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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they add a strong AAP program at Cooper, you'd also find some families moving into the current Langley boundaries instead of into the Longfellow and Kilmer boundary areas.[/quote]

Ugh, Cooper was a great school without AAP.  Adding it just makes me want to move elsewhere.  I think AAP has ruined school dynamics.[/quote]

You really need to stop posting this nonsense. Everyone here knows all the Mclean and Great Falls elementary and high schools are full of AAP children and that 2 years more will make little difference. I get the feeling like you are trying to belittle AAP parents and act like you are some sort of victim. We just see a parent trying to keep a school as exlusionaty and uncrowned as possible while other kids are stuck in grossly overcrowded schools and classrooms.[/quote]

Not the PP, but I agree completely with the sentiment.  To whom are you directing your post?  Maybe you don't realize just how many people don't want AAP to come to Cooper (or any school, for that matter)?  I'm not sure how that translates to "exclusionary" - if anything, it's AAP which is exclusionary.  [/quote]

This gets hashed out on the AAP forum ad nauseum, but I still think that adding AAP to Cooper would attract some people who are currently moving into the Kilmer and Longfellow districts for convenience.  The area is already increasingly Asian (Langley is like 23% Asian now) and the percentage could be even higher [b]if Cooper became a top AAP school like Carson, Rocky Run and Longfellow.[/b] [/quote]

Dear God, I hope not.  [/quote]

Haha.  [b]Well, if Cooper and Langley were such paradises today, I guess FCPS wouldn't be rolling out all these contingency plans for filling empty seats at the schools in another 5-10 years if their enrollments keep dropping.[/b] [/quote]

You completely missed the point.  Cooper and Langley enrollment is dropping not because they aren't paradises, but because their is less density in the neighborhoods traditionally feeding into these schools.  In addition, Cooper kids still have the option of going to centers at Kilmer and Langley, so parents who care about those types of things wouldn't deign to keep their kids at the neighborhood elementary.

As for Cooper becoming a top AAP school.  This is unlikely, but not for the reasons you think.  [/quote]

Perhaps you've missed the point.  If these schools and neighborhoods had retained their appeal, the density would not be declining so sharply.  If there was more demand to live in the Cooper/Langley area, you'd find the older homeowners cashing out, not aging in place in isolated, highly car-dependent neighborhoods.  But they haven't, so the enrollments are dropping.  Personally, I don't care if your middle school not only remains AAP-free, but becomes child-free as well.  I just don't want FCPS screwing around with the boundaries for other schools in order to fill your empty classrooms.  When you speak so ill of AAP children and schools, you make it quite clear that you do not warrant that effort.  
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The older families have not moved out yet, so there is no availability (housing) for families with younger children.  When those older families sell and move on, then we'll see the density increase.[/quote]

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