School choice vs. attendance zones

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Doesn't seem like it would work, logistically.

Say for instance, I live near Chantilly High and want my kid to go there. The school is oversubscribed already, so no reason to think that in your model, they wouldn't have considerably more apps than seats. So in a lottery, my kid who lives nearby could be assigned to a school that is further away, and since that's not my choice, now the county is on the hook for providing transportation to that school. Now the county would be stuck running different bus routes in the same neighborhood to send kids to potentially multiple different schools (keeping in mind that the next closest school is probably the oversubscribed Centreville High, and the nearly at capacity Westfield High).

Stop the drivel of why it couldn’t happen and focus on why it could work. The phds at Gatehouse could work out bus routes. Run the same bus to Chantilly, Westfield and Centreville. If your kid applies to all three you could probably get one of them.

What non-existent problem are you trying to solve here?

Why would I apply for my kid to go to schools that are inconvenient to get to? If I apply and get into a school, then I'm on the hook for transportation, not the county. Not to mention, all the PhDs at Gatehouse can't manifest more buses or bus drivers, or magically make our roads more commuter friendly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Doesn't seem like it would work, logistically.

Say for instance, I live near Chantilly High and want my kid to go there. The school is oversubscribed already, so no reason to think that in your model, they wouldn't have considerably more apps than seats. So in a lottery, my kid who lives nearby could be assigned to a school that is further away, and since that's not my choice, now the county is on the hook for providing transportation to that school. Now the county would be stuck running different bus routes in the same neighborhood to send kids to potentially multiple different schools (keeping in mind that the next closest school is probably the oversubscribed Centreville High, and the nearly at capacity Westfield High).

Stop the drivel of why it couldn’t happen and focus on why it could work. The phds at Gatehouse could work out bus routes. Run the same bus to Chantilly, Westfield and Centreville. If your kid applies to all three you could probably get one of them.

What non-existent problem are you trying to solve here?

Why would I apply for my kid to go to schools that are inconvenient to get to? If I apply and get into a school, then I'm on the hook for transportation, not the county. Not to mention, all the PhDs at Gatehouse can't manifest more buses or bus drivers, or magically make our roads more commuter friendly.

The problem is some high schools in the county are failing. Students in those schools deserve to apply to other schools. You win too because you can apply to any schools you want for your kid. This isn’t that hard

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This isn’t about merging school systems. It’s about creating more choice within a school system. If a family isn’t admitted to the public school of their choice, they can go to private. Threatening to go private suggests wealthy families are currently hoarding certain public schools as if they’re private. In that case, go ahead and pay for private and leave the good publics for other families.

You are essentially asking for a merger of successful and less successful schools, the result of which will be to create uniformly mediocre schools.

And your analogy about hoarding schools as if they are private falls flat when the parents of the schools you covet cover most of the costs for all the public schools in the county.

You’ll find little if any support for what you’re proposing among county officials.

Paying taxes doesn’t make you entitled to a certain school. Try again

In Fairfax, it really should, absent a truly compelling need to change boundaries.

Sorry you have nothing better to do today.

But it doesn’t. Sorry the VA code isn’t on your side. Move to some tiny school district in New Jersey if you think that’s better.

Sounds like you’re the one who needs to move, because you aren’t going to get what you’re after here.

You can look at the “Opening of Schools” report and see how Reid touted FCPS having 7 of the top 10 high schools in the state. There’s no appetite for having 24 lousy ones.

Who’s to say school choice wouldn’t result in 10 of the top 10 schools in the state? I reject your premise.

Now you’re just entering sad attention whore territory.

I’m advocating for more kids to have opportunity. Try to refrain from insulting terms if you’re interested in a thoughtful discussion.

You haven’t said anything thoughtful. It’s the same old “if I can’t have what I want, let’s burn the whole house down” we regularly see from a few posters here.

+1. She beats the same drum frequently here. The tired talking points have been totally refuted, but here she is posting the same dribble, ignoring that even solidly blue Fairfax residents aren’t for the burn it all down approach to our schools.

There is a reason why republicans here are successful when they focus on the extreme left’s vision of what the school systems should be.

Dems: Don’t go on equity walks if you wouldn’t want your kid going to school with poor kids. Don’t pretend to be blue- be blue.

Blue means caring about public schools, which means keeping UMC and MC in the system, otherwise the system collapses. Equity as proposed by the SJWs is an extreme right version of equity because it results in the privatization of schools.

By your logic, we’d have to either be for a zero percent tax rate or 100%. Not a bright post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Doesn't seem like it would work, logistically.

Say for instance, I live near Chantilly High and want my kid to go there. The school is oversubscribed already, so no reason to think that in your model, they wouldn't have considerably more apps than seats. So in a lottery, my kid who lives nearby could be assigned to a school that is further away, and since that's not my choice, now the county is on the hook for providing transportation to that school. Now the county would be stuck running different bus routes in the same neighborhood to send kids to potentially multiple different schools (keeping in mind that the next closest school is probably the oversubscribed Centreville High, and the nearly at capacity Westfield High).

Stop the drivel of why it couldn’t happen and focus on why it could work. The phds at Gatehouse could work out bus routes. Run the same bus to Chantilly, Westfield and Centreville. If your kid applies to all three you could probably get one of them.

What non-existent problem are you trying to solve here?

Why would I apply for my kid to go to schools that are inconvenient to get to? If I apply and get into a school, then I'm on the hook for transportation, not the county. Not to mention, all the PhDs at Gatehouse can't manifest more buses or bus drivers, or magically make our roads more commuter friendly.

The problem is some high schools in the county are failing. Students in those schools deserve to apply to other schools. You win too because you can apply to any schools you want for your kid. This isn’t that hard

Yeah guys, this isn’t that hard. When this happens unicorns will appear and fart rainbows. It’s not hard. 🤡

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Where in your housing contract were you guaranteed to attend the neighborhood school forever?

Your vision would cause UMC to leave in droves, but you know that, as you frequently argue your inane talking point.

Meh that’s doubtful. Some would move, some would go private. However, a lot don’t want to give up a low mortgage rate or move farther out and have a longer commute. Plus a more diverse socioeconomic Fairfax school could still be better than some other school systems. Stop with your fear mongering.

We’d be a lot better off if we spent more time figuring out what makes schools like Langley, McLean, Oakton, West Springfield, and Chantilly successful, and less time dreaming up new ways to tear them apart.

A large cohort of involved parents who value education and have the resources to supplement if needed. Everyone tries to pretend there's some secret formula but this is what it comes down to.

This has been true for hundreds of years. Families with money, who are not fighting the poverty line while working multiple jobs will always be able to afford more. “More” equates to better homes, better education, a better American experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Doesn't seem like it would work, logistically.

Say for instance, I live near Chantilly High and want my kid to go there. The school is oversubscribed already, so no reason to think that in your model, they wouldn't have considerably more apps than seats. So in a lottery, my kid who lives nearby could be assigned to a school that is further away, and since that's not my choice, now the county is on the hook for providing transportation to that school. Now the county would be stuck running different bus routes in the same neighborhood to send kids to potentially multiple different schools (keeping in mind that the next closest school is probably the oversubscribed Centreville High, and the nearly at capacity Westfield High).

Stop the drivel of why it couldn’t happen and focus on why it could work. The phds at Gatehouse could work out bus routes. Run the same bus to Chantilly, Westfield and Centreville. If your kid applies to all three you could probably get one of them.

What non-existent problem are you trying to solve here?

Why would I apply for my kid to go to schools that are inconvenient to get to? If I apply and get into a school, then I'm on the hook for transportation, not the county. Not to mention, all the PhDs at Gatehouse can't manifest more buses or bus drivers, or magically make our roads more commuter friendly.

The problem is some high schools in the county are failing. Students in those schools deserve to apply to other schools. You win too because you can apply to any schools you want for your kid. This isn’t that hard

Why? By the metrics you are likely using to label a school “failing,” it appears the families at those schools should redouble their efforts to help their kids succeed. All you want is kids moved around to mask a problem, and you wouldn’t even succeed at that. If you’re that unhappy with your current option, pupil place, go private, or move.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This isn’t about merging school systems. It’s about creating more choice within a school system. If a family isn’t admitted to the public school of their choice, they can go to private. Threatening to go private suggests wealthy families are currently hoarding certain public schools as if they’re private. In that case, go ahead and pay for private and leave the good publics for other families.

You are essentially asking for a merger of successful and less successful schools, the result of which will be to create uniformly mediocre schools.

And your analogy about hoarding schools as if they are private falls flat when the parents of the schools you covet cover most of the costs for all the public schools in the county.

You’ll find little if any support for what you’re proposing among county officials.

Paying taxes doesn’t make you entitled to a certain school. Try again

In Fairfax, it really should, absent a truly compelling need to change boundaries.

Sorry you have nothing better to do today.

But it doesn’t. Sorry the VA code isn’t on your side. Move to some tiny school district in New Jersey if you think that’s better.

Sounds like you’re the one who needs to move, because you aren’t going to get what you’re after here.

You can look at the “Opening of Schools” report and see how Reid touted FCPS having 7 of the top 10 high schools in the state. There’s no appetite for having 24 lousy ones.

Who’s to say school choice wouldn’t result in 10 of the top 10 schools in the state? I reject your premise.

Now you’re just entering sad attention whore territory.

I’m advocating for more kids to have opportunity. Try to refrain from insulting terms if you’re interested in a thoughtful discussion.

You haven’t said anything thoughtful. It’s the same old “if I can’t have what I want, let’s burn the whole house down” we regularly see from a few posters here.

+1. She beats the same drum frequently here. The tired talking points have been totally refuted, but here she is posting the same dribble, ignoring that even solidly blue Fairfax residents aren’t for the burn it all down approach to our schools.

There is a reason why republicans here are successful when they focus on the extreme left’s vision of what the school systems should be.

Dems: Don’t go on equity walks if you wouldn’t want your kid going to school with poor kids. Don’t pretend to be blue- be blue.

Blue means caring about public schools, which means keeping UMC and MC in the system, otherwise the system collapses. Equity as proposed by the SJWs is an extreme right version of equity because it results in the privatization of schools.

By your logic, we’d have to either be for a zero percent tax rate or 100%. Not a bright post.

Moot point if UMC is clustered in specific schools and refuses more balanced schools. It’s time to stop caving to threats of leaving the system. Make it a better system for others or go elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Doesn't seem like it would work, logistically.

Say for instance, I live near Chantilly High and want my kid to go there. The school is oversubscribed already, so no reason to think that in your model, they wouldn't have considerably more apps than seats. So in a lottery, my kid who lives nearby could be assigned to a school that is further away, and since that's not my choice, now the county is on the hook for providing transportation to that school. Now the county would be stuck running different bus routes in the same neighborhood to send kids to potentially multiple different schools (keeping in mind that the next closest school is probably the oversubscribed Centreville High, and the nearly at capacity Westfield High).

Stop the drivel of why it couldn’t happen and focus on why it could work. The phds at Gatehouse could work out bus routes. Run the same bus to Chantilly, Westfield and Centreville. If your kid applies to all three you could probably get one of them.

What non-existent problem are you trying to solve here?

Why would I apply for my kid to go to schools that are inconvenient to get to? If I apply and get into a school, then I'm on the hook for transportation, not the county. Not to mention, all the PhDs at Gatehouse can't manifest more buses or bus drivers, or magically make our roads more commuter friendly.

The problem is some high schools in the county are failing. Students in those schools deserve to apply to other schools. You win too because you can apply to any schools you want for your kid. This isn’t that hard

Why? By the metrics you are likely using to label a school “failing,” it appears the families at those schools should redouble their efforts to help their kids succeed. All you want is kids moved around to mask a problem, and you wouldn’t even succeed at that. If you’re that unhappy with your current option, pupil place, go private, or move.

Are you suggesting the parents are poor in schools with lower stats? How do you know poor kids wouldn’t benefit from going to a school with more wealth in the building?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Where in your housing contract were you guaranteed to attend the neighborhood school forever?

Your vision would cause UMC to leave in droves, but you know that, as you frequently argue your inane talking point.

Meh that’s doubtful. Some would move, some would go private. However, a lot don’t want to give up a low mortgage rate or move farther out and have a longer commute. Plus a more diverse socioeconomic Fairfax school could still be better than some other school systems. Stop with your fear mongering.

We’d be a lot better off if we spent more time figuring out what makes schools like Langley, McLean, Oakton, West Springfield, and Chantilly successful, and less time dreaming up new ways to tear them apart.

A large cohort of involved parents who value education and have the resources to supplement if needed. Everyone tries to pretend there's some secret formula but this is what it comes down to.

This has been true for hundreds of years. Families with money, who are not fighting the poverty line while working multiple jobs will always be able to afford more. “More” equates to better homes, better education, a better American experience.

How about the kids of parents that work multiple jobs but live below the poverty line right here on Fairfax County? Are they SOL? Sending those kids to bad schools is one way of making sure they stay poor for generations. Is that what you want?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Where in your housing contract were you guaranteed to attend the neighborhood school forever?

Your vision would cause UMC to leave in droves, but you know that, as you frequently argue your inane talking point.

Meh that’s doubtful. Some would move, some would go private. However, a lot don’t want to give up a low mortgage rate or move farther out and have a longer commute. Plus a more diverse socioeconomic Fairfax school could still be better than some other school systems. Stop with your fear mongering.

We’d be a lot better off if we spent more time figuring out what makes schools like Langley, McLean, Oakton, West Springfield, and Chantilly successful, and less time dreaming up new ways to tear them apart.

The answer is to have UMC to wealthy parents and few poor kids to drag the scores down. That's it. That's the secret.

Or, what if more balanced schools pull the poor scores up?

Balanced? Ethnically diverse? Socio-economically diverse? Intellectually diverse? Students with low academic scored will bring down school success rates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This isn’t about merging school systems. It’s about creating more choice within a school system. If a family isn’t admitted to the public school of their choice, they can go to private. Threatening to go private suggests wealthy families are currently hoarding certain public schools as if they’re private. In that case, go ahead and pay for private and leave the good publics for other families.

You are essentially asking for a merger of successful and less successful schools, the result of which will be to create uniformly mediocre schools.

And your analogy about hoarding schools as if they are private falls flat when the parents of the schools you covet cover most of the costs for all the public schools in the county.

You’ll find little if any support for what you’re proposing among county officials.

Paying taxes doesn’t make you entitled to a certain school. Try again

In Fairfax, it really should, absent a truly compelling need to change boundaries.

Sorry you have nothing better to do today.

But it doesn’t. Sorry the VA code isn’t on your side. Move to some tiny school district in New Jersey if you think that’s better.

Sounds like you’re the one who needs to move, because you aren’t going to get what you’re after here.

You can look at the “Opening of Schools” report and see how Reid touted FCPS having 7 of the top 10 high schools in the state. There’s no appetite for having 24 lousy ones.

Who’s to say school choice wouldn’t result in 10 of the top 10 schools in the state? I reject your premise.

Now you’re just entering sad attention whore territory.

I’m advocating for more kids to have opportunity. Try to refrain from insulting terms if you’re interested in a thoughtful discussion.

You haven’t said anything thoughtful. It’s the same old “if I can’t have what I want, let’s burn the whole house down” we regularly see from a few posters here.

+1. She beats the same drum frequently here. The tired talking points have been totally refuted, but here she is posting the same dribble, ignoring that even solidly blue Fairfax residents aren’t for the burn it all down approach to our schools.

There is a reason why republicans here are successful when they focus on the extreme left’s vision of what the school systems should be.

Dems: Don’t go on equity walks if you wouldn’t want your kid going to school with poor kids. Don’t pretend to be blue- be blue.

Blue means caring about public schools, which means keeping UMC and MC in the system, otherwise the system collapses. Equity as proposed by the SJWs is an extreme right version of equity because it results in the privatization of schools.

By your logic, we’d have to either be for a zero percent tax rate or 100%. Not a bright post.

Moot point if UMC is clustered in specific schools and refuses more balanced schools. It’s time to stop caving to threats of leaving the system. Make it a better system for others or go elsewhere.

Could just go to a lottery system at every school. See if you can get in for that year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Where in your housing contract were you guaranteed to attend the neighborhood school forever?

Your vision would cause UMC to leave in droves, but you know that, as you frequently argue your inane talking point.

Meh that’s doubtful. Some would move, some would go private. However, a lot don’t want to give up a low mortgage rate or move farther out and have a longer commute. Plus a more diverse socioeconomic Fairfax school could still be better than some other school systems. Stop with your fear mongering.

We’d be a lot better off if we spent more time figuring out what makes schools like Langley, McLean, Oakton, West Springfield, and Chantilly successful, and less time dreaming up new ways to tear them apart.

A large cohort of involved parents who value education and have the resources to supplement if needed. Everyone tries to pretend there's some secret formula but this is what it comes down to.

This has been true for hundreds of years. Families with money, who are not fighting the poverty line while working multiple jobs will always be able to afford more. “More” equates to better homes, better education, a better American experience.

How about the kids of parents that work multiple jobs but live below the poverty line right here on Fairfax County? Are they SOL? Sending those kids to bad schools is one way of making sure they stay poor for generations. Is that what you want?

What do you think makes those schools bad?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Where in your housing contract were you guaranteed to attend the neighborhood school forever?

Your vision would cause UMC to leave in droves, but you know that, as you frequently argue your inane talking point.

Meh that’s doubtful. Some would move, some would go private. However, a lot don’t want to give up a low mortgage rate or move farther out and have a longer commute. Plus a more diverse socioeconomic Fairfax school could still be better than some other school systems. Stop with your fear mongering.

We’d be a lot better off if we spent more time figuring out what makes schools like Langley, McLean, Oakton, West Springfield, and Chantilly successful, and less time dreaming up new ways to tear them apart.

The answer is to have UMC to wealthy parents and few poor kids to drag the scores down. That's it. That's the secret.

Or, what if more balanced schools pull the poor scores up?

Balanced? Ethnically diverse? Socio-economically diverse? Intellectually diverse? Students with low academic scored will bring down school success rates.

Cite?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Where in your housing contract were you guaranteed to attend the neighborhood school forever?

Your vision would cause UMC to leave in droves, but you know that, as you frequently argue your inane talking point.

Meh that’s doubtful. Some would move, some would go private. However, a lot don’t want to give up a low mortgage rate or move farther out and have a longer commute. Plus a more diverse socioeconomic Fairfax school could still be better than some other school systems. Stop with your fear mongering.

We’d be a lot better off if we spent more time figuring out what makes schools like Langley, McLean, Oakton, West Springfield, and Chantilly successful, and less time dreaming up new ways to tear them apart.

A large cohort of involved parents who value education and have the resources to supplement if needed. Everyone tries to pretend there's some secret formula but this is what it comes down to.

This has been true for hundreds of years. Families with money, who are not fighting the poverty line while working multiple jobs will always be able to afford more. “More” equates to better homes, better education, a better American experience.

How about the kids of parents that work multiple jobs but live below the poverty line right here on Fairfax County? Are they SOL? Sending those kids to bad schools is one way of making sure they stay poor for generations. Is that what you want?

What do you think makes those schools bad?

Are you blaming the poor for being poor? Do you think they deserve bad schools because they’re poor and therefore will be poor for generations?

[Anonymous]

Look at the root cause. We as a nation should not have imported large amounts of poverty. That is it. Now some schools suffer.