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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should just move the Stenwood kids to Lemon Road instead of Westbriar.[/quote]

I don't feel bad at all for any Westbriar parent complaining about too many AAP students. Stenwood parents fought against going to Lemon Road for who knows what reason. Their kids would be home about 1.5 hours earlier if they had elected Lemon Road. Now they get home close to 5:00. Lemon Road still has room for them. And the base school Westbriar parents stood back and let a couple of gung ho AAP center parents be the sole parent voice to have Westbriar as a center school and didn't even ask any questions such as how large the school would become and whether it would be out of balance.[/quote]

Oh how wrong you are!   The base parents did not stand back at Westbriar.  They constantly fought against the change and brought up the fact that making Westbriar an AAP Center would turn a small neighborhood schools into a 900-1000 kid behemoth.

They were drowned out by AAP parents and AAP wannabe younger parents and a principal who wanted an AAP empire.  The parents who pushed for a center didn't want their kids to have to go to the Lemon Road neighborhood and Stenwood parents were all too happy to send their kids to a nicer part of town even if it meant their kids were on buses for a longer time.

The Westbriar center supporters also wanted a shiny new addition, which laughably, won't even be able to adequately house the projected population.  They've added few feet onto the front of the cafeteria for a school population that will more than double from the 450 or so kids it was a decade ago.  They're adding an addition with new classrooms, but the current hallways in the old part of the school will never be able to handle the new population.  It's a joke. [/quote]

Then advocate to have the Stenwood parents switch to Lemon Road. They have their own LLIV program anyway. Shouldn't need to be on a bus for 45 minutes to go to Westbriar.[/quote]

Ultimately, I don't think centers in places like Vienna, McLean and Great Falls will stand.  I think they'll become LLIV, so the Stenwood families will go back to their base school.  Sadly, even that won't help Westbriar -- once you build an elementary school (that's K-6) with a capacity for 900 kids, you'll have an outsized population (on a tiny street) forever.   It has become the defacto Tysons school and will continue new families coming from apartment buildings being thrown up by developers, near and far.   [/quote]

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