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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, so it's no big deal that my snowflake had to move again.  Fine.

But let's also agree it was not done to protect my child from being one of a few kids at Kilmer from Haycock as the earlier poster would like everyone to believe.  It was done because Haycock was crowded and someone had to go.

They could have redistricted the base district.  They could have done many things, but they chose to redistrict my child.  Fine.  It happens.

But let's not pretend it was done in my child's best interest.  My child's best interest would have been to stay and finish there. I get it that they balanced the interests of all of the snowflakes and our snowflakes lost.  I can live with it.  Really.  But let's be honest about it.[/quote]

You are misconstruing what I said.  I never said the primary reason for the move was to keep kids from Haycock from being a minority at Kilmer.  The primary reason was to relieve overcrowding at Haycock.  A secondary benefit was to align feeder patterns so that the Marshall pyramid had its own AAP Center(s).

As a result, some kids ended up switching schools a lot, so they could stay in AAP programs their parents wanted them to attend. My point was only that, had FCPS formally grandfathered at Haycock the group that stood to have switched the most (kids zoned for Freedom Hill who started AAP at Archer, then moved to Haycock when part of Freedom Hill got moved to Lemon Road, and then got moved to Lemon Road AAP when a new center opened), there would have been a very small cohort of kids moving from Haycock to Kilmer.  You say that would have been no big deal, but someone else would have complained.  Had FCPS grandfathered more kids at Haycock and left Lemon Road under-capacity, someone would have complained.  Had FCPS changed Haycock's base boundaries, so that an even smaller percentage of Haycock students were in the GenEd program, someone would have complained.

They had a messy situation due to the growth near Tysons, the growth of the AAP enrollment, and an upcoming, major renovation at Haycock.  Taking advantage of the space at Lemon Road, while trying to balance the AAP and GenEd enrollments, was the obvious solution.  We get that it was a pain for you, but stop trying to make others out to be the bad guys.  [/quote]

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