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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, those are problems they are going to face anyway.  They need more school space.  Many schools, not just Haycock, are very overcrowded.  They are going to have to renovate empty buildings or build schools in the coming years.  Why couldn't they renovate/build an AAP center or two?  When they do open new schools they are going to have to redistrict, which will upset people.  THis could actually be easier politically.[/quote]

No.  It's not easier politically, and you'd have to have your elitist head pretty firmly up your ass to think otherwise.

These ideas are, in a fundamental sense, un-American.  People would associate them with China or what used to be East Germany.  The idea that some kids would have to walk or get bussed past a renovated center to get to their own school is sad.[/quote]

Ever heard of TJ? I don't see many people crying elitism and petitioning to shut it down. [/quote]

TJ is a high school, not an elementary school.   There is more acceptance of the notion that a child may have demonstrated both aptitude and achievement by the age of 14 than by the age of seven or eight.

In addition, TJ was not created when FCPS was overcrowded as a "solution" to that problem.  Had TJHSST not been opened as a magnet school in the late 1980s, when county enrollment was declining, FCPS was threatening to close it.  The community decided it was better to have a magnet school in the building than no school at all, but it has created problems down the road.   The Jefferson area did not want to be split among different high schools, so FCPS initially agreed to reassign the entire area to Annandale HS.  That led to major overcrowding at Annandale, with trailers everywhere.  FCPS eventually realized that it had created a mess, and started to parcel Annandale students out to other schools, including Falls Church, Lake Braddock, Woodson and Edison, disrupting the lives of many non-TJ families.  Last year, it decided to move some of the old Jefferson area from Annandale to Edison.  However, these students now have to cross 495 to get to school, and some of them also have to cross 395.  At the time, some of the parents complained bitterly that none of this would have been necessary if TJ was still their neighborhood high school.   TJ may be an academic success story, and a feather in Fairfax County's cap, but the decision to convert it to a stand-alone magnet has turned out to be a poor decision from a facilities management perspective.  Groups like the Coalition of the Silence have also complained about current AAP/TJ admissions policies, and proposals to open additional, magnet schools in western Fairfax have been rejected.

The bottom line is that proposals to establish stand-alone AAP centers at the elementary level would be criticized and rejected.  [/quote]

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