The issue is that both Lemon Road and Westgate are split feeders between 2 high school pyramids, but they are both technically in cluster 2. So moving these kids out of Haycock and assigning them to a Marshall pyramid AAP center will align them with their cluster, but not their pyramid.

Yes, there is no plan to have one center per cluster; the plan is to align centers by pyramid -- people need to get their facts straight!

I thought the suggestion was to align them better with the high school pyramids. Some clusters need more than one center and McLean is one of them.

The AAP Center proposal will also be discussed at the next Advanced Academic Programs Advisory Committee meeting on November 13.

I hope that this is really talked about on Thursday night at the school board meeting, otherwise why would I go?

Well, if the ultimate goal is to have one center per cluster, someone is going to lose their center.

Anonymous wrote:If Haycock lost their center, they would lose the top 40% of their SOL scores, their science resource teacher, and there would be a drop in property values. That sounds like a big deal to me.

No one has said Haycock is losing its center. Lets not start another myth!

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I think pp must have meant Janie Strauss. Patty Reed was not there.

That's what I thought - recall some speakers from Cluster 2 expressing some angst because neither Reed nor the Cluster 2 school officials were at the Haycock meeting that Strauss attended.

Anonymous wrote:If Haycock lost their center, they would lose the top 40% of their SOL scores, their science resource teacher, and there would be a drop in property values. That sounds like a big deal to me.

It might be a big deal, but Haycock is not going to lose its AAP center. There would continue to be a number of schools in Cluster 1 (Chesterbrook, Franklin Sherman, Haycock, Timber Lane and, perhaps, Kent Gardens again at some point) sending their AAP kids to Haycock. If the AAP population accounts for a smaller percentage of the students, the test scores will go down, but still be quite high.

As to what it means for property values, get real. Haycock is very close to the West Falls Church Metro station near both Tysons and DC. And there may be some people who don't want to buy in the Haycock district now, because the school is over-crowded and/or currently has such a high percentage of out-of-boundary students.

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Anonymous wrote:At least one of the elementaries in our area is completely losing their AAP center.

I am sure the folks living in that neighborhood have no idea yet.

If I had purchased a home in that school boundary, I would be very, very pissed.

Which school? Is an AAP center that big of a draw? As a parent whose kid is in aap at our base school, I wouldn't mind losing our center, it would mean a lot less overcrowding

Do you realize that an AAP center brings more of a money to the overall budget to your school?? SO your fine with your school all of the sudden losing a bunch of funding??

Yes, all that funding includes 300 plus kids attached. Please tell me where all that money goes. We are still overcrowded. What percent of funding does the aap center bring? Or are you just taking without facts to support your claim.

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Anonymous wrote:Based on what Patty Reed said at the latest Haycock meeting, they will need at least 4 new elementary schools in the Tyson's area in the next 5+ years, I am not sure that it makes sense to move anyone in this area just yet. Lemon Road, Westgate, Westbriar, Stenwood, and Freedom Hill are all going to get hit by the growth occurring at Tyson's right now. It might make sense to wait a year or two and reallocate the AAP centers as part of a larger redistricting to prepare for the growth.

Was Patty Reed at a recent meeting at Haycock? I know Janie Strauss talked about needing more elementary schools in the Tysons area, but it sounded like the first new one would be part of a Capital One project. My bet is that it will be over a decade before we'll see more than one new elementary school near Tysons. Based on what I've read and heard, it seems clear that FCPS wants a new AAP program in a Cluster 2 school in the Marshall pyramid next fall.

I think pp must have meant Janie Strauss. Patty Reed was not there.

Anonymous wrote:Based on what Patty Reed said at the latest Haycock meeting, they will need at least 4 new elementary schools in the Tyson's area in the next 5+ years, I am not sure that it makes sense to move anyone in this area just yet. Lemon Road, Westgate, Westbriar, Stenwood, and Freedom Hill are all going to get hit by the growth occurring at Tyson's right now. It might make sense to wait a year or two and reallocate the AAP centers as part of a larger redistricting to prepare for the growth.

Was Patty Reed at a recent meeting at Haycock? I know Janie Strauss talked about needing more elementary schools in the Tysons area, but it sounded like the first new one would be part of a Capital One project. My bet is that it will be over a decade before we'll see more than one new elementary school near Tysons. Based on what I've read and heard, it seems clear that FCPS wants a new AAP program in a Cluster 2 school in the Marshall pyramid next fall.

If Haycock lost their center, they would lose the top 40% of their SOL scores, their science resource teacher, and there would be a drop in property values. That sounds like a big deal to me.

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Anonymous wrote:At least one of the elementaries in our area is completely losing their AAP center.

I am sure the folks living in that neighborhood have no idea yet.

If I had purchased a home in that school boundary, I would be very, very pissed.

Which school? Is an AAP center that big of a draw? As a parent whose kid is in aap at our base school, I wouldn't mind losing our center, it would mean a lot less overcrowding

Do you realize that an AAP center brings more of a money to the overall budget to your school?? SO your fine with your school all of the sudden losing a bunch of funding??

Based on what Patty Reed said at the latest Haycock meeting, they will need at least 4 new elementary schools in the Tyson's area in the next 5+ years, I am not sure that it makes sense to move anyone in this area just yet. Lemon Road, Westgate, Westbriar, Stenwood, and Freedom Hill are all going to get hit by the growth occurring at Tyson's right now. It might make sense to wait a year or two and reallocate the AAP centers as part of a larger redistricting to prepare for the growth.