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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]During the past two years, Hunter Mill School Board member Pat Hynes was a passionate advocate of changing the name of JEB Stuart HS, a school that is not in her district.

When it comes to matters affecting her own constituents, however, it's not clear she's equally committed to equity or fairness.

Specifically, FCPS intends to take up a potential boundary change on February 8th that would move most of the wealthiest neighborhoods currently zoned to Jackson MS to Thoreau MS in Vienna.  This would, of course, drive up the ESOL/FARMS rates at Jackson, which is already about 40-45% low-income.

Jackson MS also has a border with Poe MS, and Poe MS is projected in the latest Capital Improvement Plan to have greater excess capacity than Thoreau, or any other middle school in FCPS, by 2022-23.  Yet there is not a single option identified by FCPS that would move other neighborhoods zoned for Jackson MS to Poe MS instead, or any analysis of the potential impact of a Jackson-to-Thoreau shift on the ESOL/FARMS rates at Jackson that has been made public.

Moving part of Jackson to Thoreau would create a three-way split feeder at Thoreau (Madison/Marshall/Oakton), when Thoreau currently is only a two-way split feeder (Madison/Marshall).  Conversely, moving part of Jackson to Poe would leave Poe a two-way split feeder (Annandale/Falls Church).

No doubt, some in Vienna and Oakton would love to jump to Thoreau, a school that generally serves much wealthier areas than Jackson.  Sadly, there is no sign that Pat Hynes (or, for that matter, Sandy Evans and Dalia Palchik), so passionate about renaming a high school in a district she does not represent, has lifted a finger to ask Facilities staff to explore other options.

Those zoned for Poe MS/Annandale HS district know first-hand how FCPS, through incremental boundary changes, can push a school pyramid that already has a significant low-income population past the tipping point.  Will Hynes sit by idly while the Facilities staff proposes to do the same thing at Jackson MS, which in turn will have a major effect on Falls Church HS as well.

Will Hynes, Palchik and Evans finally pay attention, or will they praise the "One Fairfax" resolution and then ignore it when it actually matters? [/quote]

Don't forget the insidious changes at Lee that saw the F/R lunch rate climb from 27% in 2005 to 55% today - boundary changes and ignoring the fact that families were fleeing via the pupil placement policy (and not acting to put AP back at Lee). Not saying Lee's F/R rate would not have gone up, but perhaps it would be at a more manageable level. Now no one wants to go there - they have ignored the problem long enough where they can't fix it.  [b]One Fairfax is a joke![/b][/quote]

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