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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every pyramid needs a dedicated AAP center for middle school and at least one for elementary school.

No student should go out of pyramid for AAP services.

This is cheap, sensible and effective, and would do more to fix equity and achievement issues than anything else the school board proposes.[/quote]

This truly is what folks need to start advocating for

Combine AAP in every pyramid with eliminating IB in favor of AP at all of the low performing pyramids, and fcps could fix the brain drain in the lower pyramids in around 3 or 4 years.[/quote]

Hey, people.  Western Fairfax doesn't really have pyramids.  Franklin and Carson both feed into multiple high schools.  I guess Rocky Run does, as well. Some of the elementary schools are also split.[/quote]

The "pyramids" are just groupings of schools for internal purposes at FCPS.  It's hit or miss as to whether the elementary schools feed into a middle school that feeds into a high school.  There are a lot of schools that feed into multiple schools.

In western Fairfax, Herndon probably has the least split feeders.  Oakton has always been crazy.  Carson is in the Oakton pyramid, but the neighborhood includes areas zoned for Oakton, South Lakes and Westfield, and also picks up some kids from Chantilly for AAP as well.

Even when FCPS has a chance to streamline some of the feeder patterns, they don't.  They could have aligned Madison with Thoreau, and Marshall with Kilmer, but then they decided to turn Thoreau into a three-way feeder to Madison, Marshall and Oakton. [/quote]

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