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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You lost me,  21:01.  If the option is between your paying for private and forcing other kids to attend overcrowded public schools because you want Cooper to remain under-enrolled and AAP-free, please go ahead and write that check.  [/quote]

Let me help you out with this...if Cooper wants a center, they need to put the energy and resources into making it a robust center, same as Longfellow. Our kids (mine included) don't deserve anything less. Clearly the powers that be only care about shuffling bodies and space constraints rather than teacher quality and all of the intangibles that make people currently want to stay at Longfellow and Kilmer...and Cooper is very far from that place currently. Got it??[/quote]

Good luck with that.  We fought the quality issue last year with respect the elementary AAP redistricting and lost.  I guess in the Cooper/Langley pyramid you have more clout, but don't count on it.  It is all about reshuffling the bodies to fit into the buildings.[/quote]

And yet in other posts people say they couldn't be happier than they are now at the new Lemon Road AAP center.  And let's be clear here.  It will be people at Kilmer who push the hardest for a realignment, just as some there did previously to move AAP kids out of Kilmer and into Jackson.  Someone from Longfellow may have started this thread, but most people there are happy now because the renovation is finally finished and, for now, it's not bursting at the seems.

People don't see this discussion as about "quality" when the status quo leads to overcrowding and there is available space elsewhere.  Nor do they see it pejoratively as "reshuffling bodies" when the end results typically are good new academic programs and shorter commutes for students.  Kids from Great Falls have a long enough commute to Cooper as it is, without having to go to Tysons as well for Kilmer. [/quote]

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