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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People on this thread are not acknowledging that Herndon HS northern attendance area is still quite white and wealthy, while the southern Hutchinson site that is where a new high school would be built is where the poor Hispanics are, Unless you want to bring in busing Hutchinson HS, that new high school will be a Lewis tier level high school. The elitists have been questioned so I ask why are some of you so keen on dispersing socioeconomics?[/quote]

What's the downside to dispersing socioeconomics? Wouldn't it be better for the entire county to have an even distribution of FARMs so that all schools have significantly high average test scores? This would benefit the rest of the county. Not all of us are lucky to live in Great Falls, Mantua, and Vienna. As it stands, there are only about 5 schools that really steal the show.

Another advantage is that a county-wide redrawing of the boundaries could finally address the overcrowding issues with a fresh slate.[/quote]

The downside of dispersing of economics is that it isn’t efficient from a logistical standpoint, just as it is illogical when you have kids in Herndon bused 15 miles to Langley instead of 2 miles to nearby Herndon. They need to go to Herndon when the new western HS is built. It’s expensive, timely, and costly to the environment. I like many others are fine of “natural diversity”, that is when some apartment kids going to otherwise well to do Chantilly/Marshall as of current policy because it’s the closest school if that is what is meant by “dispersing economics”. But what I am not in favor is purposefully busing kids across the county to the achieve socioeconomic balance. If Hutchinson is built it would become the poorest and most disadvantaged school in Western fairfax if it draws from proximity neighborhoods. I’m not ok with busing Crossfield/Fox Mill kids to Hutchinson and Coates/Herndon ES kids to South Lakes just to achieve “balance”. That extra money in fuel and Human Resources can be directed to the classrooml[/quote]

So much bloviating. [/quote]

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