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[quote=Anonymous]PP said : I believe Cooper has Honors level science now, correct? The Honors curriculum is the same as the AAP curriculum, just with non tagged GT students. AAP, Honors and GE use the same facilities at Longfellow. There are no "special" facilities for AAP science students. The difference between GE and the AAP/Honors curriculum is that the AAP/Honors currilum includes additional extentions. I know that some parents with children in AAP like to think it is the quality of the students the AAP program that makes it better than the Honors program, but IME with both at Longfellow, there really isn't a difference with the bulk of the students. The biggest difference is in the attitude of the parents.

==>  this is not about the parents... most parents appreciate that every child in Fairfax County schools is amazing and very smart, given where we are located, the advantages of the economy around here, the level of education of parents and caregivers here, the dedication of most of the teachers here.  That is all great.

But to pretend that Cooper has, e.g., the science facilities for an AAP center is not only incorrect, it is refuted by Fairfax County Public Schools own internal emails, now available online because of a FOIA request.

I am not tech-savvy enough to reproduce the pdf file here, but it says that S.E. Science Room 109 will need to be converted to a regular science lab, by dividing ESOL room 108.  The Shop room 124 will be converted to Project Based Learning Lab.  Art Room 119 will become a Science Lab.  In Phase 2, Room 126 is going to be divided into and Art Room and Synergistics Lab.  This all has some amount of as yet uncomputed costs (and will take time).

On top of that, they are going to need another mod, it seems, which they will deal with separately.

For the emails themselves, see this link:

http://reston.patch.com/blog_posts/numbers-game-aap-in-fairfax-county#pdf-13083396

I note that Longfellow doesn't need any mods or trailers yet -- it's hypothetical in their case.  
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