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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^this I've read. It was the FARMS that I was actually questioning. [/quote]

It is my understanding that the new student population projection software incorporates decision analysis options, incorporating a number of demographic elements, including FARMS.[/quote]

How do you know this? Please provide a link. If this is fact, then in fact, we are reverse busing to put white higher SES kids into a school that is not in their pyramid. Wow! Just wow! [/quote]

There are two different issues here.

One is that AAP-eligible students at Thoreau currently have the option to attend an AAP center at Jackson, because Thoreau hasn't had its own center.  When Thoreau's renovation is completed, the School Board might decide to open an AAP center at Thoreau, just like it will be doing at Cooper.  When that happens, kids whose base school is Thoreau would no longer have an option to attend an AAP center at Jackson or Kilmer.  Most of these students go to Madison; a few are zoned for Marshall.

The other issue is whether FCPS might redistrict kids from Oakton ES and Mosby Woods ES whose are now zoned for Jackson MS and Oakton HS to Thoreau (but keep them at Oakton).  Neither Jackson nor Thoreau is in the Oakton "pyramid," but they are much closer to those neighborhoods than the only MS in the Oakton "pyramid," which is Carson MS out in Herndon.  In the past, Jackson was overcrowded because it has a big AAP program and Thoreau was under-enrolled because it was sending a lot of AAP kids to Jackson and Kilmer.  Once those AAP kids go back to Thoreau, there might or might not still be extra space there, and it might or might not make sense to consider moving the Oakton and Mosby Woods kids zoned for Jackson over to Thoreau.  But it's far from a done deal at this point, and one thing FCPS would consider would be the impact on the FARMS percentage at Jackson.  Jackson is already around 40% FARMS, and moving the Oakton and Mosby Woods kids out of the school would drive it up further. [/quote]

Love how gerrymandering boundaries to inflate numbers exists in 2016! What % is Mosby and Oakton at Jackson? The school has about 1300 students and maybe 250 and that's a HIGH number come from the above two schools. So 8%! You think it's fair to have 8% of kids who come from Vienna and Oakton to attend a FCHS middle school? Most kids in Vienna and Oakton play VYI or VYS sports. Yet, it's ok to put them in FC to up numbers on paper? That is wrong on too many levels.[/quote]

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