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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]If I remember correctly, at the time, a vast majority of the kids in the Haycock AAP center were from Haycock.[/b] The total number of kids in the center from elsewhere was somewhere around 140, and when you considered those grandfathered and those from Chesterbrook, Franklin Sherman, and Timberlane, they moved a total of about 40 kids. It was hardly worth the drama and upheaval they caused the families and kids.

Most of the tension came from the fact that the Haycock base families, principal, and even teachers were campaigning to uproot these kids and send them elsewhere...and that is why there are still raw feelings years later. [/quote]

Nicely summarized.

Lemon Road - Haycock #s:
http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/943T4V75646E/$file/F_AAP%20Level%20IV%20Center%20Proposal%20LemonRd_Haycock.pdf

Link to the BoardDocs agenda item with all attachments:
http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=943RXE701BA8

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How can it be that only 40 students moved when Lemon Road went to having no AAP center in 2012-13 to 123 students receiving LLIV services there in 2013-14.  Wouldn't most, if not all, of those kids have been at Haycock without the redistricting?  Haycock's enrollment only went down by about 50 students in 2013-14, but the school's enrollment has been growing for years.  It probably would have had over 1000 students in 2013-14, in a building that was originally designed for fewer than 800 students and about to get renovated, had FCPS not moved to the students to LR.  [/quote]

There were about 50 kids per grade level. About 200 kids switched over including 3rd grade. That would have been about 8 classrooms. It wasn't a small number.[/quote]

I don't know where you get 200.  First of all, the rising 3rd graders were never on the table.  The 6th graders were grandfathered, so that leaves rising 4th and 5th, which was about 90 kids.  Several were later exempted because they had been moved from Louise Archer the year before and a few moved into the Haycock district.  It was less than 90 kids.  You could figure out how many based on the numbers of the AAP 4th and 5th grades last year.  I don't have time to do that, nor do I actually care enough to do so.  As has been said, it's done.  It's over.  I'm only chiming in for accuracy's sake.[/quote]

DP here.  About 90 was what I recall hearing repeatedly at the time.  Definitely more than 40 and fewer than 200,  if the number in question is the students who had actually been at Haycock and then moved to Lemon Road the next year.    [/quote]

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