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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]NP here. Your analysis is soley based on the capacity. What this school board is trying to do is to add a new criteria based on OneFairfax. That is to rebalance school demographics based on socioeconomic facotr. Herndon and Langley are close but their demogrpahics are compeletly different. So they may try to switch some of wealth great falls area with some of poor Herndon area. Same for West Springfield and Lee. 
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The proposed policy--which will likely be passed--is to use socioeconomic factors as the first consideration in a reshuffling.  That comes before proximity, geography, traffic patterns, neighborhood communities,avoiding split feeders,etc.

This is what disturbs people.

And, yes, with this policy, they could ship very poor immigrant kids from Herndon to Langley.  ( I don't think they will do this.)  If they did do this, it will increase truancy, decrease participation in school activities, and almost eliminate almost any family involvement for the kids being transported there.

And, this is the problem with our School Board--they never consider unintended consequences when they make decisions.  They only consider their social activism.  They almost never think about how it will affect the kids in reality.  Their minds are on utopia--not real life.

To me, there is no greater example of their disconnect than when several members were determined to change the name of Stuart to Thurgood Marshall--totally ignoring the fact that there was already a Marshall High School in FCPS.  Tunnel vision.[/quote] Anything that increases the numbers of buses on the roads is a no go.  They can't find enough bus drivers for the buses they have and the fleet is almost on life support because of its average age. So, unless the SB is wiling to increase the transportation budget massively (both for drivers and for more buses), it will be bound by the current number of buses. Haven't seen a board willing to do that.  I think they will be able to change boundaries where bussing is not increased- but that will be where the HS are clustered together.  [/quote]

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