So are there any immigrants living in your spare bedroom? Otherwise, you are basically saying, sure, let them in, just don’t put those immigrants near me. If so, that is exactly how you think. See I can play this game too. What I’m saying is that a county redistricting comes at a huge huge cost to the residents of the county, and leveling the playing field for immigrants isn’t a good enough justification IMHO. Anyway, as the PPs mention, let’s just close the sieve that allows for net school outflow to be 10-15% of an under performing school and, voila, we solve all the problems. |
Trying to sort out the number of transfers out of Lewis and it is hard to reconcile the data on the county's site. The 'Student Transfers' tab shows Lewis with 226 transfers out. If you look at the "Transfer by Attending School" tab and check all of the high schools for Lewis transfers you can only find 149. My guess is that some group of transfers, probably something along the lines of special education, are not included in the numbers on the 'Transfer by Attending School' tab.
50 to Edison - since they also have IB it is not that. Likely the STEM academy and maybe a different language 33 to TJ 24 to Lake Braddock - most likely for AP as West Springfield is closed. Also, LB serves as the middle school AAP center for some Lewis students and these are likely students who pupil placed to stay; this could be stopped by putting AP back in at Lewis and putting AAP in all middle schools 19 to Bryant 13 to Mt. Vernon - I have no idea. 10 to various high schools - this may be teachers transferring their children as it is literally one each to 10 different high schools. Not sure how many of these students you will be able to bring back - perhaps some of the Edison and the Lake Braddock group. |
I think the public schools are a bit different than my private house. |
It is not 1 each to 10 different schools. 1 is the number assigned for 10 or fewer transfers to a school since they don’t provide the precise number based on purported privacy concerns. |
Ok. Missed that. Those schools were Annandale, Fairfax, Hayfield, Justice, Langley, Robinson, South County, West Potomac, West Springfield, and Woodson. I imagine a couple of those are closer to 10, like Hayfield and South County, and others like Langley, Justice, and Fairfax are closer to 1. West Springfield should be low because it is supposed to be closed, but I imagine teachers can get their kids in. To get to that 226 transfer number there would have to be 87 at those 10 schools (having already accounted for the other 139). That is an average of 8.7 per school which seems very unlikely for the likes of Langley, Justice, and Fairfax. |
Also, think of the deer and the foxes, as well as the occasional bear. |
DP and agree that high density housing should be spread throughout Fairfax. So while they’re adding all the multi-family buildings in Tysons, they should just make 50% of them low income. That starts to de-concentrate poverty and since it was going to be high density housing for rich people, there’s no difference in the “significant investments” or impact on the deer and foxes [wink, wink]. Offering a variety of housing in every area of the county would be good for the environment because then people could live closer to where they work. I believe right now all development in Fairfax has to offer some percent set aside for low income individuals. I think this should not only not be required for areas with already-high poverty, but should actually be prohibited in areas with already-high poverty. |
We need to go even further than that. We should take a Thanos approach to housing. All numbers ending in an even number should be taken by eminent domain and given to the poorest people that we can find. Snap. Or, as the PP stated, we can just admit the fact that not all parts of the county could support high rises and strip malls. |
I’m talking not putting high density where we still have large tracts of land; wherever that is and whatever the income level of the current residents. |
Now that the silver line is complete, there is access to public transportation within bounds for McLean and near Langley. Let’s see if Fairfax puts up any massive section 8 complexes there |
Every new apartment building in Tysons has affordable housing set-asides and there are also multiple all-affordable housing complexes planned and/or under construction now in Tysons. They will feed into Marshall and McLean. Elaine Tholen made sure no multi-family housing of any kind feeds to Langley. |
I'll believe that the county is serious about it when McLean's FARMS rate approaches the 20 or 40% the board thinks is acceptable for the other side of the county |
No thanks to the high-rise housing. |
The county still has other regional or county-wide programs for high school students. They aren’t displayed on the dashboard but it’s possible some of the reported transfers out of Lewis were to those specialized programs. |
You know that in the past 10 years demographics of some pyramids have changed radically. Immigrants don’t just arrive with babies. They come with teenagers as well. Some of these families are directed to go to certain areas by NGOs but Also government entities that determine where to put low-income housing. What you are saying is that recent poor immigrants should continue to be directed to those areas and kept there at the expense of someone else’s pyramids. |