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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Housing policy = de facto segregation = school demographics

witness Langley, Briar Woods, New Trier Twp HS (North Shore), Rochester-Adams (MI), Main Line PA, Sunnyvale Ca I could continue.

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Part of the problem in FCPS is that the School Board has now become the farm team for aspiring Democratic politicians.  It's a mix of wanna-be supervisors who, in their perfect world, would effect major changes in income distribution and housing policy, and more traditional types who are just looking to curry favor with their neighbors by protecting their schools at all cost.

But instead they are on the School Board, where they can't make zoning decisions, much less redistribute income. So they obsess over the tools they do possess, such as changing school boundaries (which, ironically, they have only changed in recent years to benefit the wealthy - one example being the recent decision to move upper-income areas zoned for Jackson MS to Thoreau MS).

So where do they go from here?  No one really seems to have a clue.  If they'd done their jobs right in the first place, with a basic sensitivity to fairness and balance, they wouldn't be so angst-ridden now.  They wouldn't have made so many stupid decisions, such as planning additions at some schools without considering the space available at other schools, or sitting on their asses for years when it's obvious that they could relieve overcrowding at some schools by taking advantage of the available space nearby.

Perhaps it is time for voters to look for alternatives to the incumbents who've gotten us where we are today. [/quote]

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