Someone tell me about Luther Jackson Middle School

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think AAP parents ignore overcrowding at all. I think it's just important that AAP is controlled by the school board and not each school individually. How can they plan for overcrowding if they let each school have whatever programs they want? If controlled by the school board, they can evenly distribute students to alleviate overcrowding. The entire county needs to go through a boundary change soon. There are too many odd boundaries and at some point soon all the high schools in the western part of Fairfax will be overcrowded because another high school has been needed there for a long time.

Bingo. Doing things like this sets a terrible precedent that when parents whine loudly enough that FCPS must provide everything to their kids no matter where the kids attend school.

It sounds as if FCPS has finally caved to years of complaints, and a huge sense of entitlement, by some families that "My child must go to school in our neighborhood AND must have all the services I demand too!" Some people in the Vienna area have carped for years about how their kids should go to school In Our Own Neighborhood when what they actually mean (though they won't say it out loud) is that "Jackson's student population doesn't look enough like my kid."

Someone else posted that it doesn't make sense that kids can't go to school in their own neighborhoods. But they CAN. You just have to accept thatyour base school (base=neighborhood, do you get that?) is the place to send your child if you want that "neighborhood school" experience on which you insist. But you cannot then demand that the school also provide for your child every possible program that is at other schools but not at your base. If your child's base school does not have AAP, then you must choose which you value more.

But now FCPS is caving in and will weaken AAP centers (not just Jackson, all of them eventually) by agreeing to hand out Level IV classes piecemeal, so the parents who whine loudest will get all the programs they want, at their blessed neighborhood schools. It will water down AAP and the ones who will be affected are the kids.