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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]News flash --- Falls Church HS is not a sought-after HS.  It's not surprising that the MS feeding into it would be similar in terms of achievement and demographics.

Are you as worked up about Falls Church HS as you are about Jackson MS?  B/c that's where you're kids are headed, right?  Shouldn't you be advocating for re-zoning Falls Church as well?  The part of LJMS that you find unacceptable IS the same grouping that IS Falls Church HS.

Are you (FCHS pyramid residents) really demanding that you have a better MS mix than your HS?  Or were you planning to send your kid to parochial/private for HS?  Why so worked up about the MS (which is still going to be propped up by having the AAP center) when the HS is exactly the same situation?[/quote]

Actually, the Falls Church HS pyramid was seeing an influx of middle-class and upper middle-class students (for example, about 1000 non-FARMS kids in 2017-18 vs. about 650 in 2007-08.  Compare that to the Annandale pyramid, where FCPS pulled out single-family neighborhoods (by your logic, because the kids at some of those schools were riding on the coattails of their peers already zoned for Lake Braddock and Woodson), and the number of white and non-FARMS students declined by hundreds of students over a relatively short period of time.

What you fail to acknowledge is that people pay very close attention to the signal that FCPS sends when it takes schools that are already diverse and starts to strip out students from higher-income families.  People see the greater concentration of poverty that results directly from such decisions as a sign that FCPS has an attitude of benign neglect towards those schools, and they react accordingly.  Again, the situation at Poe and Annandale - from which FCPS has much to learn - demonstrates this quite convincingly.

As for the AAP center at Jackson, it will downsize significantly in the coming years if this proposal is approved.  It will leave Thoreau with a significantly larger population of in-boundary students than Jackson, and more of the AAP-eligible students at Thoreau will decide to stay there and do LLIV.  It will play out very differently than would be the case if, for example, Thoreau had similar demographics to Jackson and/or was not providing LLIV services.[/quote]

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