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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have one-I was looking forward to getting my kid out of the base school district and meeting some new kids in MS-DC has not found a great peer group at the base and I was hoping MS would be different and a new opportunity for DC-think Longfellow would be better in that respect than Cooper. Don't think going private is the answer but too late anyway to apply at this point![/quote]

[b]I would also love to get my child out of the base school district and into a new MS, but unfortunately, my child doesn't have a choice as to where he goes to school.  [/quote][/b]

[b]That's because your child isn't in AAP so he/she is not "special" enough to have a choice.  Only AAP kids/parents have that choice and apparently many of them feel they can dictate just what kind of a center is and isn't good enough.   So much for the idea of "public" school.  
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Sheesh.  The sooner Cooper, Thoreau and all the other non-center middle schools in the crazy McLean, Vienna, Falls Church, Great Falls area are LLIV and kids "have" to attend their base middle school in these areas, the better. [/quote]

I'm the PP and wholeheartedly agree with you.  I've watched for years as AAP parents fret and stew over which school to send their child to; where will Larla thrive?  Meanwhile, my child is stuck at his base school, for better or worse, with no such choice.  And then when this point is brought up, the inevitable responses of, "Oh, get him into immersion!  Then he can change schools!"  All I want is the same opportunities and choices that AAP kids have had for too long.  As you said, this is a [i]public school system[/i], not some a la carte menu from which only certain families are allowed to choose what works best for them.

As for your last paragraph, I agree that kids should have to attend their base schools.  Just wish AAP wasn't part of the picture at all.[/quote]

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