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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One School Board member (Ryan McElveen) called the Cluster meetings An Agonizing Success:

http://www.ryanforschoolboard.com/1/post/2012/12/aap-meetings-an-agonizing-success.html

Some might wonder how I could consider this week’s Advanced Academic Placement (AAP) meetings to be anything resembling a success—after all, many people were disappointed with the meeting format and probably left feeling that answers to their questions were far from complete.

But if there was one good news story to emerge from the sometimes-heated AAP meetings, it was this: staff and the School Board heard, loudly and clearly, from AAP parents who, on the whole, are pleased with the education their children receive in Fairfax County Public Schools, and they don’t want to see any drastic changes to the opportunities the county provides. Most important, the high turnout at the meetings proved that many of our parents are fully committed to ensuring that their children receive a high-quality education, no matter what school they attend.

For those not aware, the county staff is proposing an expansion of AAP Level IV centers at elementary and middle schools in pyramids that do not already have them, including Annandale, Edison, Falls Church, Marshall, South County and Robinson. At the same time, they are working to address overcrowding at several AAP centers in Clusters 1, 2 and 8. The School Board has not yet decided how to proceed, as we have yet to even sit down together to consider the AAP task force proposal.

For me, the key take away from the community meetings was that the School Board first needs to focus on addressing the extreme overcrowding at Haycock, Louise Archer, and Hunters Woods Elementary Schools and slow down the system-wide expansion to new AAP centers. As we look to potentially create new centers around the county, we will need to ensure that they have matriculating AAP student cohorts large enough to sustain vibrant centers, are staffed with highly-qualified teachers and can support the extra-curricular activities to which students at our established AAP centers have become accustomed. A one-size-fits-all approach has never, and will never, be successful in a county as geographically and demographically diverse as Fairfax County.

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Sounds like a win for the haves.[/quote]

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