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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not in region 2. Is anyone in region 2 willing to report this school's actions to the school board, region 2, and Phyllis Pajardo?[/quote]

Before you start reporting, you better check all your facts.  There are other schools in the same boat!  [/quote]

I'm happy to report them all. Which other ones do you know of? The other possibilities I can see are Columbia, Halley, Poplar Tree, and Chesterbrook. Poplar Tree is less of an issue this coming year since they are becoming a new center. Chesterbrook historically has had very large AAP classes, so I'm guessing the one low class was just an anomaly this year. I don't know about Columbia and Halley yet. Shrevewood's credibility is at stake now because the principal deliberately gave more teachers than necessary to 3rd and 4th grade AAP students to appease the AAP parents specifically and she did this repeatedly for the two years this LLIV program has been in existence.[/quote]

I don't think "credibility" is the right word.  It sounds like the principal was upfront about her intentions and did what she said she would do.  You might question her judgment, but not her credibility.

Did FCPS really need to make LLIV available in that many schools in that area?  It seems the result has been to promote a bidding war among principals to attract a finite number of AAP-eligible kids who'll boost their test scores.  [/quote]

It's pretty clear that this is/was FCPS' way of "apologizing" for the whole Haycock issue, where many Haycock parents were more than happy to kick out the Shrevewood kids from the AAP center. So as to not further ruffle feathers, Shrevewood was able to create LLIV so as to keep their kids rather than have to feel rejected. [/quote]

That cannot be true!  They are not even the same kids.  There are kids who has to switch schools from Haycock to Lemon Road, but not these kids.  These kids were the following year so they never went to Haycock.  They started in third at either the new LR center or Shrevewood LLIV.[/quote]

Different poster here, but I think the suggestion is that FCPS tried to placate those families by telling them that FCPS was going to put the "McLean model" in place in the Marshall pyramid, where there's both a center school (Lemon Road, like Haycock) and multiple schools in the pyramid with LLIV (Shrevewood, etc., like Chesterbrook, etc.).  It wouldn't necessarily be the same kids, but it might be the same families, and it was part of justifying the realignment that pulled some AAP kids out of Haycock.

The difference seems to be that there are fewer LLIV-eligible students, so the competition to get them is more overt, which is how you end up with a principal prepared to have a 13 or 14-student class composed only of LLIV-eligible students.  Maybe that will change over time, as more parents become aware of the LLIV options within the Marshall pyramid.   [/quote]

Get over yourself. You fought for years not to break up Haycock. FCPS did not need to placate Shrevewood families at all. They moved the kids all of about 1 mile to another school for the center after they couldn't hold the kids any longer. For years Haycock didn't even have an art room and waiting lists for SACC at least 10 years long. No huge bussing problem or anything to switch from Haycock to Lemon Road. This principal needs to even things out so that other grades aren't suffering at the result of keeping AAP kids all in one class by themselves. It's unsustainable as well as just cruel to the other children at the school who need the smaller classes more.[/quote]

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