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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is anonymous forum. No one knows who really live in Cooper community.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Where did you get the WRONG impression that 'current Cooper families do not want their school to become a center'? As a current Cooper community member, I want Cooper as AAP center. I talked to several of our neighbors, they all want Cooper as AAP center too! [/b]

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Since Cooper already has a LLIV program and is significantly under enrolled, it makes complete sense to turn it into a full fledged center to relieve some of the over crowding pressure at Kilmer and soon to be at Longfellow.  Turning Thoreau's LLIV program into a full fledged center also will relieve some pressure from Kilmer.  It is basic student management with the benefit of more students attending their base school with their neighborhood friends.[/quote]

What, exactly, would change from simply offering LLIV to designating it a "full-fledged center"?  Gold-plated science labs?  Marble bathrooms?  Teachers who are PhDs?  Please, enlighten us:  why should Cooper be a "full-fledged center"?  Is it just the name change so you can save face when you tell your friends that your child attends a "center" rather than a normal school?

I'm wondering why Cooper is apparently just fine for the "regular" kids, but in order for it to be AAP-worthy, changes have to be made.  If anyone wonders why current Cooper families do not want their school to become a center, you need only read some of the nonsense spewed by entitled AAP parents.  Who would want that element at their school?[/quote][/quote]

I'm also part of the Cooper community and do not want Cooper to become a center, for all the reasons listed above.  My friends and neighbors feel the same way.  The whole culture of the school is going to change - and not for the better.[/quote][/quote]

You primarily send your kids to ES in schools with very big AAP/LLIV programs (e.g., Colvin Run, Churchill Road, Spring Hill), but the sky will fall if you can't continue to overcrowd other MS with the AAP students?  It's not worth debating endlessly, as Cooper will become a center, but I don't understand the mindset. [/quote]

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