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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Order of events to come:

1. Jackson will end up poorer over the next several years (simple fact of this boundary change)
2. More parents will choose to keep their AAP students at Thoreau for Local Level IV instead of sending them to the Jackson AAP center
3. Scores will slip at Jackson
4. Great School score will drop at Jackson
5. New families will avoid schools that feed Jackson and Falls Church (just as Falls Church was starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel)
6. Some families who currently live in Jackson and Falls Church feeder areas will leave
7. Falls Church elementary feeders will see a decline in scores 
8. Jackson and Falls Church will suffer further

This pattern has been seen before. They don't seem to learn. Perhaps the AAP Center can save Jackson, but the option to have Local Level IV at Thoreau really undercuts that program. And only two of the pyramid elementary schools remaining at Jackson will have a [b]F/R lunch rate  below 60%[/b]

No doubt that One Fairfax is a farce.[/quote]

I agree with everything you've said.

The only things those schools have going for them are their location and the fact that by 2024 Falls Church HS should be renovated.

But, in general, parents aren't stupid, and they pick up on whether the School Board and FCPS care about their schools or not.

Where Jackson and Falls Church are concerned, it's years of benign neglect followed by a conscious decision to ramp up the poverty rates at Jackson.  When FCPS sends the message that it couldn't give a crap about maintaining some type of demographic balance at Jackson and Falls Church, parents will leave before Jackson becomes the next Poe MS (FARMS rates went from 52% to 72% in less than a decade following a redistricting) and avoid the area like the plague.

Congratulations, School Board.  We needed more basket-case schools and you are always more than happy to oblige.  [/quote]

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