctly, there was a bit of "Lemon Road isn't good enough for us" from the Westbriar AAP parents. I think, but am not sure, that it stemmed from the redistricting of the "low income" FH kids there. It was couched in terms of distance, but that was a facade.

I don't know, but suspect, the FH and Stenwood parents wanted to be at Westbriar because those kids had all been together at LA. The parents all knew each other. During that whole debate, there were two groups (the LA parents and the Haycock parents) who kind of worked side by side but were never fully integrated. Also, keep in mind, the LA families were grandfathered, whereas the Haycock families were not. I suspect the LA families wanted to keep their distance from the LR center so they could get grandfathered and not get swept in with the Haycock families who had virtually no chance to be grandfathered (and ultimately weren't).

This was absolutely the case. Even the local school board member was a little taken aback by the entitlement of some Westbriar parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everything about AAP districting, centers, base schools, etc. makes my head spin. The whole "system" of who goes where is so chaotic and needlessly confusing. And by "needlessly," I mean there is absolutely no need for any of this. These kids could easily be educated in their own neighborhood schools, if it wasn't for a certain contingent of parents who are always clamoring for more, more, more.

It's not difficult to grasp that each county address is zoned for a base school and an AAP center, which may be a different school.

As to the appropriate size of an AAP program, that's the $64,000 question, but it's simplistic to say that all AAP kids could "easily" be educated in their neighborhood schools or to ignore that the current system has certain benefits and continues to attract families that place a high value on education to FCPS.

[Anonymous]

I would pick Lemon Road any day over the schools that are zoned for their AAP center. Just compare test scores...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would pick Lemon Road any day over the schools that are zoned for their AAP center. Just compare test scores...

Easy to get better test scores when you take the better students from the zoned schools.

It's kinda like being in 1st place and beating the 2nd place team in baseball - not only do you improve yourself, you also hurt the competition with one fell swoop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would pick Lemon Road any day over the schools that are zoned for their AAP center. Just compare test scores...

Easy to get better test scores when you take the better students from the zoned schools.

It's kinda like being in 1st place and beating the 2nd place team in baseball - not only do you improve yourself, you also hurt the competition with one fell swoop.

Yes. I think most AAP centers have really high test scores for that reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would pick Lemon Road any day over the schools that are zoned for their AAP center. Just compare test scores...

Easy to get better test scores when you take the better students from the zoned schools.

It's kinda like being in 1st place and beating the 2nd place team in baseball - not only do you improve yourself, you also hurt the competition with one fell swoop.

Yes. I think most AAP centers have really high test scores for that reason.

And if there were any correlation between high scores in AAP elementary school and success in life, this might actually matter.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps. But if you had the choice of sending your kid to a better run school with smaller classes --- why wouldn't you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything about AAP districting, centers, base schools, etc. makes my head spin. The whole "system" of who goes where is so chaotic and needlessly confusing. And by "needlessly," I mean there is absolutely no need for any of this. These kids could easily be educated in their own neighborhood schools, if it wasn't for a certain contingent of parents who are always clamoring for more, more, more.

It's not difficult to grasp that each county address is zoned for a base school and an AAP center, which may be a different school.

Really? So the pages upon pages of posts here on DCUM alone reflecting confusion about which center parents will send their children to, and whether those centers might change, or whether new centers might open up, or close, or redistrict - all of these issues aren't overcomplicated? Gotcha. The whole system is horribly planned out and I think there are few people who would actually say it's not.

And yes - kids could absolutely be educated in their own community schools. It's the parents who insist that they cannot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would pick Lemon Road any day over the schools that are zoned for their AAP center. Just compare test scores...

Easy to get better test scores when you take the better students from the zoned schools.

It's kinda like being in 1st place and beating the 2nd place team in baseball - not only do you improve yourself, you also hurt the competition with one fell swoop.

Yes. I think most AAP centers have really high test scores for that reason.

And if there were any correlation between high scores in AAP elementary school and success in life, this might actually matter.

+1000
Too bad certain parents refuse to believe the obvious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps. But if you had the choice of sending your kid to a better run school with smaller classes --- why wouldn't you?

The AAP centers in our area aren't necessarily better run with smaller classes, that's why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything about AAP districting, centers, base schools, etc. makes my head spin. The whole "system" of who goes where is so chaotic and needlessly confusing. And by "needlessly," I mean there is absolutely no need for any of this. These kids could easily be educated in their own neighborhood schools, if it wasn't for a certain contingent of parents who are always clamoring for more, more, more.

It's not difficult to grasp that each county address is zoned for a base school and an AAP center, which may be a different school.

Really? So the pages upon pages of posts here on DCUM alone reflecting confusion about which center parents will send their children to, and whether those centers might change, or whether new centers might open up, or close, or redistrict - all of these issues aren't overcomplicated? Gotcha. The whole system is horribly planned out and I think there are few people who would actually say it's not.

And yes - kids could absolutely be educated in their own community schools. It's the parents who insist that they cannot.

A dog can chase its own tail for a long time, but it's still easy to see that it's running in a circle. There's no correlation between the amount of time some people spend saying the same thing over and over again and the complexity of the school assignments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would pick Lemon Road any day over the schools that are zoned for their AAP center. Just compare test scores...

judging by your sentence, you didn't attend any AAP center let alone elementary school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything about AAP districting, centers, base schools, etc. makes my head spin. The whole "system" of who goes where is so chaotic and needlessly confusing. And by "needlessly," I mean there is absolutely no need for any of this. These kids could easily be educated in their own neighborhood schools, if it wasn't for a certain contingent of parents who are always clamoring for more, more, more.

It's not difficult to grasp that each county address is zoned for a base school and an AAP center, which may be a different school.

Really? So the pages upon pages of posts here on DCUM alone reflecting confusion about which center parents will send their children to, and whether those centers might change, or whether new centers might open up, or close, or redistrict - all of these issues aren't overcomplicated? Gotcha. The whole system is horribly planned out and I think there are few people who would actually say it's not.

And yes - kids could absolutely be educated in their own community schools. It's the parents who insist that they cannot.

A dog can chase its own tail for a long time, but it's still easy to see that it's running in a circle. There's no correlation between the amount of time some people spend saying the same thing over and over again and the complexity of the school assignments.

True... like those who continue to repeat, ad nauseum, that AAP is for "all students," or that AAP kids need a special "peer group," or "special school". Just repeating these silly statements over and over doesn't make them true, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would pick Lemon Road any day over the schools that are zoned for their AAP center. Just compare test scores...