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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The boundary changes didn’t do anything about the under enrolled schools because the School Board is petrified of the angry parents who would be moved to those schools. The school board will probably make those moves one at a time to decrease the likihood of them being voted out. Think of the redistricting to SLHS 20 years ago. It was a small area that was impacted, no one else.

Their mistake this time is that announced that they wanted to move kids to balance out schools and every parent group in the County was on guard. When plans were laid out, there were already organized protests and a lot of them. The loud complaining across the area scared the crap out of them.

To top it off, the Crossfield families who don’t want to move to Western are loudly complaiing and, according to one poster, meeting with Reid to explain why they should not be moved from Oakton. I would bet that Crossfield is not moved to Western, or at least not all of Crossfield.

The school board could make some smart changes, like place academies at Herndon and Lewis that people want to attend and require people pupil place into the programs. Or create Votech schools at those schools so that there is a reason for people to want to move to those schools and offering programs that might be a better fit for the population that is already there. And add full AP to all schools to stop the pupil placement. Keep IB at schools that have kids completing the IB diploma, so not Lewis and Mt. Vernon and Annandale.

[/quote]Why is it the rich white ones who complain most?[/quote]

Plenty of Asian parents complain if they are going to be moved to what they see as a weaker school. People who value education, and most people who have money value education, want their kids at strong schools. Threaten to move their kids from a top school, like Langley or Oakton, and the parents will be annoyed. They bought to be at those schools. And part of their house value is tied to what school they are zoned for.

People don’t want to move schools, they really don’t want to move from a higher ranked school to a lower ranked school. The schools that Are suffering from losing the most students, and are then under enrolled, are the schools people don’t want to move to. [/quote]They hold less bearing in the U.S. because they’re minorities.[/quote]

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