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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You throw up a lot of numbers, without even recognizing the[b] sharp changes in one year[/b].  The trends are clear.  
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A reduction in Asian students from 25% of the population (before rezoning) to 23.8% (after rezoining) is NOT a "sharp change."

A reduction in White students from 26% of the population(before the rezoing) to 24.4% (after rezoining) is NOT a "sharp change."

The actual number of Asian and white students (as well as every other group of students -- hispanic, black, multi-race, etc.) decreased BECAUSE THERE WAS A REZONING.  That was the whole point of the rezoning --- TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF (Asian, white, black, hispanic, and all other) STUDENTS AT LJ.

It is a pity that you are having a hard time understanding this.  [/quote]

This.  a million times this.  It is like arguing with an idiot.  And...she doesn't even have kids at either school...she throws this crap out in the hopes that the decision will change and her property value will increase.  The truth is that LJ was doing fine before and is fine now and Thoreau is doing fine now and was fine before.  [/quote]

Keep telling yourself that.  It's in the CIP that Thoreau is now projected to me the most overcrowded middle school in FCPS in a few years.  And you don't appear to understand (1) how the white/Asian demographics at Jackson are changing more rapidly than the Hispanic demographics and (2) how these trends invariably play out over longer periods.

FCPS has played this game before, and we have multiple "basket case" schools to show for it.  Jackson will be another one. [/quote]

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