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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'll be honest.  I'd think twice about sending your child to Haycock over CB AAP.  Full disclosure, I'm one of the "Cluster 2" parents so I'm sure i'll get flamed.  I would hate to see your family go through what we went through.

The Haycock community very actively lobbied to have some AAP kids redistricted to Lemon Road.  They will claim to be a welcoming community, but I sure didn't feel welcome when they were up there testifying about how my child (who has been there longer than some of theirs) was just not welcome.  There was just not enough space for my child, who thought he was part of the community.

This wasn't just a couple parents who sent emails.  It was parents emailing, petitioning, and testifying over and over to get some of their own community kicked out.  Parents arranging torus for school board members.  It was an AAP teacher who has some of these very students in her class at present, not just emailing, but publicly testifying that she wanted them to leave.  Some of the kids in her class watched that testimony.  It was a principal who said she would remain neutral, but did not.  There was an active campaign to get the Cluster 2 kids kicked out.

I know the school is vey overcrowded and the Haycock parents will be on here trying to defend themselves, but that's not what a community does in my mind.  A true community sticks together and tries to find solutions, rather than turning on the weaker, smaller group and driving them out.  We could have banded together to get FCPS to find other solutions (or at least give the school extras for the burden) instead of fighting among ourselves.  I would never fight to have another child kicked out of the school.  I can't even comprehend what would possess someone do that.

I guess the Haycock parents will say they did what they thought they needed to do, but I for one would be cautious about voluntarily placing your child in this so-called school community.  Once they decide it's too crowded again, they'll turn on you like they turned on us (and Kent Gardens before us).  Out of an entire school community of over 900 kids, only a handful stuck with those that were being driven out.  It's very telling.  Apparently, if you're a center kid from another school, you're not actually part of the community.

It was ugly and gave me true insight into my fellow Haycock parents.  I can't wait until my child leaves now that I know what the community is really like.[/quote]

Your preferred solution to the overcrowding at Haycock was rejected in favor of a different approach, so you've decided that an appropriate response is to trash Haycock at every turn and suggest that no one can ever safely assume they'll be zoned for Haycock.  It's transparent and you are correct to assume that it would prompt a rebuttal.

The decision made earlier this year about how best to address the serious overcrowding at Haycock was obviously tough.  If some Cluster 1 parents testified, against your wishes, in favor of sending Cluster 2 AAP students at Haycock to a new center at Lemon Road, some Cluster 2 parents testified, against the wishes of other parents, that some Cluster 1 and Cluster 2 students should be moved from Haycock to a different building in Cluster 2 that was miles away from Haycock and more convenient to Cluster 2 families than to Cluster 1 families.  Utimately, though, the School Board made the decision here, not any group of Haycock parents, based on what it thought was in the best interests of all students.  Among those who voted in favor of the School Board's decision was Ryan McElveen, an at-large member who went to Marshall.  Ryan would not have voted in favor of the proposal to move the Cluster 2 kids at Haycock to Lemon Road if he had thought it was a case of "turning on a weaker, smaller group" of families primarily zoned for Marshall.  In fact, the net result was that the Marshall pyramid is getting two new AAP centers (at Lemon Road and Westbriar), when it had none before.  [/quote]

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