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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They aren’t going to open a new high school that’s 65% FARMS from the get-go.  It would require all sorts of extra attention and they’d be freaking out about it getting and staying accredited, possibly hitting 70-75% FARMS, and losing the non-FARMS families in short order.

Sorry.  I guess you can kill a new school and lock another generation of kids into overcrowded schools in western Fairfax, but they aren’t going to stick most of the poor kids in the area at Western (Hutchison). [/quote]

The problem per say is that even if the FARMS IMHO were evenly distributed via spending millions in extra gas costs to bus around kids all South Lakes/Herndon/Hutchison would all be hovering around ~40 percent FARMS putting all three in potential of failing, whereas the proximity algorithm only puts one in trouble.

Falls church/Mount Vernon/Annandale/Lewis are all 60 percent FARMS. Yet does the School Board care? No, and in fact the school board members were complacent in letting it happen. We will see if they meet expectations again. [/quote]

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