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School choice vs. attendance zones
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Anonymous
| Why not abolish attendance zones and allow families to apply to the schools they think are best for their kids within the county? If there are more apps than seats, choose by lottery. This should appeal to both conservatives and liberals. Conservatives love school choice and liberals love increased diversity in schools. |
Anonymous
house values, transport, even more flight from poor performing schools |
Anonymous
| My sister has this for her kids in MN. If she doesn't list this their local school as second choice, her kids can be assigned anywhere in the district. So you don't get your first choice, enjoy your drive across town! |
Anonymous
Who said anyone is entitled to a home value based on a school? Transportation could be provided within a certain radius. Families can decide if they want to apply to schools outside that radius. It’s all about choice. |
Anonymous
| I like that my kids walk to school. No need for a bus. We bought specifically for that. |
Anonymous
Bussing would be even worse. |
Anonymous
Why because school choice sucks it ruins public schools and I’m not paying to put your kid in a religious program to be indoctrinated |
Anonymous
Learn to read. The question is about giving families the ability to choose a school within a school system, in this case Fairfax. |
Anonymous
There is no constitutional or state right to be able to walk to school. In Fairfax you could apply to several schools close to your home that would be a short bus ride. This isn’t about bussing across the county. In fact, if families applied to schools on the other side of the county they would likely need to provide their own transportation. |
Anonymous
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School choice is great for those with resources and terrible for those without them.
Well off families have the means to make travel and getting signed up work for their benefit, while the not so well off get stuck with what’s leftover. Across the nation, school choice has led to worse overall outcomes for students. |
Anonymous
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Do we not have that? Choose Japanese and go to that school. Choose IB and transfer to that school.
It favors wealthy families who can understand the system and find time or money to transport their kids across town. It makes the poor schools even poorer. |
Anonymous
And being zoned by neighborhood, which is highly correlated to race and income [i]is not[i] terrible for poor people? Cite your source that choice is worse than the status quo. |
Anonymous
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Dumb idea, OP.
You can look at Jefferson County, KY. When they instituted the type of system you want, following the court-ordered merger with Louisville schools, people left for privates and moved to Oldham County. |
Anonymous
Nope. We paid a ton of money for our specific high school zone, specifically because it is a neighborhood school with strong generational ties to the community, and a strong military community. Your idea would take away that choice from us, the antithesis of school choice and vouchers. |
Anonymous
What an expensive stupid idea. We have examples next door on how tgat ends up... DC... where you have a tiny handful of decent schools, majority horrible schools that no student should attend, and everyone else with miney fleeing to private schools or miving to Virginia once their kids start school. No thanks. |