FCPS About to Propose Major Boundary Changes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The list contains so many new AAP centers! It may be time to go all LLIV

The last thing FCPS needs are more AAP centers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list contains so many new AAP centers! It may be time to go all LLIV

The last thing FCPS needs are more AAP centers.

Strongly disagree. They will align pyramids and balance enrollments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:16:31 here: I looked at this again and the documents suggest that the movement of kids who might be moved from Kilmer AAP to a new Thoreau AAP center would be "AAP students residing within the Thoreau MS attendance area" currently at Kilmer AAP (main summary document at p. 15).

I don't know how that could possibly involve 250 students (see Attachment C - Map 10 at p. 11). Most Thoreau kids go the the Jackson AAP center, not Kilmer. The only exception seems to be the Kilmer AAP kids at Freedom Hill and Stenwood who have Thoreau as their base school, and I don't think anywhere close to 250 kids fall in that category, since Kilmer is the base school for most Freedom Hill and Stenwood kids. That's what made me think this option must involve moving other Kilmer AAP kids to Thoreau. Guess the actual details would emerge later if that option got some real traction.

There are also AAP kids at Wolftrap Elementary who will go to Kilmer, as their AAP Center, then back to Madison. It'd be great if they made Thoreau the AAP Center for all Town of Vienna kids for space/capacity reasons, given the overcrowding at Kilmer with the AAP students.

Agree!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list contains so many new AAP centers! It may be time to go all LLIV

The last thing FCPS needs are more AAP centers.

More AAP Centers will reduce transportation costs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list contains so many new AAP centers! It may be time to go all LLIV

The last thing FCPS needs are more AAP centers.

The additional ones in McLean are really LLIV, since no other ES would be going there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list contains so many new AAP centers! It may be time to go all LLIV

The last thing FCPS needs are more AAP centers.

The additional ones in McLean are really LLIV, since no other ES would be going there.

That would also be the case with the proposals for Powell and Poplar Tree in western Fairfax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list contains so many new AAP centers! It may be time to go all LLIV

The last thing FCPS needs are more AAP centers.

The additional ones in McLean are really LLIV, since no other ES would be going there.

That would also be the case with the proposals for Powell and Poplar Tree in western Fairfax.

+1

These ^^ AAP Centers appear to be no brainers -- reduce overcrowding, keep kids at their neighborhood schools, and reduce transportation costs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list contains so many new AAP centers! It may be time to go all LLIV

The last thing FCPS needs are more AAP centers.

Strongly disagree. They will align pyramids and balance enrollments.

+1. For example, Thoreau's capacity is greatly expanding, so why shouldn't it have AAP as an option for all the kids in the Town of Vienna? As it is, AAP kids in Vienna currently go to Kilmer, with its majority Marshall HS population, or Jackson, with its majority Falls Church HS population. I'm all for aligning pyramids, regardless of AAP status. If Thoreau (and other schools) become AAP centers, more pyramids will be aligned, more kids will have consistency. (Until FCPS decides to redraw boundaries again!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list contains so many new AAP centers! It may be time to go all LLIV

The last thing FCPS needs are more AAP centers.

More AAP Centers will reduce transportation costs.

Quite the opposite! Busing kids to an AAP center costs much more than just keeping them at their base school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list contains so many new AAP centers! It may be time to go all LLIV

The last thing FCPS needs are more AAP centers.

Strongly disagree. They will align pyramids and balance enrollments.

+1. For example, Thoreau's capacity is greatly expanding, so why shouldn't it have AAP as an option for all the kids in the Town of Vienna? As it is, AAP kids in Vienna currently go to Kilmer, with its majority Marshall HS population, or Jackson, with its majority Falls Church HS population. I'm all for aligning pyramids, regardless of AAP status. If Thoreau (and other schools) become AAP centers, more pyramids will be aligned, more kids will have consistency. (Until FCPS decides to redraw boundaries again!)

Just to be clear, there are currently some students who live in the Town of Vienna, attend Wolftrap or Westbriar, and who go to Kilmer and then Madison regardless of whether they are in AAP. I have not seen any suggestion in the materials that FCPS might move those kids to Thoreau if they are not in AAP, and it's ambiguous as to whether FCPS is thinking about moving them to Thoreau if they are in AAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list contains so many new AAP centers! It may be time to go all LLIV

The last thing FCPS needs are more AAP centers.

More AAP Centers will reduce transportation costs.

Quite the opposite! Busing kids to an AAP center costs much more than just keeping them at their base school.

It seemed like many of the proposals called for AAP centers that would only draw from students at their base schools or additional centers that might pull from multiple schools, but would be closer to many students' homes than the existing centers. This would reduce current transportation costs.

[Anonymous]

Are they talking about any changes to Herndon high school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are they talking about any changes to Herndon high school?

Page 13 of Attachment A summarizes the discussion items that would impact the Herndon pyramid.

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=9PANAF5EF993

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are they talking about any changes to Herndon high school?

Page 13 of Attachment A summarizes the discussion items that would impact the Herndon pyramid.

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=9PANAF5EF993

thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list contains so many new AAP centers! It may be time to go all LLIV

The last thing FCPS needs are more AAP centers.

More AAP Centers will reduce transportation costs.

Quite the opposite! Busing kids to an AAP center costs much more than just keeping them at their base school.

It seemed like many of the proposals called for AAP centers that would only draw from students at their base schools or additional centers that might pull from multiple schools, but would be closer to many students' homes than the existing centers. This would reduce current transportation costs.

It's interesting because many of them are just creating LLIV in new schools, yet they call them "centers."