I think it’s important that all pyramids balance the number of kids that are economically disadvantaged. Let’s say, 20-25%? We should adjust the boundaries to match these stats.
Doesn’t have to be overnight, but start phasing in low income neighborhoods on edges or high income neighborhoods on edges. |
what would you do with the other 10% of students? According to FCPS website, 33.4% of students received free or reduced price lunches? |
It is a known risk that school boundaries can change. It not a legal peril to change boundaries. |
Well it wouldn’t be perfect, some would have more, but it’s a reasonable goal to start with. |
They’d destroy the county in an attempt to meet your “reasonable goal.” Communism works in theory. Someone should have taken an economics course in college. |
Don’t be so dramatic. It wouldn’t happen overnight. Current freshman , maybe even middle schoolers, would finish their time at the current high school. It’s would be so enriching for the residents of this county to share a high school experience with many who are not like them. |
Again, you're implying that in the current state of affairs the kids who attend the schools that you don't want to go to are currently being deprived of an education. So why aren't you up in arms to defend them? |
“Let’s try to fix public school boundaries.”
“Good luck with your godless communism!” |
Yeah, why be dramatic about petty things like my kids’ education. (Eye roll). We don’t subscribe to your SJW platform. And I don’t want your extreme agenda imposed on my kids. If you care so much about an “enriching” experience, you seriously should bring your kids to a third world country. Nothing more enriching than that for them. If you don’t, then you’re nothing but a big old hypocrite. |
I suspect you’re being trolled. Most people know you can’t achieve similar demographics at every high school by just tweaking boundaries on the edges. You’d have to replace contiguous school boundaries with a checkerboard pattern to disperse the concentration of low-income kids in certain areas. You can’t do that without being very transparent as to your objectives, and that’s not what this School Board is about. They mostly want low-cost virtue signaling that they can pass off as an exercise in “efficiency.” |
The only solution is long term, but it involves stopping the importation of poverty. The number didn't rise to 33.4% without lack of enforcement of immigration law. I don't blame these people for coming to the U.S., but it burdens on our country, state, and county. And it is acutely felt by some pyramids. Stop voting for politicians at all levels who have no interest in enforcing current immigration law - specifically illegal entry. Some of you would continue the current lack of enforcement while at the same time arguing to keep these poor students out of your pyramids or more accurately, keeping them in certain pyramids. Please stop doing this. |
The main reason boundaries have been and forever will be moved is due to overcrowding.
There is growth in the Tysons area that will cause boundary changes. The schools closest (Langley, McLean, Marshall, and Madison) will take the large brunt of it. Schools that abut them will need to pick up some neighborhoods. The most likely neighborhoods to move out of those four are the neighborhoods in Langley that are closer to Herndon and the neighborhoods in McLean that are closer to Falls Church. No communism, just practical planning. |
Agree. There are a ton of Democratic constituents in the area who are generally supportive of public schools but who stop short of the extreme positions of the current school board and a handful of posters on this discussion board. It’s unfortunate, but the solution is to not vote for democrats anymore (at least at the local level). That feels weird to say as someone who always voted for democratic candidates and who detests TFG, but this school board and the Redistricting agenda is just too radical for me. |
Why are you pinning the School Board's apparent desire (inferred from the statements of School Board members like McDaniel and Lady) to move Langley kids to Herndon on these four schools? The five-year projections in the latest CIP have McLean at 104% (w/modular), Marshall at 101% (w/modular), Langley at 98% (no modular), and Madison at 89% (no modular) in 2028. There is no group of any size at any of these schools asking to be redistricted, and many who would actively oppose it. [i] Currently, Tysons feeds entirely to Marshall (55-60% of Tysons) and McLean (35-40% of Tysons). If they start moving kids out of Marshall and McLean, what is their plan? Do they just move single-family neighborhoods in Vienna out of Marshall to Madison and single-family neighborhoods in McLean out of McLean to Langley? If so, that approach - turning Marshall into Tysons South HS and McLean into Tysons North HS - is the same approach that has led over time to the concentration of poverty at schools like Annandale. To be clear, there isn't the same concentration of poverty in Tysons now as there is in Annandale, but they ought to be very careful about how they approach this. And if this "practical planning" is really just an equity-driven agenda by another name, it's not even likely to be very successful at that. Look at the numbers and this should be obvious. |
DP. I agree with you in theory but what if a pyramid has a significant number of homeless or undocumented students whose parents are not on a lease or have a utility bill (many have these but some don’t). |