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[quote=Anonymous]Imagine you are in an elevator and it is full, every time the door tries to close, someone pushes the button and a few more people get on.  It keeps happening until the elevator has reached an unsafe weight and can't move.  The people who got on first can't do anything---they are crammed in the back of the elevator.  This is not fault of anyone because the elevator is put there for everyone's use.  How do you get the elevator to work properly?  Some of the people have to get off.  
Haycock is like this elevator.  It is unsafely overcrowded and is in danger of breaking down.  Population growth is due to neighborhood and AAP growth.  The AAP growth has caused the balance between Gen Ed and AAP to be way out of balance and this creates dysfunction.  AAP needs to be reduced.  No program at a school should overwhelm the school--this is not good for the health of the school.  The % of children entering the AAP program has grown exponentially but not the facilities that house AAP.  It makes sense to open new AAP centers.  
The families within the Haycock boundaries are as much a victim of the FCPS lack of planning as Cluster 2.  However it is much easier for Cluster 2 to claim they are the victims than the neighborhood families.  The Haycock community has been advocating for years to reduce the numbers coming to Haycock.  They have stood on their heads trying to convince FCPS that their capacity projections are wrong.  Consistently WRONG.  It is right for the principal to admit that Haycock is overcrowded and needs relief---at some point the safety of the students needs to acknowledged and the negative impact that being crammed into the elevator has on everyone.
This is a very unpleasant situation for everyone and unfortunately everyone can't be winners.  Please try not to place blame.  Sometimes hard decisions need to be made for the best interest of the everyone, even if it doesn't make everyone happy.
I wish the best for the new Lemon Road center and hope that friendships that will be separated can be kept out outside of school.[/quote]

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