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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elementary and middle, I’ve found some info on the middle school proposals but nothing on elementary, nor on the grandfathering policy.[/quote]

In the past I think they've let 5th graders stay put for their last year.  [/quote]

But that makes no sense because the kids would move as a group together.[/quote]
In most boundary changes, there are only 50-70 kids moving period— equates out to about ten kids per grade.  As a fifth grader that is very tough socially, especially since the middle school boundaries aren’t necessarily aligned.  You could end up essentially switching friend groups twice in a two year period.  That sucks.  [/quote]

I find it completely baffling that APS splits elementary schools between middle schools, AND splits middle schools between high schools.  That is really rough on the kids and seems like poor planning on APS' side.[/quote]

Not to be snark, but are you new to the area or school system? This is age old...you could have read about it here on DCUM a decade ago. It's a function of fixed infrastructure, i.e., school buildings and roads, and wildly swinging demographics that shifted dramatically in both directions this century already. This ain't Loudoun where the frontier of civilization keeps expanding and you just plop down a new building when needed. [/quote]

I'm not new to the area but I've only been in the school system about 5 years.  That said, every other school system a family member is in, and the ones I grew up in, all fed multiple ES' to one MS, multiple MS' to one HS.  Lots of places besides Louden can figure this out.  [/quote]

FWIW, my now-rising 9th grader went to an elementary school that split between two middle schools. A majority of DC’s friends went to one middle school; DC went to another. It wound up working well; even though DC is shy, they made plenty of new friends in middle school and even kept in touch with close friends who went to the other middle school. I know everyone is different, but I sometimes think parents make bigger deals out of these types of things than kids do. [/quote]

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