Reply to Alexandria Redistricting Process Starting

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Alexandria Redistricting Process Starting"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know why there is a little patch of "George Mason" in what seems to be firm MVCS/Barrett? Seems like some serious gerrymandering: http://www.acps.k12.va.us/enroll/zone_map.pdf[/quote]Well, first off in that section, I think you're talking maybe 3 children. Not like an entire neighborhood. It is the little town house community right off Glebe and friends that live there have children they send to Barrett. She said the school district has handled them (the families in that community) on a case by case basis. Her children and one other child are the only elementary kids in that area - and they don't go to Mason.[/quote]

It's more than just the townhouse community. It involves a sizable chunk of the apartment complexes in that section of Arlandria as well. While there are only a few of us with school age kids in the townhomes, there are several dozen that get on the buses each day from the apartments. I agree that it looks quite strange on the map and I wonder how the planning for this section was worked out. [/quote]

I think that little patch is the way to increase George Mason socioeconomic diversity. if the school had 'natural' boundaries, given the way that neighborhood has developed, the school (one of alexandria's smallest) would have 99 percent affluent kids.  Of course, the result is that the neighborhood kids walk to school and the kids from arlandria are the only ones getting on and off the bus. Not sure that's great. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics