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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You bought a house in a "4" school zone.   Why are you just tealizing that now and trying to pretend it isn't?  [/quote]

Jackson is currently rated a "6" and was probably a 7 or 8 before the latest change in the GS methodology.   [/quote]

Your pyramid is Falls Church.  It has a "4" rating.  THAT is the pyramid you bought into if you are one of the families not being re-zoned at Jackson.  Were you somehow thinking that your MS was a 6 or 7, so your HS would eventually improve too?  Falls Church has been a lower performing school for some time now.  That's not news.

Those from Oakton HS (or Madison HS) who were just visiting your pyramid for MS were making LJ's population look better than it apparently is on its own.  Yes, you bought in a "4" rated pyramid.  Own it.  There are still kids at LJ and FCHS that ARE doing well.  But, I suspect that you aren't worried so much about your kids.... you know they will do well.  You are worried about your housing values when LJ becomes a 6 (or perhaps a 5).  It still won't be a 4, though.  Take comfort in that.  The center will definitely keep scores higher than they otherwise would be.  So, it (the MS rating) won't depress your house value that much.  Ultimately, though, the HS is what brings people into the pyramid or pushes them out.  I think improving results at Falls Church is a separate issue -- much more difficult b/c of the type of "affordable" housing that is in that area.  The county board of supervisors did that.  Not sure the school board should be in the position of "fixing" that.  Seems that the school board should be providing each population with the same tools/resources.  What each population does with those resources is up to them.

FWIW, Jackson wasn't an 8.  It was a 7.  Still is a "7" based on the test scores (which is what people are now learning they need to use). 
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GreatSchools doesn't rate pyramids.  It rates individual schools and entire school districts.   It does so, in part, because they know people look at other schools in an area besides the high school.

Also, stop making assumptions about my housing values.  They may be incorrect, and your repeatedly bringing this up suggests that you're the one thinking about the positive impact that getting redistricted to Thoreau might have on your own property values, which is about the last thing that ought to drive the School Board's analysis here.

Finally, your reducing the discussion to whether FCPS is providing each school population with the "same tools/resources" suggests that you either don't know or don't care about the history of segregation in this country and the rejection of "separate, but equal" schools. [/quote]

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