Yup— major boundary changes incoming.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will happen on boundaries. It was all Dem the last four years and nothing happened. There is no incentive for them to do anything on boundaries. They will just spend more money expanding the preferred schools.

The board doesn't give a squat about citizen input.

That comment make no sense in this context. Fairfax County citizens hate redistricting.

This is true ^^. The only people who constantly obsess and gnash their teeth about redistricting are DCUM's finest - the ones who insist we must racially and economically balance the schools, regardless of geography. Or maybe, in spite of geography.
DP

So the citizens of this county, overwhelmingly liberal, want nothing to do with their kids going to school with the "undesirables". Limousine Liberals is how that is defined.

Why should we be any different from NYC?

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will happen on boundaries. It was all Dem the last four years and nothing happened. There is no incentive for them to do anything on boundaries. They will just spend more money expanding the preferred schools.

The board doesn't give a squat about citizen input.

That comment make no sense in this context. Fairfax County citizens hate redistricting.

This is true ^^. The only people who constantly obsess and gnash their teeth about redistricting are DCUM's finest - the ones who insist we must racially and economically balance the schools, regardless of geography. Or maybe, in spite of geography.
DP

So the citizens of this county, overwhelmingly liberal, want nothing to do with their kids going to school with the "undesirables". Limousine Liberals is how that is defined.

I’m a liberal, and there is zero cognitive dissonance for me. People on this board often seem to advocate for redistricting in order to soak the rich, not considering how disruptive redistricting would be to everyone involved. I get that people are committed to equity, but to be laser-focused on it at the expense of all else puts you in the extreme wing of the party, and creates many more problems than it solves.

And sometimes I wonder if the people advocating for it own real estate in an area of the country that they think would benefit from redistricting.

The people advocating for it want every school to feel like what one would expect from a Fairfax County school. It's a little absurd that many schools are far closer to resembling a poverty-stricken rural Texas town than a real representation of Fairfax County.

The people against it are the ones who feel that way primarily for real estate reasons. Just read the public comments from the last consultant boundary survey. E.g., "please don't change boundaries because our property value will go down."

The people advocating for it want a subsidy, whereby home equity is redistributed to their own advantage. The comparison of schools in Fairfax to poverty-stricken schools in Texas also misses the mark. Even the highest/poverty schools in FCPS offer a wide array of AP or IB classes, which simply is not the case in many school districts in other parts of the country.

And why do some people claim to love diversity so much, yet then make it their main mission in life to redistribute it away from their own communities and schools?

One could argue that the five pyramids that have 55%+ Hispanic and a similar FARMs percentage are not diverse. They are overly concentrated with poverty to their own detriment.

So send the white kids in to colonize?

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will happen on boundaries. It was all Dem the last four years and nothing happened. There is no incentive for them to do anything on boundaries. They will just spend more money expanding the preferred schools.

The board doesn't give a squat about citizen input.

That comment make no sense in this context. Fairfax County citizens hate redistricting.

This is true ^^. The only people who constantly obsess and gnash their teeth about redistricting are DCUM's finest - the ones who insist we must racially and economically balance the schools, regardless of geography. Or maybe, in spite of geography.
DP

So the citizens of this county, overwhelmingly liberal, want nothing to do with their kids going to school with the "undesirables". Limousine Liberals is how that is defined.

I’m a liberal, and there is zero cognitive dissonance for me. People on this board often seem to advocate for redistricting in order to soak the rich, not considering how disruptive redistricting would be to everyone involved. I get that people are committed to equity, but to be laser-focused on it at the expense of all else puts you in the extreme wing of the party, and creates many more problems than it solves.

And sometimes I wonder if the people advocating for it own real estate in an area of the country that they think would benefit from redistricting.

The people advocating for it want every school to feel like what one would expect from a Fairfax County school. It's a little absurd that many schools are far closer to resembling a poverty-stricken rural Texas town than a real representation of Fairfax County.

The people against it are the ones who feel that way primarily for real estate reasons. Just read the public comments from the last consultant boundary survey. E.g., "please don't change boundaries because our property value will go down."

The people advocating for it want a subsidy, whereby home equity is redistributed to their own advantage. The comparison of schools in Fairfax to poverty-stricken schools in Texas also misses the mark. Even the highest/poverty schools in FCPS offer a wide array of AP or IB classes, which simply is not the case in many school districts in other parts of the country.

And why do some people claim to love diversity so much, yet then make it their main mission in life to redistribute it away from their own communities and schools?

One could argue that the five pyramids that have 55%+ Hispanic and a similar FARMs percentage are not diverse. They are overly concentrated with poverty to their own detriment.

So you oppose the policies of the politicians you just voted to re-elect that resulted in such a large Hispanic population concentrated in certain parts of the county?

That didn’t take long.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole county needs to be scrutinized and re-aligned thoughtfully.

And by “thoughtfully,” you mean in a way in which you approve.

Indeed. Likewise, I'm sure you thoughtfully approve of the current boundaries that isolate the colored and the poor away from your schools.

Funny. Our pyramid will have a large population of poor and POC population regardless of how the lines are drawn. So, that isn’t a factor for me. I grew up in a poorer, browner community and much violent community. Fairfax County is filled with a bunch of rich, multiracial snowplow parents raising snowflakes. It has been decades since a major re-alignment. Balance the school numbers and reduce the cost to taxpayers.

If anyone thinks being re-zoned will put their kids at a lesser school, then we have a major problem. All the schools should provide the same opportunities. Our HS gets put down a lot but plenty of kids who put in the time and effort go on to very good colleges.

Sure. Compare the after school offerings at Longfellow to Whitman and say that with a straight face.

I said should.

Also, who is responsible for afterschool offerings/ enrichment? PTA or FCPS? Our ES, MS and HS are regularly trashed on this board, so I am saying this with a straight-face. if you’re like 90% of DXUM, you’d prefer your current school over ours based on comments on this site.

It's a combination of the school and the PTA. My kids go to a middle school where there are no academic after school clubs other than tutoring. The school has other priorities and the PTA is broke. Meanwhile the better off schools have science olympiad, model un, coding, math counts, and even intramural sports. There is no equivalence between schools

So, the bone to pick re: afterschool activities is really with the PTA and maybe the county which could handle after school activities just like it does with SACC.

FWIW, Longfellow has so many after school options because in the 2000’s the Principal started them after gangs came into the district and started recruiting students living in some of the apartment buildings. It was a way to keep students at the school longer and away from that. It has evolved since then obviously.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will happen on boundaries. It was all Dem the last four years and nothing happened. There is no incentive for them to do anything on boundaries. They will just spend more money expanding the preferred schools.

The board doesn't give a squat about citizen input.

That comment make no sense in this context. Fairfax County citizens hate redistricting.

This is true ^^. The only people who constantly obsess and gnash their teeth about redistricting are DCUM's finest - the ones who insist we must racially and economically balance the schools, regardless of geography. Or maybe, in spite of geography.
DP

So the citizens of this county, overwhelmingly liberal, want nothing to do with their kids going to school with the "undesirables". Limousine Liberals is how that is defined.

I’m a liberal, and there is zero cognitive dissonance for me. People on this board often seem to advocate for redistricting in order to soak the rich, not considering how disruptive redistricting would be to everyone involved. I get that people are committed to equity, but to be laser-focused on it at the expense of all else puts you in the extreme wing of the party, and creates many more problems than it solves.

And sometimes I wonder if the people advocating for it own real estate in an area of the country that they think would benefit from redistricting.

Well said.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole county needs to be scrutinized and re-aligned thoughtfully.

And by “thoughtfully,” you mean in a way in which you approve.

Indeed. Likewise, I'm sure you thoughtfully approve of the current boundaries that isolate the colored and the poor away from your schools.

Funny. Our pyramid will have a large population of poor and POC population regardless of how the lines are drawn. So, that isn’t a factor for me. I grew up in a poorer, browner community and much violent community. Fairfax County is filled with a bunch of rich, multiracial snowplow parents raising snowflakes. It has been decades since a major re-alignment. Balance the school numbers and reduce the cost to taxpayers.

If anyone thinks being re-zoned will put their kids at a lesser school, then we have a major problem. All the schools should provide the same opportunities. Our HS gets put down a lot but plenty of kids who put in the time and effort go on to very good colleges.

Sure. Compare the after school offerings at Longfellow to Whitman and say that with a straight face.

I said should.

Also, who is responsible for afterschool offerings/ enrichment? PTA or FCPS? Our ES, MS and HS are regularly trashed on this board, so I am saying this with a straight-face. if you’re like 90% of DXUM, you’d prefer your current school over ours based on comments on this site.

It's a combination of the school and the PTA. My kids go to a middle school where there are no academic after school clubs other than tutoring. The school has other priorities and the PTA is broke. Meanwhile the better off schools have science olympiad, model un, coding, math counts, and even intramural sports. There is no equivalence between schools

So, the bone to pick re: afterschool activities is really with the PTA and maybe the county which could handle after school activities just like it does with SACC.

I don't think some of you get how broken some of the FCPS schools are because of the overwhelming amount of poverty. The PTA has no resources to lean on. And for a number of reasons students don't participate (taking care of younger siblings, language and cultural barriers, for high school students - job to support family). So kids who want to participate are out of luck. Families figure this out, bail on that school, and the deterioration gets worse.

I am a Herndon parent. I am very aware, but afterschool activities are not FCPS. It’s the PTA. It sucks, I know. Volunteer. Start a club yourself. I did. It was great.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will happen on boundaries. It was all Dem the last four years and nothing happened. There is no incentive for them to do anything on boundaries. They will just spend more money expanding the preferred schools.

The board doesn't give a squat about citizen input.

That comment make no sense in this context. Fairfax County citizens hate redistricting.

This is true ^^. The only people who constantly obsess and gnash their teeth about redistricting are DCUM's finest - the ones who insist we must racially and economically balance the schools, regardless of geography. Or maybe, in spite of geography.
DP

So the citizens of this county, overwhelmingly liberal, want nothing to do with their kids going to school with the "undesirables". Limousine Liberals is how that is defined.

I’m a liberal, and there is zero cognitive dissonance for me. People on this board often seem to advocate for redistricting in order to soak the rich, not considering how disruptive redistricting would be to everyone involved. I get that people are committed to equity, but to be laser-focused on it at the expense of all else puts you in the extreme wing of the party, and creates many more problems than it solves.

And sometimes I wonder if the people advocating for it own real estate in an area of the country that they think would benefit from redistricting.

The people advocating for it want every school to feel like what one would expect from a Fairfax County school. It's a little absurd that many schools are far closer to resembling a poverty-stricken rural Texas town than a real representation of Fairfax County.

The people against it are the ones who feel that way primarily for real estate reasons. Just read the public comments from the last consultant boundary survey. E.g., "please don't change boundaries because our property value will go down."

The people advocating for it want a subsidy, whereby home equity is redistributed to their own advantage. The comparison of schools in Fairfax to poverty-stricken schools in Texas also misses the mark. Even the highest/poverty schools in FCPS offer a wide array of AP or IB classes, which simply is not the case in many school districts in other parts of the country.

And why do some people claim to love diversity so much, yet then make it their main mission in life to redistribute it away from their own communities and schools?

The problem is that we have a county wide system. Langley HS parents should be as upset as Justice HS parents about the challenges at Justice. But they aren’t. They will vote people into office at the county and state level to concentrate poverty in certain areas so their assets are protected and the disparity between schools remains intact. If FCPS were good, a parent shouldn’t freak out about sending their children to another FCPS school for academic reasons (real or perceived). The only legit complaints would be about things like distance from home.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will happen on boundaries. It was all Dem the last four years and nothing happened. There is no incentive for them to do anything on boundaries. They will just spend more money expanding the preferred schools.

The board doesn't give a squat about citizen input.

That comment make no sense in this context. Fairfax County citizens hate redistricting.

This is true ^^. The only people who constantly obsess and gnash their teeth about redistricting are DCUM's finest - the ones who insist we must racially and economically balance the schools, regardless of geography. Or maybe, in spite of geography.
DP

So the citizens of this county, overwhelmingly liberal, want nothing to do with their kids going to school with the "undesirables". Limousine Liberals is how that is defined.

I’m a liberal, and there is zero cognitive dissonance for me. People on this board often seem to advocate for redistricting in order to soak the rich, not considering how disruptive redistricting would be to everyone involved. I get that people are committed to equity, but to be laser-focused on it at the expense of all else puts you in the extreme wing of the party, and creates many more problems than it solves.

And sometimes I wonder if the people advocating for it own real estate in an area of the country that they think would benefit from redistricting.

The people advocating for it want every school to feel like what one would expect from a Fairfax County school. It's a little absurd that many schools are far closer to resembling a poverty-stricken rural Texas town than a real representation of Fairfax County.

The people against it are the ones who feel that way primarily for real estate reasons. Just read the public comments from the last consultant boundary survey. E.g., "please don't change boundaries because our property value will go down."

I’m all for good public schools, I just don’t believe that an equity-based redistricting is going to be the panacea that you seem to think it will be.

I’m not sure if you own your house, but a home is often a large portion of people’s net worth, and I think it is valid to worry about the value of one’s home. And the two aren’t mutually exclusive - homeowners in good school districts can prefer to stay in those school districts, and homeowners in other districts can desire a redistricting that can result in a home value increase.

We are talking about a SINGLE district — FCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will happen on boundaries. It was all Dem the last four years and nothing happened. There is no incentive for them to do anything on boundaries. They will just spend more money expanding the preferred schools.

The board doesn't give a squat about citizen input.

That comment make no sense in this context. Fairfax County citizens hate redistricting.

This is true ^^. The only people who constantly obsess and gnash their teeth about redistricting are DCUM's finest - the ones who insist we must racially and economically balance the schools, regardless of geography. Or maybe, in spite of geography.
DP

So the citizens of this county, overwhelmingly liberal, want nothing to do with their kids going to school with the "undesirables". Limousine Liberals is how that is defined.

I’m a liberal, and there is zero cognitive dissonance for me. People on this board often seem to advocate for redistricting in order to soak the rich, not considering how disruptive redistricting would be to everyone involved. I get that people are committed to equity, but to be laser-focused on it at the expense of all else puts you in the extreme wing of the party, and creates many more problems than it solves.

And sometimes I wonder if the people advocating for it own real estate in an area of the country that they think would benefit from redistricting.

The people advocating for it want every school to feel like what one would expect from a Fairfax County school. It's a little absurd that many schools are far closer to resembling a poverty-stricken rural Texas town than a real representation of Fairfax County.

The people against it are the ones who feel that way primarily for real estate reasons. Just read the public comments from the last consultant boundary survey. E.g., "please don't change boundaries because our property value will go down."

The people advocating for it want a subsidy, whereby home equity is redistributed to their own advantage. The comparison of schools in Fairfax to poverty-stricken schools in Texas also misses the mark. Even the highest/poverty schools in FCPS offer a wide array of AP or IB classes, which simply is not the case in many school districts in other parts of the country.

And why do some people claim to love diversity so much, yet then make it their main mission in life to redistribute it away from their own communities and schools?

One could argue that the five pyramids that have 55%+ Hispanic and a similar FARMs percentage are not diverse. They are overly concentrated with poverty to their own detriment.

So you oppose the policies of the politicians you just voted to re-elect that resulted in such a large Hispanic population concentrated in certain parts of the county?

That didn’t take long.

For example, because we have quite a few densely poor elementary schools with 80%+ FARMs and ELL, FCPS redirects a lot of funding, effort, and man hours to those schools. Then parents complain that too many resources are spent on certain schools and UMC areas get ignored.
If we didn't have those dense concentrations in the first place as a result of boundaries then all schools would generally have more resources appropriated to them.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will happen on boundaries. It was all Dem the last four years and nothing happened. There is no incentive for them to do anything on boundaries. They will just spend more money expanding the preferred schools.

The board doesn't give a squat about citizen input.

That comment make no sense in this context. Fairfax County citizens hate redistricting.

This is true ^^. The only people who constantly obsess and gnash their teeth about redistricting are DCUM's finest - the ones who insist we must racially and economically balance the schools, regardless of geography. Or maybe, in spite of geography.
DP

So the citizens of this county, overwhelmingly liberal, want nothing to do with their kids going to school with the "undesirables". Limousine Liberals is how that is defined.

I’m a liberal, and there is zero cognitive dissonance for me. People on this board often seem to advocate for redistricting in order to soak the rich, not considering how disruptive redistricting would be to everyone involved. I get that people are committed to equity, but to be laser-focused on it at the expense of all else puts you in the extreme wing of the party, and creates many more problems than it solves.

And sometimes I wonder if the people advocating for it own real estate in an area of the country that they think would benefit from redistricting.

The people advocating for it want every school to feel like what one would expect from a Fairfax County school. It's a little absurd that many schools are far closer to resembling a poverty-stricken rural Texas town than a real representation of Fairfax County.

The people against it are the ones who feel that way primarily for real estate reasons. Just read the public comments from the last consultant boundary survey. E.g., "please don't change boundaries because our property value will go down."

The people advocating for it want a subsidy, whereby home equity is redistributed to their own advantage. The comparison of schools in Fairfax to poverty-stricken schools in Texas also misses the mark. Even the highest/poverty schools in FCPS offer a wide array of AP or IB classes, which simply is not the case in many school districts in other parts of the country.

And why do some people claim to love diversity so much, yet then make it their main mission in life to redistribute it away from their own communities and schools?

One could argue that the five pyramids that have 55%+ Hispanic and a similar FARMs percentage are not diverse. They are overly concentrated with poverty to their own detriment.

So you oppose the policies of the politicians you just voted to re-elect that resulted in such a large Hispanic population concentrated in certain parts of the county?

That didn’t take long.

For example, because we have quite a few densely poor elementary schools with 80%+ FARMs and ELL, FCPS redirects a lot of funding, effort, and man hours to those schools. Then parents complain that too many resources are spent on certain schools and UMC areas get ignored.
If we didn't have those dense concentrations in the first place as a result of boundaries then all schools would generally have more resources appropriated to them.

If FCPS did what you wanted we’d have higher transportation costs, higher absenteeism rates, and fractured communities.

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Find yourselves a rich school to partner PTA with. Ours raises money for our partner school.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will happen on boundaries. It was all Dem the last four years and nothing happened. There is no incentive for them to do anything on boundaries. They will just spend more money expanding the preferred schools.

The board doesn't give a squat about citizen input.

That comment make no sense in this context. Fairfax County citizens hate redistricting.

This is true ^^. The only people who constantly obsess and gnash their teeth about redistricting are DCUM's finest - the ones who insist we must racially and economically balance the schools, regardless of geography. Or maybe, in spite of geography.
DP

So the citizens of this county, overwhelmingly liberal, want nothing to do with their kids going to school with the "undesirables". Limousine Liberals is how that is defined.

I’m a liberal, and there is zero cognitive dissonance for me. People on this board often seem to advocate for redistricting in order to soak the rich, not considering how disruptive redistricting would be to everyone involved. I get that people are committed to equity, but to be laser-focused on it at the expense of all else puts you in the extreme wing of the party, and creates many more problems than it solves.

And sometimes I wonder if the people advocating for it own real estate in an area of the country that they think would benefit from redistricting.

The people advocating for it want every school to feel like what one would expect from a Fairfax County school. It's a little absurd that many schools are far closer to resembling a poverty-stricken rural Texas town than a real representation of Fairfax County.

The people against it are the ones who feel that way primarily for real estate reasons. Just read the public comments from the last consultant boundary survey. E.g., "please don't change boundaries because our property value will go down."

The people advocating for it want a subsidy, whereby home equity is redistributed to their own advantage. The comparison of schools in Fairfax to poverty-stricken schools in Texas also misses the mark. Even the highest/poverty schools in FCPS offer a wide array of AP or IB classes, which simply is not the case in many school districts in other parts of the country.

And why do some people claim to love diversity so much, yet then make it their main mission in life to redistribute it away from their own communities and schools?

One could argue that the five pyramids that have 55%+ Hispanic and a similar FARMs percentage are not diverse. They are overly concentrated with poverty to their own detriment.

So send the white kids in to colonize?

No, focus on education. Plenty of the white kids are the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will happen on boundaries. It was all Dem the last four years and nothing happened. There is no incentive for them to do anything on boundaries. They will just spend more money expanding the preferred schools.

The board doesn't give a squat about citizen input.

That comment make no sense in this context. Fairfax County citizens hate redistricting.

This is true ^^. The only people who constantly obsess and gnash their teeth about redistricting are DCUM's finest - the ones who insist we must racially and economically balance the schools, regardless of geography. Or maybe, in spite of geography.
DP

So the citizens of this county, overwhelmingly liberal, want nothing to do with their kids going to school with the "undesirables". Limousine Liberals is how that is defined.

I’m a liberal, and there is zero cognitive dissonance for me. People on this board often seem to advocate for redistricting in order to soak the rich, not considering how disruptive redistricting would be to everyone involved. I get that people are committed to equity, but to be laser-focused on it at the expense of all else puts you in the extreme wing of the party, and creates many more problems than it solves.

And sometimes I wonder if the people advocating for it own real estate in an area of the country that they think would benefit from redistricting.

The people advocating for it want every school to feel like what one would expect from a Fairfax County school. It's a little absurd that many schools are far closer to resembling a poverty-stricken rural Texas town than a real representation of Fairfax County.

The people against it are the ones who feel that way primarily for real estate reasons. Just read the public comments from the last consultant boundary survey. E.g., "please don't change boundaries because our property value will go down."

The people advocating for it want a subsidy, whereby home equity is redistributed to their own advantage. The comparison of schools in Fairfax to poverty-stricken schools in Texas also misses the mark. Even the highest/poverty schools in FCPS offer a wide array of AP or IB classes, which simply is not the case in many school districts in other parts of the country.

And why do some people claim to love diversity so much, yet then make it their main mission in life to redistribute it away from their own communities and schools?

One could argue that the five pyramids that have 55%+ Hispanic and a similar FARMs percentage are not diverse. They are overly concentrated with poverty to their own detriment.

So you oppose the policies of the politicians you just voted to re-elect that resulted in such a large Hispanic population concentrated in certain parts of the county?

That didn’t take long.

Uhh, no.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will happen on boundaries. It was all Dem the last four years and nothing happened. There is no incentive for them to do anything on boundaries. They will just spend more money expanding the preferred schools.

The board doesn't give a squat about citizen input.

That comment make no sense in this context. Fairfax County citizens hate redistricting.

This is true ^^. The only people who constantly obsess and gnash their teeth about redistricting are DCUM's finest - the ones who insist we must racially and economically balance the schools, regardless of geography. Or maybe, in spite of geography.
DP

So the citizens of this county, overwhelmingly liberal, want nothing to do with their kids going to school with the "undesirables". Limousine Liberals is how that is defined.

I’m a liberal, and there is zero cognitive dissonance for me. People on this board often seem to advocate for redistricting in order to soak the rich, not considering how disruptive redistricting would be to everyone involved. I get that people are committed to equity, but to be laser-focused on it at the expense of all else puts you in the extreme wing of the party, and creates many more problems than it solves.

And sometimes I wonder if the people advocating for it own real estate in an area of the country that they think would benefit from redistricting.

The people advocating for it want every school to feel like what one would expect from a Fairfax County school. It's a little absurd that many schools are far closer to resembling a poverty-stricken rural Texas town than a real representation of Fairfax County.

The people against it are the ones who feel that way primarily for real estate reasons. Just read the public comments from the last consultant boundary survey. E.g., "please don't change boundaries because our property value will go down."

The people advocating for it want a subsidy, whereby home equity is redistributed to their own advantage. The comparison of schools in Fairfax to poverty-stricken schools in Texas also misses the mark. Even the highest/poverty schools in FCPS offer a wide array of AP or IB classes, which simply is not the case in many school districts in other parts of the country.

And why do some people claim to love diversity so much, yet then make it their main mission in life to redistribute it away from their own communities and schools?

One could argue that the five pyramids that have 55%+ Hispanic and a similar FARMs percentage are not diverse. They are overly concentrated with poverty to their own detriment.

So you oppose the policies of the politicians you just voted to re-elect that resulted in such a large Hispanic population concentrated in certain parts of the county?

That didn’t take long.

Uhh, no.

In that case, explain why you are grousing because the current conditions in the county and in FCPS have a lot more to do with decisions by Democrats who have controlled the BOS and FCPS for decades than the Langley parents you apparently want to blame for everything.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will happen on boundaries. It was all Dem the last four years and nothing happened. There is no incentive for them to do anything on boundaries. They will just spend more money expanding the preferred schools.

The board doesn't give a squat about citizen input.

That comment make no sense in this context. Fairfax County citizens hate redistricting.

This is true ^^. The only people who constantly obsess and gnash their teeth about redistricting are DCUM's finest - the ones who insist we must racially and economically balance the schools, regardless of geography. Or maybe, in spite of geography.
DP

So the citizens of this county, overwhelmingly liberal, want nothing to do with their kids going to school with the "undesirables". Limousine Liberals is how that is defined.

I’m a liberal, and there is zero cognitive dissonance for me. People on this board often seem to advocate for redistricting in order to soak the rich, not considering how disruptive redistricting would be to everyone involved. I get that people are committed to equity, but to be laser-focused on it at the expense of all else puts you in the extreme wing of the party, and creates many more problems than it solves.

And sometimes I wonder if the people advocating for it own real estate in an area of the country that they think would benefit from redistricting.

The people advocating for it want every school to feel like what one would expect from a Fairfax County school. It's a little absurd that many schools are far closer to resembling a poverty-stricken rural Texas town than a real representation of Fairfax County.

The people against it are the ones who feel that way primarily for real estate reasons. Just read the public comments from the last consultant boundary survey. E.g., "please don't change boundaries because our property value will go down."

The people advocating for it want a subsidy, whereby home equity is redistributed to their own advantage. The comparison of schools in Fairfax to poverty-stricken schools in Texas also misses the mark. Even the highest/poverty schools in FCPS offer a wide array of AP or IB classes, which simply is not the case in many school districts in other parts of the country.

And why do some people claim to love diversity so much, yet then make it their main mission in life to redistribute it away from their own communities and schools?

One could argue that the five pyramids that have 55%+ Hispanic and a similar FARMs percentage are not diverse. They are overly concentrated with poverty to their own detriment.

So you oppose the policies of the politicians you just voted to re-elect that resulted in such a large Hispanic population concentrated in certain parts of the county?

That didn’t take long.

Uhh, no.

In that case, explain why you are grousing because the current conditions in the county and in FCPS have a lot more to do with decisions by Democrats who have controlled the BOS and FCPS for decades than the Langley parents you apparently want to blame for everything.

I don’t care what party endorses board members who are supposed to be apolitical. Personally, I’m not a fan of either party. I object to the entitled people on this site who consider sending their kids to certain schools a fate worse than hell and accuse anyone who sends their kids to certain schools bad parents.

We don’t need to send kids miles and miles from their HS. We need parents and voters who put the working for the success of FCPS over their pyramid. If there is a problem at one pyramid, there is a problem in FCPS.