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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people they are talking about moving are about the same distance from LJMS as TMS.  TMS is under enrolled.  LJMS is over enrolled. It makes sense to move those kids.

But then you look at the color of skin a SES and decide that these kids are too well off to move.  You are the one looking at the color of the skin.  Not the county.[/quote]

Ding, ding, ding.

I think OP has been on this warpath for some time.  OP is a Jackson parent who wants to off-load some of the poorer Jackson families to Poe.  OP never mentions who should be going to Thoreau (which has had excess capacity in a lovely new facility for the past two years). For OP, it's more important that some of the poor kids be moved out of Jackson and into Poe (which already has 75% FARMS) so that Jackson can keep the students that OP sees as desirable (those from MWES, half of OES, and a bit of MRES).  So what if we have 350 extra seats at Thoreau!  (says OP).  The important thing is that poor kids from Jackson are added to the burden of the poorer kids at Poe. (I think the administration and teachers at Poe probably have their hands full with the 75% FARMS kids they already have -- even if they have excess capacity.).

The irony is that the group of kids that OP wants to keep at Jackson (MWES, OES and MRES) are the kids OP considers the higher end kids at Jackson.  That SAME GROUP of kids is actually considered the more "needy" group coming into Thoreau!  The same kids.  It's just that when you are at Jackson (which has 45% FARMS -- and truthfully, it's more than that in the gen ed population -- the AAP center masks the gen ed numbers), the rezoning group is less needy by comparison (perhaps 25-35% FARMS -- it's hard to give exact numbers).  At Thoreau, the same rezoning group is the "needy" crowd that the TMS administration is ready and able to assist b/c TMS is only 11% FARMS (or thereabouts).

OP -- you aren't going to get your way.  Sorry.  And really, the gen ed kids at Jackson will still benefit from ANY group of students being zoned OUT of Jackson.  Reducing the crowding will help all of the gen ed kids.   The gen ed kids from MWES (who would be zoned out of Jackson) are not an especially high income group.  That is the largest part of the kids being re-zoned.  They are more than 25% FARMS (b/c the AAP center masks the true numbers of the base school)... probably more like 35-40% FARMS.

At anyrate, OP... I hope you feel better after your rant.  Go have a cup of cocoa and find your happy place... or start looking at real estate.[/quote]

[b]Not really![/b] The cheapest townhouse in Vienna that feeds to MW are mid 500 range. The school is similar demographics to Marshall Road. Hardly a high farms school. [/quote]

Yes, really!  There are several APARTMENT developments (anyone on this board know what those are???)  that feed into MWES.  The FCPS demographics data says it's 25% FARMS at Mosby.  But, like I said, the center (which is largely kids from outside of Mosby Woods' boundary) is skewing the percentage of FARMS kids who would be Mosby Woods-based kids (gen ed + AAP) who get FARMS.  This is not a high end school.  It is not severely poor, but it is more than 25% farms.  It is likely 35-40% farms.  [/quote]

You are just dumb.[/quote]

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