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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And the parents were loud and pushy.  Sorry, there is no way you can deny that.[/quote]

Some were, and some were not.  And some of the Lemon Road parents in Cluster 2 were quietly hoping the "pushy" Haycock parents would get what they wanted, because moving the AAP students to Lemon Road meant that it was less likely that additional GenEd students from the lower-income apartments behind Marshall HS would get reassigned to Lemon Road from Freedom Hill.

Sorry, there is no way you can deny that, either.  [/quote]

I don't think the Lemon Road parents could be blamed since they had already willingly taken half of the students from the lower income apartments the year before, when the boundary was changed.  Freedom Hill was still looking to get rid of the entire apartment complex.  I haven't seen a school accept high risk students with as little fanfare as Lemon Road in a long time.  I haven't seen any other school in the area taking additional at risk students without a huge multi-year fight.   [/quote]

One example that comes immediately to mind is Virginia Run, which as part of the Southwestern Boundary Study in 2011 was reassigned a large number at kids from lower SES neighborhoods then assigned to Poplar Tree.  The FARMS rates at Virginia Run increased much faster in a short period of time than Lemon Road's went up after the reassignment of the Freedom Hill students (the FARMS rate at Lemon Road then went down sharply after the AAP reassignments from Haycock).  There was no big, multi-year fight at Virginia Run, just some irritation that a School Board member (Kathy Smith) had apparently orchestrated the change to drive down the FARMS rate at her own neighborhood school.

At the end of the day, FCPS did a decent job of balancing the demographics of the Marshall pyramid schools serving neighborhoods in that area (Lemon Road, Westgate, Shrevewood, and Freedom Hill), so that they all ended up around 20-30% FARMS with no school tipping over into Title 1 territory.  But there was no shortage of angst about what Lemon Road would have looked like had all the apartments been moved from Freedom Hill to Lemon Road.   You can get a flavor for some of the comments at:

http://www.fcps.edu/fts/planning/freedomlemon/onlinecomments3-18-12.pdf  [/quote]

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