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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Frankly, I did not want to send my current 4th grader to Haycock last year.  My past experience with the PTA  -- when our oldest attended AAP there -- has been that Haycock base parents are unfriendly, entitled and stuck-up.  If Cluster 2 had its own AAP center, my child would have gone there.  But we don't, so we had to choose between going to Haycock or depriving our child of the AAP services he needs to excel.  I am really hoping our base school opens an AAP center so that we don't have to make this choice with our youngest.

HOWEVER, what is best for my current AAP kid is to stay at Haycock and complete his elementary years with the friends and teachers and counselors he has come to know.  Moving us to yet another school next year would mean 3 moves in 4 year for him.   It's not fair to solve the overcrowding problem on the backs of helpless 8 to 11 year olds![/quote]

I'm sorry this has been your experience.  The statistics i've seen indicate that about twice as many Marshall students transfer to McLean as vice versa.  That suggests to me that a lot of kids from Cluster 2 who have been in Cluster 1 schools have a good experience and want to stay in the McLean pyramid.  Maybe those stats will change when Cluster 2 has its own center.

I think Haycock is a wonderful school with great students, teachers and parents, but obviously the protracted overcrowding and uncertainty as to the renovation plans have created the potential for people to feel like they are being blamed or excluded.[/quote]

I'm another Haycock AAP parent who finds the large majority of Haycock parents to be very entitled and off-putting.

I don't think that kids transfer to McLean because they enjoy being surrounded by the drama. I think they transfer because obtaining a full IB diploma is significantly harder and much more restricting than obtaining a general AP diploma. It's really their only other option. 
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