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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would fix the middle schools in Reston/Oak Hill/Chantilly. There's no reason for Carson, Franklin, Rocky run to be split feeders.[/quote]Rocky Run is not a split feeder, but it does have AAP students which feed to other schools like Westfield and Centreville.[/quote]

AAP is over half the school, and around half of AAP comes from other pyramids. So around 25% of the school is transferring from other pyramids. We are in boundary for Rocky. I'm seriously considering having my AAP kid drop to honors in MS if it's not fixed by then because the kids in those classes should all continue to Chantilly, vs only approx half of the AAP cohort.[/quote]

You should learn more about MS scheduling before making your decision. My RR student is in AAP and has very few classes with students who were in their ES program. There are just so many students that the mix is much greater. And it doesn’t matter for HS - AAP ends after 8th. If what you’re saying is you think it would be better for your student’s friends too move along with him to high school, I don’t disagree but also see value in having friends at other nearby schools.[/quote]

Pp here, yes, I would prefer my kid not spend 2 years making friends and then half of them do not continue on to the same school. I think it makes the transition to 9th grade a little more difficult. [/quote]

Agreed yet when given the choice between moving to a MS that has fewer after school programs and is weaker academically, most parents will choose the split feeder. There are very few schools where parents would see the move from their split feeder to the MS that feeds into the base school as a positive. [/quote]

You don't think some of these after school programs would get created and test scores at the base school would rise if all the AAP kids had to attend school at the base school?[/quote]

Hughes is an AAP Center and does not have a Mathcounts team or Science Olympiad or most of the other academic clubs that Carson has. So no, I don't think that it is as easy as saying "redistribute the AAP kids" because there are AAP Centers that lack the academic clubs that other schools have. [/quote]

I'm guessing your base school is Franklin. Franklin will have more academic clubs if there is a demand for them. They had a very good Math Counts team when my second kid was there, so if there's a demand, they'll have them.[/quote]

The point is AAP Centers are not equal, which is why some people are not happy with the removal of AAP Centers from MS. Carson has enough kids who are advanced in Math to offer at least one class in Algebra II, Franklin does not. I suspect that is the case for a lot of MS. You can send the Fox Mill and Floris kids to Hughes and you will not end up with the same level clubs. Those things are important for people.

Knowing the cut scores at Carson for Mathcounts, the Franklin or Hughes Mathcounts team will get stomped on at chapter. And I get that MS is not based on after school clubs and the like but there is a reason why parents want thier kids at the super centers, there are options there for kids who need a peer group that they won't find at most schools. That is not necessarily a bad thing. [/quote]

Are you really that dense? Franklin would have plenty of students for Algebra II if all the Franklin AAP kids returned to Franklin. And the cut scores for Math Counts would change, as well.

How is that concept so difficult for you to understand? [/quote]

I am at Carson, neither school would have enough for an Algebra 2 class. Both schools would end up with kids in a virtual class . Carson could send kids to Western, I don’t know if Chantilly is within walking distance to Franklin. [/quote]

That's very hard to believe, especially with the push for Algebra in 6th grade.[/quote]

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