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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Wow. Just wow. And not in a good way. I think we may revisit Arlington and Falls Church City. I had no idea what this AAP nonsense is, but it certainly isn't something we want our children to get caught up in, and it's definitely not our family's style. This is elementary school for goodness sake. These poor kids will all be on ativan and Zoloft before they are 10![/quote]

Please do not buy into the stereotype that is promoted here.  This is an anonymous website that attracts people who want to stir thing up.  Both Haycock and Kent Gardens are perfectly fine schools.  Don't believe the hype.  [/quote]

My reaction as well.  This won't be the first or last time that the lady from Shrevewood whose area was moved to a different AAP center looks for occasions to go after Haycock.  She has a very large chip on her shoulder, but nothing she says has much of a shelf life. [/quote]

I think there is more than one Haycock negativity poster.  Look back,  there were negative posts before the whole AAP drama.  It goes back years.[/quote]

There are some parents of Haycock students not in AAP who have posted here about their concerns that their kids may be "second-fiddle" at Haycock.  That concern is not unique to Haycock, but can be said of most schools with a large AAP center, whether it's Haycock ES in the McLean pyramid, Colvin Run ES in the Langley pyramid, or Kilmer MS in the Marshall pyramid.   It's a non-issue in high schools, which don't have AAP centers.

There are also one or two posters who live in the Shrevewood and Westgate ES distircts who were very unhappy that AAP students from those areas were reassigned last year from Haycock to Lemon Road.   They felt that other Haycock parents "threw them under the bus" by agreeing with the majority of the School Board and the principals of both Haycock and Lemon Road that the best solution to overcrowding at Haycock was creating a brand-new AAP center at Lemon Road that kids from Lemon Road, Shrevewood and Westgate, which are in the Marshall HS pyramid, could attend.   There is one woman from Shrevewood who has posted negative things about Haycock ever since this decision was made.   I think she may also have a "grandfathered" AAP kid in 6th grade at Haycock this year.  She tries to make her perspective sound like the widely shared view of current Haycock parents.  The irony is that, in other threads, posters will acknowledge that the new Lemon Road AAP center is working out just fine.   Even more, while some of these posters go after McLean parents for what happened at Haycock, the same dynamic is now starting to emerge at Kilmer MS, in their own pyramid, where Kilmer parents have started to argue AAP kids from Langley need to be sent to Cooper MS to relieve overcrowding at Kilmer.  It's a never-ending cycle where school boundaries and enrollments are concerned.

Assuming the OP was a bona fide poster with a real request, it's a shame the thread deteriorated, but it was predicted early in the thread that this would happen, and it did right on cue.  But it's not going to change the fact that most Haycock families are quite happy, both in real life and on this forum.  The low inventory for homes in the district bears this out.  [/quote]

The real shame is that you single handedly brought this thread so far off track that the OP has likely cancelled their move altogether, all while blaming it on what you suppose must be the view of one anonymous poster whose life you seem to have all figured out. Now you're back, blaming it all on others once again. [/quote]

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