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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regarding schools, this is an exact quote from a MOCO YIMBY Facebook admin - I did not change or embellish it in any way. No more good or bad schools for your neighborhood, good schools in certain locations are BAD, we need to water them al down so that they are equal, no matter how unfair that actually is.

[i]Looks like Fairfax will review its school boudaries every 5 years.  MoCo has faced fierce resistance to reviewing its school boudaries and hasn't implemented any such policy yet.

The post's quote from opponents of school boundary review outlines why it needs to be done:

" “Everybody I know when they are buying a house, if the school is not the top factor, it’s one of them,” she said. “People made really big life choices under the assumption that their kid would go to that school.”"

People have notions about which schools are "good" and which are "bad" and how schools achieve "good" rankings is by having a lot of wealthy kids (and very few poor kids) attend them.  So this propagates out to housing prices in various neighborhoods ("good" school districts are in demand) and reinforces community level segregation, which is one of the key problems YIMBYs want to solve. [/i]
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I literally see nothing wrong with the above.
I say this as a parent who absolutely decided where to buy a house in large part based on school cluster.  But I also see how in the aggregate those choices do lead to the issues described.[/quote]

Yeah.  Perhaps that is a false flag troll post.  The larger problem that the density push isn't addressing is the current state of infrastructure, including school capacity versus the plan's impacts.  But those pushing it would like to deflect from that concern by suggesting it is related [b]to some we-must-keep-[i]those[/i]-kind-of-people-out initiative.  [/b][/quote]

What’s really offensive about this approach is that even the YIMBYs know that all of the new residents will be above median income because if they’re not then the projects won’t pencil, nothing will get built, and there will be no new residents. The YIMBYs love to try to play the shame card and then they turn around and say the new housing was never intended to be affordable when they get called on breaking their affordable housing promises. [/quote]

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