STREAMOFCONSCIOUSN3S t1_j2xz2xj wrote on January 4, 2023 at 7:00 PM

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What about middle and high school? The sad fact is that as long as you have education-focused parents with the means (wealth) to remove themselves from poor students, they will continue to do so, and currently that means moving away from the poor students. Implementing school choice would remove the necessity of moving away.

goodsam2 t1_j2y377k wrote on January 4, 2023 at 7:25 PM

>What about middle and high school?

It's moving up from the bottom.

>The sad fact is that as long as you have education-focused parents with the means (wealth) to remove themselves from poor students, they will continue to do so, and currently that means moving away from the poor students.

Which means not moving into the suburbs where poverty has been rising faster than urban areas for 2 decades.

Explain to me how we have the fan and entry price is twice as high as the suburbs and has a worse school long term.

>Implementing school choice would remove the necessity of moving away.

I mean yes but also what level of choice are we talking about here. I think we need to keep them in public schools.

STREAMOFCONSCIOUSN3S t1_j2y6nt6 wrote on January 4, 2023 at 7:46 PM

> Explain to me how we have the fan and entry price is twice as high as the suburbs and has a worse school long term.

Because elementary schools pull from a smaller area than middle and high schools. For elementary, students come from just the Fan, but for MS and HS they also come from impoverished areas surrounding the Fan. Same scenario is true of Tuckahoe Elementary in Henrico county.

goodsam2 t1_j2yb8o1 wrote on January 4, 2023 at 8:14 PM

The areas around the fan are not that impoverished and are rising quickly as well. If it continues to be an issue I think they push for a rezoning to only keep the richer areas.