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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm glad you think it was in my child's best interest.  If it was such a good thing, I wonder why you didn't consider a pupil placement to Lemon Road for your child.  After all, there would be kids from Haycock there and there was no benefit to your child being at Haycock as opposed to Lemon Road, Shrevewood or Westgate.

It's over and done and I have accepted it.  The only thing that really bothers me at this point is when folks like you can't acknowledge that it isn't as cut and dried as you are pretending here.

Boundaries change.  I get it.  Keep that in mind when you are on the receiving end of a boundary change.  I expect you will not complain or try to prevent it.[/quote]

I would love to pupil place my child at Lemon Road. Lemon Road did not have an AAP center before your child was moved there, so there would have been no reason for anyone to have pupil placed an AAP child to the school. I really don't know what you're still so upset about and why you feel your child had such a disservice. Your child (presumably at Shrevewood or Westgate and not Lemon Road) went to Haycock for AAP for 1-2 years and then was forced to transfer with about a third of the kids from Haycock to Lemon Road for another year or so. Then they will or already went on to Kilmer with those same children who went to school with them at both Haycock, Lemon Road, and their base school. They will continue on with those same children into high school. I would think differently if your child got moved into an entire new high school pyramid or something, but they've probably been with their same Shrevewood or Westgate friends from kindergarten on. They've just changed buildings more than once. What do you think was so traumatic? A new cafeteria and principal to get used to?[/quote]

I should probably just let this discussion die but I do wonder why folks necessarily think the kids that left Haycock for LR went with their friends.  It's entirely possible that their friends were kids that stayed at Haycock.  So it was more than just a holding change.  But it's over now and probably not worth the time we're spending discussing it.

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[b]I'm guessing your kid was at Shrevewood since you are so vocal.[/b] At 3rd grade your child along with 10 plus students from Shrevewood went over to Haycock for AAP. Just having 10 plus kids from their base school go over to AAP is better than most students have when switching schools. There they kept their current friends and made several new friends, some of which came from Lemon Road and Westgate. Then 1-2 years later they got switched to Lemon Road. The only friends they didn't get to stay at school with are the ones slated for Mclean high school and of course they could see them for playdates after school or on the weekend. They still get to be at school with their Shrevewood, Lemon Road, and Westgate base school friends. Worst case, he or she got a new best friend in grades 3 and 4 and had to leave their new best friend in 5th which they would have done anyway by 7th. Kids leave all the time for moves. Your child has always had a base of friends he or she knows and has never had to start school knowing less than 10 people. Stop making a mountain our of a molehill.[/quote]

Huh?  What a bizarre assumption.  My recollection is that there were vocal parents from all of the schools (even Lemon Road).[/quote]

The PP complaining had this to say "What's past is past, but please don't pretend you were doing our kids a favor. It was never about our kids." and "let's not pretend it was done in my child's best interest. My child's best interest would have been to stay and finish there. I get it that they balanced the interests of all of the snowflakes and our snowflakes lost. I can live with it. Really. But let's be honest about it."

A Lemon Road parent and child could never make the argument that it was in the child's best interest to stay at Haycock in an AAP center verses going back to their base school in a new AAP center. That would be a ridiculous argument. So obviously not a Lemon Road parent. There just are more vocal Shrevewood parents on dcum, but PP could be a Westgate parent, sure.

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