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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with 16:34.

the Falls Church middle school (LJ) now reflects the Falls Church High school more  than it did previously.  The middle school still is getting the benefit of the AAP center (attracting some number of high-performing kids who are not part of the Falls Church pyramid).  So, the middle school is not an exact parallel to the high school, but it is closer.

Applying that same analysis to TMS -- TMS is less a mirror of Madison now b/c it has a greater proportion of non-Madison students.  BUT... the Madison and Oakton pyramids are pretty similar, and there isn't a single feeder for Oakton HS.  So, for better or for worse, both middle schools now more closely reflect the SES/achievement of the high schools they feed.  I'm not saying the school board made their decision based on this in any way.  Just saying that like is with like.  (and some people don't like it!)

You get what you pay for.[/quote]

More nonsense. There was no Oakton middle school, no Falls Church middle school, and no Madison middle school. In terms of base boundaries, Oakton got kids from three middle schools, and Falls Church and Madison each from two. That is still the case, except some Oakton kids will now come from Thoreau rather than Jackson, [b]turning Thoreau into an overcrowded[/b] three-way split feeder in the process.  [u]It is hilarious to see parents whose kids were rezoned speak so approvingly about this, as if it were some natural form of socio-economic cleansing. [/u]

If FCPS really wanted to align middle and high school boundaries they could have just changed Madison’s boundaries to reflect Thoreau’s and made Thoreau an AAP center like Cooper and Lanier. Instead they’ve [b]likely[/b] created a mess at Thoreau, based in large part on the patently false assumption that all or most of the AAP families will send their kids to Jackson.  [/quote]

All assumptions or false info and you've no idea if these are reZoned families or not. [/quote]

You mean, apart from the fact that many of them have identified themselves as such?

The vast majority of the Madison kids come from Thoreau, and Madison is projected to be so overcrowded that FCPS now wants to build an addition there.  But somehow FCPS has convinced itself it can turn Thoreau into a split feeder to Madison, Marshall and Oakton, and that all the AAP kids will go to Jackson, but that it won't soon have an overcrowded middle school on its hands.  [/quote]

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