Reply to FCPS's "Obvious Elephant in the Room" - Does the West Potomac Expansion Foster Intolerance?

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes WestPo, 3 rating on great schools, majority black and hispanic is clearly the problem, lets just ignore 9 and 10 rated high schools comprised almost entirely of affluent students. MVHS is bordered by three districts, one has a great school rating of 5, one 6 and one 3. Obviously the equitable solution is to take the three, combine it with the one and make a bad and terrible school into two very bad schools and ignore the schools to the west of both  [/quote]

But to parents, the 3 on Great Schools for West Potomac is much better than the current Great Schools ranking of 1 for MVHS. Parents would rather send kids to WestPo than MVHS, and don’t want the boundaries to change. That is the problem.[/quote]

I'm a parent in that pyramid. I'm fine with sending my kids to objectively bad middle and high schools (both great school 3 rated). The outcry to send us to an even worse high school while ignoring the better and more affluent schools in the area is infuriating. Hayfield and South County are both better schools than westpo by any metric you can come up with, but there is no talk of redistricting them to improve MVHS. If you want to redistrict for equity, great look at the boundary map and there are plenty of great schools bordering struggling schools, [b]but somehow the issue is a mediocre school bordering a struggling school[/b] [/quote]

The issue is spending $36M to expand West Potomac to a ridiculous size when there are hundreds of seats available next door at Mt. Vernon. Full stop.[/quote]

You can always request to send your kid there is you’re worried about empty seats [/quote]

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