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[quote=Anonymous][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.  [b]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][/b]

That's probably only because parents are not as pushy as they are in some other areas.  It would be shocking if you couldn't find a full class of "advanced" kids in most neighborhoods with the exception of some schools on route 1 and in Annandale.  [/quote]

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