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RRMS, I know Greenbriar West and Mosby Woods are very strong.  There are other Centers I don’t know about.
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DD will be starting at Bull Run Elementary, which feeds into Rocky Run.  What I have seen so far, I have liked.  There are two AAP classrooms for third grade, and they are going to be team taught.  37 kids and two teachers.  There will be no homework.  There will be no test prep for SOLs, and parents are welcome to have their kids opt out of SOLs if they want.  The only thing the teachers emphasized the parents must do outside of the classroom, is to read.  Read themselves, read to the kids, have the kids read to you, to their pets, their siblings, etc.  They also suggested that since there is no homework, it opens up family time - to play games, go for walks, do things together and expose kids to things that they cannot learn in a classroom.  I hope this isn't all lip service.[/quote]

So, 18-19 kids per classroom? That's a very small class.
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I used to teach at Bull Run and one of the other schools that send kids to that center.  The schools are a mix of middle class mostly white kids and poorer ELL kids. The test-prep and weekend schools aren't as big in those two groups as with wealthier white people (who secretly do workbooks at home) and Asian/Indian families who do Sunshine Academy and weekend church school, etc. Not as many kids get into AAP when test prep isn't rampant-my schools usually only sent a handful of kids each year to the AAP class (2, 3, 4 etc). Centre Ridge, Deer Park, London Towne, and Virginia Run all go to Bull Run. Now when you get to the other side of Centreville, in the Colin Powell, Eagle View area you get a lot more competition and parent pushing to get into the program. It was unusual at Bull Run and my other school for parents to apply if their child didn't meet the cutoff. My old coworkers like the new principal there FWIW.[/quote]

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