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[quote=Anonymous]To have a Center school, you need other schools to feed into it. If all the schools feeding into the center have LLIV it negates the need for a center and the center really doesn't exist. This may be fine for some schools that have a healthy number of students at their school who are in AAP, but it tends to leave some neighboring schools with very few children at an AAP level. The schools should be balanced to provide a center atmosphere with a critical mass and if there is an overabundance of AAP students, those schools with the most LLIV students should have the option of LLIV, however not to the point where the Center basically doesn't exist. Right now at Lemon Road I believe there are 30 level 4 students in 3rd grade. If Shrevewood had not gotten LLIV, that number at Lemon Road in 3rd grade this year would probably be closer to 40 or 50. 30 students is barely enough to be called a center. If they make Thoreau a LLIV school they need to factor in how this decision will affect Luther Jackson. If both schools can have a critical mass that's fine, but the Vienna AAP students were shifted from Kilmer to Luther Jackson about 5 years ago because Luther Jackson did not have a large enough critical mass. If they are shifted back to Thoreau or even Kilmer, how will that affect Luther Jackson? If they move the Kilmer AAP kids in McLean to Cooper, how will that change affect Kilmer? Those decisions should be discussed and made simultaneously so that there is a long range plan for these schools.[/quote]

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