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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The recent budget presentation is fairly shocking.

FCPS is projecting for the 2023-24 SY the largest year-over-year increase in the percentage of FARMS and ESOL students in many years, and perhaps ever, up to about 35% FARMS and slightly over 20% FARMS overall.

They are projecting an increasing number of schools that will be over 60% FARMS.

[b]Wherever possible, it's clear they will try to starve the higher SES schools to pay for this. [/b] The message to these families is that you're basically on your own, because we have so many high-needs kids.  They'll offer the facade of an education, but one that's heavily dependent on some families paying twice (higher taxes + supplementation on the side) to put their kids in any position to do well after HS graduation.

These are the demographics that one could expect given the politicians currently running the county.  However, this is a vicious cycle - more higher-income families will pull their kids out of FCPS, FCPS will keep doing more of what it's doing to short-change the higher SES communities where it can get away with it, and within a decade FCPS will have a low-achieving, majority FARMS, heavily ESOL school system.  Forget about Youngkin and the voucher schemes - regardless of whether they ever get traction more private schools will open or expand and there will be an enormous market for alternatives to FCPS. [/quote]

You are full of crap. 
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They are doing it already, and they will continue to do more of it if the equity warriors get their way.

The main lever is always personnel - fewer teachers and administrators assigned to higher SES schools so larger class sizes and fewer staff to handle problems and serve as intermediaries with teachers.  You just don't notice it because of how much supplementation is already taking place on the side, so the higher SES schools still have kids with high standardized test scores, although they have been declining in many of the higher SES pyramids in recent years.
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you forgot to add in a fictional alternate reality[/quote]

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