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Ah, so AAP is untouchable for dealing with overcrowding, and instead it was better to put kids in an office building whose outdoor space was some four-square grids drawn on a blacktop. Got it.

I don't understand this. What is being described here? 
In instances where AAP centers have resulted in overcrowding, FFX has created new AAP centers, redrawn the AAP lines, and also created Level IV programs at feeder schools. AAP has not been "untouchable."

PP has asserted that if FCPS faced the kinds of overcrowding APS is, it would disband choice programs and turn them into expanded neighborhood schools to accommodate more students. [b]AAP is a choice program, [/b]and yet when FCPS has faced terrible overcrowding, it hasn't disbanded those programs in order to better manage neighborhood school capacity.

[b]When FCPS considers disbanding TJ to deal with overcrowding, then you can talk about HB Woodlawn[/b].
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TJ is a Governor's magnet school that is located in FFX county. It is open to FFX, Loudoun, and Arlington counties (and others who pay into it). They cannot just "disband" it to make room for more in FFX. To compare it to HB Woodlawn is ridiculous and ill-informed. If you live in Arlington, you surely know that some Arlington kids go to TJ.

And I don't know why you continue to cling to this idea that FFX needed to disband AAP to manage overcrowding. All they needed to do, and did do, is open more AAP centers and create more Level IV programs. They've done that, and will continue to do that.

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AAP growth is out of control. FCPS has allowed people to push their way into the program and this has degraded the quality of the program. If everyone is special, then no one is special. AAP has really been a way for parents to get their kids out of schools they don't like and this in turn negatively impacts base schools (while the students being pushed into AAP programs aren't super intelligent, they are probably likely to pass the SOLs). So more and more students who can pass the SOLs are removed from the base schools. FCPS has made a monster.
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+1. All you have to do is look at the poster here who thinks the whole answer to overcrowding is to expand the AAP program. Speaks volumes about her mindset.[/quote]

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