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[quote=Anonymous][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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I am not familiar with those schools, so I really cannot speak to it--but, it sounds almost as stupid as expanding Westfield right before they decided that a school should be at @ "2000."  It's almost like the people in engineering and construction (or whatever they call it in FCPS) want to justify their jobs by running projects, while the other side is playing with maps.

One thing, though, that really is not being discussed here is the "elephant in the room."  Fairfax County has had a huge influx of very poor non-English speaking kids into the schools over the last few years.  This was not predicted.  And, from what I see, these families settle in communities that are ill-equipped to absorb them.  I live in Western Fairfax, and there is a very large pocket in Herndon.  I would guess there are also pockets along Rt 1 that affect Mt Vernon/West Potomac.  I'm not talking about second generation, I'm talking about very recent.

We should and must educate these children.  But, it is not going to be resolved by shifting boundaries.

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No. This is not about people in FCPS construction and engineering jobs trying to justify their positions. It is about their trying to ensure sufficient seats for students and then being forced to propose additions at schools like West Potomac because the School Board members were cowardly and unwilling to take the heat associated with moving kids to Mount Vernon. [/quote]

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