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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] The alleviation of overcrowding at Kilmer and Thoreau by sending  Cooper kids back to McLean makes sense.

What's depressing is seeing a small neighborhood school like Westbriar, with a one street entrance, ballooning up to 900 kids in 5 years.  Yes, it's now an AAP center, but making it the defacto Tysons school with such limited access and doubling it's size is going to make passage in and out of those neighborhoods via OCR a nightmare.  [/quote]

Looks like FCPS wants to move the Westbriar island west of Beulah to Colvin Run and/or Wolftrap.  It's unclear whether some or all of that area will also move from Marshall to Langley.  [b] Either way, Westbriar may end up with a higher percentage of AAP students than parents may have expected earlier.[/quote][/b]

Of course it will.  Westbriar principal Lisa Pilson and AAP boosters like the current PTA prez who wanted her daughter to be able to go to AAP in her neighborhood, told objecting parents anything to get them to shut up and let this happen.  Once you turn a school into a center, good luck controlling growth of the AAP population. People will move to the area specifically for AAP and then put pressure on the school to get their above average kids into the program.  Soon the AAP kids will outnumber the base school kids just as they have at every other AAP school in a decent neighborhood.

The only real way to stop this and insert some sanity back into elementary education around here is to go back to neighborhood schools with local level IV programs for the advanced kids, which given the high concentration of smart kids in the area would serve people's needs just fine without all the busing hassles.  [/quote]

Couldn't have said it better.  Wondering when FCPS will do something about this ridiculous system.[/quote]

I wouldn't say that all level IVs are created equally or are not in transition.  Wolftrap is undergoing changes that may result in one of 4 or 5 scenarios (per Principal) - two years ago they stopped the AAP only classes- the first year I hear they stopped this was not very good - the second year was a lot of hand holding for the AAP class to make up for the first year.. it's clear that the next year will not be clear until school starts fall 2014.[/quote]

Why on earth would an AAP class need "hand-holding"?  Good grief, it's just a slightly advanced program and yet is made out to be some sort of highly-specialized curriculum in need of specially trained teachers.  Just give the more advanced kids more advanced work and be done with it.  Our center school principal said that almost every student could easily do AAP work.  All this hand-wringing would never have occurred a few years ago when it was "GT" for the [b]actually gifted[/b] and the School Board seemed to possess more common sense.  Now that everybody and their brother is in AAP, it holds no meaning whatsoever.[/quote]

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