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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^Lemon Road is a great school. I attended a session with the parents and principal when they first decided to make it a center and found them open, welcoming and very forthcoming about the challenges they faced creating a new center. If my children had been in the boundaries I'd have no problem sending them there. We were actually at another school that (to my disappointment) started it's own center instead.

But given the amount of micro-managing you seem ready to do with teaching styles and curriculum, I'm skeptical that you could be completely happy with any FCPS program. At a certain point you really need to have a little faith in the system and a little faith in your kids. Send them to the school where you think they'll be the happiest overall. With all the growth in the area, boundary changes and suggestions that Local Level IV may replace the AAP center option in some neighborhoods, it's best not to overthink it. [/quote]

If you are within the Westbriar boundary, that school has always had a good reputation before and after it became a center. There are many other schools that don't have as good a reputation. Since you only attended one night at Lemon Road, I'd like to find out more from parents who actually have kids at the school.[b] You've made your point quite clear.[/quote][/b]

Good.  Hopefully, some parents will find it helpful.  I know it is sometimes difficult to listen to parents who have BTDT and already have kids in college.  But honestly, none of these are make or break decisions for a bright kid.  (Kind of like how getting into the "right" preschool seemed to matter when it really doesn't matter at all).

And no, we're not in Westbriar's catchment area.  [/quote]

Another reason not to post. Your kids are in college. You don't live within the school boundary and your kids never attended this school. You are the one coming off as being too involved and an obnoxious know it all. [b]There is no need for you to respond to a post based on a one night meeting and yet you've commented at least 10 times about nothing.[/b] At times I give advice to people who ask for it about their preschoolers, but I never act like their concerns are invalid. I don't know their situation. Yes, in hindsight things may or may not be as important as they seem. I get it. [b]You seem to not give me the benefit of the doubt that FCPS is going downhill in many areas and there are schools that are doing very poorly and have teachers who are checked out.[/b] We'd like to get out of ours and I'm trying to find out more about Lemon Road. You are not helping at all and I don't think anyone found your don't worry be happy postings helpful.[/quote]

Given this is my third comment, but it seems like the 10th, they must be making some impact.....and I never said my only experience of Lemon Road was a one-night meeting.  I've been following the school board and AAP at the various centers very closely for a number of years now.   I don't know the particulars of your base school and whether it is going downhill, but I do know that Henny Penny's have been screaming that FCPS schools are going downhill etc. for as long as my kids have been in the system (and they're still there, btw, not all in college). The fact is that you'll find it more difficult to get less than a good education here than almost anywhere else in the country if for no other reason than the concentration of smart kids your child will have as peers.   Maybe the reason other Lemon Road parents aren't commenting is that they're mellow about it -- which would suggest to me a good school.  [/quote]

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