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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's usually the county pushing kids out. This time it was initiated and perpetuated by parents. The cluster 2 kids were targeted in an attempt to solve a problem that was caused by the population growth of the base school population. That's why this is different and why it is so hurtful. [/quote]

It's not really different.  While FCPS may not have predicted the extent of the population growth at Haycock, FCPS Staff has taken the position for some time that overcrowding at Haycock would be addressed, if necessary, through changes in AAP assignments, rather than by changing Haycock's base boundaries.   This came up, for example, during last year's Freedom Hill/Lemon Road redistricting.  Some Lemon Road parents in the McLean pyramid asked FCPS to consider sending some "base" Haycock students to Lemon Road, in addition to Freedom Hill students, so that the Marshall/McLean split at Lemon Road would remain about the same.  FCPS rejected that out-of-hand and said the solution to overcrowding at Haycock would be to change the AAP assignments.  That was, perhaps, a disappointment for the Lemon Road/Longfellow/McLean parents, since it means that their kids now attend a school where the large majority of their kids' classmates go on to Kilmer/Marshall, but it seems to be working out OK.

And, when it finally becomes clear that some change to boundaries is going to be made, parents rarely agree on the solution.  Some parents at both Longfellow and Kilmer supported the movement of AAP kids from Longfellow to Kilmer, and then from Kilmer to Jackson, while many out-of-boundary AAP parents insisted that overcrowding was not a serious issue at those school.   If you look at the current Fairfax HS boundary study, you'd find that some parents who want to stay at Fairfax have already identified other neighborhoods that they believe should be reassigned to different schools instead.

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