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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fairfax County School Board adopted a One Fairfax plan in November, so all the talk about numbers is not really relevant anymore. They plan to emphasize socioeconomic redistricting above all else (they are tweeting about it), so the main goal is to move kids around based on wealth. In other words, they WILL pull students from overcrowded McLean and Tysons with the careful emphasis on socioeconomic diversity and to make room for them, have NO hesitation pulling Great Falls kids from Langley to move to the Herndon schools, to create socioeconomic diversity there.
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The opposite of a social justice warrior is a social justice fearmonger, which is what you're doing.

McLean is overcrowded and projected to be more overcrowded in the coming years.  They have to do something about it.  If they decide to move kids from Tysons apartments who already attend a Langley feeder (Spring Hill) from McLean to Langley, rather than the kids in the McLean district who live the closest to Langley (Chesterbrook/Franklin Sherman) because they want to add some diversity to Langley, that's not exactly the stuff of Bolsheviks.

They have also had plans to build a high school in western Fairfax for along time, to relieve overcrowding at Chantilly, Oakton, and Centreville.  If doing so results in a larger realignment of boundaries in western Fairfax that moves some kids from western Great Falls from Langley to Herndon, which is closer to their homes, that's not exactly radical, either.   It will allow Langley to absorb more kids from Tysons over time, as Tysons continues to grow.

When all of this is done, the FARMS rate at Langley might increase from 1.5% to a whopping 5% (at most).

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