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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow. Just wow. And not in a good way. I think we may revisit Arlington and Falls Church City. I had no idea what this AAP nonsense is, but it certainly isn't something we want our children to get caught up in, and it's definitely not our family's style. This is elementary school for goodness sake. These poor kids will all be on ativan and Zoloft before they are 10!

If you are concerned about the AAP hype, make sure you do not buy into a center school (which is different than local level IV) because if your child is in AAP, you might be very unhappy. At certain center schools, the non-AAP kids are a minority and it can be upsetting for the children and the parents. The concern is that they are a minority at their neighborhood school. There are threads on this if you search.

Haycock is a center school.

Really? Who would have guessed that?

I saw someone recommend Lemon Road. It's a center school, too. And I think some other posters recommended Shrevewood. It's not a center school, but it feeds into a middle school that's an overcrowded center school, Kilmer. Yikes.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow. Just wow. And not in a good way. I think we may revisit Arlington and Falls Church City. I had no idea what this AAP nonsense is, but it certainly isn't something we want our children to get caught up in, and it's definitely not our family's style. This is elementary school for goodness sake. These poor kids will all be on ativan and Zoloft before they are 10!

If you are concerned about the AAP hype, make sure you do not buy into a center school (which is different than local level IV) because if your child is in AAP, you might be very unhappy. At certain center schools, the non-AAP kids are a minority and it can be upsetting for the children and the parents. The concern is that they are a minority at their neighborhood school. There are threads on this if you search.

Haycock is a center school.

Anonymous wrote:We've been trying for months to find something in the Haycock district near the West Falls Church metro for under $850,000. We always seem to be too late to the party, and there's nothing now. If this thread scares away some competing buyers, I'd be delighted.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow. Just wow. And not in a good way. I think we may revisit Arlington and Falls Church City. I had no idea what this AAP nonsense is, but it certainly isn't something we want our children to get caught up in, and it's definitely not our family's style. This is elementary school for goodness sake. These poor kids will all be on ativan and Zoloft before they are 10!

If you are concerned about the AAP hype, make sure you do not buy into a center school (which is different than local level IV) because if your child is in AAP, you might be very unhappy. At certain center schools, the non-AAP kids are a minority and it can be upsetting for the children and the parents. The concern is that they are a minority at their neighborhood school. There are threads on this if you search.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow. Just wow. And not in a good way. I think we may revisit Arlington and Falls Church City. I had no idea what this AAP nonsense is, but it certainly isn't something we want our children to get caught up in, and it's definitely not our family's style. This is elementary school for goodness sake. These poor kids will all be on ativan and Zoloft before they are 10!

Unfortunately, the competitiveness among parents exists in Arlington and Falls Church city as well. It lessens as you head south and west. McLean just happens to be the hub.

Anonymous wrote:Here's an interesting review of Haycock on another site from a year ago:

"I have finished reading the reviews here and am shocked by what I see. Haycock is a wonderful school with educated and caring teachers and administrators. I've been a Haycock parent for eight years and find these comments to be ridiculous and misleading. They are obviously the result of a realignment that occurred within the pyramid that caused some children to be moved to another school next year in order to ease overcrowding and enable the renovation to proceed safely. It seems that some of the understandable frustration has been misdirected at the parents and administrators. Please don't let this color your opinion of a fantastic school.[i] The parent community is very inviting and supportive of the school community and students are challenged at every level. We may have some difficult years ahead with the upcoming renovation, but I am thrilled that we will soon have a beautiful new school to house our students."

A year has passed, and posters like 18:26 still haven't let it go. I guess there's always February 2015.

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Anonymous wrote:Many parents are aware that at Haycock, it seems like they are slowly phasing out recess. The school's expansion is also eating into playground.

These parents probably see value in giving the kids a rest or a chance to recharge batteries, but probably don't want to disrupt the crazy overachieving atmosphere at Haycock.

Double yawn.

If the truth bores you, so be it.

If the bore toots at it, it be you.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow. Just wow. And not in a good way. I think we may revisit Arlington and Falls Church City. I had no idea what this AAP nonsense is, but it certainly isn't something we want our children to get caught up in, and it's definitely not our family's style. This is elementary school for goodness sake. These poor kids will all be on ativan and Zoloft before they are 10!

Please do not buy into the stereotype that is promoted here. This is an anonymous website that attracts people who want to stir thing up. Both Haycock and Kent Gardens are perfectly fine schools. Don't believe the hype.

My reaction as well. This won't be the first or last time that the lady from Shrevewood whose area was moved to a different AAP center looks for occasions to go after Haycock. She has a very large chip on her shoulder, but nothing she says has much of a shelf life.

I think there is more than one Haycock negativity poster. Look back, there were negative posts before the whole AAP drama. It goes back years.

There are some parents of Haycock students not in AAP who have posted here about their concerns that their kids may be "second-fiddle" at Haycock. That concern is not unique to Haycock, but can be said of most schools with a large AAP center, whether it's Haycock ES in the McLean pyramid, Colvin Run ES in the Langley pyramid, or Kilmer MS in the Marshall pyramid. It's a non-issue in high schools, which don't have AAP centers.

There are also one or two posters who live in the Shrevewood and Westgate ES distircts who were very unhappy that AAP students from those areas were reassigned last year from Haycock to Lemon Road. They felt that other Haycock parents "threw them under the bus" by agreeing with the majority of the School Board and the principals of both Haycock and Lemon Road that the best solution to overcrowding at Haycock was creating a brand-new AAP center at Lemon Road that kids from Lemon Road, Shrevewood and Westgate, which are in the Marshall HS pyramid, could attend. There is one woman from Shrevewood who has posted negative things about Haycock ever since this decision was made. I think she may also have a "grandfathered" AAP kid in 6th grade at Haycock this year. She tries to make her perspective sound like the widely shared view of current Haycock parents. The irony is that, in other threads, posters will acknowledge that the new Lemon Road AAP center is working out just fine. Even more, while some of these posters go after McLean parents for what happened at Haycock, the same dynamic is now starting to emerge at Kilmer MS, in their own pyramid, where Kilmer parents have started to argue AAP kids from Langley need to be sent to Cooper MS to relieve overcrowding at Kilmer. It's a never-ending cycle where school boundaries and enrollments are concerned.

Assuming the OP was a bona fide poster with a real request, it's a shame the thread deteriorated, but it was predicted early in the thread that this would happen, and it did right on cue. But it's not going to change the fact that most Haycock families are quite happy, both in real life and on this forum. The low inventory for homes in the district bears this out.

The real shame is that you single handedly brought this thread so far off track that the OP has likely cancelled their move altogether, all while blaming it on what you suppose must be the view of one anonymous poster whose life you seem to have all figured out. Now you're back, blaming it all on others once again.

Oh well. Guess you can't have it both ways. If you want to make the same negative, inflammatory statements about certain schools time and time again, expect to get called out on it. You have a fairly big footprint on DCUM by now.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow. Just wow. And not in a good way. I think we may revisit Arlington and Falls Church City. I had no idea what this AAP nonsense is, but it certainly isn't something we want our children to get caught up in, and it's definitely not our family's style. This is elementary school for goodness sake. These poor kids will all be on ativan and Zoloft before they are 10!

Please do not buy into the stereotype that is promoted here. This is an anonymous website that attracts people who want to stir thing up. Both Haycock and Kent Gardens are perfectly fine schools. Don't believe the hype.

My reaction as well. This won't be the first or last time that the lady from Shrevewood whose area was moved to a different AAP center looks for occasions to go after Haycock. She has a very large chip on her shoulder, but nothing she says has much of a shelf life.

I think there is more than one Haycock negativity poster. Look back, there were negative posts before the whole AAP drama. It goes back years.

There are some parents of Haycock students not in AAP who have posted here about their concerns that their kids may be "second-fiddle" at Haycock. That concern is not unique to Haycock, but can be said of most schools with a large AAP center, whether it's Haycock ES in the McLean pyramid, Colvin Run ES in the Langley pyramid, or Kilmer MS in the Marshall pyramid. It's a non-issue in high schools, which don't have AAP centers.

There are also one or two posters who live in the Shrevewood and Westgate ES distircts who were very unhappy that AAP students from those areas were reassigned last year from Haycock to Lemon Road. They felt that other Haycock parents "threw them under the bus" by agreeing with the majority of the School Board and the principals of both Haycock and Lemon Road that the best solution to overcrowding at Haycock was creating a brand-new AAP center at Lemon Road that kids from Lemon Road, Shrevewood and Westgate, which are in the Marshall HS pyramid, could attend. There is one woman from Shrevewood who has posted negative things about Haycock ever since this decision was made. I think she may also have a "grandfathered" AAP kid in 6th grade at Haycock this year. She tries to make her perspective sound like the widely shared view of current Haycock parents. The irony is that, in other threads, posters will acknowledge that the new Lemon Road AAP center is working out just fine. Even more, while some of these posters go after McLean parents for what happened at Haycock, the same dynamic is now starting to emerge at Kilmer MS, in their own pyramid, where Kilmer parents have started to argue AAP kids from Langley need to be sent to Cooper MS to relieve overcrowding at Kilmer. It's a never-ending cycle where school boundaries and enrollments are concerned.

Assuming the OP was a bona fide poster with a real request, it's a shame the thread deteriorated, but it was predicted early in the thread that this would happen, and it did right on cue. But it's not going to change the fact that most Haycock families are quite happy, both in real life and on this forum. The low inventory for homes in the district bears this out.

The real shame is that you single handedly brought this thread so far off track that the OP has likely cancelled their move altogether, all while blaming it on what you suppose must be the view of one anonymous poster whose life you seem to have all figured out. Now you're back, blaming it all on others once again.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow. Just wow. And not in a good way. I think we may revisit Arlington and Falls Church City. I had no idea what this AAP nonsense is, but it certainly isn't something we want our children to get caught up in, and it's definitely not our family's style. This is elementary school for goodness sake. These poor kids will all be on ativan and Zoloft before they are 10!

Please do not buy into the stereotype that is promoted here. This is an anonymous website that attracts people who want to stir thing up. Both Haycock and Kent Gardens are perfectly fine schools. Don't believe the hype.

My reaction as well. This won't be the first or last time that the lady from Shrevewood whose area was moved to a different AAP center looks for occasions to go after Haycock. She has a very large chip on her shoulder, but nothing she says has much of a shelf life.

I think there is more than one Haycock negativity poster. Look back, there were negative posts before the whole AAP drama. It goes back years.

There are some parents of Haycock students not in AAP who have posted here about their concerns that their kids may be "second-fiddle" at Haycock. That concern is not unique to Haycock, but can be said of most schools with a large AAP center, whether it's Haycock ES in the McLean pyramid, Colvin Run ES in the Langley pyramid, or Kilmer MS in the Marshall pyramid. It's a non-issue in high schools, which don't have AAP centers.

There are also one or two posters who live in the Shrevewood and Westgate ES distircts who were very unhappy that AAP students from those areas were reassigned last year from Haycock to Lemon Road. They felt that other Haycock parents "threw them under the bus" by agreeing with the majority of the School Board and the principals of both Haycock and Lemon Road that the best solution to overcrowding at Haycock was creating a brand-new AAP center at Lemon Road that kids from Lemon Road, Shrevewood and Westgate, which are in the Marshall HS pyramid, could attend. There is one woman from Shrevewood who has posted negative things about Haycock ever since this decision was made. I think she may also have a "grandfathered" AAP kid in 6th grade at Haycock this year. She tries to make her perspective sound like the widely shared view of current Haycock parents. The irony is that, in other threads, posters will acknowledge that the new Lemon Road AAP center is working out just fine. Even more, while some of these posters go after McLean parents for what happened at Haycock, the same dynamic is now starting to emerge at Kilmer MS, in their own pyramid, where Kilmer parents have started to argue AAP kids from Langley need to be sent to Cooper MS to relieve overcrowding at Kilmer. It's a never-ending cycle where school boundaries and enrollments are concerned.

Assuming the OP was a bona fide poster with a real request, it's a shame the thread deteriorated, but it was predicted early in the thread that this would happen, and it did right on cue. But it's not going to change the fact that most Haycock families are quite happy, both in real life and on this forum. The low inventory for homes in the district bears this out.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow. Just wow. And not in a good way. I think we may revisit Arlington and Falls Church City. I had no idea what this AAP nonsense is, but it certainly isn't something we want our children to get caught up in, and it's definitely not our family's style. This is elementary school for goodness sake. These poor kids will all be on ativan and Zoloft before they are 10!

Please do not buy into the stereotype that is promoted here. This is an anonymous website that attracts people who want to stir thing up. Both Haycock and Kent Gardens are perfectly fine schools. Don't believe the hype.

My reaction as well. This won't be the first or last time that the lady from Shrevewood whose area was moved to a different AAP center looks for occasions to go after Haycock. She has a very large chip on her shoulder, but nothing she says has much of a shelf life.

I think there is more than one Haycock negativity poster. Look back, there were negative posts before the whole AAP drama. It goes back years.