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I go to school board meetings and pay attention to the demographic shifts in the county.  It isn't that difficult.  Two schools will be be chronically over crowded, one next door is chronically under enrolled.  Population in the in the over crowded ones are expected to rise significantly due to significant additional residential building, exacerbating the problem.  Plus the school board has been trying to get rid of islands and peninsulas where possible.

We should also see expansion of Falls Church HS area on the other side of McLean and Marshall.

Will these happen tomorrow?  No, more probably in the next 5+/- years.  Or if they wait until it is too late, 10 years. [/quote]

It will be somewhat controversial, but not particularly so, to have kids whose base school is already Cooper attend an AAP center there.  There is room at Cooper, and it would immediately become one of the larger AAP centers in the county, but there are some Langley parents who think it would be an [b]outrage to take their kids out of "proven" AAP centers[/b] or have their kids attend Cooper before it is renovated.

Given how the Cooper/Langley area consistently tries to unseat Janie Strauss, and how Strauss gets the vast majority of her support from areas zoned for Longfellow and Kilmer, I'd expect Janie to be sensitive to the actual overcrowding at Kilmer, and impending overcrowding at Longfellow, and press for a new AAP center at Cooper ASAP. [/quote]

Proven, schmooven.  We've long ago surrendered any idea that AAP is a "gifted" program, so why should it matter if everyone's "special and advanced" kids are in a old or new AAP program.  They're so brilliant, they should do fine. [/quote]

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I think it's both hilarious and sickening that the AAP parents feel they can actually demand a "proven" AAP program for their special snowflakes.  The biggest mistake FCPS ever made was allowing these parents the choice over where their kids would attend school, when that choice wasn't given to every other child.  I have zero sympathies for what I call the "AAP complainers."  I guess they've never heard, "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit" (unless it applies to others, of course).  And FCPS is to blame for capitulating to them, time and again.[/quote]

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