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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issues won't necessarily be visible the first year or two, but knowing what has happened in other FCPS schools, a change for the worse will creep in over the next five years. You just can't raise the F/R lunch percentage a bunch and expect there to be no consequences. The wild card for Jackson is the AAP program - that could keep it from falling off too far. It really depends on how many of the Thoreau AAP students choose the Jackson center over staying at Thoreau. So - rising F/R lunch numbers and a shrinking AAP program means the school will be different and test scores will eventually reflect that.

And why did the FCPS stop reporting the AAP numbers on the membership page? That could have provided some key information. It will also be interesting to see the F/R lunch rates when VDOE releases them. Jackson's enrollment dropped quite dramatically and much of that was likely non-F/R students - so the rate at Jackson will have jumped quite a bit.

And it is true, the decision has been made and it will never be reversed. So anybody upset about this can just drop it. Not trying to be rude, but FCPS would never go back.

I wouldn't get too excited about the Mosaic District helping out. Looks like that falls into the Fairhill ES school district. Fairhill has the lowest F/R rate (24.3%) of the schools feeding Falls Church, but the other elementary schools are Camelot (36.7%), Graham Road (86.1%), Pine Spring (65.2%), Westlawn (71.0%), and Woodburn (66.9%). Not seeing how the numbers at Jackson (43.4%) or Falls Church (57.6%) improve with those feeders.  [/quote]

Conjecture and hyperbole. [/quote]

With a proven record from the past. Just look at Annandale.[/quote]

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