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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]

Huh?  If FCPS had issues similar to APS, they’d expand HB Woodlawn and convert it to a normal school, not spend a ton of money so a few hundred kids could have a private-school experience.[/quote]

Whereas APS is moving HB to a site the surrounding neighborhoods rejected as inferior for a neighborhood school (because no one has to send their kid to HB if they don’t like the location) so they could maintain the program while turning the better site into an expanded neighborhood school.[/quote]

Yes, NIMBYism accounts for part of the problems in APS. But I still doubt the maintenance of a small HB program is a top priority for parents with younger kids now reading about the possibility their kids will attend high school in split shifts. [/quote]

Don't make assumptions about people you don't know. I have elementary kids who will be in the throes of this if we don't get another high school, and I don't support disbanding the HB program even though my kids have virtually no shot of getting in (assuming they would even want to, my current fourth grader has no interest in applying next year based on what he knows so far.[/quote]

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