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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The South Lakes redistricting was 12 years ago. Try to move on like others have. Not every decision will make everyone happy.[/quote]

You didn't get the point.  The point was that families don't want boundary changes even when it is to a "better" school like Oakton.  And, there are good reasons.
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I understood your point. It doesn’t have the same impact when it was 12 years ago and most of the affected neighborhoods are now happily at South Lakes. Nor does it have much relevance to the Dranesville race, when only two of the current SB members were on the Board and neither is seeking re-election.

But, please, keep nursing your ancient wounds and ignoring the real lesson from the South Lakes situation, which is that change is hard but sometimes necessary.  If you can’t come to terms with that, maybe you can move to Falls Church City. Arlington and Montgomery change boundaries as often as Fairfax, and Loudoun and Prince William change them more frequently.[/quote]

Nope. You don't get it.  I have no "wounds"--in fact, my neighborhood stayed put.  My point was about Chantilly kids moving to Oakton.  You know--from a lower SES school to a "better" one.  My kids had friends that were moved.  PP had claims that Langley parents are upset about moving to Herndon.  My point is that it likely has nothing to do with Herndon and everything to do with wanting to stay put.  But, you keep blaming everything on racism.  I get it.  And, FWIW, my neighborhood was successful in staying put.  We weren't moved, so I have no "wounds" as you claim.

[b]No one has yet explained what Herndon is going to do with extra kids.[/b]

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This, exactly.  It’s a fever dream for some of these “progressives”.  They desperately want to socially engineer the Langley/Herndon boundary, no matter that it makes zero sense.  Now, if Herndon was under enrolled and Langley was over enrolled , then yes - moving kids from Langley to Herndon would make perfect sense.  But that’s exactly the opposite situation.  [/quote]

Such a straw-man argument.  No one plans to move any Langley kids to Herndon now.

If there were a new high school in a decade in western Fairfax, of course all the boundaries there might change. At that point it would be stupid to keep busing kids 12 miles to Langley, if there were closer options.

Grow up.  We are tired of your whining and stupid You Tube videos.[/quote]

How about YOU grow up?  The only reason people have been talking about this is because the SB was caught on video discussing this potential option.  Now that it’s gotten out, they have realized what an absurd idea it was.  It wouldn’t have been publicized had some astute parents not caught on and exposed the SB.  I’m grateful that they did.  [/quote]

So you admit this “potential option” only really came up in the context of what may happen if another high school gets built in western Fairfax in a decade or so?  Maybe in 2023 the uptight Great Falls parents will be able to find a more timely concern to obsess about.

One more day.

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I'm sorry for you if you hate democracy so much that you don't want to let the facts get in the way of the Democratic party's "entitlement" to control the school board. The only ones obsessing are the board members an the other supporters of a faith in "equity" that isn't backed by a shred of evidence. There. Is. No. Evidence. that socioeconomic "equity" improves student achievement. None. Period.
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Others beg to differ; for example:

https://www.ed.gov/diversity-opportunity

https://tcf.org/content/facts/the-benefits-of-socioeconomically-and-racially-integrated-schools-and-classrooms/?session=1

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_students_benefit_from_school_diversity

https://sudikoff.gseis.ucla.edu/ethnic-diversity-in-schools-benefits-everyone/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.virginia.edu/content/understanding-benefits-school-diversity-majority-minority-age%3famp

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1. Contains no evidence.
2. Conflates ethnic and socioeconomic diversity.
3. Also conflates the two.
4. Ethnic diversity only.
5. No facts, just opinion.

The triumph of emotion over facts. That's all the Democrats have to offer.[/quote]

We’ll find out soon enough how the segregationist rhetoric of Fairfax Republicans plays in 2019. They have nothing to say today that opponents of integrated schools weren’t saying in the 1950s before Brown v. Board of Education. [/quote]

Hyperbole much? 
Must be the Witching Hour aka the hour before Election Day[/quote]

That's not hyperbole; it's fact.  But all Republicans have to offer at this point is gaslighting and sarcasm, because there is no good defense for the party at this point.  If you still claim to be a Republican, then you're OK with anti-semitism, racism, mysogeny, fake evangelical Christians, and alt-right Nazis, because that's what the GOP stands for now.  
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Mkay[/quote]

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