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[quote=Anonymous]The northern part of the county is very hard to access by public transit, so there is no appetite to bus poor kids to a school like Jamestown. They even have a hard time filling up the VPI classrooms there (VPI = VA preschool initiative = free or sliding scale cost preschool for low income kids) because it's hard for low income parents to get to/from the school, so they are less likely to accept spots there. When you're talking about communities that may not have cars and want to be able to walk or ride public transit to their kids' schools, you don't get a lot of support for busing those kids to far away schools with low FRL %. And if you want to bus the rich kids to the high FRL schools, you'll just get a huge switch to private. The option schools end up having a good balance of FRL rates. But neighborhood schools don't. And the vast majority of parents of ALL income levels want neighborhood schools. [/quote]
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