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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Such incredible naivety in here.

Despite what SJWs will try and cram down your throat, FARM rates are an indicator of a school's potential. People who are too poor to feed their own kids are too poor to do other things like attend college, graduate school, or travel.

So, when your kid is seated next to a bunch of other 6 years olds learning to read, do you want her next to a kid whose parents are uneducated and untraveled or do you want her next to a kid whose parents have graduate degrees and have been traveling and reading to them since birth?

The teacher will be teaching to the lowest common denominator, so FARM kids inevitably drag the class pace down. I know. I taught in both types for 11 years.

[b]This redistricting was really the latest attempt to fix JH yet again. It will not work and the board will be forced to punt again.[/b]

Can you blame them? Is it fair for people that pay $10,000 a year in property taxes to be forced to attend, literally, one of the worst grade school in the state?

I'm not going to go dig it up now, but, if you care, The Washington Post did an informative piece on this highlighting how schools in the toe of Virginia are performing better than JH. Think about that. Coal country meth heads are educating their kids better than law partners and government wonks.

[b]That's how asinine the redistricting was. They are using the wealthy white kids in Del Ray to skew the numbers of the tests of the poor black kids. That way, it gives the impression that the school is improving when it actually isn't.[/b][/quote]

Is this even accurate?  Based upon the redistricting maps available on the ACPS website, there didn't appear to be any change to the JH boundaries.  Rather, ACPS is seeking to eliminate/reduce the number of transfers out of JH.  Is this, then, really using "wealthy white kids in Del Ray" or seeking to eliminate brain drain based on fear/racism?
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