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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What if they shut down the centers next year[/quote]

No gonna happen. It takes a lot of time and logistics to move 1/2 the grade 3-6 student body out and rezone to fill those seats. We're still months away from final decisions on Centers. [/quote]

LOL they'll pull the plug faster than you can say full day mondays![/quote]

Full day Monday's didn't move thousands of kids from school A to school B, and thousands more from schools B, C, and D to school A.   When 250 of the 850 kids in DCs center move back to their base schools, they would have to rezone 250 new kids in (the dashboard says the school is just at capacity).  That takes time, hearings, proposals, boundary studies, etc.  not to mention losing the AAP certified teachers from Centers to the base schools and hiring replacements. And, oh yeah, the FCPS school board can't can't seem to decide to take a bathroom break without 72 different consultants weighing in (transgender education consultants, anyone?) If they don't have a budget until May, how does that work?  And even if it did, do you want to find out in late August that your GE 5th grader is being moved away from her current school to a former center because the AAP 5th grader who was there moved back to the base school and there is excess capacity?  Talk about all he** breaking loose.  It may happen eventually-- with studies, and boundary meetings, a gradual changeover, starting in the AAP dense areas and grandfathering. But Centers are not going to just disappear by next fall. And I say this with no real dog in this fight-- my last DC graduates 6th this year and is planning to go to the excellent LLIV for middle. In fact-- huge numbers of kids leave our base for a TJ feeder elementary. Getting them back would probably help the GS rating/ property values. But it's still just not practical.  It's a logistical nightmare that saves relatively little $$$. AAP testing, AArTs, etc. would happen anyway and AAP busing (at about $600,000) has very little impact on the budget. [/quote]

I don't agree, they reason they had to move around resources is setting up a center and rezoning a single school. Base schools can handle the AAP center kids, it's a small percentage.[/quote]

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