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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m saying no one cares about her home’s value. Indeed, if possible, I care less about it with each post. [/quote]

Try to stay on topic.[/quote]

Someone above asked, “Are you saying Palchik didn't look out for LJ and Falls Church?”  ThAts what I answered. You make a good point however and for the love of everything AAP related, don’t keep posting about your stupid home value in The aap forum. Please. 
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Who are you talking to? It sounds like you’ve lost your marbles. Several posters have observed that Palchik hasn’t been looking out for the schools in her district.  LJ is in her district and has a declining AAP program.

That’s all on topic, unlike your repeated references to real estate, which you should take somewhere else.[/quote]

How do you know the LJ Aap is "declining?"   Do you have actual numbets or other criteria that says it is losing quality or numbers?[/quote]

One telling statistic is that the enrollment at Jackson went down this year by considerably more than the enrollment at Thoreau increased (339 decline at Jackson vs. 265 increase at Thoreau).  Another is that, in percentage terms, the number of white and Asian kids at Jackson declined considerably more than the number of Hispanic kids, who tend to be less advantaged. More details on LJ and its AAP program will emerge over time, but the data so far is not favorable.  FCPS did a hatchet job on the school. [/quote]

very very shaky reasoning.  Does anyone know the enrollment in the Jackson AAP 7th grade class?  It doesn't mean that the program is declining even if the numbers decreased some.  The program doesn't have to be 225 students to be a good program.  FWIW, my kids don't go to LJ, but I have no reason to believe it is "declining" just because the overcrowding of the base school was reduced.

Regarding the enrollment going down by more than the enrollment increased at TMS -- that could be caused by a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with people fleeing LJ.  You seem to be suggesting that more kids left LJ -- but instead of going to TMS, they went to other schools (private or other middle schools).  It is more likely that the outgoing 8th grade class was the super large class (remember a few years back that there was an AAP bump up in this grade).  And so, as that grade moved into HS, the enrollment in the middle schools decreased.  You are trying to compare the size of the last 8th grade class (now 9th graders) to the size of the incoming 7th grade (+ incoming 8th graders who transferred to TMS).  This seems like a dubious comparison ... and even more dubious to make claims regarding the "decline of the AAP at LJ" off of it.

I think we went over some of these stats in the first couple of pages of this thread, but here we go again:

Current stats  (2018-19 school year):
Asian population at LJ:  23.8 %
White population at LJ:  24.4%

Last year stats  (2017-18 school year):
Asian population at LJ:  25%
White population at LJ:  26%

Please stop lying with statistics.   I have no reason to believe that LJ is in decline.  In fact, they are probably better able to serve all of their students now that it isn't so crowded and they can put more attention on the needier kids.  TMS is probably better positioned to handle a larger student population because it is overall less "needy."  That said, I am not boosting one or the other.  We had the choice and went with TMS b/c we are in Madison pyramid and wanted to connect to those kids (as my student was previously at MWES, DC did not know any kids from Madision pyramid).  It worked for us, although the vast majority of MWES AAP kids were going to LJ.

The whole "whoa is me, whoa is LJ" (striking hand to forehead and pretending to faint)  act is getting a little old.[/quote]

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