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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Man, there are some really nasty people on this site.

Randolph is close, but not next door to Barcroft. Geez, I can look at a map, including the walk zone maps APS just put out. APS maps show that elementary school kids cannot cross Columbia Pike or George Mason. So, how can kids who live north of Columbia Pike and west of George Mason WALK to Randolph.

And, how does sending lower income kids from one poor performing school, to another another (and higher FR/L) poor performing school help them????[/quote]

I think the better question is if you can somehow arrange options schools and boundaries so that only Randolph is a "bad" school instead of Carlin Spring, Randolph and Barcroft, is it worth it? That's 2 less schools of high poverty and one sacrificial lamb. So some kids are helped and some remain in the same (not great) situation. Yes, this is cynical, but I think it's part of the consideration. [/quote]

DP. I don't think it's cynical or making Randolph a "sacrificial lamb" to acknowledge that we don't have the ability to help all three through this particular process and helping two without helping the third is still better overall than maintaining the status quo. Let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.[/quote]

I'll add to this that I don't think we can expect APS will be able to solve all of its problems in one fell swoop no matter what. They have theories for how all of these changes may will affect enrollment and performance at the various schools, but they won't know for sure until it's been implemented. If they make changes now to "help" Carlin Springs and/or Barcroft, after a few years they may have some good data on what worked and what didn't to help them figure out what further changes they can make to help Randolph as well. I know that is not a satisfying response for current Randolph families who want their children currently in the school to see improvement, but I think part of responsible governance needs to be taking a long view and making changes a little more incrementally so you can learn from them before you've gone too far down a road to change course.[/quote]

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