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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Again,  I'm willing to believe this [b]for students in some of the less affluent neighborhoods in FCPS[/b].  Otherwise, LLIV is enough to fill the needs of most kids in FCPS.  And I say that as a parent who had a kid in a center, but would have kept him in his base school if all the other super smart kids hadn't been siphoned off to be bused to a school across town.  The center model was for a much smaller and less busy county during a simpler time.  When most of the folks moving here move to VA with intentions of "getting their kids into AAP"  you know the programs time has passed.  [/quote]
[b]Such statements always make me want to punch the computer screen.  I'd love to see a map of what you consider the less affluent neighborhoods.  [/quote][/b]

Certainly not McLean, Vienna, Great Falls or Falls Church.  Anywhere people have made a destination to move to get their above average achievement-oriented kids into AAP because they're afraid they'd be bored in Gen Ed.  Talk about something that makes a person want to punch a screen!
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That would of course leave huge swaths of Fairfax in the other column.  I think PP's conclusion that "LLIV is enough to fill the needs of most kids in FCPS" presumes much.  Our central Fairfax neighborhood is blissfully middle class but does not send enough kids to center to support a full class back at base.  [/quote]

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