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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a PP on here who keeps conflating a change in LJ MIDDLE school students with rezoning several HIGH schools.  People mainly buy houses for the HIGH SCHOOL pyramid.  Those who are in the Falls Church pyramid are still going to be in the Falls Church HS pyramid.  You may have had a bit of a benefit at LJ b/c of the Oakton kids (that you seem to think have driven up the scores at LJ) and you will still get the benefit of having an AAP center masking the true achievements of the base school.

You've been experiencing a benefit to your housing values b/c of these students and programs that is unrelated to the true housing-value of your pyramid (Falls Church).  Now, that you may lose that un-earned value, you are fighting to keep it.

If you bought a house in the Falls Church pyramid, you are entitled to Falls Church pyramid premiums (or discounts).  You will still have that -- in a more accurate way now -- no longer inflated by kids from Oakton HS pyramid pumping up the LJ/Falls Church pyramid scores.  (Note, that it is you who argues that the rezoning group is propping up LJ, not I.)  Based on your arguments, I would suggest that removing this group is actually quite just.  Home owners in Falls Church pyramid have been riding on the Oakton coattails (at the MS level).  [/quote]

That's a highly convoluted way of claiming that some Oakton families have been unfairly penalized by having to send their kids to middle school with less wealthy kids.  Cry me a river.

In any event, it's a load of BS.  Real estate values reflect all the school assignments, not just the high schools.  FCPS had reasonably sensible boundaries at Jackson that kept the ESOL/FARMS rates below the level that its own research had suggested was a tipping point.  And now they want to ignore that research, and push Jackson past that tipping point.  All you have to do is look at the demographic changes at Poe MS/Annandale HS over the past decade to see how incremental boundary changes can torpedo a school when families perceive those changes as a signal that FCPS is happy to concentrate poverty in select areas and schools.   [/quote]

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