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Anonymous wrote: 
 It depends on whether you can afford to buy into one of the better schools. FCPS has done a much better job than APS at pushing the worst of those issues into the schools people can least afford to leave.

How so? APS is very segregated and avoids demographic balance by claiming walk zones are a priority.

Right, but at least they're not (in most cases) making the overcrowded poor schools remain overcrowded without a boundary change, and they're not talking about doing split shifts only at Wakefield.

In FFX, they let Bailey's ES look like a favela for a very long time, only to relive them by moving half the kids into a foreclosed office building with no playground or gymnasium and calling it an "upper ES." They would not have dared propose such a solution at Chesterbrook.

Yes, this is what I’m talking about. A school system can’t do much about housing demographics. But if APS did what FCPS does, you wouldn’t see a trailer anywhere north of Route 50 even though they’d have all of the choice schools because the neighborhoods closest to Route 50 would be bused south to make more room for the north of Lee Highway folks.

Huh? If FCPS had issues similar to APS, they’d expand HB Woodlawn and convert it to a normal school, not spend a ton of money so a few hundred kids could have a private-school experience.

This. 
 FFX would never have the issues APS has, because as soon as they got too big, they would eliminate the choice programs and they would bus students as needed.

[b]Which AAP centers did they disband in order to address overcrowding issues[/quote]?   [/b]

I don't think they've disbanded any. I'm pretty sure they've just created more Level IV centers at additional schools so that there is less need for busing.
 
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Ah, so AAP is untouchable for dealing with overcrowding, and instead it was better to put kids in an office building whose outdoor space was some four-square grids drawn on a blacktop. Got it. [/quote]

FCPS offered to build a new elementary school next to Glasgow MS, but the community declined this option.[/quote]

Are you talking about the proposal a few years ago to put an elementary school on a two-acre parel on Columbia Pike? That came up after Bailey's Upper was opened in the office building, so the office building wasn't a solution FCPS landed on after the community rejected the other site. Moreover, what you do you think an elementary school on 2 acres would look like? Bailey's Upper has 3.5 acres and still needed five stories and barely has outdoor space.[/quote]

No, this proposal predates the small parcel on Columbia Pike, which was made in 2015.  In 2012-2013 FCPS proposed building next to Glasgow Middle School.  See https://annandaleva.blogspot.com/2012/12/new-elementary-school-proposed-for.html [/quote]

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