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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The county is planning to build 500 units of new affordable housing in Tysons in the Marshall HS district:

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/housing/news/2022/media-advisory-affordable-housing-in-tysons

This is new housing so there are no existing residents with ties to particular schools.

As I understand it, Marshall is at capacity and it’s quite hard to place into Marshall now for IB. Langley on the other hand is still below capacity. Would this not be a good opportunity for FCPS to honor its commitment to equity and One Fairfax by assigning this new development to Langley?[/quote]

Espeically if Langely has lower FARMS rate it sounds like a good way to improve SES diveristy.[/quote]

Honestly if Langley parents could read the societal cards they'd realize that these students would HELP their students in college admissions and likely have little impact on their children's experience of school quality.  In high school--unlike gen ed in ES--students are tracked by the courses they take.  Only the higher achieving lower SES kids would be in the courses that most Langley students are taking now--and they'd likely be a great example because they are succeeding with less privilege. (There might even be social benefits--your kid won't gripe that everybody else goes skiing in Colorado, vacationing in Europe, wears x, y and z designer etc. because there's more of a SES range).

Low SES diversity means that your UMC relatively weaker student ends up falling below the GPA and SAT mean just because everyone is a such a strong student.  Students are assessed in the context of their school.  Likewise course rigor.  If it's the norm to take 10 APs and your kid isn't, they are ranked as not taking the most rigorous course load.  But the percentages shift with SES diversity and the most rigorous courseload criteria becomes a little looser.  Even the highest students look better when there is a wider range.

My hope is that the students who come would integrate well and benefit from the strongest education--and many likely will.  But, really, I think the highest gain would be for the higher SES kids in the school.

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