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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's been like that for at least 13 Years and and will only change minimally if a new Western HS is built 20 Years from now. So basically not changing for the next 50 Years. [/quote]

I wouldn't be so sure. Look at what's happening with demographics in the recent decade. We basically have a split county: Majority white vs. majority Hispanic schools. Wealthy vs. poor. Good vs. bad. FCPS has trudged along until now but the disparity and concentrated % of wealth and poverty gets more disproportional every year. I can't see FCPS letting another 20 years go by without intervention if they want to remain an attractive system. Otherwise they'll resemble every other failing metro area school system like Miami-Dade and Chicago. [/quote]

Just curious:  This is a function of where people live.  How do you plan to fix it?  Buses crisscrossing Fairfax County?[/quote]

No. There are reasonable and fiscally smart ways to help alleviate these issues by making strategic choices with programs. 
One easy example is to place the German immersion program at an ES in the Mount Vernon pyramid. Currently Orange Hunt ES has a large proportion of Fort Belvoir families who apply for German immersion or rent in the area to escape the Mt. Vernon pyramid. A program change such as this would encourage such families to stay within the Belvoir hierarchy.
That's just an example of one way to assign attractive programs in schools that would naturally encourage the undoing of concentrated SES. That was the intention of IB which essentially had the opposite effect, but FCPS has never tried anything else.[/quote]

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