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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fairfax falling to a 6. It used to be a solidly middle class county with pockets of wealthy. 
The county has been overrun with poverty. The score reflects that. [/quote]

Got it the first time.

You can go back now to pondering why no Arlington high school is higher than a 7, and why the APS School Board can't figure out how to build a fourth high school. [/quote]

FCPS is huge and has a very uneven distribution of income. Where is is good, it is excellent.  Where it is bad, it is really bad.  And there is not a lot in the middle of the bell curve. We can all say we wish the schools were more even, but geographically that's tough.  The Eastern county is killing us.  Killing ACPS too. But, I bought a nice SFH in a GS 8-10, ES, MS and HS zone for under 700k.  So you can get GS 8 schools without buying a million dollar home.  Whereas, you can't get a GS 8 high school in APS, not matter what you spend.

And I'm sure all the parents of kids starting ES are thrilled about APS's overcrowding issues. By the time those kids start HS, the SB is still going to be trying to make the Ed Center work, or have moved on to 2 shift HSs or whatever else.

We've all got our issues. FCPS's is definately demographic. I can't figure out how we keep being ranked up there with Arlington in most educated, most affluent, and be getting poorer. But there you have it. [/quote]

Fairfax is not getting poorer.  Average incomes are not dropping, the overall FARMS percentage is three percentage points lower than in Arlington, and the FARMS percentage in FCPS has gone down for two years in a row.  Fairfax also has a much larger "middle" than the other large suburban county with decent schools, Montgomery.  [/quote]

Ok. Well then fairfax county is just sucking because it sucks. Mystery solved.[/quote]

Go back to the drawing board and try to come up with something new. So far you just keep making a fool out of yourself.[/quote]

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