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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem isn't racism its the fact that freedom hill has a majority of under performing students. The racial background of freedom hill and lemon road are similar but freedom hill has poorer and less academically excelling kids[/quote]

No, the majority of FHES students are not underperforming.  And the student backgrounds at the two schools are similar now but they likely won't be when all is said and done.   For most schools I think this kind of transition usually happens over a longer period of time than we are dealing with here.

The area being studied mostly (not entirely, but mostly) consists of lower income students according to FCPS's own documents.  And the school system has determined that lower income populations tend to need additional services.

The school would get more resources as a result, presumably more staff too.   I just hope it all fits in the building, and then into the expanded Lemon Road building.  Post-expansion there's no obvious place to add trailers should Lemon Road start bursting its seams.  Nobody wants a repeat of what happened at Freedom Hill.

As far as parental support, I hope that the families that move to Lemon Road do have actively involved parents.  If they aren't engaged and can't be engaged then Lemon Road will have a far smaller base of parents to fall back on for support than Freedom Hill currently enjoys.  Que sera sera, and we will just have to hope for the best.[/quote]

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