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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lobby for the bus. 
Barcroft, Alcova and DP lobby to have the line redrawn to George Mason. Alcova and Barcroft neighborhoods transfer to Randolph.
Barcroft Elementary school is under enrolled and that population wants to attend school together. 
You have a chance to meaningfully shift demographics at Randolph. [/quote]

You're suggesting letting Barcroft become a specialized program and the other families moving. How does that work? How do people lobby? If that was something they wanted? I have a hard enough time getting to meetings. I mostly rely on neighbors to represent us, because my kids are small.[/quote]

Unfortunately, it's because your kids are small that you need to somehow or someway make time to engage.  The winners in these processes are those who mobilize, if it's important enough to them.  If you can't go to the 4hr School Board meetings, watch them live on tv or streamed the next day and then follow up with emails to the staff and SB members.  SB members rotate office hours on Mondays.  Get childcare for 90min and go meet with one or more of them to discuss your concerns.

Encourage your friends and neighbors to do the same. [/quote]

I’m the first poster on this chain. And I agree with the above. I hate to break this down to a zero sum game, because we are talking about children, but we have to play the game. Barcroft and Randolph both have low performance. We can have 2 schools mostly tanked by overwhelming poverty or we can have one completely tanked and the other with a reasonable mix. 
Those are our options and they suck, but we need to get real. 
With 2/3 VPI Montessori preference, we won’t all make the cut. So there is an opportunity to make Randolph a better option for middle class families.
Redraw Alcova to Randolph
Push the south side of Columbia pike currently at Henry into Randolph ( you guys won’t make it to Fleet)
Give Barcroft the option to bus in
That puts 3 SFH neighborhoods into Randolph
Push for a program within the school for IB, so students get tracked.
Any low income students currently zoned Barcroft would still have the option to self select into Randolph.

now they actually have to deal with all of the repercussions of their shitty housing decisions. They will Be forced to start the same kind of program at Barcroft that they have now in Carlin Springs. Which begs the question, why hasn’t that happened yet? 
It hasn’t happens because they used the 20 percent of UMC kids willing to attend Barcroft  and Randolph to hide the lousy scores. 
That needs to stop. 
They want to concentrate poverty? Fine. Deal the expense of a 6 day school week, free aftercare and everything else that goes along. Those kids need it. We have them here, so we need to provide it.
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Deal. Tell me where to be! I already email the school board.[/quote]

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