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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rezoning is a huge deal for all the kids (GE and AAP) who have been in one ES for 4+ years and get moved to a different school. How would you feel if your DC was told s/he had to move schools, away from friends, teachers s/he knows and the programs/supports s/he has? I'd be furious (and my DCs aren't ES age, so it wouldn't affect us directly). But really-- these are thousands of actual kids you are shuffling around. [/quote]

first world problems. I see you had no issues moving to a center. Do you only make friends with kids who go to the center? Do you shun your own neighborhood friends?

PLEASE get over it.[/quote]

Seriously.  This is so low in the whole scheme of things to get worked up about.  These kids were obviously able to make the transition to the center at some point.  So the kids return to their neighborhood school... [i]along with all the other neighborhood kids[/i].  See how that works?  Nothing difficult about it at all, though I'm sure there will be parents who act like the sky is falling, just as they did when we (finally) went to full-day Mondays.  The sky didn't fall then, and it won't fall now.[/quote]

You think slicing off 1/2 of a school's population is no big deal?   Really?  Taking 350 kids out of one school is no problem? (multiply by oh... 20 or more schools)  Something to fiddle with over the summer?  Wow.[/quote]

How on earth is sending kids back to the base schools [b]they are assigned to[/b] in any way complicated?   :shock: [/quote]

I know it's a very complicated idea, but try to keep up: Because when 120 kids get there, there is no room for them. And the Center is now half empty.  5 kids per grade go center, no big deal. 40-50 kids do, huge issue. And it's not like FCPS has a ton of extra room at any school. How can you not see that, at least in places like Vienna & Western Fairfax there would need to be mass rezoning-- of all ES & MS kids (not just AAP) to new base schools?   :shock: [/quote]

And I'll repeat for you, because you seem to need the repetition:  THEN REZONE.  Half empty centers would now become base schools of their own, with room for the rezoned students.  I would be fine with rezoning all kids.  All of them.  In fact, we've already been through a re-zoning and somehow, we made it through just fine.    It's truly not a big deal, but you can continue to make it one.    :roll: [/quote]

You're okay in theory. If it was your kid in mid to late ES being rezoned, I doubt you'd think it was fine. [/quote]

Not at all.  I have kids in all stages of elementary school right now and would be fine with a rezoning if it meant centers would become a thing of the past.  As I said earlier, we've already been through a rezoning and the sky didn't fall.  [/quote]

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