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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've worked for FCPS and have traveled to all schools within the FCPS from ES to HS and I noticed a few things:

- ES/MS/HS in places like Langley and Mclean are much better off than schools in places like Springfield.  The PTA at schools in Mclean and Langley are flushed with$$$ from donations that they can buy things and take field trips that other schools just simply can not.

- The parents from Langley and Mclean are very pro-active in getting things for the classes, especially in ES.  I guess having a lot of disposable incomes do help.

- ES kids from school in Springfield areas are mostly minorities, Hispanic and AA.  A lot of them from single parent home with multiple siblings from different fathers.  Not a very good environment to be in.  Almost all of them have breakfast and lunch provide free of charge,

- ES kids from schools in Langley/Mclean are mostly white and Asians and I think they want to keep it that way.[/quote]

Another obvious, but important thing to note. McLean is so far, geographically, from Springfield, etc that there is no feasible way to integrate the schools by redistricting.  Ergo McLean people can sit pretty, knowing they are beneficiaries of de facto segregation, without having to engage in the overt things that North Arlington people do.  [/quote]

Springfield isn’t the only low-income area in Fairfax.

FCPS assigned Longfellow/McLean an area of Falls Church with lower-income apartments that is closer to Falls Church and Marshall HS decades ago. Kind of like APS creating what used to be the Yorktown island near Rosslyn/Court House before that area got more expensive.

They can assign some lower-income areas in Tysons or Reston to Cooper/Langley if they want to create some diversity there.  School Board members for Langley traditionally have kept low-income neighborhoods out of Langley and then bragged about it when seeking re-election.[/quote]

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