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[quote=Anonymous]I think with all the growth in the area and so many schools at overcapacity, AAP is one of many concerns.  A step in the right direction would be to go to back to neighborhood middle schools and include AAP classes in each one.    Otherwise you're going to be constantly redrawing the boundaries as the population in the Tysons area grows.  There is no way it is right to have schools like Kilmer bursting at the seams to include kids AAP kids who go on to Langley High School in another pyramid.  Particularly when Kilmer is taking up so much of the slack for new development.  This year my son when to school for 6 weeks and suddenly had 3 of 7 classes changed because new teachers had to be brought in to handle the overflow kids.  This was largely due to an unanticipated number of students who were new residents (like 100).  If a public school can't even serve the kids in its own neighborhood, why must it bend over backwards to serve AAP kids from another area?   I think Pat Hynes had it right wanting to put an AAP Center in Thoreau as well.  We're becoming too big and too congested an area for all this busing and there would easily be critical mass at both Cooper and Thoreau for AAP kids.  As ballooning AAP numbers show there are enough smart kids to go around.

It's time to give schools back to their local communities.   [/quote]

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