Reply to Goodbye Barcroft (APS)?

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Goodbye Barcroft (APS)?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, if Barcroft and Carlin Springs are gone as a neighborhood schools, Randolph and Barrett (maybe) rises even further in FARMS. Ashlawn gets some more FARMS. If all Barcroft is sent to Randolph, APS can claim it only has one high FARMs elementary school.

I see that as a win win![/quote]

Sending Barcroft to Randolph isn't realistic in the least. Forcing Randolph, a high-poverty school (at 74% FARMs) to be even higher poverty AND overcapacity is not just mean-spirited, its downright cruel. It's also pretty good grounds (rightly so) for litigation. I sincerely hope you're joking. [/quote]

I actually think they're going to break up Randolph a bit, too, not just move all the ED kids there, especially if Claremont becomes a neighborhood school. Barcroft neighborhood, with the exception of Buchanan Gardens, has very few ED students. If they take half the neighborhood to Randolph, they'd actually be adding MC families to that school zone.

And there are no ED students in the N half of the neighborhood, so moving them N to Barrett does the same thing. If they are doing this to break up segregated schools, then I have to believe they would move some of the less walkable PU's in Buckingham to Long Branch. They aren't walkable to either school, so bus them east instead of west.

I don't think they're going to do this unless they can decrease concentration of ED students at all the surrounding schools. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics