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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One long-standing issue is the pipeline of zoned Mt Vernon HS families who use Ft Hunt immersion to get their kids out of the Mt Vernon pyramid. They send kids to Spanish and test them into Stratford Landing AAP instead of sending them to the AAP elementary school in the Mt Vernon Pyramid. This has led to overcrowding at Stratford, Sandburg MS and West Po. It's ridiculous. Kids who do stay in the AAP school near Mt Vernon have super small classes with personalized attention. If they closed this loophole it would solve a bunch of the overcrowding problems.

I know a few families who decided the driving was a pain and put their younger kids in the neighborhood schools in Mt Vernon thru HS and were very happy.  More families in that pyramid should give it a try![/quote]

I'm a MV pyramid mom.  Years ago, MV students did pupil place to Stratford and WestPo.  But WestPo has been truly closed to transfers since the high school class of 2022 were freshmen, which would have been fall of 2018.  I haven't heard of any AAP kids going to Stratford since the late 2000s.  Our AAP students do go to Sandburg because we don't have a center at Whitman.  And I'm pretty sure the Ft Hunt immersion students are also allowed to go to Sandburg.  But since 2018, they've had to return to MV or pupil place into Hayfield.  West Po does have a new principal this year - is she going to let students transfer in?  The previous principal did not allow any transfers.

And yes, MVHS is a hidden gem.  As a parent, I love the smaller size of the school and the opportunities my children have received being a big fish in a little pond.  As a taxpayer, I hate that WestPo was expanded and MVHS is underenrolled.  [/quote]

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