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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The boundary review made it very clear that parents don't want their kids to be moved from one school to another. This is even more true when the move requires moving from a higher ranked school with better test scores to a school that it far lower in the rankings, with bad test scores, and fewer offerings of higher level courses. Toss in moving kids from an AP HS to an IB HS and you have all sorts or rioting.

The school board is trying to limit students moving out of the lower ranked schools by removing the pupil placement option for a foreign language, which will turn off the moves from one AP school to another for a language, think Herndon to Langley for Russian. It does nothing to stop the move from an IB school to an AP school, which provides plenty of room for kids to leave Lewis. Removing the language option does reduce the students ability to ask for a specific school because they want to take a language offered at West Springfield that is not offered at Lewis or the other near by AP school that is not over enrolled. [/quote] Well I'm not sure what would work the best, but understanding the issue regarding programming is important.

Maybe if there were equity in programming, such issues with imbalanced school enrollment would exist.

FCPS should do the best it can not only to balance enrollment, but if they can, to even out school rankings.[/quote]

Even out schools rankings just means that all of them will be terrible. That will be the death knell for public school enrollment in Fairfax county.  [/quote]

Schools have no control over what rank their school is given. GreatSchools is a privately run organization that is funded by "charities" such as the Walton Foundation, which is a huge proponent of charter schools and for taking money out of public schools.

No school district should be making decisions based on GreatSchool rankings or other similar, privately run ranking systems.

[b]If there's an imbalance in school enrollment, the county should address it, regardless of what GreatSchool rankings are listed. [/b]

It's been well documented that school ranking companies like GreatSchools penalize black- and Latino-heavy schools, regardless of how those schools are performing.

If you're against providing equity in programming across schools, as in you want some schools to provide programs but others not to, I have no statement to make regarding that because it's a pretty disgusting statement. [/quote]

You cannot "balance" the enrollments without extreme busing.  I am against busing and believe that kids should go to the closest school possible.  Of course, that puts "some" neighborhoods where they do not want to be.[/quote]

Parents have said over and over again stability is their top priority, but FCPS ignores that.  They build additions where they aren't needed, and ignores schools that need more capacity.  It's just a matter of time before some people will be very unhappy about the schools to which they are redistricted.  [/quote]

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