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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Assuming that current Cluster 2 AAP students at Haycock get grandfathered, what does the enrollment at Haycock look like over the next five years?  If I understand correctly, the number of students moving from Haycock to Lemon Road will be substantially lower than the number that Janie Strauss tossed out at the parents' meeting.   [/quote]

I have a quick question. If the current AAP students get grandfathered, and the rising 3rd graders eligible to AAP are going to Lemon Road, I wonder how FCPS will manage the school bus. do we get 3 buses - base school, Haycock, and Lemon Road?  I heard they are short of school bus, My DC was suffered from the overcrowed school bus for years, but they don't have enough school bus to add one. Do they have enough fund? Heard any plan about school bus?

I think they should not allow grandfathering students. [/quote]

They don't necessarily need a second bus.  They can do "depot" service where they bus everyone to LR then have the bus go from LR to Haycock.  Also, for some of the students, LR is on the way to Haycock.  They're not that far apart.  It's a manageable issue.

I suspect you think they shouldn't allow grandfathering because it's not your child they are proposing to move.[/quote]

I see no need for grandfathering since many students would move.  Do you people think you are the first parents in this county whose students went to a new AAP or GT Center?  FCPS has been there done that successfully with and without grandfathering.  [/quote]

The staff I talked to last night said that grandfathering is the strong policy of FCPS and it's what is best for the kids.  Staff highly recommends grandfathering.  I want to respond to the "many students would move" part of your comment.  So what?  My child did not make she friends according to which cluster people are in.  She has her friends and has no idea where the various children live.  I think none of them is cluster 2.   So yes, there would be 22 kids from 5th grade that would move but how does that help her?  I get it, she'd go to Kilmer the following year, but at that point, many elementary schools merge and there will be many, many new kids so the friends will shuffle.  She already did this once when she moved to Haycock because none of her previous school friends came along and she's going to have to do it again for middle school.  Sure, she's capable of making new friends, but she's in the vulnerable preteen years and this would be a good time for her to be able to count on the support of the friends she's had for three years.  If it happens, she'll handle it because she's a great kid with a positive attitude.  It's just a pretty crappy thing to do to her.  We're talking 118 kids in the 3rd, 4th and 5th grades and likely a few will leave by attrition anyway so it will be fewer.  It's really not that many kids and is not going to make a huge difference at Haycock anyway.  It's not like the school will be suddenly less crowded and all of the problems will be solved.  It's not a panacea.[/quote]

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