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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree about the SACC thing.  I'm at a Mclean elementary school, Haycock, and we're in first grade now and have been on the waitlist for SACC for 2 years.  (I got in in August of 2010 for my child who was in kindergarten in 2011-2012).  I've had to find private before and aftercare for my child since there's no space for him at the school. (only 30 spots, from what I hear.)

Because Haycock is a AAP-center school, it is severely overcrowded.  When you're in 3rd grade in FCPS, you have the choice, if your kid is "gifted" enough, to send them to the level 3 instruction at your local school, or send them to a "center" AAP level 4 instruction where all the classes are AAP.  Right now there are more center based kids at Haycock then base school kids (more kids from outside the immediate boundary than inside.)  There are 968 kids in the school, and many of them would be going to nearby Lemon Road or Chesterbrook, but because Haycock is the center they, AND THEIR SIBLINGS, can opt to go to Haycock.

The school is so overcrowded and had I known what I know now about this and SACC, I might have looked harder at Arlington.  Only FCPS does this with non-guaranteed SACC--not Montgomery, not Arlington, not Loudon.  And I don't know why all these snowflakes can't just go to their base school for GT/AAP services, or FCPS can't just have more centers.  It's elementary school people.  CHILLAX!  And stop coming into my boundary school. [/quote]

So, I finally meet one of the crazies that want us out.

Our base school does not have level IV AAP.
Our kids are not using your coveted SACC spot.
And no, siblings cannot attend Haycock. It has been closed to transfers for several years.
My kids are just as entitled to a "free and appropriate" education as yours are, so you really need to get over yourself.
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It took you this long to meet one?  I'm on the same place as you:  No LLIV, we don't use SACC, sibling at a different school as Haycock is closed to transfers (and has been seemingly forever).

I'm not sure it's accurate that there are more center kids than base school kids at Haycock.  Keep in mind that some of the center kids are zoned for Haycock so not every center kid is an "extra" kid at Haycock since some "belong" there by virtue of their neighborhood.  [/quote]

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