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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jackson currently has a little over 100 students in each grade in AAP. Carson and Longfellow by comparison have between 250 and 300 students in each grade in AAP. How will Jackson's center be viewed if the number of students dips significantly below 100? There are two other middle school centers that size, Glasgow and Twain, however the discrepancy in size between centers is one of the things that people complained was unfair in getting admitted to TJ.[/quote]

I can only assume that kids now in seventh at Jackson in the AAP center would not be forced back to Thoreau next year since Thoreau would not (IF this all comes to pass) be a center. My child is having an excellent and happy year in the center at Jackson and I'd fight tooth and nail to keep my child there next year. I figure it won't come to that since it would mean uprooting kids who should be grandfathered into staying where they are now (and they will have only one more year at Jackson anyway).

I agree with previous posters who questioned the impact of AAP local level at Thoreau and what it would mean for Jackson. The AAP center was moved to Jackson only a few years back, and now it's working very well and I know a lot of very pleased kids and parents; why would FCPS screw with it now by letting Thoreau have a program that will suck away kids from the recently established and successful center that is only five minutes from Thoreau anyway? (And yes, it IS only five minutes; I drive between the two every week picking up kids at both schools!)

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