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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is a bad idea on your part.  You are still in the preschool mindset.  Your child is joining FCPS -- this is the machine.  Your child is now a cog.  I realize that is not very comforting to you, but it is the way it is.

This is not summer camp.  There are bigger considerations at play here.   Don't make this request.  It sounds self-centered and self-important.  None of the other kids in kindergarten know each other... it is assumed.  Your child will be ok.[/quote]

+1. My kids from Lees Corner ES (K-2) to a Oak Hill Center (3-6) with maybe 20 kids from their ES, spread across multiple AAP classes  To Carson, which pulls AAP kids in from well more than a dozen base ESs— with most of GE Oak Hill going to Franklin and AAP Oak Hill splitting between Franklin LLIV and Carson AAP.  One kid went to TJ, where Carson sends a bunch of kids but most kids start over friend wise.  The other to Chantilly.  Carson also sends kids to base HS at Westfields, South Lakes and Oakton. So DD and her 4 friends are heading to 4 HSs.

Some places have these nice straight feeder patterns.  But most don’t.  And AAP makes it so much worse.  You kid will have to learn to walk into a new school without his BFF, and then maybe end up in school with them down the road, only to discover they don’t have much in common any more.   The schools like kids to come in and make new friends the first year. They do not love kids pairing of which can stop them from making friends  with many classmates.

It’s the principals call. I have been in schools where principals have said that they will consider iseperating two kids who have big issues (history of bullying and separate them) but not to request to be placed with certain friends.  And principals who allow it, but most kids are not placed with the requested friend. So many, in fact, it looks like the purposefully separate kids.

I know it’s hard, but it helps you kid a lot in getting integrated to the school to make new friends in the classroom, and not separate themselves out with one kid. Take your kid to the pre school open house and lots of schools have meet and greets for incoming K students. He can still ride the bus with his friend, do after school activities, have play dates.  But it really is in your kids best interest to back off and not make this request.

Now, if the school does a Tell us About your kid for place,ent— do it an complete it honestly so you get a K teacher who is a good match for your kid.

I know it is scary. But honestly— it will work out. 
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