Reply to Let’s Talk APS High Schools: 4th one or no?

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Let’s Talk APS High Schools: 4th one or no?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not realistic to change Ytown through boundary. I’m in south Arlington and even I understand that.
Fight for a better spread of AH if that’s your goal. 
A new hs at CC could help shoulder some of the burden off Wakefield in a meaningful way. Even if it’s 10% reduction of Wakefield farms. 
That would be significant. 
Quit being ungrateful West Pike residents. [/quote]

We're mid-Pike, so I don't know where we'd wind up, CC I think but who knows. Even so, I am opposed to the idea of taking the entire SE portion of the county to a school at the CC. That will not amount to a 10% reduction in fr/lfor Wakefield, because the school will be back-filled with all the kids in the Arlington Mill neighborhood currently zoned to W-L. And if you take all of SE to the CC, there won't be enough UMC neighborhoods in the SW left zoned to Wakefiled to balance the student who would be added. As long as you don't take the CC boundary all the way down to 395, there can still be contiguous CC and Wakefiled boundaries that may not be 100% balanced, but that don't push Wakefield to be even more highly segregated. Can we at least agree on that? [/quote]

Yes, I agree.  I think the boundaries should be drawn as to cut South Arlington more north-south rather than east-west.  If we could split the FARMS rates at CC and Wakefield to be less than 40% each, I think it would definitely be a win-win for both schools and a big win for South Arlington.  The boundary for CC won't go down as far as Arlington Ridge/Aurora Highlands/Virginia Highlands anyway.  There are going to be plenty of kids in Penrose/Arlington Heights/Columbia Heights to fill the 800 neighborhood seats.  Remember that 600 seats will be county wide Arlington Tech, 150 county-wide specialty programs (HILT/PEP/Young Parents), and 300 county wide CTE seats.  As a proud Patrick Henry parent, I'm not trying to engineer our boundary to keep out disadvantaged kids.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics