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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a crime that Thoreau is 400 students under capacity, while nearby Kilmer and Luther Jackson are overcrowded.   FCPS needs to get it's act together and adjust this imbalance ASAP.  If that means some AAP kids and their parents lose their Goldilocks status and  don't get to evaluate several schools before they deign to attend one, so be it.  Middle school is two freaking years out of a 12/13 year education.  The vast majority of kids spend more of this time trying to figure out where they fit in the social hierarchy than worrying about how much they're learning in school.  Mostly it's the parents who seem to have forgotten what it's like to be a teenager who are to blame for our current unequal system.

Take a chill pill, please!   Your brilliant kid, if he or she is truly that special will have an equal chance of getting into TJ from any one of these good schools.  If not, it really doesn't matter which school they attend.

--signed, a mom whose AAP and non-AAP kids are currently attending the same top university.   [/quote]

Thoreau is under capacity because they just finished (or are finishing) a renovation.  [b]It is not a crime; it is that Thoreau was not under capacity until this year. [/b] In a year or two, Thoreau will be a center, and LJ kids from madison will not have a choice.[/quote]

There is no reason why Thoreau should not be a center next year.  The overcrowding at Kilmer in particularly is beyond the pale.  Why should some kids be crammed into one school and others living the life of Riley so that poor little snowflakes and their over involved parents have a couple of years to adjust.  A couple of years will be the entire middle school experience for some kids and I am so sick of the overinflated AAP calling the shots for everyone.  These kids are not that special and in need of so much coddling.    [/quote]

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