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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So... We should be responding to the changing demographics of our county...  Fairfax County and FCPS needs to figure out how to explain that we are trying to serve our community...our entire community...not just the haves...not just the have nots.

This demographic shift is with us, won't change; and it is happening faster elsewhere in the county.[/quote]

Well, yeah, but you have to consider how FCPS best goes about needing those needs.   There's a bit of a conflict between FCPS proclaiming that major enrollment growth is expected in the Tysons area and then responding with a limited boundary study that involves only two schools, only one of which is now over-crowded.

It is hard for me to see how limiting the scope of an inevitably broader study and potentially concentrating low-income students in one school in the area - Lemon Road - is going to serve the needs of the haves or the have-nots.  There's a big risk that the haves will bail on Lemon Road ("yes, let them," I can hear the responses already) and that the have-nots will end up in a school that has a very high concentration of students with special needs.   If that can be avoided, why not try?  People in this area are well aware of, and accept, diversity, but when a school reaches a tipping point of FRR/ESOL students, it's pretty darn hard to reverse it.

To the other poster, I'm sorry that the Lemon Road letter to the School Board went largely ignored.  Janie Strauss spoke in her gentle tones and urged the parents last night to get involved in coming up with a "solution that works for everyone," but the narrow scope of the authorized study means the options you'll be given are going to be limited.  Even so, don't just accept what the staff presents for discussion purposes.

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