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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Twain, Hughes, South County are all MS AAP centers with less than 300 kids.  Glasgow is an example of a low-regarded/low scoring/high FARMS MS with an AAP center that still has 375+ kids... and they are doing well (based on test scores).

Facts... not scare tactics.

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Jackson was on par with Kilmer and Thoreau. Now you are comparing it to Glasgow which is a 3 rated school. What point are you trying to make? That there are other middle schools that will still be worse than Jackson? I agree, but it doesn't take away from the fact that before this change, all three middle schools were equally well regarded. Holmes does not have a LLIV program does it? It just has the middle years program. Glasgow pulls from 11 elementary schools that then branch off into two high schools. So each group of AAP kids have at least 5 other elementary feeders that will go onto the same high school. If Holmes were to start an AAP center, I bet Glasgow would  decline even below the 3 great schools rating it is now.[/quote]

So, to be clear, this is just about losing bragging rights.[/quote]

No. It's about entire high school pyramids becoming undesirable thus dropping our tax base as a county.[/quote]

Dear Lord, you are way overthinking this.  I suggest a hobby...[/quote]

DP.  PP seems to know far more about trends in the county and its schools than you do.  I suggest you do more research before breaking out the snide. [/quote]

Sorry, if this person thinks the boundary change will cause both the demise of a school, causing entire high school pyramids to become undesirable and to ruin the tax base as a county I don’t think I’m relying on her to predict the trends in the county. Sounds more like she’s shaking a magic 8 ball til she gets the gloom and doom answers she desires.  Also sounds like an inability to move on from a done deal that isn’t such a major issue overall (no one is sick, hurt, etc) [/quote]

Removing many of the relative wealthy families from Jackson certainly is not helpful. It [u]may[/u] just be enough to tip Jackson on a downward spiral, especially [u]if[/u] a large number of AAP students choose Thoreau over the next 2-4 years. This [u]could[/u] cause the Jackson scores to slip, and this [u]could[/u] ripple through the pyramid. [b]It is a pattern that has been seen before.[/b] As for the effect on the county, it [u]could[/u] make one more area of the county a no go zone. They already exist in the following pyramids - Mt. Vernon, Lee, Annandale, and Stuart and are spreading to Herndon and West Potomac. And actually there are already some in the Falls Church pyramid. Time will tell.[/quote]

Translation:   Blah blah blah COULD blah doom blah blah MAY Gloom blah beat blah dead blah horse. [/quote]

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