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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my happiest days as a parent was last June.  My youngest's last day at Longfellow.  Too much focus on the high achieving students.  A weekly gag me e-letter highlighting all the high achieving students accomplishments.  Think- worst braggy Christmas letter, every week.  The AAP program is the priority for the Principal.[/quote]

My DC is happier at McLean than at Longfellow, but I attribute much of it to his greater maturity.  I don't think most kids like middle school too much.  We'd been at Kilmer previously and the teachers at Longfellow were, on average, better.  As for the e-letters, I appreciated the frequent communications, but thought they could have been more varied and imaginative.  It doesn't take much effort to recycle a list of award winners and it does create the impression, which I don't really think is the reality, is that all the school cares about awards.[/quote]

The reasons for which I did not like Longfellwo were not becasue it was an awkward age and a level of immaturity that is "normal".  One DC's friends was beaten up in the locker room and his phone was stolen.  They completely violated federal laws (big gaffs, not "technicalities") regarding my DC's IEP and several others of which I know.  They are a major lawsuit waiting to happen.  They keep and protect incompetent teachers.  It is run like a prison and everyone is prseumed guilty until they prove otherwise and they then *may* call the parents.

I am glad that your DC did not have the problems that others have had at the school.[/quote]

I'm sorry you had a bad experience.  I think our experience was more common than the ones you are reporting here.  One of our children at Longfellow also had an IEP and we had no problems.  DC also had very good teachers both years - not a stinker in the bunch.  Of course, that may have been the luck of the draw.

I will say that, before we moved, we were looking at one house zoned for Cooper and one for Longfellow, and we did agonize a bit as to whether our non-AAP kid would fare better at Cooper than Longfellow because it didn't have AAP, or better at McLean than Langley because it wasn't as socially exclusive.  At the end, we just decided to go with the house that offered the shorter commute and assumed it would work out OK, which it has so far.  [/quote]

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