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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends on whether you can afford to buy into one of the better schools. FCPS has done a much better job than APS at pushing the worst of those issues into the schools people can least afford to leave.[/quote]

How so? APS is very segregated and avoids demographic balance by claiming walk zones are a priority. [/quote]

Right, but at least they're not (in most cases) making the overcrowded poor schools remain overcrowded without a boundary change, and they're not talking about doing split shifts only at Wakefield.

In FFX, they let Bailey's ES look like a favela for a very long time, only to relive them by moving half the kids into a foreclosed office building with no playground or gymnasium and calling it an "upper ES." They would not have dared propose such a solution at Chesterbrook. 
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Yes, this is what I’m talking about. A school system can’t do much about housing demographics. But if APS did what FCPS does, you wouldn’t see a trailer anywhere north of Route 50 even though they’d have all of the choice schools because the neighborhoods closest to Route 50 would be bused south to make more room for the north of Lee Highway folks.[/quote]

Oh, and Yorktown would be a GS 9 because they’d bus out all the poor/minority students.[/quote]

For my kids, Yorktown is a GS 9.  Poor/minority kids aren't hurting their education.[/quote]

They’re not hurting mine either, sorry my post came across that way. That was a combined criticism of GS’s methodology and the fact that FCPS buses kids who tend not to score as well out of certain schools to give those schools the appearance of being better.[/quote]

You’re just making stuff up to excuse the poor performance of some kids in APS.  FCPS doesn’t do that. In some cases, it buses kids who score higher to certain elementary and middle schools (AAP centers), which improves the average test scores at those schools. [/quote]

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