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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How would that school impact Jackson and Falls Church? FCPS realizes there is an issue at Annandale and haven't done anything. I doubt they will go back once the decision has been made.[/quote]

It's relevant to Jackson/Falls Church for at least two reasons:

1) Part of the solution to overcrowding at Jackson could be to move students at Poe, which shares a boundary with Jackson.  Doing so could relieve overcrowding at Jackson and reduce the poverty rates at Poe, since the neighborhoods that could be considered have higher-than-average FARMS rates for Jackson and lower-than-average FARMS rates for Poe

2) The Annandale/Poe experience illustrates what happens when you make incremental boundary changes at schools like Jackson that already have high ESOL/FARMS rates.  It's viewed as a sign of benign neglect by FCPS, and you end up with more poverty at schools with lower than expected enrollments.   [/quote]

What does this have to do with an elementary school in north Oakton?[/quote]

I'm not sure where you got north Oakton. I was talking about the Oakton/Fairfax elementary school proposed in the latest CIP that slots Vienna, Mosby Woods, Oakton, Waples Mills, Daniels Run and Providence elementary schools as possibly being affected. Since both Oakton and Mosby Woods are part of this Jackson boundary change, I was wondering if the new elementary school would affect middle school boundaries as well. Maybe I am thinking too far ahead, but just a thought.[/quote]

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