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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole school boundary discussion is a sh*tshow of not so thinly veiled nativism and "immigrant invasion" paranoia. Bravo to all of you.

"Hispanics generally have more children" as someone said.. you really should hear how racist that sounds when you say it out loud.[/quote]

DP.  I'm not the poster who said that and I am not a racist.  I'm a realist.  Some of the schools in Easter Fairfax are over 50 percent Hispanic kids from families where many parents speak very little English.  Of course this is going to impact the quality of the schools.  Why is it racist to say that that has contributed to some of the academic decline of FCPS?  I think FCPS needs to figure out how to better support these kids to help reverse some of the decline.  That's a heavy lift, though.  The achievement gap for economically disadvantaged kids has been an age old problem, and the ESOL issue compounds it.  [/quote]

You sound quite racist.  [/quote]

Are you saying you don't think that having kids with parents who speak very little English impacts the kids' performance in school?  And that that in turn impacts the overall performance of the school as a whole?  If people cry racism when important facts are put forth, the problem will never the solved.  Let's just pretend there's no elephant in the room.  I'm sure you would call me racist for pointing out that the truancy rates some of those High Schools is extremely high.  You probably think it's better to ignore that than trying to find real solutions.  Keep calling people racist, I'm sure that will make the schools better and fix all the problems that aren't being addressed.  [/quote]

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