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[quote=Anonymous]Who better to speak about the working conditions at a school than the people who work there?  Is it wrong for them to speak up after remaining silent year after year?  It does reach a point where enough is enough and is unsafe and prevents the full curriculum from being implemented.  FCPS and Janie Strauss should have taken action sooner---Haycock parents have been advocating for relief for the last 5 years.  But unfortunately for everyone at Haycock, the school was allowed to get more crowded every year.  This year was the breaking point.  FCPS task force made the proposal to realign AAP elementary and middle school AAP centers with their high schools county-wide.  From a common sense view, this makes sense.  Recognizing that not all AAP centers have the same issues or challenges, there may be no one size fits all solution.  But for Haycock, it did make sense. The proposed solution would reduce Haycock's population and that is something the community has been advocating for the past several years.  It was not in an effort to push Cluster 2 students out but they were the population that was put on the table by the task force.  It is difficult in the best of situations to be the ones asked to leave but it is also very difficult to the ones to say "we need you to leave".  This was an extremely difficult situation for everyone and it was a situation where not everyone could be accommodated.  The population at Haycock had to be reduced for safety and educational reasons.  Please try to refrain from placing blame.   You know the saying, "to understand a person, you need to walk a mile in their shoes"---well it applies here.  Teachers and parents have a right to speak up about their circumstances. Do not point fingers until you have walked a mile in their shoes, least of all the teachers!!![/quote]

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