Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a little confused. There are well off families that will remain zoned to Marshall. Is the concern that there will be more poor families than well off families.

Shouldn't we be advocating for economic and other forms of diversity? Pimmit Hills has plenty of well off families. The newer townhomes right across from Marshall are million dollar townhomes. Those people aren't poor. The new development that's being built between the library and those other townhouses aren't going to be low-income. Do reasonable people not look at that as a good thing.

It will be fine. Some of you should read this about why it is okay to chill out about schools.

https://open.substack.com/pub/lhtempleton/p/im-a-former-ed-policy-analyst-who?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The addition of affordable housing is one thing. It’s when it’s paired with the boundary adjustment that it raises a concern. They’ve already sent the Wolftrap neighborhoods to Madison, and now there are plans to send the Tysons Green neighborhood to Madison too. The Westbriar attendance island will also make less sense as a Kilmer/Marshall attendance island and is destined for Langley/South Lakes/Madison upon future reviews.

The question is, will the demographic shifts in Pimmit Hills and Dunn Loring offset the UMC families from Vienna leaving Marshall.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a little confused. There are well off families that will remain zoned to Marshall. Is the concern that there will be more poor families than well off families.

Shouldn't we be advocating for economic and other forms of diversity? Pimmit Hills has plenty of well off families. The newer townhomes right across from Marshall are million dollar townhomes. Those people aren't poor. The new development that's being built between the library and those other townhouses aren't going to be low-income. Do reasonable people not look at that as a good thing.

It will be fine. Some of you should read this about why it is okay to chill out about schools.

https://open.substack.com/pub/lhtempleton/p/im-a-former-ed-policy-analyst-who?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why should poor families have a right to access well off families? Are well off families magic or something? Do they make poor kids smarter? I think schooling organized by academic performance (oft correlated with socioeconomic status) means that kids don't feel out of place and teachers can acclimate better by teaching a homogenous group- better learning.

I don't think anyone cares about that specifically. And fewer people care about social engineering. The posts here criticise FCPS' tactic over the decades of moving high income neighborhoods away from more mixed-income or poorer schools into neighboring wealthy or homogenous schools.

Anonymous wrote:Why should poor families have a right to access well off families? Are well off families magic or something? Do they make poor kids smarter? I think schooling organized by academic performance (oft correlated with socioeconomic status) means that kids don't feel out of place and teachers can acclimate better by teaching a homogenous group- better learning.

Anonymous wrote:McLean HS is overly full and the building is in awful shape.

Langley HS parents donate to political campaigns so elected board members seem to cater to them.