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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school is very exciting. The admin team is full of energy and having an all-opt in class means that every kid wants to be there. You could feel the energy at the school earlier this week - these kids are like starting their own school in a modern beautiful school - AND they will have AI and Robotics right away. Future generations are going to be thrilled to be in zone for this school. I do think they will have traditional boundaries because there are no math requirements to get in and to be a magnet they would need everyone accelerated.   That said, my sons AAP class have largely all opted in - they are all interested in AI/Engineering, etc.[/quote]

Oh, dear.  Hope your kid can handle being around some other students who haven't been in AAP and aren't "accelerated."

By the way, having an all opt-in class doesn't mean that [i]every[/i] kid wants to be there.  Some parents may have decided they want their kids at the closest high school, or at the school to which they are likely to be assigned when FCPS fixes the boundaries.

And, of course, unless Reid ignores the directive for Skyview to be a community school, within a few years most of the students will be in-boundary students, not students who opted in at the school's inception.

But, I do think the initial opt-in model was intended, among other things, to build enthusiasm for the school at the beginning.  The initial classes of students who opt in will likely outperform the later classes academically, and they will ride that wave for a while.

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