Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with 16:34.

the Falls Church middle school (LJ) now reflects the Falls Church High school more than it did previously. The middle school still is getting the benefit of the AAP center (attracting some number of high-performing kids who are not part of the Falls Church pyramid). So, the middle school is not an exact parallel to the high school, but it is closer.

Applying that same analysis to TMS -- TMS is less a mirror of Madison now b/c it has a greater proportion of non-Madison students. BUT... the Madison and Oakton pyramids are pretty similar, and there isn't a single feeder for Oakton HS. So, for better or for worse, both middle schools now more closely reflect the SES/achievement of the high schools they feed. I'm not saying the school board made their decision based on this in any way. Just saying that like is with like. (and some people don't like it!)

You get what you pay for.

More nonsense. There was no Oakton middle school, no Falls Church middle school, and no Madison middle school. In terms of base boundaries, Oakton got kids from three middle schools, and Falls Church and Madison each from two. That is still the case, except some Oakton kids will now come from Thoreau rather than Jackson, turning Thoreau into an overcrowded three-way split feeder in the process. It is hilarious to see parents whose kids were rezoned speak so approvingly about this, as if it were some natural form of socio-economic cleansing.

If FCPS really wanted to align middle and high school boundaries they could have just changed Madison’s boundaries to reflect Thoreau’s and made Thoreau an AAP center like Cooper and Lanier. Instead they’ve likely created a mess at Thoreau, based in large part on the patently false assumption that all or most of the AAP families will send their kids to Jackson.

All assumptions or false info and you've no idea if these are reZoned families or not.

You mean, apart from the fact that many of them have identified themselves as such?

The vast majority of the Madison kids come from Thoreau, and Madison is projected to be so overcrowded that FCPS now wants to build an addition there. But somehow FCPS has convinced itself it can turn Thoreau into a split feeder to Madison, Marshall and Oakton, and that all the AAP kids will go to Jackson, but that it won't soon have an overcrowded middle school on its hands.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with 16:34.

the Falls Church middle school (LJ) now reflects the Falls Church High school more than it did previously. The middle school still is getting the benefit of the AAP center (attracting some number of high-performing kids who are not part of the Falls Church pyramid). So, the middle school is not an exact parallel to the high school, but it is closer.

Applying that same analysis to TMS -- TMS is less a mirror of Madison now b/c it has a greater proportion of non-Madison students. BUT... the Madison and Oakton pyramids are pretty similar, and there isn't a single feeder for Oakton HS. So, for better or for worse, both middle schools now more closely reflect the SES/achievement of the high schools they feed. I'm not saying the school board made their decision based on this in any way. Just saying that like is with like. (and some people don't like it!)

You get what you pay for.

More nonsense. There was no Oakton middle school, no Falls Church middle school, and no Madison middle school. In terms of base boundaries, Oakton got kids from three middle schools, and Falls Church and Madison each from two. That is still the case, except some Oakton kids will now come from Thoreau rather than Jackson, turning Thoreau into an overcrowded three-way split feeder in the process. It is hilarious to see parents whose kids were rezoned speak so approvingly about this, as if it were some natural form of socio-economic cleansing.

If FCPS really wanted to align middle and high school boundaries they could have just changed Madison’s boundaries to reflect Thoreau’s and made Thoreau an AAP center like Cooper and Lanier. Instead they’ve likely created a mess at Thoreau, based in large part on the patently false assumption that all or most of the AAP families will send their kids to Jackson.

All assumptions or false info and you've no idea if these are reZoned families or not.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with 16:34.

the Falls Church middle school (LJ) now reflects the Falls Church High school more than it did previously. The middle school still is getting the benefit of the AAP center (attracting some number of high-performing kids who are not part of the Falls Church pyramid). So, the middle school is not an exact parallel to the high school, but it is closer.

Applying that same analysis to TMS -- TMS is less a mirror of Madison now b/c it has a greater proportion of non-Madison students. BUT... the Madison and Oakton pyramids are pretty similar, and there isn't a single feeder for Oakton HS. So, for better or for worse, both middle schools now more closely reflect the SES/achievement of the high schools they feed. I'm not saying the school board made their decision based on this in any way. Just saying that like is with like. (and some people don't like it!)

You get what you pay for.

More nonsense. There was no Oakton middle school, no Falls Church middle school, and no Madison middle school. In terms of base boundaries, Oakton got kids from three middle schools, and Falls Church and Madison each from two. That is still the case, except some Oakton kids will now come from Thoreau rather than Jackson, turning Thoreau into an overcrowded three-way split feeder in the process. It is hilarious to see parents whose kids were rezoned speak so approvingly about this, as if it were some natural form of socio-economic cleansing.

If FCPS really wanted to align middle and high school boundaries they could have just changed Madison’s boundaries to reflect Thoreau’s and made Thoreau an AAP center like Cooper and Lanier. Instead they’ve likely created a mess at Thoreau, based in large part on the patently false assumption that all or most of the AAP families will send their kids to Jackson.

Anonymous wrote:I agree with 16:34.

the Falls Church middle school (LJ) now reflects the Falls Church High school more than it did previously. The middle school still is getting the benefit of the AAP center (attracting some number of high-performing kids who are not part of the Falls Church pyramid). So, the middle school is not an exact parallel to the high school, but it is closer.

Applying that same analysis to TMS -- TMS is less a mirror of Madison now b/c it has a greater proportion of non-Madison students. BUT... the Madison and Oakton pyramids are pretty similar, and there isn't a single feeder for Oakton HS. So, for better or for worse, both middle schools now more closely reflect the SES/achievement of the high schools they feed. I'm not saying the school board made their decision based on this in any way. Just saying that like is with like. (and some people don't like it!)

You get what you pay for.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:others are criticizing the crazy poster who lives in FCHS pyramid and is upset that now the MS accurately represents the pyramid in which she lives.

The decision was correct. It was unfair to take kids out of their community to inflate the numbers. I think you will see many FCHS pyramid parents biting the bullet and going for one of the rezoned areas - in a smaller house - because it’s where they feel their kid belongs.

The rezoned areas provided some FCHS bound kids the legitimacy they needed. I’m being honest - not a dick. So with that level of student (white, UMC, HHI) leaving, they will leave the pyramid in which the happily lived, as well.

Perhaps moving Stenwood to LJ (closer in proximity than the rezoned areas) will be an option in the future.

However, for now, FCHS bound families via LJ ilife as normal. No more student inflation to up the area when the inflation was based upon an entirely different area.

We don't want you at TMS either. TMS is a Vienna school. Go find your own middle school. Jerk.

Jeez! Check your blood pressure, dude (or dudette)![/quote]

If you’re the one who can’t accept LJ’s rezoning, take your own advice.