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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A couple of super brights at our local school but they chose not to attend AAP.  There's always that.  Some parents still value a neighborhood school over the benefits of busing for a special curriculum in grade school. [/quote]

I can see why!  Our kids leave the local neighborhood school at 8:10 (if the bus is on time, which it hasn't been yet), and they are supposed to get back at 4:25, but so far they have come back at 5:10, 4:45 and 4:45.  We are losing faith in the bus schedule and the system that thinks it's o.k. for an 8 yr. old to get back to his/her base school more than an hour after school gets out.  Add another 10 min. on to that to walk home.  Basically, our kids riding the AAP bus have a day that starts at 8:00 and ends at 5:00 (if they aren't REALLY late).  That's too long and gives us pause in reconsidering our decision to forego the neighborhood school.  The AAP school is literally 15 min. away from the neighborhood school... yet these kids are losing 2 hrs. every day just getting to and from the AAP school.  :([/quote]

Center schools should be a thing of the past by now and kids should return to their neighborhood schools.  It would solve a lot of problems.[/quote]

[b]It would solve a lot of problems for some people and cause a lot more problems for some people.  The school district needs to meet the needs of all students.[/quote[/b]]

[b]Think is would solve more problems than it would cause.  School district could easily meet the needs of students with LLIV at base schools[/b]. [/quote]

LLIV at all schools would be far worse.

[b]Could you imagine the drama, the jockeying, the hurt feelings every single day at every single school[/b]?

At least now, there is a rip the band aide off approach at the base schools for the parents who are really upset about their kid not being at a center, and the long, daily reminders are limited to a few center schools.

The parents at the base school who still harbor resentment months or years afterwards are going to have that resentment whether or not there is a center or all the schools have LLIV.  LLIV will cause many previously content parents to get upset where they weren't before.

The best idea is to have a designated magnet in each pyramid that can support one that are 100% AAP.  For the pyramids that can't, the district should keep the center model.[/quote]

Wow, you clearly don't have a child who has to attend a center school as his/her base school.  Centers are the worst scenario of all, if that child isn't in AAP.  They then find themselves in a school where AAP is perversely considered the "norm," and are reminded every single day that they are in the "lesser" class -- that band-aid is never pulled off at all.  In any normal, community school, Gen Ed would be considered the norm and very few kids would be in AAP or a gifted program.  This is how school in FCPS used to be and there were no hard feelings.  The way the center system is set up now, there are just as many and often more AAP kids than Gen Ed.  IF FCPS is going to insist on continuing down this path, then I agree they need to have designated AAP-only schools and let all other schools be returned to their communities and neighborhoods.  [/quote]

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