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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Also a URM here, and racism is indeed a reality in Fairfax County. Every time a school board member has reassured the public in a live meeting that boundaries are not changing (during the recent MGT boundary consultation, for example), they were s[b]pecifically addressing their racist constituents who choose schools to avoid URM/poverty populations at all costs.[/quote][/b]

Your assumption is based on your opinion--not necessarily facts.

1. I don't know what MGT boundary is---so I cannot address that.

2. Over the years I have been actively involved in four boundary disputes--middle and high.  My neighborhood actively lobbied to stay in our current boundary each time.  NONE of these were related to racial issue or FARMS.  In one of these cases, the results would have been for our neighborhood to go to a much more affluent school.

Most people want their kids to stay in their current boundaries.

Get rid of programs that allow parents to pupil place:  IB, for one.  Also, has there been any study done on the immersion programs?  Does this encourage PP for reasons other than a great desire for a foreign language?  Do many kids leave for AAP?  Do many PP in high school in order to continue the language?

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I assume MGT is the name of the consulting firm working with FCPS on boundary policy.

I also assume you are the Chantilly poster who posts regularly about how people wanted to stay at Chantilly and not get moved to Oakton.  That was also an unusual situation where the Chantilly parents ended up having to travel considerably further to Oakton.  And the differences between Chantilly and Oakton weren't and aren't that great.

There are many other situations where FCPS has displayed its racism by conducting boundary changes that move kids from poorer to wealthier schools while favoring other schools with additions so kids would not have to attend poorer schools.  That has absolutely been the predominant pattern in FCPS for over a decade, and Jeff Platenberg and the Democrat-controlled School Boards are responsible for it. [/quote]

Classism is not the same as racism[/quote]

You should brush up on your Intersectionality 101.[/quote]

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