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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's all about the types of housing that the land use committees and the county supervisors approve.  Put all the lower-cost housing in the Alexandria part of FCPS and voila!... the "bad" schools are entrenched in those areas.  Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out.  Mix the types of housing and you get schools with middle of the road (i.e. "average" ... gasp!!) test scores.  Keep out all the poor or even middle income housing and you suddenly have great schools (i.e. Langley????).

The rich are better at keeping their neighborhoods free of the less wealthy, thereby keeping their schools higher-scoring.

It's a little late now to fuss about schools having bad boundaries.  Should have thought about that before putting all kinds of low slung apartments on Rt. 1.  What can be done now?  Bus kids over to McLean???  Hardly.  Build some garden apartments in Great Falls??  Not likely.  So, we have schools that are stuck b/c the housing in that pyramid is not going to change (especially now that Ffx is pretty much built out).[/quote]

TRUTH![/quote]

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