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Yes, my kids are taking up space...at a school that FCPS assigned them to. Our base school is also overcrowded. Are you more entitled to two empty chairs than the parents at their previous school?

If you were in FCPS GT as a kid, you would know that it actually was this way. I lived in Oakton. I was bussed to Louise Archer for elementary and all the way to Longfellow for middle school. Haycock has been a GT center for many, many years. I can't imagine you didn't know it was a center and that children assigned to other schools would be attending when you bought your house.

You say it's "nothing personal" but it really is. We have felt completely unwelcome for the past few years. I have come to terms that my husband and I will never be considered part of your school community, and I am totally fine with that. My kids are getting the education they need and they love their school. [/quote]

Not the poster to whom you were responding, but the GT/AAP programs in Fairfax were not always so extensive and did not involve similar numbers of students attending out-of-boundary GT centers.  So you and the other poster may have had very different experiences with GT programs, depending on your age.  From all accounts, the enrollment in Haycock has been growing very rapidly in recent years - it sounds as if the school added at least another 75 students this year over last year's enrollment.  That's more than FCPS was projecting, so I'm not sure how the other poster could have anticipated it.

Personally, I don't think anyone should be criticized for taking advantage of the best programs available to their kids, whether at a base school or a GT center.  However, the out-of-boundary parents might at least acknowledge that the schools in question are well above-capacity.  The issues at Haycock are not unique.  Our experience at a nearby middle school with a large AAP program a few years ago was that some GT/AAP parents simply refused to acknowledge that there was any issue; that it was strange that some kids had to eat lunch at ridiculously early times; that kids were jostling each other in the halls due to the over-crowding; or that it might be appropriate to consider reassigning some of GT kids to another AAP center.   Fortunately, FCPS went ahead and reassigned some of the GT/AAP kids to the other center, which has substantially alleviated the over-crowding (at least for now).    [/quote]

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