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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I lived through my kids going to 3 different elementary schools. When I moved to Ashburn we were told they were building an elementary school within walking distance of my neighborhood. My kids went to 2 different middle schools. The kids in my kids middle school were split and sent to 2 different high schools. It sucks and had I known it would be this bad I never would have moved to Ashburn.[/quote]

I'm really sorry, PP. I'm so tired of hearing that resistance to school rezoning is solely about racism and entitlement, when most parents just want reasonable outcomes, like not having their families split among different schools, or having kids forced to change schools during high school, or other similar reasonable concerns. [/quote]

Sometimes it is but other times it actually is racism. Sorry, if you didn’t see and hear the reasons Brambleton parents advocated moving their white kids out of rock ridge you might not understand but it is very racially motivated many times. [/quote]
Can you explain? We are moving into a home that is zoned for Rock Ridge. [/quote]

A lot of the white brambleton parents lobbied very hard for their kids to go to independence because they claimed that at Rock Ridge, which has a high population of Asian (specifically South Indian) students, their kids couldn’t be academically competitive. They also cited Rock Ridge not having good sports teams so they needed their kids to go to Indy to have a better experience with school sports. They claimed that white students are ostracized by the Indian students and the Indian students only socialize with other Indian students. Anyway, when Indy opened, Rock Ridge lost about 1200 students who had previously  been going there. The boundaries were redrawn - now, 3 years later, independence is overcrowded. Rock Ridge has 1200 students enrolled and numbers aren’t projected to change for the next 5 years because only a few neighborhoods along Loudoun County Parkway are now zoned for Rock Ridge. Only 1 elementary and middle feed to RR. The school itself opened in 2013- it’s only 9 years old and is not being utilized to its full capacity because of how Brambleton parents wanted the boundaries for Independence drawn. [/quote].

They left in droves bc of online learning. Many live in multigenerational households so they were very concerned about grandparents getting Covid and online gave them the flexibility to travel abroad to see family, etc. They are still concerned about the ‘vid.[/quote]

No. This predates that. Indy opened in 2019. The boundary issues were before it even opened, so 2017-2018. Nothing to do with Covid. [/quote]

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