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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's be brutal - the School Board is not going to do [b]jack squat[/b] about boundaries. If their solution for West Potomac overcrowding was to add a giant addition rather than move students to Mt. Vernon, which has hundreds of empty seats and is projected to continue to have hundreds of empty seats, then they are never going to move students to a poorer high school again. WP and Mt. Vernon are literally right next to each other and the Board refused to make the move. It makes you think that School Board members are making deals with each other so as to not make these changes. They talk a big game, but nothing every happens. The work sessions on boundaries are just more big talk with no action.

Boundary changes have been made in the last few years, but they only moved students to wealthier schools. So this problem of disparity is only getting worse. Way to go Fairfax.
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What you describe has absolutely been the behavior of the School Board for the past decade. The more that members like Hynes, Palchik, McElveen, Corbett Sanders and Keys Gamarra talked about equity and fairness, the less they actually did to counter the growing segregation within FCPS.  And in some cases they were directly responsible for the increasing concentration of poverty.

But sometimes the pendulum shifts in the other direction.  That’s how Stu Gibson got FCPS to move kids from wealthier schools to South Lakes back in 2008. And the SB now basically has a superintendent who has told them he’s not going to spend staff resources on boundary changes until they stop talking out of both sides of their mouths and decide how what their priorities are.  So I’m not as sure as you are that we’re not in for a change in direction.[/quote]

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