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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People don't seem to realize that opening an AAP center at Cooper would crowd Cooper overnight, leaving more kids in trailers, etc since they don't have the capacity. The school is pretty run down as is and there are no plans for any new renovations anytime soon. Plus, it would take time for Cooper to reach Longfellow in terms of AAP rigor and extracurricular since they currently don't have those teachers in place.

I know certain school board members are chomping at the bit for this to happen, but they shouldn't just force it willy nilly and hope for the best. [/quote]

FCPS shows Cooper as having being under-enrolled by 327 students this year, with the enrollment declining for at least the next four years.

If the choice is between moving AAP kids back to Cooper, or reassigning neighborhoods from Kilmer and Longfellow to Cooper to fill empty seats at Cooper, I'd prefer the former, since allowing the AAP enrollments at Kilmer and Longfellow to grow further as a percentage of the total enrollment would only aggravate issues that already exist around AAP/GenEd dynamics.       [/quote]

The parents at Cooper don't want a center there either, so the reason you cite above is pretty ridiculous. Having a center at a school that isn't equipped to have one is pretty stupid-plus, I don't know where you come up with those numbers of under enrollment. Both Churchill road and Spring Hill which feed to Cooper have tons of kids, as well as all of the Great Falls schools also in Langley pyramid.[/quote]

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