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Anonymous wrote:New PP That's entirely not true. I'm sure there are still plenty of Haycock lovers, but as the Cunningham Park post notes, not everyone wants to be in a school where AAP is the end all and be all of the school and parents are competitive and arrogant toward one another. If you and the principal can't realize why a fundraiser for Haycock this spring is a bad idea verses say this fall, I have to question how smart you and this school really is. It's not like every school in FCPS is doing a spring fundraiser this year and it's a regular thing.

Haycock has regularly had spring events and there is no reason why one should be canceled this year. If people don't want to participate, they should decline. No one will go after them because they weren't in the mood. Really. If you don't understand that, I have to question how smart you really is, too.

People in Chantilly who worry about the AAP/non-AAP balance at Haycock, halfway across the county, will have their own hands full if their kids are assigned to Greenbrier West or Rocky Run.

I don't recall a spring fundraiser in the past 3 or 4 years so I'm not sure it's something Haycock regularly does. When was the last one?

Anonymous wrote:New PP That's entirely not true. I'm sure there are still plenty of Haycock lovers, but as the Cunningham Park post notes, not everyone wants to be in a school where AAP is the end all and be all of the school and parents are competitive and arrogant toward one another. If you and the principal can't realize why a fundraiser for Haycock this spring is a bad idea verses say this fall, I have to question how smart you and this school really is. It's not like every school in FCPS is doing a spring fundraiser this year and it's a regular thing.

Haycock has regularly had spring events and there is no reason why one should be canceled this year. If people don't want to participate, they should decline. No one will go after them because they weren't in the mood. Really. If you don't understand that, I have to question how smart you really is, too.

People in Chantilly who worry about the AAP/non-AAP balance at Haycock, halfway across the county, will have their own hands full if their kids are assigned to Greenbrier West or Rocky Run.

12:17 We live in Chantilly btw and like it just fine.

New PP That's entirely not true. I'm sure there are still plenty of Haycock lovers, but as the Cunningham Park post notes, not everyone wants to be in a school where AAP is the end all and be all of the school and parents are competitive and arrogant toward one another. If you and the principal can't realize why a fundraiser for Haycock this spring is a bad idea verses say this fall, I have to question how smart you and this school really is. It's not like every school in FCPS is doing a spring fundraiser this year and it's a regular thing.

The "drama" at Haycock gets created by a handful of Haycock parents who are still unhappy about the AAP realignment and other drama queens who resent the attention the school has received for its academic success. They manufacture the controversy, and then post that others should avoid the school because there's too much drama.

It simply doesn't work. The school has too much going in its favor, and a spring fundraiser is not exactly dramatic material.

"Good" not "food" before you correct me.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe Haycock has managed to move itself from one of the most desired schools in the county, to one of the most avoided.

Not at all. It's in a great location near WFC Metro. Many students walk to the school every morning. It's quite diverse, and it's in an excellent MS/HS pyramid. FCPS has taken necessary steps to reduce the overcrowding, and the renovation starts this summer. For the vast majority of families there, it's a great place for their children to learn. Most houses in that district sell very, very quickly, as you'd expect.

I hope you come to peace with whatever makes you so bitter and resentful.

My post was neither bitter, nor resentful...but thanks for the sales pitch. I think I'll stay put.

Your post was both. The jealousy is palpable.

NP here. Jealousy of what? You know, there are other schools in the county that are food schools and people like. Not everyone wants to go to Haycock. Some people wouldn't even consider it, especially after all of the DCUM Haycock drama.

Your arrogance is what is palpable.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe Haycock has managed to move itself from one of the most desired schools in the county, to one of the most avoided.

Not at all. It's in a great location near WFC Metro. Many students walk to the school every morning. It's quite diverse, and it's in an excellent MS/HS pyramid. FCPS has taken necessary steps to reduce the overcrowding, and the renovation starts this summer. For the vast majority of families there, it's a great place for their children to learn. Most houses in that district sell very, very quickly, as you'd expect.

I hope you come to peace with whatever makes you so bitter and resentful.

My post was neither bitter, nor resentful...but thanks for the sales pitch. I think I'll stay put.

Your post was both. The jealousy is palpable.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe Haycock has managed to move itself from one of the most desired schools in the county, to one of the most avoided.

Not at all. It's in a great location near WFC Metro. Many students walk to the school every morning. It's quite diverse, and it's in an excellent MS/HS pyramid. FCPS has taken necessary steps to reduce the overcrowding, and the renovation starts this summer. For the vast majority of families there, it's a great place for their children to learn. Most houses in that district sell very, very quickly, as you'd expect.

I hope you come to peace with whatever makes you so bitter and resentful.

My post was neither bitter, nor resentful...but thanks for the sales pitch. I think I'll stay put.

Anonymous wrote:I believe Haycock has managed to move itself from one of the most desired schools in the county, to one of the most avoided.

Not at all. It's in a great location near WFC Metro. Many students walk to the school every morning. It's quite diverse, and it's in an excellent MS/HS pyramid. FCPS has taken necessary steps to reduce the overcrowding, and the renovation starts this summer. For the vast majority of families there, it's a great place for their children to learn. Most houses in that district sell very, very quickly, as you'd expect.

I hope you come to peace with whatever makes you so bitter and resentful.

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Anonymous wrote:Haycock already has smart boards. The renovation isn't really creating new classrooms. It's just moving them from the trailers indoors so they shouldn't need any new smart boards. They can use the ones they already have. In theory, if the population actually goes down after the cluster 2 kids leave, they should need fewer smart boards not more.

The Smart Boards and other technology for Longfellow were for the addtional classrooms that the renovation built. I believe Haycock's renovation will also have additionkl classroom- so there will be a need for more smart boards- whichever pot provides the money.

The courtyards that were created by Longfellow's renovation were not just not landscaped but had to be regraded and needed a significant amount of "infrastructure" to make them usable. Prudent use of Girl Scout Gold and Eagle Scout projects helped keep the labor costs down.

How are they getting additional classrooms compared to this year when Kelly claimed in her coffee that there would be 200 fewer students next year? 200 fewer students means FEWER classrooms, not more. By classrooms, I mean physical classrooms and the trailers that are there now that would presumably be gone after the renovation. I'm not sure where the 200 comes from. I think it's probably wrong, but that's what she said.

Only 90 students are headed for LR, and some of those 90 are pupil placing back in or moving within the boundaries. The other 110 are students assumed to not be coming from other schools that are starting LLIV...which is a little presumptuous.

Really? They think 110 kids will choose LLIV? Are there even 110 third graders that come from FS, CB and TL? CB and TL already have LLIV, so their umbers are somewhat predictable. It's a really odd figure for her to throw out. Last fall, when Marty Smith proposed the whole thing, he said it would reduce the school by 155 and that included the 5th graders (rising 6th) who were later grandfathered and it accounted for FS starting LLIV. How has that 155 minus 25 or so rising 6th graders turned into 200? I guess there could be data to back it up but it seems odd to me, especially since the trend with kindergarten seems to be going up, not down, so there should be more base school kids. Perhaps it's because fewer children qualified for AAP this year -- but not THAT many fewer.

I believe Haycock has managed to move itself from one of the most desired schools in the county, to one of the most avoided.

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Anonymous wrote:Haycock already has smart boards. The renovation isn't really creating new classrooms. It's just moving them from the trailers indoors so they shouldn't need any new smart boards. They can use the ones they already have. In theory, if the population actually goes down after the cluster 2 kids leave, they should need fewer smart boards not more.

The Smart Boards and other technology for Longfellow were for the addtional classrooms that the renovation built. I believe Haycock's renovation will also have additionkl classroom- so there will be a need for more smart boards- whichever pot provides the money.

The courtyards that were created by Longfellow's renovation were not just not landscaped but had to be regraded and needed a significant amount of "infrastructure" to make them usable. Prudent use of Girl Scout Gold and Eagle Scout projects helped keep the labor costs down.

How are they getting additional classrooms compared to this year when Kelly claimed in her coffee that there would be 200 fewer students next year? 200 fewer students means FEWER classrooms, not more. By classrooms, I mean physical classrooms and the trailers that are there now that would presumably be gone after the renovation. I'm not sure where the 200 comes from. I think it's probably wrong, but that's what she said.

Only 90 students are headed for LR, and some of those 90 are pupil placing back in or moving within the boundaries. The other 110 are students assumed to not be coming from other schools that are starting LLIV...which is a little presumptuous.

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Anonymous wrote:The way this event has been promoted is completely insensitive to the 90 students/families who have been asked to leave the school at the end of this school year.

Why? Some of those families will complain about anything. They would complain that it's insensitive if their kids received the Boosterthon materials. They would complain they were already being excluded if they did not.

No one is holding a gun to your head. Participate if you want. Decline if you don't want to. Give money to Lemon Road or the ASPCA if you prefer. It's all OK. Just don't expect Haycock to declare 2012-13 the national year of mourning and to stop having activities just because you'll be at LR next year.

Wasn't a complaint....just an observation based on chatting with multiple families....base school and those that are moving. It is ok if we don't agree on this. I don't think anyone expects a year of mourning, just some sensitivity.

Whiny, whiny, whiny.

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Anonymous wrote:Haycock already has smart boards. The renovation isn't really creating new classrooms. It's just moving them from the trailers indoors so they shouldn't need any new smart boards. They can use the ones they already have. In theory, if the population actually goes down after the cluster 2 kids leave, they should need fewer smart boards not more.

The Smart Boards and other technology for Longfellow were for the addtional classrooms that the renovation built. I believe Haycock's renovation will also have additionkl classroom- so there will be a need for more smart boards- whichever pot provides the money.

The courtyards that were created by Longfellow's renovation were not just not landscaped but had to be regraded and needed a significant amount of "infrastructure" to make them usable. Prudent use of Girl Scout Gold and Eagle Scout projects helped keep the labor costs down.

How are they getting additional classrooms compared to this year when Kelly claimed in her coffee that there would be 200 fewer students next year? 200 fewer students means FEWER classrooms, not more. By classrooms, I mean physical classrooms and the trailers that are there now that would presumably be gone after the renovation. I'm not sure where the 200 comes from. I think it's probably wrong, but that's what she said.