Terry, interesting how Orange County Schools want to “follow” in Wake County’s shadow. Especially since all parents “love” the Wake County schools!
Shipping poorer children around the county works for a while, since these families are ?stuck? in government provided schools. The minute you being to dictate assignments that empowered families dislike they simply leave government schools. Then the percentage of F&R students within the system begins to increase. Orange County will then need to raise the percentage of ?these? students in each school. This continues until the county voters have had enough and elects school board members who reject this nonsense, or there are so few student not classified as F&R it no longer matters. Ask members of the Charlotte system!
Too bad the Orange County School Central Office does not want to deal with student achievement issues within schools with a higher percentage of poorer students. Leadership and performance makes a school ?healthy,? not the percentage of “rich” kids attending.