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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is at Yorktown and I wouldn't want her going to GMU because it's too close to home. She needs to go further away to have a more independent college experience.

So now, that's out of the way. This program is a nice thing. Its probably well intentioned. But Yorktown does in fact have some kids who are lower income, so limiting this to WL, WHS and ATT is kind of discriminatory. They should probably do a means-based county-wide program to actually be fair. Plenty of kids at WL and ATT aren't lower income or first generation college students.[/quote]

I think if it doesn’t yield the result they’re going for, it will be changed.

For now, why don’t you think of if as even the non-economically disadvantaged kids, who have attended Title 1 schools, have some benefit that offsets their lack of academic opportunities/booster/PTA/alumni investment, same as for the disadvantaged kids at the same schools, while the disadvantaged kids at Yorktown do have the [b]benefit of a richer, more connected school community.[/b] [/quote]

For many years the lower income Rosslyn families have lobbied the school board to be rezoned back to W-L. A few years ago (around 2018) students from those neighborhoods were in tears at a school board meeting when describing the bullying and abuse they had to suffer through at Yorktown. Bussing those students past W-L to Yorktown has not been at all beneficial, and now they lose out on a guaranteed GMU admission.

W-L is plenty well-off and could re-absorb Rosslyn. [/quote]

There’s no space for them to all be rezoned to W-L. The county population isn’t evenly distributed and all kids shouldn’t be shoved into two neighborhood schools that happen to have denser development nearby while Yorktown has space. If individual students don’t want to go to Yorktown, they are free to apply to transfer to WL or to ATT, and they likely will if they feel so unhappy at YHS or want/need this benefit. Problem solved. [/quote]

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