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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's another chapter in FCPS favoring higher-income families over low-income families and promoting economic segregation.

Live in Daventry and want to go to West Springfield rather than Lee?  No problem!

Live in Wakefield Forest and want to go to Woodson rather than Annandale?  That can be arranged!

Live in Oakton and want to go to Thoreau rather than Jackson?  Why not?

And meanwhile the same School Board members who go along with these changes act like they care about social justice.  It is one big charade.  At least Elizabeth Schultz is honest about her beliefs. [/quote]

I believe the Daventry residents were the ones pushing to leave Lee and get zoned for West Springfield.  I do not know about the Wakefield Forest rezoning.

The Oakton parents (at OES andMWES) did NOT instigate this rezoning.  They simply are the schools that were picked by FCPS facilites to be moved because they are the western most schools.  They are all in the same HS pyramid (which is a minority pyramid at LJMS), and the numbers of kids in that group just happen to be the right number that needs to be moved out of LJMS.  You can come up with all kinds of conspiracy theories where you are the victim, but that's not how this proposal came about at all.

Now, if you want to say "hold on! -- there is a secondary impact that should be considered here" --fine.  Make that case.  (or rather, you should have made that case).  But, let's not go off the rails and claim that the "wealthy" parents at MWES (ha ha ha) are trying to sneak out of LJ and into TMS.  It simply isn't true.  FCPS came up with this plan.  NOT the parents at any of the school involved.  [/quote]

Some parents at those schools have asked to be moved to Thoreau for years.  Not all, but certainly some.

FCPS staff likely wasn't oblivious to that when it picked those schools to move from Jackson to Thoreau, and then orchestrated community meetings at those schools alone to solicit mostly positive feedback.  When did FCPS try to schedule a similar meeting at Jackson or some of the other feeder elementary schools to find out how those parents felt?   The answer is that they didn't, because if they'd gone to Jackson and shared how the FARMS percentage went from 52% at Poe in 2010, prior to a similar redistricting, to 72% in 2017, they might have gotten a different type of feedback.

I know you don't want to be seen as the "bad guys," but the fact is that FCPS needs to pay as much attention to others as it does to the folks in Oakton and Vienna with more money.   [/quote]

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