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Tearing apart the community is commonly presented as an excuse to keep everything the same. That works on the assumption that the current status of the situation is the "correct" status, and that it has "always been that way." It's a downward spiral when one pocket of poverty gets established, and it will stay that way without intervention.

Do we just give up and accept that Herndon will forever be a place where low-income families live, and poor kids have to be nearby so they can go to work after school, and we need to keep them in that state because that's just what poor people do? I'm sure many people would be in favor of that, but it's obvious that school boundaries are a significant factor in [i]further[/i] concentrating poverty.[/quote]

So, you think it is a good thing to tear apart communities?  Got it.[/quote]

Again, people conflate school location with community as if the school boundary lines are solid delineators, as if they are and have been the gospel that is correct as is which defines communities. I won't deny that school boundaries and neighborhoods are intertwined, but adjusting boundaries is hardly tearing communities apart. Nobody is forced to leave their home. What do Woodson families west of Ffx County Parkway share in community with Woodson families bordering 4-95, other than high SES?

The benefit is that teachers of one school pyramid don't have to do all the hard work of teaching ELL learners, it's as simple as that. [/quote]

True no one is forced to leave, but if you think that if a school like Navy got moved into the Herndon pyramid rather than Oakton, people wouldn't move?[/quote]

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