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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back on topic-

The threat of vouchers is real, and rather than alienate key constituencies, the school board should really put a pause to the comprehensive changes and instead focus on the one or two schools that actually need relief now.[/quote]

I, too, have problems with the boundary study.  However, there are a lot of parents who have concerns far beyond boundaries.  Title IX, for example.  [/quote]

Sure, happy to discuss those too. Vouchers and the threat of vouchers will serve as a check on this school board’s worst impulses.[/quote]

I don't think it will. If vouchers actually cause people to leave FCPS (debatable), those leaving will largely be the people opposed to the board. Therefore remaining parents are more likely to agree with board, or to not care.

- NP who opposes vouchers AND a lot of what FCPS does, but wouldn't mind if a certain segment of complainers left

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Did you read the article? Pretty compelling evidence that vouchers do cause families to go private.

And, before you celebrate UMC families leaving FCPS, you might want to have a think about the impacts that the loss of those families might cause. (Again, might be worth reading that article).

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Even if vouchers work the way you expect, it remains that "people who hate the current board will leave the system" is not a threat to the board, and therefore seems unlikely to check them.[/quote]

It may be. People with kids in private school still get to vote. And when UMC flight starts impacting [b]those who stayed in FCPS to support the board[/b], they may find their support wavers.[/quote]

Again, you are framing this as you against the school board.   I will have to stay and fight the school board as we are poor and all information so far leans toward poor people getting the shaft with vouchers.

You, as a richer person, are voting with your feet just as capitalism wants you to.  If you want to turn FCPS into a capitalistic school marketplace- it seems that will happen.

Supporting democracy means you stay and fight and vote out the school board and vote in sane people and continue to fight redistricting.

Again, schools are the current flashpoint for anger.  Carry on and destroy the system, but know what you are doing and the forces that are manipulating you to feel this way.  It isn’t just the school board, though they are definitely part of it.

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FCPS is already a capitalistic marketplace. Those supporting vouchers are simply turning to a different marketplace more in line with their needs.[/quote]

Education isn’t a commodity and public schools aren’t a free market. Our public schools are a community resource meant to serve all kids. By defunding it you are removing our ability to serve all kids. Not going to work. Hard pass. 
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DP.

When you say: “Not going to work,” what exactly do you mean? Because I think it has and is working to degrade the school system. You might hope that it won’t destroy public school, but vouchers and UMC-flight in general will cause real loss for FCPS.

The school board is negligent for not considering this.[/quote]

The significant decline in FCPS enrollment during COVID should have disabused those running FCPS of the notion that they can do whatever they want with no repercussions.

The repercussions of unwelcome boundary changes crammed down people’s throats for flimsy reasons will include further enrollment declines, increased support for vouchers, and reduced funding for  FCPS. The latter will occur if the number of students declines even if vouchers aren’t more readily available.

FCPS could avert this death spiral by limiting boundary changes to the few instances like Coates that are truly necessary, but the politicians on the School Board seem intent on flexing to demonstrate they are local power brokers rather than showing common sense.  It’s a classic self-inflicted wound in the making.

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Exactly this.[/quote]

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