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[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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This will work so well. YIMBYs are very foolish if they think zoning reform will reduce school segregation. It’s actually likely that this policy will worsen segregation because affluent parents will remove their children from public schools or relocate. The reality is that most affluent parents will not let their kid attend a high FARMs school. The % of the student body that is low income is directly correlated with academic performance, school safety and the frequency of behavioral issues. Parents will not risk their children’s safety or academic outcomes for an abstract ideal of socioeconomic diversity in schools. A decline in the average school performance will cause an exodus from public schools and these affluent parents will enroll in private schools (that are on average even more segregated) than public schools. [/quote]

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