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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those ESs are "the LJ community" ( at least part of the lj community)...the part that would be most affected by the rezoning....you know...the kids who would actually be changing schools.  The admin/planning dept is looking at this in a race neutral way.  I understand that there could be secondary effects of this rezoning and good people can debate whether and how those secondary effects should be considered.  But, the primary effect in any rezoning proposal is that some kids/families are moved out of the school they have always expected to attend.

Fcps does not have an obligation to maintain property values.  They believe that they can continue providing the same education that they have always provided.  The student population may be a bit different, but their side of the education equation will remain the same.   Your children will still have access to the same teachers and courses they always have had.  [/quote]

It sounds nice to claim FCPS is being race-neutral but in fact what FCPS repeatedly does is accede to the wishes of white and UMC parents who welcome a move to schools with fewer low-income kids, and then profess shock when the schools that shed higher SES families see accelerated UMC flight, a rapid increase in poverty, and a decline in enrollment.  We’ve seen this movie before at Annandale, Poe and Lee, and now they are doing the same thing at Jackson.

And, yes, while they need not worry about the property values of individual homeowners, they might well be mindful of the broader impact their decisions may have on county tax revenues.

This is a bad decision recommended by Gatehouse bureaucrats whose guiding philosophy is simply to stick it to poorer neighborhoods because they tend to make less noise. [/quote]

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