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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many Westbriar parents as well as the principal encouraged the school to be a center. [b]They even helped persuade Stenwood and Freedom Hill parents to argue against going to Lemon Road even though those schools are very close to the Lemon Road border and almost all go on to the same middle and high school as the Lemon Road kids[/b].[/quote]

And this makes sense how?  Basically people were lured by a "better" neighborhood.  Navy Elementary was also turned into a center and you hear little about it on these forums. Why is that?  It's only Louise Archer, Haycock and now Westbriar.

The principal wanted this so the principal was going to get this no matter what she had to say or how disingenuous she had to be.  Most of the parents who supported this have younger kids and have big dreams for their kids and little clue how centers work or how divisive they can be no matter what the principal says. I feel sorry for the families at Westbriar now -- they have no idea what a monstrosity that school is going to turn into.    Their only hope is that ultimately a new Tysons school picks up some of the capacity.[/quote]

Such drama!  It's like Lisa Pilson at Westbriar gets to play the evil Kelly Shears role in the sequel to the Haycock movie.

Schools around Tysons are growing.  It inevitably results in program and boundary adjustments.  Kids get reassigned, and it's messy, but life goes on and they still get to attend good schools.  I guess you'd be happier if Virginia employment figures continue to tank and the growth comes to a halt.  [/quote]

:roll: There's a difference between necessary boundary adjustments and unnecessarily doubling the size of a school.  Especially when that means drawing people from distant neighborhoods ie. more traffic into an already congested area.  Or perhaps you should move here and see for yourself. [/quote]

Are you saying you wanted the extra traffic routed to Lemon Road/Idylwood Road rather than Westbriar/Old Courthouse Road?  Sounds kind of NIMBY.

In any event, I don't think Westbriar's population has doubled yet, due to the opening of the AAP center.  Before that ever were to happen, it appears that FCPS plans to move the "Westbriar island" off Beulah that is physically separated from the rest of the Westbriar attendance district to Colvin Run and/or Wolftrap ES, both of which are expected to have extra capacity.  Many families in that area wanted to be assigned to Colvin Run when it was opened, but FCPS didn't accommodate the request at the time, as it would have either made Colvin Run a triple-feeder (Langley/McLean/Marshall) or required changes to the existing MS/HS assignments.  Now that Cooper and Langley are under-enrolled, FCPS may decide to move at least some of the Westbriar island to Colvin Run/Cooper/Langley, which would bring down the total enrollment at Westbriar.

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]

How could it possibly have doubled?  The LA kids were grandfathered, right?  So there's only a third grade in the center now?  How could that have doubled the size of the school?[/quote]

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