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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its called Whitewood for a reason[/quote]

This.

The community is toxic - so anti-diversity and has fought tooth and nail to keep it that way for many years. [/quote]

+100 - the fact that they have fought against diversifying the school is telling. It should be illegal what they are doing in waynewood. What makes less sense is they all end up at the same middle and high school. So what is the difference? [/quote]

How have they fought diversifying the school? Fighting boundary changes?[/quote]

Waynewood residents/those who represent Waynewood have fought to keep Route 1 kids from their school.  If you can see in the boundary there are islands of kids from the Rt. 1 corridor that got Ft. Hunt and Stratford but not Waynewood.

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/SY2022-23ElementarySchoolBoundaries.pdf

People argue that Stratford is a contiguous boundary but you literally have to drive through another school’s catchment (in this case Hollin Meadows) in order to get from Gum Springs over to Stratford. A resident of Gum Springs could not drive to SLED without crossing into another school’s boundaries.

The school dynamic in Fort Hunt is odd and doesn't seem good at all.

Waynewood - highly regarded elementary school with very low farms/high SES and the racial diversity is lacking (highest percentage is white). They do not bus in any kids from Route 1.

Stratford - center AAP with a medium farms percentage and mix racial diversity. Kids bussed in from all over since it is a center school.

Fort hunt - very high farms percentage/low SES/Spanish immersion school with a lot of kids bussed in from route 1.[/quote]

The school has contagious boundaries that make more sense that Ft Hunt [/quote]

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