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[quote=Anonymous]Pupil place if it a hardship for your son.  But please stop trashing Haycock and its parents.  OP, for your question, I would e-mail Marty Smith and get a direct answer.

[quote=Anonymous]17:03, I do not think any AAP child who is not from Haycock base can assume they are safely there to complete their education through 6th grade.  We may differ on that, but look above, there was at least one person who agreed with me.  I think the OP needs to keep that in mind as she decides whether to send her child to CB LLIV or Haycock.  There are many Cluster 2 parents who believe they wouldn't have sent their children if they had known they would be transferred a second (really third and in some cases fourth) time.  But the families that are being kicked out had no LLIV option, so it was Haycock or stay in Gen Ed.  Some kids would have been fine in Gen Ed and others probably would not have, but either way, the parents didn't have that information when making the choice.  This was pretty unfair to the current third grade parents because FCPS knew they were contemplating this last year.  They could have saved those families some heartbreak if they would have told them their child might have to transfer a third time.  Some parents may have made a different choice.

And by the way, keep in mind, FCPS was going to let our kids be grandfathered because staff (and child education experts) believe minimizing school transfers is what is best for children.  So it's not that the Haycock base parents didn't stand up to FCPS with us -- they ACTUALLY AGGRESSIVELY LOBBIED to have our kids kicked out when FCPS was not inclined to do so.  But for the base parents, the board would  most likely have accepted the staff recommendation.  We were the weaker, smaller group, despite what you say.  It was about 90 students, much smaller than the base population.

To be clear, no one objected to a new Lemon Road center.  That was going to happen.  This was just about whether about 90 kids who are already students would stay.  The cluster 2 parents never opposed opening a new center.  They simply wanted to spare their child a third elementary school and a third change of friends, etc.  I wonder how many of the 90 will actually leave.  They said they would pupil place the FH kids and several families say they are moving to the Haycock district.  It will be interesting to see if this makes much of an impact on Haycock's enrollment.

I get it that AAP kids aren't sympathetic and the parents are perceived as overbearing (and admittedly, a lot of them are) but these are real kids with real feelings.[/quote][/quote]

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