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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand what renaming JEB Stuart has to do with the rest of this.[/quote]

Hypocrisy.  Willing to spend money to change the name of a school because it "sends a message" but does nothing to help the students.  In other words, it is money wasted-but is symbolic and gets publicity for the cause.

SB members who claim to be liberal have always done this.  Kathy Smith brought in poor kids to her affluent neighborhood elementary in order to get full day K.  As soon as the whole county got full day K, she kicked the poor kids out and sent them to an area that did not vote for her.

Stu Gibson--Hynes predecessor--pushed to get more affluent kids into South Lakes--but refused to move his liberal supporters from North Reston to South Lakes.

Janie Strauss, though, is the worst offender.  Protect affluent neighborhoods at all cost.[/quote]

I have no problem with and am fine with the decision to rename JEB Stuart HS.

I just wish that School Board members displayed the same courage when it came to matters that have a more direct impact on schools in FCPS.  It doesn't take much political capital to bash dead Confederates 150 years after the Civil War, but it requires real guts to adjust school boundaries in ways that displease wealthier people.

Given how outspoken Pat Hynes was about Stuart, you'd think she'd be objecting loudly to the plans to move Jackson students to Thoreau.  But she's been silent as a clam, and everything suggests she and other Democrats on the SB will hide behind a staff recommendation, even when that recommendation could not be more at odds with the "One Fairfax" resolution. [/quote]

Do  all of you on this thread realize that Mosby Woods (as a whole) is 25% FARMS... and really, that's deceptively low b/c the FARMS numbers in the base school population are being masked by the AAP kids (i.e. the FARMS numbers in the AAP part of Mosby are lower -- thereby making the base school's FARMS numbers appear lower than they are).  The AAP part of Mosby goes to about 6 different middle schools, so those lower-FARMS parts of Mosby will not be re-zone to Thoreau (b/c many are already zoned for Lanier, and Rocky Run and Frost).

I don't know what the exact numbers of FARMS is in the Mosby Woods base school + Mosby Woods-based AAP kids, but I would expect it is somewhere around 35% or more.  Those kids would be going to Thoreau under the re-zoning plan.  Marshall Road is 25% FARMS overall, and I would think the part of Marshall Rd that would be re-zoned is probably the needier part of the boundary (based on housing).  This move IS bringing greater diversity to Thoreau.  Currently Thoreau has about 11% FARMS.  This re-zoning will bump that up significantly.

And as much as you don't want to lose the OES, MWES, and MRES students from Jackson --- Someone needs to be zoned into Thoreau.  That is where the capacity is.  [/quote]

In this instance, increasing the diversity at Thoreau is less important than (1) not pushing the FARMS rates at Jackson higher - which moving out 25% FARMS schools from a school that is currently 45% FARMS would do; and (2) taking advantage of the excess capacity at Poe, which is greater than the excess capacity at Thoreau.  Without boundary changes, FCPS has Thoreau at 91% capacity in 2022-23 in the latest CIP, and Poe at only 67%.

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