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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I absolutely won't be signing that petition.  It's clear the authors care only about one group of kids - AAP - and will do and say anything to continue the favoritism shown to them.  So many families, including my own, have had it with the constant inequity between what is offered to AAP students and what is "offered" Gen Ed students (hint:  not nearly enough).  General Education students aren't given the option of either staying at their base school or transferring to another school.  In fact, they're given no options whatsoever.

Enough with AAP parents complaining that their kids have to "share" a classroom with Gen Ed students, and that the AAP kids "need" a special learning environment.  I'm waiting for someone to look around at the non-AAP kids and realize that they, too, might just need a better curriculum and some attention directed their way, and that these students are, for all intensive purposes, no different than the vast majority of "AAP kids".  Stop treating General Education students like second-class citizens and start realizing that AAP kids aren't somehow more worthy of extra funds and smaller classes.

As a taxpayer, I would be very happy to see AAP services cut.  Enough is enough.

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There are plenty of options. Have you considered applying for a magnet school or language immersion school?[/quote]

Not the PP, but why should we have to apply for a magnet or language immersion school, neither of which would even be located in our area?  All that most of us want is for our kids to attend a normal, community school without the over-emphasis on AAP.  We're entitled to that.[/quote]

No, you're not. There are lots of ESs in FCPS that are not Centers, and that would meet your definition of "normal".  You chose to buy into/rent in your neighborhood, so you are "entitled" to go to that school.  It's you're own problem if you didn't do the research before buying or renting and don't like what you ended up with.  You're not "entitled" to your ideal version of an ES-- you're entitled to the one in your attendance zone.  Most people in Fairfax County do a lot of legwork/research and spend a lot of money to get schools that are a good fit for their family.  You apparently didn't (or you assumed your snowflake was Center material).  Now you get the consequences-- just like the parent of a STEM heavy kid in an IB zone or of a TJ kid from Herndon-- that's not ideal either. [/quote]

Must this be repeated to you over and over?  Many of us moved into our neighborhoods under the assumption our kids would be attending what was then a base school (you know - one of those nice, normal, community schools that seem to be in short supply these days).  But then either the base school was converted into a center, or the boundaries changed, sending our kids to a center as their base school.

You may want to read this thread a bit more thoroughly before jumping all over people who have already explained the above situation.  Having a center school foisted on us - when we [i]deliberately[/i] didn't move into a center-zoned neighborhood - is the issue.  You like center schools?  Great.  A lot of us don't and didn't want to send our kids to one.  FCPS changed the rules on us after we had already settled in our neighborhoods.  Just as your kid has a choice of attending their base school or a center school, we'd also like to choose the school that works best for our kids.  And a center isn't it.[/quote]

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