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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't see any indication that anyone has been acting in bad faith here, but I do see how some GenEd parents at Westbriar who thought the AAP center there would be comparatively small may eventually end up with an AAP center school similar to other centers (Archer, Churchill Road, Colvin Run, Haycock) in terms of the ratio of AAP to GenEd students. [/quote]

And that's exactly what all the boosters, (principals, PTA prez, etc.) said would not happen.   Hence the bad faith when anyone with half a brain could see that if you build an AAP center, they will come.  In droves!

And lest you forget, FCPS labels services, not students.  So there is no such thing as an AAP student, or AAP parent, Gen Ed Student or Gen Ed parent.   In fact there will be many parents who are likely to seem some of their children receiving AAP and others receiving Gen Ed at Westbriar.  I'm sure they'll have no problem with the division. [/quote]

I disagree with you to the extent that [b]I don't think the under-enrollment at schools in the Langley pyramid were getting as much attention when the discussions about adding AAP to Westbriar were occurring. [/b] Moving existing Westbriar neighborhoods to Colvin Run and/or Wolftrap at the same time as AAP kids are coming in from Westbriar, Freedom Hill and Stenwood will likely change the feel of the place, for sure.  But,[b] people clearly expected a lot of AAP kids from those three schools, just from looking at the other trends in the Marshall pyramid.[/b] [/quote]

I agree that the under-enrolled schools in Langley weren't getting attention and I think that was unfortunate, especially with Westbriar becoming the defacto Tysons school when Langley schools would be as close.

No they did not.  The Westbriar principal and PTA prez both downplayed the numbers from other schools as minimal.  As did the FCPS projections.   Clearly you do not have very good information on what was and is going on inside Westbriar, but a lot of opinions.[/quote]

I checked the projections from December 2012.  It was estimated then, before a final decision was made on introducing AAP to Westbriar, that there'd be 46 kids at Westbriar this year getting AAP services; the actual number as of March 2014 was 51, according to FCPS.  I don't think that's a big difference or one that suggests a conspiracy among the Westbriar principal and PTA president to downplay the numbers.   FCPS also estimated in late 2012 that the AAP center would have close to 200 students by 2017, which seems like a pretty large number, although one that obviously has a greater potential for error.

If anything wasn't vetted openly at the time, it appears to have been the possibility that some existing Westbriar neighborhoods might get moved to Colvin Run and/or Wolftrap ES, but even today that's still just a possibility, rather than a pending action item. [/quote]

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