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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you to 09:16 above for your comments about Jackson.  It helps a lot to hear from current parents there.  The 6th-grade homework load this year is affecting most of the AAP kids, not just my daughter, although she does seem to take even longer than most to get through it because of her perfectionist tendencies.  The teachers have been responsive and have even instituted a sort of study period most days so that the kids can get a head start on the homework.  That has helped tremendously.

I find it interesting that most of the kids from your child's class at Archer went to Jackson for AAP, as we're finding just the opposite this year.  As far as we can tell, about 90% of the kids will go to Kilmer next year and this is causing major anxiety at our house, as my daughter feels that she is the only girl from the Archer AAP center who would go to Jackson.  I'm sure there are others, but she's right that of all of her many friends at Archer, she is the only one not going to Kilmer.  She is begging and pleading to go to Kilmer, but I don't even know that that's an option.  I could possibly plead the case that Kilmer was the AAP center when we bought our house and we would prefer that she go there, but I don't know if that argument stands a chance.

I do plan on going to the parent meetings at Jackson and Thoreau (although Thoreau's is scheduled for the same night as the Archer 6th-grade musical, so I don't know what kind of turnout they're going to have) and am curious to hear what they have to say.

Thanks again for your feedback.[/quote]
We went through this. Pretty much impossible to transfer into Kilmer. but the good news is after LJ is Madison compared to Marshall.[/quote]

I thought the poster was saying she's zoned for Archer AAP, Jackson AAP and Marshall HS, which is possible if, for example, you live in certain parts of the Vienna and Cunningham Park ES districts.  If that's correct, your aside about Marshall is gratuitous.  Her daughter wouldn't go to Madison unless she pupil places. [/quote]

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