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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do the AAP centers make boundary lines for schools more difficult than they need to? There are 25 high schools not including TJ with the possibility of creating a 26th high school. There are 26 middle schools so that there could be 1 middle school for each high school. There are 139 elementary schools with the possibility of several more being built in the near future so that there could be 5-6 elementary schools per middle and high school. The only split feeders that would be needed would be at the elementary school level and it seems they would only need to have one split between two middle schools.[/quote]

There were split feeders long before the AAP program grew to its current size.  Part of it stems from the fact that the middle and high schools aren't necessarily close to one another, so they end up with different boundaries that don't completely overlap.  It seems to be worse in western Fairfax - Carson and Franklin, in particular, send kids to a lot of different HS. [/quote]

I love that they call Franklin our "neighborhood" school.  Franklin is a 25 minute drive from our house with no traffic, one hour at 7:00am on a school bus.  To get there, our bus passes right by Lanier MS and Rocky Run MS.  The planning of middle school locations in central and western Fairfax was done without community planning, the way it was done in Falls Church, McLean, and Vienna.  I wish we could avoid split feeders, but it isn't going to happen.  AAP has nothing to do with it.[/quote]

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