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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]
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Archer AAP kids from Archer, Vienna, Cunningham Park and the Madison half of Flint Hill all go to Jackson AAP.[/b]  I really can't see that FCPS will let you transfer to Kilmer under the circumstances.  [/quote]

OP, this is previous poster 9:16 here. Please be sure you understand -- At Archer, kids who currently live in the boundary for Kilmer [u]will[/u] go to Kilmer for AAP. They do not have the option to go to Jackson because Kilmer has an AAP center and is also their "local" boundary school. Kids who are not living in the Kilmer boundaries are assigned to Jackson because that is the assigned AAP center out of Archer for any Archer AAP student who does not live in the Kilmer boundaries.

So if 90 percent of your daughter's classmates are going to Kilmer next year it's because they live within the Kilmer boundary. They do not have a choice to go to Jackson due to where they reside.

Probably in my kid's sixth grade year there were just many more Archer AAP kids who were not in the Kilmer boundaries and who had the Jackson-Thoreau choice. Sounds like your child's classmates skew heavily toward kids who just happen to live in the Kilmer boundaries.

I wanted to check in with you on that because the post above and your reply to it had me a bit worried that you might think that the kids saying they'll go to Kilmer have it wrong and would end up at Jackson with your child. Not so. It's not quite right to say that 
"Archer AAP kids from Archer, Vienna, Cunningham Park and the Madison half of Flint Hill all go to Jackson AAP" because many Archer AAP kids go to Kilmer AAP.

Your child will be fine going to Jackson if only a few of her current classmates go too. This truly was a worry for all of us last year as well and has worked out fine. My child does more with and talks more about new friends from other elementary schools than old friends from elementary school. It is nice to have a few kids there who have had some shared earlier experiences but truly, in MS kids branch out a lot in terms of friendships. [/quote]

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