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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, speaking of disingenuous, it's rather ridiculous for you to try to smear those who disagree with you as "wealthier." (!)  Do you think people believe that you are living below the poverty line over there in McLean/Falls Church? Especially after your not so subtle campaign against "cluster 2" kids from across the tracks that they shouldn't be able to stay at your school, "where you went to the expense and trouble of actually buying a house?"  Your testimony and advocacy pretty much implied that your children only mixed with their own kind "from the neighborhood."[/quote]

It's not ridiculous at all.  If you look at the last School Board election, Epstein's support came primarily from wealthy precincts in the Langley district, and Strauss's support came primarily from close-in McLean and West Falls Church, which are very nice areas but aren't likely to be confused with Langley Forest.  And Epstein's main themes were that FCPS was incompetent, Strauss placed too much faith in FCPS Staff, Strauss should not allow FCPS to spend as much money as it does on schools in poorer areas, and AAP programs should be protected at all costs, much of which you've just argued.  It sounds very familiar.

The Cluster 1 and Cluster 2 neighborhoods that feed into Haycock are very similar, with the exception of Pimmit Hills in Cluster 2, which is still a less expensive area of SFHs.  If it was arbitrary to make cuts about redistricting based upon cluster assignments, at least those judgments were based on pre-existing boundaries and administrative decisions, and physical proximity to the school.  In my judgment, and that of many others, that was a better basis to make the tough judgments that needed to be made than simply doing so based on a child's AAP status or, as you just tossed out, economic status.

If the crux of your prior thread was that the School Board should challenge Staff's projections more vigorously, I won't really take issue, other than to note that projections are imprecise by nature and that every dollar we spend performing retrospective reviews of their rigor and accuracy is a dollar that could be spent on a teacher, a computer, or art supplies.  [/quote]

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