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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks for all the replies.  Yes, we are one of the handful of families who have Cunningham Park as our base school, with Archer and Jackson AAP centers, followed by Marshall HS.  I don't think there's another school in Vienna that follows that track.  Unfortunately for my daughter, she is the only girl among the 5 kids from Cunningham Park who will (in theory) go to Jackson.  Of those 5 kids, only 2 will then go on to Marshall.  The very few girls from the other schools that would feed into Jackson are apparently going to Thoreau, so that's where my concern lies.  She'll lose all of her current friends (yes, I know she will see some of them at dance, etc., but it's not the same as being with them all day long), then after 2 years at Jackson, she'd lose all of her friends again because she would be the only girl going on to Marshall.  I know kids are resilient and, as a foreign service child, I know what it's like to make new friends every year or two, but she's also a child with quite a bit of anxiety who is extremely averse to change and it makes me nervous to put her into a situation where everything (and everyone) is an unknown.  The more I think about it, the more I wonder if maybe we should just send her to Thoreau.  I'm not sure how well that would go over either, though, as she considers herself pretty different from her "old friends" at Cunningham Park.  Presumably she'd make new friends there, though, since so many elementary schools feed into Thoreau.

Please tell me more about what you've heard regarding AAP coming to Thoreau!  I thought that idea got shot down last year, but I hope I'm wrong.  That would solve our problem![/quote]

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