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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you guys really so afraid that a couple apartment complexes and some very nice townhomes are going to ruin your kids education because the kids coming in will not be all white upper/middle class?

Have you no faith in the teachers? the administration? your own child's ability to learn??
Are you afraid that your kids might have friends that don't look like them, or are (god forbid) bilingual?

Lemon Road has been significantly under capacity for at least 10 years and has been surrounded by overcrowded elementary schools for at least 5. Yes, some people bought homes zoned for it because of the small school size, but really, it was just a matter of time before there was a redistricting.

If you're really so afraid of your shiny white school being tarnished, Northern VA really isn't the right place for you anyway. [/quote]

BS.  Lemon Road isn't remotely close to being a shiny white school and it hasn't been one for a long time.   But it's had a very good balance that FCPS can either upend or largely maintain if they do this properly.

Personally, I have no faith in FCPS facilities always to do the right thing.  They closed a school that should have been kept open and perhaps they now plan to follow up by putting as many of the low-income kids in the Tysons area as they can find in Lemon Road.  Brilliant.  Just ask the folks over in Alexandria how well that works at Jefferson-Houston.

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