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[quote=Anonymous]Did either the central office or Louise Archer explain the ostensible reasoning for this decision?  Why they would accept third graders from a school a mile away but not fourth graders makes no sense to me. Further, it represents such a significant policy decision that it should have not been presented as a simple administrative decision.

Finally, the no busing thing is just wrong. AAP is a special needs program, and if FCPS decides a particular child needs it in order to be appropriately educated, then it needs to provide busing to that child along with all the others who need - and receive - the same accommodations.

FCAG should be alerted to this problem, and could be a good help.

Louise Archer is our base school, too, so I do understand the problem and would support other fixes. The centers could be made free-standing rather than sharing space with neighborhood schools.  Or the AAP program eligibility could b tightened to include only the highly and profoundly gifted rather than all the bright ones as well. (In that case, I think the neighborhood schools would have to institute ability-based groupings in order to fairly teach everyone.  I think they should have this anyhow.)

Half-assed administrative fixes made behind the scenes, with jury-rigged and inconsistently-applied boundaries, is about the worst possible solution I could imagine. [/quote]

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