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I think you're confusing the above arguments and/or posters... Not only do I not have a child at Longfellow, I [b]am[/b] one of the many Cooper GE parents who is opposed to the influx of AAP students in Cooper!  Personally, though Cooper may not be beautifully renovated, I'm fine with it as is if it means it would not have an AAP program.  It's a great school and the fact that it's not a newly renovated facility has nothing to do with the quality of education being offered there.  All we are asking is for this to remain a GE only school; other GE students from say, Longfellow or Kilmer, would be welcome here.  We just don't want Cooper to turn into yet another center, making AAP once again, "the norm" (a false normal, if ever there was one).  [/quote]

It sounds friendly to say that GenEd kids would be "welcome" at Cooper, as if you were throwing an open house, but in practice I fear that means that Cooper/Langley will want to cherry-pick single-family neighborhoods from Kilmer/Marshall and Longfellow/McLean for reassignment to Cooper/Langley, so you can maintain the GenEd enrollment at Cooper and justify FCPS's plans to expand Langley's capacity to 2100 students (even though its enrollment has been declining).  The past 30 years of boundary changes in FCPS suggest that Langley parents always get what they want, as evidenced by Langley's exclusion from the South Lakes boundary study in 2008 when other schools like Madison and Oakton were included.  If you want to tell me I'm wrong, happy to hear it. [/quote]

PP here and I agree with what you're saying.  I'm also a Langley parent and the Langley boundaries have been so off for so long, they are absolutely due to be realigned.  There are kids at Langley who live about three minutes from Herndon HS and yet are assigned to Langley.  My child is very happy at Langley, but I would have been just fine had the boundaries changed in 2008, putting us in the South Lakes or Herndon district.  It certainly would have been a lot closer.  My main concern right now though is keeping Cooper free of AAP.  [/quote]

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