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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the county continues its misguided effort to focus the bulk of FARMS/ESOL resources in a handful of schools, those schools will become defacto ghettos as higher-income families flee. That's what is happening now with the lower-performing schools. Boundaries need to be adjusted to   bring in higher SES students. Also, offer challenging college-prep courses to make the schools attractive. Scrap the IB program except for 1 or 2 schools county-wide.[/quote]

Then lobby the School Board to move part of Woodson to Annandale, part of West Springfield to Lee, and part of West Potomac to Mount Vernon, and to get rid of IB at each of Annandale, Lee and Mount Vernon.  You can't blame people for wanting to avoid IB when it's a niche program that only appeals to a small percentage of students.   [/quote]

The School Board is reluctant to make any of those changes. They know the F/R lunch rate has gone up considerably across the county in the last 15 years and they seem to prefer concentrating poverty so that they can protect other schools. Also doesn't help that it is hard to assemble a large movement of parents at schools where the F/R lunch rate exceeds 50% and where many of the education focused families have transferred. Those transfer families are the types of families that would typically back a movement for change.

The taxpayers of the county should be up in arms about the West Potomac / Mt. Vernon situation. FCPS cannot justify spending money to enlarge West Potomac when there are hundreds of seats available at Mt. Vernon and Hayfield. As for the Woodson to Annandale and West Springfield to Lee situations, I just don't think the School Board will make such changes. Back in the day when the F/R lunch gap was not so extreme they probably could do it, but now the gap is so large that families from Woodson and West Springfield would riot. It would take a strong Board that didn't care about reelection to make those changes (such a Board would be a refreshing change). I do find it very hypocritical of our liberal Board to be herding immigrants into particular schools.

IB should go. Period.[/quote]

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