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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll just point out again that it's not Longfellow enrollment trends that will force changes at Cooper.  It's the declining enrollment at Cooper and the overcrowding at Kilmer, which gets the Cooper AAP kids from Great Falls. [/quote]

So it's fair to all of a sudden overcrowd Cooper overnight and force kids into trailers when Longfellow just undertook a nice renovation to increase capacity (I can't comment on Kilmer since I know nothing about their building or future renovation plans).[/quote]

Longfellow is at capacity even with its Reno.  It is slated to go over capacity shortly.  People are not saying to do it over night.  This has been talked about for at least a year and Cooper is slated to be under capacity.  I don't think it is fair for Cooper parents to continue to deny AAP to their neighborhood children and require them to be bussed all the way across town to Longfellow.  I also don't think it is fair for Cooper parents to say they don't want their AAP students but that they perfectly fine for them to be overwhelming another school's resources.  Cooper should take care of its own students - all of them.[/quote]

I remember you parents from the Haycock AAP redistricting last year.  Longfellow is not even over capacity yet (as many other schools are) and you're complaining and pushing kids out already.[/quote]

Touche.  Agree the Longfellow parents ought to let the Kilmer parents be the heavy on this one.  If the Cluster 2 parents are happy to send their kids to school in trailers in a 1500-student Kilmer in a few years because parents in Great Falls don't think FCPS can offer a good enough AAP program at Cooper, I'd suck it up at Longfellow.  The AAP-impacted overcrowding is going to kick in at Kilmer and Jackson before it hits Longfellow. [/quote]

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