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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s really disgusting how much discussion is going into putting down the low SES/ESL kids in the Herndon pyramid and ways to contain those and kids in similar situations walled off from the rest of FCPS. Worse, some of these poor kids are here because of federal and state decisions many well-heeled, blue voters throughout the county support. Oooh, we’re for this and that (so long as we send the newly arrived poor ones to Herndon, keep the old poor ones at Justice and Mount Vernon, [b]the poor Asian ones at Annandale[/b], ….). Barf.[/quote]

You think just because Annandale is k-town Korean people live there?  LOL  Are you still living in the 90's?  Koreans left Annandale after they made money.  Annandale is a latino barrio now.

by the way.... can't wait for DCUM to delete my post  LOL[/quote]

I see lots of Vietnamese/Laos students from Annandale.[/quote]

Annandale has about an average percentage of Asian kids for an FCPS high school (18%), but they are more likely now to have parents from Vietnam or Pakistan than Korea.  The Koreans own many of the businesses in Annandale, but live in areas like Centreville, Chantilly, and Rockville.  And while the Annandale area as a whole is still majority white, the school-age population is now majority Hispanic.

I don't think anyone ever set out to concentrate poverty at AHS or HHS.  Rather, they made a series of incremental decisions that seemed convenient at the time, and which they knew would be less likely to prompt dissent than other alternatives, that over time have led to this result.  Sending Herndon kids in Great Falls to Langley in the mid-90s and Annandale kids living outside the Beltway to Woodson in the early-10s are two such examples. [/quote]

I went to McLean HS in the early 90s.  One of the reasons why MHS was always ranked behind Langley HS was because of the poor performance of the kids that came from the Falls Church apartments.[/quote]

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