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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What they need to do is figure out all of their priorities and then measure where every school is relative to these priorities. And then redraw boundaries to fix deficiencies to a tolerable level. It shouldn't be one priority above all. Some schools have different and larger deficiencies than others.[/quote]

This sounds like the priority is to fix how things look on paper.[/quote]

And what is wrong with paper? Data is often more honest than opinions. Right now they don't look good on paper. Langley only has 2% of children on free and reduced lunch. Mount Vernon and Herndon each have 56% on free and reduced lunch. This is a huge difference.[/quote]

And will how will bringing Langley's FARMs rate up to 29% help FARMs children?

It doesn't seem that the goal is to help them, but to make people feel better about their own schools. 
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There are studies after studies that say that FARM children do better when placed with children of parents who have means. You obviously are not that informed on the subject.[/quote]

I am informed enough to know that a widely agreed upon tipping point is 20 %.

FARMs is at 30% in FCPS.

Bring Langley to 29%  FARMS and watch what happens.  It won't achieve what people want it to unless the goal is to eliminate the existence of the "rich public school".  That goal is very achievable.[/quote]

So you think it's fair that some schools are at 2% and others close to 60% knowing that the tipping point is 20% and the average for the county is 30%? I would love to hear how you think this benefits the children in Fairfax as a whole.[/quote]

We can fix the demos so that there aren't vast differences from one school to the next.

You talked about studies that point to how the presence of children of means improves outcomes of poor children.

I reference studies that show there are limits to what the rich kid sitting across the table can do with her mere presence once the percentage of poor kids reaches a certain point.

I didn't create the realities, I am commenting on them.

Parents will have their say, the school board will make their decision, and we will see how it all looks a few years after the new boundaries take effect.[/quote]

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