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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing says “white supremacy” more loudly than “every school needs a certain percentage of white children to be good.”[/quote]

Not necessarily. If you have a school system runs by whites primarily for the benefit of white children, then having white kids in your school may be necessary to ensure it gets appropriate resources and attention.

There was a reason why “separate but equal” was invalidated.  The NAACP didn’t challenge it because they thought White children were superior. They challenged it because they knew Black schools were inferior. [/quote]

So you need the racist white government which is against poc to make racist white peoples go to school with poc so the racist white peoples will be forced to give poc the same quality.  Makes sense, especially these days.

It should be easy enough in Fairfax county with our internet and smart phones to find out where the school board and gatehouse are failing to spend as much per pupil and to provide the “not white enough” schools with the same maintenance, infrastructure etc. as the “white enough to care about” schools.

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I'm saying context matters.  You made a very broad statement.

If you want to talk about current FCPS spending, most of us know FCPS spends considerably more per student on schools with more low-income students (which in FCPS usually means schools with fewer, not more, White kids).  And they spend the least on the schools with the most White and Asian kids. [/quote]

Case in point:

McLean HS is severely overcrowded, yet it’s been bumped to last in line for renovation because FFX replaced 17 of the 21 trailers with a  prefab “pod” (glorified trailer).

[b]The hyper-progressive school board hates McLean because of all the Asian and white students.[/b]

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really? so they hate McLean but not the nearby richer Langley?  I am not happy with the SB but please stop pulling stuff out of your butt.  [/quote]

Not PP, but Langley’s renovation was basically funded and done before the current SB was re-elected.

Currently all three of the most overcrowded high schools in the county (Centreville, Chantilly, and McLean) are heavily Asian and they’ve barely lifted a finger to address it.  Meanwhile less crowded Justice HS is getting a big addition outside the renovation cycle.  Even if it’s not hate, it certainly is neglect and incompetence. [/quote]

You have to consider that adding more additions to Chantilly and large overcrowded schools isn't exactly the answer. Do we want to encourage the creation of super-conglomerate schools that would grow to over 3000 students? Meanwhile some schools are still stuck below 2000. That's a logistical mess. Look at Houston public schools, for example, which has slightly higher enrollment than FCPS and they have their own share of very high-performing high schools, but their enrollment per high school is on the order of 1000 students.

FCPS should build a new HS and start thinking of a second new HS. They must do a massive rebalance of boundary enrollment across the county. We have spaces available to address our overcrowding issues but it takes someone with the courage to break the status quo. This isn't about punishing Asians as you think it is.[/quote]

That's probably a discussion that should have been held some time ago.

However, FCPS has been consistently expanding high schools to 2500 permanent seats or more.  Schools with 2500 or more seats include or will soon include Herndon, Madison, Oakton, South Lakes, Falls Church, Justice, West Potomac, Lake Braddock, Robinson, South County, West Springfield, Chantilly, and Westfield.  Presumably when they ever get around to announcing Centreville's plans, they will build it out to at least 2500 seats as well.

So it's unfair to do nothing to add more permanent seats to overcrowded schools that have less than 2000 permanent seats, on the grounds that somehow it's going to be unnecessary when they get around to doing a "massive rebalance of boundary enrollment."  People will invariably point to the fact that there's no compelling need to move kids out of, say, West Springfield or Madison because those schools, with 2500 seats, aren't overcrowded (Madison) or too overcrowded (West Springfield).

And FCPS has been talking about building a new high school in western Fairfax, which clearly would require some boundary adjustments, for so long that many doubt it will ever come to pass.

I'm not the poster that said FCPS "hates Asians," but the Asian families at schools like Chantilly and McLean need to start demanding more of their representatives.  Stella Pekarsky and Elaine Tholen, in particular, have not served their constituents well. 
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