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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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That JH's boundaries didn't move does not mean the above statement is incorrect. There is a large chunk of Del Ray that is literally 50% closer to Maury than it is to JH. These kids have been historically (like for 20 years) been granted transfers to Maury. The detractors will tell you it's rich white people scared of poor black kids. Those who actually live here will tell you its about sending your kid to the neighborhood school. There is no arguing that Maury makes more sense fr Del Ray than JH does.

Those transfers have now ended. The reason the board took this direction is to force those 'Maury ' kids to attend JH. That's the skewing the numbers point the PP made, I'd bet.

People can scream "but JH is your school and has been all along!!" but that means what? That parents shouldn't do all they can to get their kids the better education?[/quote]

To add to this post, there are lots of people that highlight walkability and the idea of neighborhood schools (both top criteria in the redistricting process) when they argue that that chunk of Del Ray should have been Maury all along.

When the kids literally across the street from JH are assigned to LC, rather than the brand new school 100 yards fro their doorstep, don't get reassigned to JH but kids that live over behind Live Oak do, it's shadey as all get out.

Kids 1/4 mile from Maury are being bussed to JH a mile away. How messed up is that?[/quote]

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