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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure I agree, PP.  The Cooper kids at Kilmer are higher SES than the base population, so I don't see the Kilmer parents making a move to get them out because they are probably increasing the test scores, etc.  At Haycock, the Cluster 2 parents were lower SES.  I think that was part of the reason the base parents were happy to see them go.[/quote]

Wrong. The low SES kids at Haycock AAP/Longfellow/McLean are from Timber Lane (which will likely end up redistricted to Luther Jackson/Falls Church in the coming years.)[/quote]

I haven't seen any suggestion from FCPS that it plans to move the 1/2 of Timber Lane at Haycock AAP/Longfellow/McLean to Jackson/Falls Church.  The latest Capital Improvement Plan is full of hints as to future redistrictings that FCPS might decide to undertake, including:

- moving kids from Marshall/Kilmer and/or McLean/Longfellow (at Westbriar, Colvin Run and/or Spring Hill ES) to Cooper/Langley, 
- moving kids from Jackson and/or Kilmer to Thoreau, and 
- moving kids from Stuart to Falls Church.

But there's nothing about moving the Longfellow/McLean part of Timber Lane to Jackson/Falls Church.  Jackson is projected to be seriously overcrowded like Kilmer, and Falls Church may end up with a bunch of kids from Stuart if the enrollment in the Bailey's Crossroads area continues to grow at its current rate.  Not to mention that, if you take the 1/2 of Timber Lane out of Longfellow/McLean, there's not much SES diversity left.  The current boundaries, while odd-looking, are aligned with what many educators suggest works best - sending lower SES students to schools that are otherwise high SES (and, to be clear, it's just the apartment complexes off Lee Highway that are low SES; the rest of the Timber Lane area assigned to McLean consists of nice SFH homes in the $550-850K range).  I'm not sure why FCPS would mess with that.   [/quote]

This time last year, people were saying there was no way in hell FCPS would uproot 90 kids from Haycock because they had always grandfathered in the past. It also wasn't included in the CIP, or anywhere else for that matter. Things change, and the school board does what they want. Falls Church is underenrolled, McLean will grow rapidly with the Tyson's construction. Making assumptions is never a good idea. [/quote]

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