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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, it still sucks to move your kids due to career requirements.  Ask anyone serving our country in the military and they will tell you that disrupting their kids' lives is one of the suckiest parts of the job.

Those of us who have moved their kids' schools out of job necessity know more than anyone else that moving children's schools unnecessarily is ill advised.

If you have a fourth grade AAP student, and are in one of the base schools slated for change, you will end up with 4 different schools in 5 years: base school (2nd grade), AAP center #1 (3rd-4th grade), AAP center #2 (5th-6th grade), middle school.

We have done 4 schools in 5 years with our military child, as have many of our friends.  I promise you, it is a difficult thing for a child to face, and requires real effort on the part of the child, the schools and the families to get through that kind of change.

PP, you sound very bitter about the AAP center, and almost gleeful that kids are going to have to change schools.  Why don't you spend a few years switching around your kids assigned schools so that your child can be a new kid at school 3-4 times, then come back and tell me if you feel differently about the matter.[/quote]

No, I'm not bitter.  I'm just pointing out that some of you have accepted or embraced multiple school changes in the past for various reasons, but want to treat this proposal as the straw that breaks the camel's back.  I happen not to find it particularly convincing.  [/quote]

Well, when you buy a house or sign a multi year lease expecting that your child will finally get to spend 2-3 consecutive years in the same school, and someone changes the rules 1 year into it, yes, that is the straw that breaks the camel's back.[/quote]

I don't have a horse in this race, but I think it sucks any time you have to have a child change schools. Sometimes it can't be helped, but I find FCPS's approach to boundary changes and decisions like the one here to be half-assed at best. I hope that we never have this happen to us. As a child, I went to 5 elementary schools and 3 high schools and it really messed me up. Even worse for my brother.[/quote]

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