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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are so many factors that reduce the odds of major boundary changes.  The PP's touch on a really big one, which is the impact of academic programs on enrollments.  It turns into a big chicken vs. egg exercise.   The boundary changes that you might make if a Carson isn't going to remain a mega-AAP center forever are very different than the changes you might make if it is.

The other big factor is the reluctance of the recent and current School Board to talk about sending kids to lower rated schools except in the most abstract terms.  It's one thing for a Pat Hynes to talk generally about using boundaries as a tool to promote equity.  It's another thing to actually do it - hasn't been done in FCPS for over a decade.  And of course we've seen the members like Elaine Tholen who pay lip service to equity but make sure no apartments go to Langley.
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I don't live near Langley and don't know the make up of the apartments nearby, etc.  However, it has been suggested on this forum before that poor kids from Herndon be bused to Langley.  That would be a disaster.

Busing does not work.  Taking poor kids out of their community aggravates the problem.  I taught in a bused school many years ago.  Sounds good on paper.  Not good in reality, and it does not promote "equity."[/quote]

Right.  But taking rich kids out of their neighborhoods to attend a school with other rich kids 10-15 miles away is fine.  In fact, we'll even define the areas where the rich kids live as a single "community," if needed, even though it's not a separate town or city, just wealthy unincorporated parts of a county with over a million people.

Anyway, the point was that things usually only work in one direction in FCPS, regardless of the occasional lofty rhetoric.  [/quote]

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