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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Basically what you saw was that most of the new School Board members, except Hynes, don't feel they understand the current AAP program well enough to support its further expansion at this point.  South County MS was an exception because board members felt that community had been promised a center when the school was opened.  There wasn't much concern expressed that, if needed, schools like Cooper could be ready to offer AAP this fall.

All in all, not a bad outcome for now.  Of course, if the SB does not change current AAP eligibility and does nothing, it will be faced with severe overcrowding at Kilmer and some overcrowding at Longfellow in a few years, but right now both schools have been renovated and neither currently faces a Haycock-like crisis.[/quote]

Is it just me, or does anybody else see the contradiction, here... Folks at Haycock have been screaming for years that they're overcrowded, they're being ignored, the situation is intolerable, etc. etc.  Not until this year when conditions have truly deteriorated does the SB take action.

Why must we wait for a school to have a MOD and 19 trailers before somebody pays attention and takes action?  Do people really prefer that the SB do nothing unless there's a crisis?  Schultz and Reed were vocal and derisive about the idea that FCPS has a "culture of trailers" (okay, I may not be directly quoting, but I'm paraphrasing), and yet these were the two most vocal voices against new AAP Middle School centers.  Seems like they're all about complaining and not about solutions.  Why not start a center before we need to ship more trailers into Kilmer & Longfellow?[/quote]

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