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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes it's not about social engineering b/c the logistics (housing, dividing roadways, existing school zones, proximity, and future HS pyramid assignments) dictate a reasonable rezoning plan.

You are right that LJMS will be proportionally more ESOL and FARMS.  These kids were there from the beginning, and LJ just lost some of its middle income kids who weren't ESOL/FARMS.  So, it's not as though FCPS added ESOL/FARMS kids to LJ.

That said, sometimes there are logical reasons to pull one set of kids to another school that has nothing to do with trying to drive one school down or bring one school up.  It is a secondary consequence -- that LJ is going to be more ESOL/FARMS.... but that is also a product of the types of housing that is built closest to the school facility.

I understand that in almost every decision, there are some people who feel like they got a better deal and some people who feel like they got a worse deal.  I feel for you if you are a middle income household that is still zoned for LJMS.... but, it's not like LJ was that great before (in the gen ed side).  You are mostly getting what you bought into.  The people who got a windfall are those who used to be zoned for LJ and now are zoned for TMS.

Objectively speaking -- if you believe every kid is capable of success given the right conditions -- it has to be a net gain for the ESOL/FARMS kids at LJ to have more space and have more attention from the administration.  [/quote]

Thank-you, this is the sanest and most logical post on this thread.[/quote]

Not really. [b]Kids want to get settled in with their high school cohort[/b], so they will jump ship. Nothing to do with the current school. [/quote]

[b]That is exactly the reason why the school board couldn't take a different group OUT of LJ -- it would have separated a group of FCHS kids out from their "high school cohort."  [/b]

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That's just false.  They could have moved part of LJ to Poe, which is already a feeder to Falls Church and Annandale and more under-enrolled than Thoreau.   
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