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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This entire conversation is facinating. The issues of race, class, and socioeconomic status bubble up all throughout this discussion.

All people - rich or middle class, black/white/asian/hispanic- will do what is best for their children.  Some people believe having children who can't keep up with the classes offered  or otherwise divert resources away from the majority of those who can work at a higher level would take away from their own children's education.

Its facinating because this county votes for democrats overall while actively protecting their own family and community from the impact of policies supported by democrats (i.e. ensuring that children flooding in from the border don't cross the threshold of their public schools, ensuring kids in apartments are sent to certain schools). Like it or not people can and will use their collective political power to do what is best for their children. Calling them names isn't going to stop that. [/quote]

What I find interesting is that Even if Hutchinson HS becomes the 70 percent FARMS HS any taking in Coates, Hutchinson, Dogwood, Herndon elementary schools, is that South Lakes and Herndon HS will still have around 20-25 percent FARMS compromising the poorer schools of Forest Edge, Lake Anne, Clearview, etc. It’s unavoidable for those two high schools to not have some FARMS kids given proximity concerns, so if Floris/Fox Mill/Oak Hill parents really didn’t want their kids with those poverty kids they would have moved and easily afforded a house in the Madison/Oakton/Woodson pyramids. [/quote]

FCPS isn't going to build a new high school and load it up exclusively with high FARMS schools.  Far more likely is a school comprised of Hutchison, Coates, McNair, Oak Hill, Fox Mill, and part of Floris.

And most people living in the Floris/Fox Mill/Oak Hill areas could not easily have afforded Madison/Oakton/Woodson (especially Madison and Oakton), so just go ahead and move to Ashburn now if a school with 25% Hispanic kids triggers you that much.  [/quote]

Keep dreaming in your delusions. Take a look at Floris and Oak Hill housing on Zillow and compare it to Woodson and Oakton on Zillow. FCPS already has a Mount Vernon/Lewis/Annadale loaded with FARMS kids, Hutchinson will be no different. [/quote]

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