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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP: we actually haven’t reached 3rd grade yet but I also feel like CRES has zero sense of community. I don’t know if it’s the Vienna/GF divide, the various ethnic groups that seem to be a little bit insular, or if people are just too busy to care. Is it like this at all of the top FCPS elementary schools? In other words, would Spring Hill, Wolftrap or Great Falls elementary be any different?[/quote]

Any school that isn't an AAP center will have a better sense of community.  So Great Falls and Spring Hill probably don't have these issues and I imagine the entire student body is more cohesive than at CRES, or any center where there is segregation.[/quote]

I think any school with different programs is going to have this issue. My kid is at a language immersion school and there are parents with kids in the Gen Ed program that complain that the Principal favors the language immersion program. There is a clear differentiation between the programs. The kids in language immersion do not take special classes with the kids in gen ed, which I think is normal since most classes take specials as a class and not mixed. The real issue is that there are special programs that are centered around the culture associated with the language that some people feel excluded from. There are kids from outside the schools borders that attend the language classes. And the Principal does help to advertise and hype the language program because it does differentiate the school from other schools.

I have not heard any one discuss that one group gets more resources then the other but there are plenty of people who see that there is a divide between the kids and occasionally some kids will brag that they are better because they are learning the language.

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