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Yes. I would like someone to please explain to me:

School A: 40% FARMS, SOL scores = great schools rating of 5
School B: 10% FARMS, SOL scores = great schools rating of 9

redo boundaries, so now 
School A: 25% FARMS, SOL scores = great schools rating of 7
School B: 20% FARMS, SOL scores = great schools rating of 8

Big improvement for School A, not much "harm" for School B, some additional kids get bused. Why are people fighting this so much?

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Because the kids they are proposing busing are from planning units that touch the Swanson unit, and a number of houses in those units are less than 1/2mi from Swanson. This is a big deal for those kids and their families. Also, make no mistake, this isn't bringing Kenmore down to 25% FARMS, so don't kid yourselves that everyone ends up all happy and well balanced.

If you've got kids on buses already, but already heading to 4% FARMS Williamsburg, why not bus them to Kenmore instead if we're so serious about mixing up diversity? And send the kids from Jefferson and Kenmore that would be bused to Swanson up to Williamsburg?  With the opening of more affordable housing in Westover over the next 18mos, the FARMS rate of Swanson is going to rise already. Not to the levels of Kenmore or Jefferson, but higher than it is now.  No need to artificially inflate by busing kids through Dominion Hills while at the same rate sending DH kids down to Kenmore.
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