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[quote=Anonymous][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. [b]Our kids (mine included) don't deserve anything less[/b]. 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]

Talk about a sense of entitlement!  [b]"Your kids don't deserve anything less"[/b] than a robust center?  What about all the general ed kids who ALSO deserve nothing less than a stellar middle school without parents like you always pushing for more, more, more... as long as it benefits your precious snowflakes.  Here's something for you to think about:  Cooper is great just the way it is.  It doesn't need a "robust center" to appease snotty, self-satisfied parents like you.  You people think the only thing worth considering is your AAP kids.  I have news for you.  We are tired of thinking about your kids at the expense of our own.  Do us all a favor and stay far, far away from Cooper.  Got it?[/quote]

Here's what I don't get - you people could live on the same block, and most of your public school kids will end up at Langley and presumably get along with each other fine and do very well.  But where Cooper is concerned, it's like you can't stand the thought of being in the same building, so you must parcel the kids out to different schools, the impact on other areas be damned.

Would it really be so hard to develop a common vision of what you'd like to see at Cooper, just as, for example, families at Westbriar in Vienna did when FCPS said that school would be getting AAP?  I know there were some of the same concerns (would the program be as strong as Archer, would a neighborhood school start to be too AAP-focused, etc) that are being expressed here.  But people talked it through and seemed to get comfortable with the changes. [/quote]

What I (and many other parents) are upset about is this attitude from the AAP parents that Cooper is somehow "less-than" since it doesn't have an AAP center.  That somehow, the school simply isn't "worthy" of the AAP kids.  As has been stated multiple times, Cooper is an excellent middle school, in every way.  We don't understand why these parents, who have insisted FCPS turn itself inside out for them and their many demands, don't just pay for a private school that would meet their criteria of what their children "must have".  Why should a public school system be expected to cater to this incredibly self-centered group?   [/quote]

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