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I live in a high FARMS area and I am disgusted when I see 2-3 buses dropping off children at apartment complexes, because the school board is KNOWINGLY UNDERCOUNTING how many children apartments yield. They know DAMN WELL that they need to adjust their yield formula for apartment complexes on this side of the county, and they are not. [/quote]

Why are you disgusted?

Besides overcrowding at a particular school, what's the problem with FCPS having incorrect yield formulas?  If they tweak it and make it more correct, it will cause them to change school boundaries and move kids around to even out the load amongst all the schools - this is a good thing - but it wouldn't change the underlying issue of an increasing school age population or of the other issue you seem to highlight, which is not enough real estate tax revenue.  These two things are outside the powers of FCPS.

FCPS can perhaps do a better job of distributing students to spread the overcrowding around but their lack of doing so doesn't seem to rise to "disgusting" imo.[/quote]

Different PP. The BOS needs to do a better job of enforcing their own laws. You are not allowed to overcrowd apartments. It's against the law.[/quote]

It all comes from the same taxes and same government. FCPS works for Fairfax County Government.

Ok, sure, but that is a BOS failure, not FCPS.[/quote][/quote]

Yes, but FCPS has no power to do what you are asking it to do, nor should it be in the business of reporting families for such violations.

You really want FCPS to work towards reducing illegal overcrowded apartments?  That's insane.[/quote]

One PP here. I want them to be a STRONGER VOICE for change on this issue. I have only ever heard Sandy Evans, my board member, meekly and weakly speak about what is causing overcrowding issues in our schools. I know that at the end of the day they are just politicians, but even being just a BIT less politically correct would go a long way. Our student population keeps growing with little housing being added - this is a HUGE EFFING PROBLEM.

And it is not the BOS that sets student ratio yield formulas; it is FCPS.

And schools have tremendous power to track overcrowding. Three families using one address for school registration? Send it over to code enforcement to investigate. This would be a very simple cross-reference of their address database and measures like this would not require much manpower.

See Maryland tagged cars dropping off children? I see this a lot. I assume that they are car tax-dodging or undocumented immigrants taking advantage of Maryland's lax laws. They have no business having their children attending our schools. They should be going to school in Maryland, where they are paying their taxes. Set up police to ticket them. Fine them and get them OUT! Car taxes fund schools and other municipal programs. [/quote]

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