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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having all of Oakton leave its boundaries though will not help Jackson much. As you said, even back in the day, it didn't have a great reputation with Oakton included. Being that Oakton has had children attending Jackson for decades, the school board could have taken more time with this.

But they were too busy with identity politics on federal gun control.[/quote]

Someone is certainly “too busy” about something and it ain’t the school board. [/quote]

Can you not see how ironic it was that the entire board of republicans and democrats had absolutely zero discussion on a school boundary that fed into an underperforming high school while each of them spoke at length on federal gun control for the item right before? Whether you like the decision or not, how is it that our entire school board didn't think a boundary revision was even worth discussing?[/quote]

Right- so the decision was made on the fly. Gotcha.  Or it had already been researched beforehand. [/quote] no doubt.  (agreeing with last PP).  Do you really think the school board needed to argue over this when it had been two years since the expansion at Thoreau was COMPLETED and even more years than that where Jackson had been over crowded.  They already had this in the CIP for years and they had multiple community engagements.  Truth is, it was essentially decided before the community engagements, but still -- the board members didn't need to hear from each other or blather on (per usual!).  No one was going to change their minds b/c the expansion at Thoreau was meant to reduce overcrowding at Jackson.  I know that Palchik and Hines understood the demographic impact, but they had to balance that with the realities on the ground -- location, proximity, pyramid groupings.  A person can be aware of and concerned about demographic changes but still conclude that those issues are outweighed by other factors in some decisions.[/quote]

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