FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What videos are people referencing?

The video is described in this news article:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html


Essentially:

- FCPS had so many parents volunteer to be part of the boundary change process, they decided to use a “randomizer” to randomly select parents.

When the program chose “parent number 35,” the FCPS folks realized that “number 35” had complained or criticized FCPS in the past, so they decided to exclude her from the boundary process.

For a committee tasked with drawing the maps for the superintendent, it really is a big scandal to exclude parents who don’t want their kids moved, while at the same time allowing SB friends to be hand-selected through the special interest selections.

A prior poster pretends like this is a fringe viewpoint, but I think most people are generally against corruption in government.

We need an announcement from the state VDOE or the federal government that they are investigating this blatant corruption. Reid and Frisch both deserve to be indicted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What videos are people referencing?

The video is described in this news article:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html


Essentially:

- FCPS had so many parents volunteer to be part of the boundary change process, they decided to use a “randomizer” to randomly select parents.

When the program chose “parent number 35,” the FCPS folks realized that “number 35” had complained or criticized FCPS in the past, so they decided to exclude her from the boundary process.

For a committee tasked with drawing the maps for the superintendent, it really is a big scandal to exclude parents who don’t want their kids moved, while at the same time allowing SB friends to be hand-selected through the special interest selections.

A prior poster pretends like this is a fringe viewpoint, but I think most people are generally against corruption in government.

NO parents want their kids moved. Not a single one on the committee has said, "please move my kid." Parent #35 is not special. She is the same as all other parents who didn't get on the committee. There are only a couple of representatives from each pyramid. Get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What videos are people referencing?

The video is described in this news article:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html


Essentially:

- FCPS had so many parents volunteer to be part of the boundary change process, they decided to use a “randomizer” to randomly select parents.

When the program chose “parent number 35,” the FCPS folks realized that “number 35” had complained or criticized FCPS in the past, so they decided to exclude her from the boundary process.

For a committee tasked with drawing the maps for the superintendent, it really is a big scandal to exclude parents who don’t want their kids moved, while at the same time allowing SB friends to be hand-selected through the special interest selections.

A prior poster pretends like this is a fringe viewpoint, but I think most people are generally against corruption in government.

We need an announcement from the state VDOE or the federal government that they are investigating this blatant corruption. Reid and Frisch both deserve to be indicted.

Yes, please. We need more politically motivated investigations of FCPS. Please spend more money on investigations than on educating our kids.🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What videos are people referencing?

The video is described in this news article:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html


Essentially:

- FCPS had so many parents volunteer to be part of the boundary change process, they decided to use a “randomizer” to randomly select parents.

When the program chose “parent number 35,” the FCPS folks realized that “number 35” had complained or criticized FCPS in the past, so they decided to exclude her from the boundary process.

For a committee tasked with drawing the maps for the superintendent, it really is a big scandal to exclude parents who don’t want their kids moved, while at the same time allowing SB friends to be hand-selected through the special interest selections.

A prior poster pretends like this is a fringe viewpoint, but I think most people are generally against corruption in government.

NO parents want their kids moved. Not a single one on the committee has said, "please move my kid." Parent #35 is not special. She is the same as all other parents who didn't get on the committee. There are only a couple of representatives from each pyramid. Get over yourself.

Parent #35 is a great example of a tainted process and an FCPS break in ethics. 1) Not all parents voiced their concerns in a way that identified themselves, parent #35 did. 2) Not all parents stepped up to volunteer for the BRAC, parent #35 did. So, the takeaway is that 1) FCPS had the ability to identify unsupportive parents based on previous communication to FCPS and the SB, and 2) FCPS did in fact remove parents based on this ability.

[Anonymous]

BRAC members, please break the NDA when it matters most to deliver information to the community. What damages will FCPS sue you for? It would be newsworthy. There are enough of us parents on your side who will fund your legal support through gofundme to make it even more newsworthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What videos are people referencing?

The video is described in this news article:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html


Essentially:

- FCPS had so many parents volunteer to be part of the boundary change process, they decided to use a “randomizer” to randomly select parents.

When the program chose “parent number 35,” the FCPS folks realized that “number 35” had complained or criticized FCPS in the past, so they decided to exclude her from the boundary process.

For a committee tasked with drawing the maps for the superintendent, it really is a big scandal to exclude parents who don’t want their kids moved, while at the same time allowing SB friends to be hand-selected through the special interest selections.

A prior poster pretends like this is a fringe viewpoint, but I think most people are generally against corruption in government.

NO parents want their kids moved. Not a single one on the committee has said, "please move my kid." Parent #35 is not special. She is the same as all other parents who didn't get on the committee. There are only a couple of representatives from each pyramid. Get over yourself.

She’s not the same if she was randomly selected only for some Gatehouse employee to deliberately exclude her from the BRAC because she’s not a rubber stamp for Reid.

And there are more than a couple of representatives from a few pyramids, although not most. That’s how they stacked the BRAC with suck-ups like Hall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What videos are people referencing?

The video is described in this news article:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html


Essentially:

- FCPS had so many parents volunteer to be part of the boundary change process, they decided to use a “randomizer” to randomly select parents.

When the program chose “parent number 35,” the FCPS folks realized that “number 35” had complained or criticized FCPS in the past, so they decided to exclude her from the boundary process.

For a committee tasked with drawing the maps for the superintendent, it really is a big scandal to exclude parents who don’t want their kids moved, while at the same time allowing SB friends to be hand-selected through the special interest selections.

A prior poster pretends like this is a fringe viewpoint, but I think most people are generally against corruption in government.

We need an announcement from the state VDOE or the federal government that they are investigating this blatant corruption. Reid and Frisch both deserve to be indicted.

Yes, please. We need more politically motivated investigations of FCPS. Please spend more money on investigations than on educating our kids.🙄

Everything FCPS leadership has focused on in recent years has been politically motivated, so they fully deserve to be investigated for potential violations of state law and executive orders from the federal government. It’s past time to clean house at FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BRAC members, please break the NDA when it matters most to deliver information to the community. What damages will FCPS sue you for? It would be newsworthy. There are enough of us parents on your side who will fund your legal support through gofundme to make it even more newsworthy.

Per the FOIA, the meetings are required to be open. FCPS is violating that process. The NDA is void on its face since the meetings are required to be open to the public.

Feel free to disclose away.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It needs to be paused. Too many changes at once.

The incompetence that FairFACTS Matters has uncovered relating to the selection of BRAC members raises bigger issues as to whether those currently running FCPS and on the School Board could possibly be trusted with fair and valid county-wide boundary changes.

FCPS has never had a more incompetent Superintendent and School Board and they need to pause the boundary study, figure out how to improve their processes, and form a new advisory committee (one where obnoxious School Board shills aren't rewarded with seats for their long history of sucking up to the School Board) before doing any further work.

Fairfax matters discovered a typo on a spreadsheet, maybe. Theres a reason no legitimate new outlet is running that “story” except a local blog.

I see what you did there. What makes a news outlet “legitimate”? Is WaPo “legitimate” under Bezos. Is WTOP legitimate in their “hard hitting” reporting? Would a larger news outlet national (WaPo) or even regional (pick one) outlet report on such a local issue? Or would you expect a local, county news outlet to report on it:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html

Ah, but this particular reporter and this publication has reported on FCPS in the past so this must not be “legitimate.”

That is hilarious. Legitimately hilarious.

Thanks.

I really do not see how anyone can support the current boundary adjustment, given how obviously corrupted and biased the process has been shown to be:

“Scott Jones, a member of the local group FairFACTS Matters, which advocates on education issues, received a copy of the video and other documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by a local father. Parents and community members are now expressing outrage at the sequence of events captured in the video as they watch the segment on social media postings in local neighborhood groups.

The disclosure underscores deeper issues into the integrity, legitimacy, and transparency of the FCPS boundary review committee selection process, which requires members to sign non-disclosure agreements. The documents in the public records request included a file marked “Superintendent’s Boundary Review Committee,” which included a comment from Tracey Wynne, FCPS director of community relations, stating, “Each member has signed a limited non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in order to participate on the committee.”

For Jones, the selection process is “invalid” due to how FCPS officials allegedly mishandled it. He said the incident raises questions about whether FCPS officials intentionally selected only people who would rubber stamp the school district’s remapping of the district.

The public records documents released for the first time revealed all of the committee's members. A Dec. 11 Excel spreadsheet titled “Advisory Committee” includes the names of 87 people in a list marked “Confirmation NDA.” Of those listed, 22 are FCPS employees.

That poster doesn’t care about facts. She’s got her own alternative facts to fit her narrative of unwavering support for corrupt FCPS.

Gaslight much? “That poster,” was me, and you failed to realize I quoted a reputable media source:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html


Question for you PP: You work for FCPS don’t you?

I don't work for FCPS, because I know you will ask and I am not the poster you are responding to.

Fairfax Times is not a reputable source, it is pretty biased in its reporting. And the FairFacts group, or whatever it is call, is pretty biased. I was on the FairFacts FB page for a while and there is a real bias there.

I don't think kids should be moved to rebalnace economic imbalances in the county. I do think that kids need to be moved to decrease enrollment at schools that are over capacity.

I think that IB should be dropped, and students should return to their base schools.

I think that we should be using the existing space that we have instead of expanding capacity at overcrowded schools. I don't think schools udnergoing a renovation should be expanded just because there is a renovation ongoing.

I think that schools that need to be renovated should be renovated, although that is technically a different conversation. It is a legitimate complaint that schools like McLean are falling apart and should be moved up in the renovation cue.

I understand that boundrary changes are disruptive and people don't like them but that doesn't mean there are not valid reasons for doing them. I don't think that FCPS is talking about these shifts for the right reasons, the focus on moving kids to balance FARMs rates in inappropriate. Some kids might be shifted to reduce overcrowding to a school that is a lower FARMs rate because the school closest by has a higher percentage of FARMs kids but a geographic shift possible.

The efforts of the people strongly opposed to redistricting to shut down anyone whose opinion disagrees with theirs is problematic. FCPS didn't need to hrie consultants to do this, they needed maps and people to look at the maps and make adjustments based on relieving overcrowded schools based on geography.

Fairfax Times does meticulous investigative reporting. They broke the Hayfield scandal months before everyone else.

Their issue is that in the midst of their very good reporting, they throw in a bit too much editorial and hyperbole, with a right wing bent. But the reporting is sound, thoroughly researched, and supported by extensive FIOA requests.

They do some of the best investigative reporting anywhere in the area.

If they had a left wing bent, even with the same amount of editorial and hyperbole, you would be falling all over yourself to laud them for their journalism.

Don't let the messenger get in the way of their very valid investigative reporting.

Look beyond your political biases to see the extensive facts behind their reporting.

The Fairfax Times is a reputable, reliable, and accurate source of factual news concerning events in our county.

Fairfax Times is a piece of garbage. Everyone knows. Read it at your peril. Believe the Nomani Times if you have no brain cells.

It really is scary. After reading three articles I started cooking at home and working out. I lost 20lbs my skin is softer, and my husband started lifting weights and grew a beard. Bit by bit they will turn you right wing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m dying to know how the meeting today went!

The meeting was cancelled to permit time for the test scenario development.
If we wait a minute, someone from FairFACTS matters will develop another wildly stupid conspiracy about it. Maybe with doctored videos and secret parents #35. (snicker)

Cancelled the day of or were the members given notice?

They must have known in advance they wouldn't have their materials ready. No matter the members viewpoints on the boundary issue, they are volunteers. These people are arranging schedules around this commitment and should be notified as soon as possible of a meeting time change or cancellation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It needs to be paused. Too many changes at once.

The incompetence that FairFACTS Matters has uncovered relating to the selection of BRAC members raises bigger issues as to whether those currently running FCPS and on the School Board could possibly be trusted with fair and valid county-wide boundary changes.

FCPS has never had a more incompetent Superintendent and School Board and they need to pause the boundary study, figure out how to improve their processes, and form a new advisory committee (one where obnoxious School Board shills aren't rewarded with seats for their long history of sucking up to the School Board) before doing any further work.

Fairfax matters discovered a typo on a spreadsheet, maybe. Theres a reason no legitimate new outlet is running that “story” except a local blog.

I see what you did there. What makes a news outlet “legitimate”? Is WaPo “legitimate” under Bezos. Is WTOP legitimate in their “hard hitting” reporting? Would a larger news outlet national (WaPo) or even regional (pick one) outlet report on such a local issue? Or would you expect a local, county news outlet to report on it:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html

Ah, but this particular reporter and this publication has reported on FCPS in the past so this must not be “legitimate.”

That is hilarious. Legitimately hilarious.

Thanks.

I really do not see how anyone can support the current boundary adjustment, given how obviously corrupted and biased the process has been shown to be:

“Scott Jones, a member of the local group FairFACTS Matters, which advocates on education issues, received a copy of the video and other documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by a local father. Parents and community members are now expressing outrage at the sequence of events captured in the video as they watch the segment on social media postings in local neighborhood groups.

The disclosure underscores deeper issues into the integrity, legitimacy, and transparency of the FCPS boundary review committee selection process, which requires members to sign non-disclosure agreements. The documents in the public records request included a file marked “Superintendent’s Boundary Review Committee,” which included a comment from Tracey Wynne, FCPS director of community relations, stating, “Each member has signed a limited non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in order to participate on the committee.”

For Jones, the selection process is “invalid” due to how FCPS officials allegedly mishandled it. He said the incident raises questions about whether FCPS officials intentionally selected only people who would rubber stamp the school district’s remapping of the district.

The public records documents released for the first time revealed all of the committee's members. A Dec. 11 Excel spreadsheet titled “Advisory Committee” includes the names of 87 people in a list marked “Confirmation NDA.” Of those listed, 22 are FCPS employees.

That poster doesn’t care about facts. She’s got her own alternative facts to fit her narrative of unwavering support for corrupt FCPS.

Gaslight much? “That poster,” was me, and you failed to realize I quoted a reputable media source:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html


Question for you PP: You work for FCPS don’t you?

I don't work for FCPS, because I know you will ask and I am not the poster you are responding to.

Fairfax Times is not a reputable source, it is pretty biased in its reporting. And the FairFacts group, or whatever it is call, is pretty biased. I was on the FairFacts FB page for a while and there is a real bias there.

I don't think kids should be moved to rebalnace economic imbalances in the county. I do think that kids need to be moved to decrease enrollment at schools that are over capacity.

I think that IB should be dropped, and students should return to their base schools.

I think that we should be using the existing space that we have instead of expanding capacity at overcrowded schools. I don't think schools udnergoing a renovation should be expanded just because there is a renovation ongoing.

I think that schools that need to be renovated should be renovated, although that is technically a different conversation. It is a legitimate complaint that schools like McLean are falling apart and should be moved up in the renovation cue.

I understand that boundrary changes are disruptive and people don't like them but that doesn't mean there are not valid reasons for doing them. I don't think that FCPS is talking about these shifts for the right reasons, the focus on moving kids to balance FARMs rates in inappropriate. Some kids might be shifted to reduce overcrowding to a school that is a lower FARMs rate because the school closest by has a higher percentage of FARMs kids but a geographic shift possible.

The efforts of the people strongly opposed to redistricting to shut down anyone whose opinion disagrees with theirs is problematic. FCPS didn't need to hrie consultants to do this, they needed maps and people to look at the maps and make adjustments based on relieving overcrowded schools based on geography.

Fairfax Times does meticulous investigative reporting. They broke the Hayfield scandal months before everyone else.

Their issue is that in the midst of their very good reporting, they throw in a bit too much editorial and hyperbole, with a right wing bent. But the reporting is sound, thoroughly researched, and supported by extensive FIOA requests.

They do some of the best investigative reporting anywhere in the area.

If they had a left wing bent, even with the same amount of editorial and hyperbole, you would be falling all over yourself to laud them for their journalism.

Don't let the messenger get in the way of their very valid investigative reporting.

Look beyond your political biases to see the extensive facts behind their reporting.

The Fairfax Times is a reputable, reliable, and accurate source of factual news concerning events in our county.

Fairfax Times is a piece of garbage. Everyone knows. Read it at your peril. Believe the Nomani Times if you have no brain cells.

It really is scary. After reading three articles I started cooking at home and working out. I lost 20lbs my skin is softer, and my husband started lifting weights and grew a beard. Bit by bit they will turn you right wing.

If the FCPS shills don’t like muckraking investigative journalists like Asra Nomani, maybe they could create a little less muck over at Gatehouse to rake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s on the Fairfactsmatters Facebook page, which is public.

I watched it but don’t think the video on its own really shows anything done wrong, just that there was some kind of problem with 35 on the spreadsheet.

So nothing was done wrong, but at a minimum there was a problem on their spreadsheet?

Do you even know how stupid this makes you (and FCPS) look? If kids are sloppy with their assignments they get downgraded, but FCPS screws up something with greater implications - perhaps on purpose - and you explain it away.

Do the lame excuses for FCPS’s waste and incompetence ever stop? At what point do we demand accountability and the replacement of these bozos?

Those videos were sad...inefficient watching those 2 staffers shuffling piles of papers and referring to irrelevant regions. Even the application form was silly. https://www.k12insight.com/Lets-Talk/FormBuilder/#/Dialogue?k=PY3KXZY3D4G1LT@WY3D4G1LT@MDLT@DY2D7B3LT@LDLT@NDLT

Should have been fields that fed into spread sheets. No form submission if a field is blank:
first and last names
birth date
street address
base HS pull down menu
email
cell

Duplicates? Email that 1 submission is deleted. Then staff verifies assigned schools per address via boundary locator and residence by FX DTA tax . No property owned? Communicate that address verification must be supplied within x days. Verify that stuff and let the biddies pull 2 ball /bingo/lottery from a per pyramid bin. Televise on FCPS channels.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It needs to be paused. Too many changes at once.

The incompetence that FairFACTS Matters has uncovered relating to the selection of BRAC members raises bigger issues as to whether those currently running FCPS and on the School Board could possibly be trusted with fair and valid county-wide boundary changes.

FCPS has never had a more incompetent Superintendent and School Board and they need to pause the boundary study, figure out how to improve their processes, and form a new advisory committee (one where obnoxious School Board shills aren't rewarded with seats for their long history of sucking up to the School Board) before doing any further work.

Fairfax matters discovered a typo on a spreadsheet, maybe. Theres a reason no legitimate new outlet is running that “story” except a local blog.

I see what you did there. What makes a news outlet “legitimate”? Is WaPo “legitimate” under Bezos. Is WTOP legitimate in their “hard hitting” reporting? Would a larger news outlet national (WaPo) or even regional (pick one) outlet report on such a local issue? Or would you expect a local, county news outlet to report on it:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html

Ah, but this particular reporter and this publication has reported on FCPS in the past so this must not be “legitimate.”

That is hilarious. Legitimately hilarious.

Thanks.

I really do not see how anyone can support the current boundary adjustment, given how obviously corrupted and biased the process has been shown to be:

“Scott Jones, a member of the local group FairFACTS Matters, which advocates on education issues, received a copy of the video and other documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by a local father. Parents and community members are now expressing outrage at the sequence of events captured in the video as they watch the segment on social media postings in local neighborhood groups.

The disclosure underscores deeper issues into the integrity, legitimacy, and transparency of the FCPS boundary review committee selection process, which requires members to sign non-disclosure agreements. The documents in the public records request included a file marked “Superintendent’s Boundary Review Committee,” which included a comment from Tracey Wynne, FCPS director of community relations, stating, “Each member has signed a limited non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in order to participate on the committee.”

For Jones, the selection process is “invalid” due to how FCPS officials allegedly mishandled it. He said the incident raises questions about whether FCPS officials intentionally selected only people who would rubber stamp the school district’s remapping of the district.

The public records documents released for the first time revealed all of the committee's members. A Dec. 11 Excel spreadsheet titled “Advisory Committee” includes the names of 87 people in a list marked “Confirmation NDA.” Of those listed, 22 are FCPS employees.

That poster doesn’t care about facts. She’s got her own alternative facts to fit her narrative of unwavering support for corrupt FCPS.

Gaslight much? “That poster,” was me, and you failed to realize I quoted a reputable media source:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html


Question for you PP: You work for FCPS don’t you?

I don't work for FCPS, because I know you will ask and I am not the poster you are responding to.

Fairfax Times is not a reputable source, it is pretty biased in its reporting. And the FairFacts group, or whatever it is call, is pretty biased. I was on the FairFacts FB page for a while and there is a real bias there.

I don't think kids should be moved to rebalnace economic imbalances in the county. I do think that kids need to be moved to decrease enrollment at schools that are over capacity.

I think that IB should be dropped, and students should return to their base schools.

I think that we should be using the existing space that we have instead of expanding capacity at overcrowded schools. I don't think schools udnergoing a renovation should be expanded just because there is a renovation ongoing.

I think that schools that need to be renovated should be renovated, although that is technically a different conversation. It is a legitimate complaint that schools like McLean are falling apart and should be moved up in the renovation cue.

I understand that boundrary changes are disruptive and people don't like them but that doesn't mean there are not valid reasons for doing them. I don't think that FCPS is talking about these shifts for the right reasons, the focus on moving kids to balance FARMs rates in inappropriate. Some kids might be shifted to reduce overcrowding to a school that is a lower FARMs rate because the school closest by has a higher percentage of FARMs kids but a geographic shift possible.

The efforts of the people strongly opposed to redistricting to shut down anyone whose opinion disagrees with theirs is problematic. FCPS didn't need to hrie consultants to do this, they needed maps and people to look at the maps and make adjustments based on relieving overcrowded schools based on geography.

Fairfax Times does meticulous investigative reporting. They broke the Hayfield scandal months before everyone else.

Their issue is that in the midst of their very good reporting, they throw in a bit too much editorial and hyperbole, with a right wing bent. But the reporting is sound, thoroughly researched, and supported by extensive FIOA requests.

They do some of the best investigative reporting anywhere in the area.

If they had a left wing bent, even with the same amount of editorial and hyperbole, you would be falling all over yourself to laud them for their journalism.

Don't let the messenger get in the way of their very valid investigative reporting.

Look beyond your political biases to see the extensive facts behind their reporting.

The Fairfax Times is a reputable, reliable, and accurate source of factual news concerning events in our county.

Fairfax Times is a piece of garbage. Everyone knows. Read it at your peril. Believe the Nomani Times if you have no brain cells.

It really is scary. After reading three articles I started cooking at home and working out. I lost 20lbs my skin is softer, and my husband started lifting weights and grew a beard. Bit by bit they will turn you right wing.

If the FCPS shills don’t like muckraking investigative journalists like Asra Nomani, maybe they could create a little less muck over at Gatehouse to rake.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What videos are people referencing?

The video is described in this news article:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html


Essentially:

- FCPS had so many parents volunteer to be part of the boundary change process, they decided to use a “randomizer” to randomly select parents.

When the program chose “parent number 35,” the FCPS folks realized that “number 35” had complained or criticized FCPS in the past, so they decided to exclude her from the boundary process.

For a committee tasked with drawing the maps for the superintendent, it really is a big scandal to exclude parents who don’t want their kids moved, while at the same time allowing SB friends to be hand-selected through the special interest selections.

A prior poster pretends like this is a fringe viewpoint, but I think most people are generally against corruption in government.

NO parents want their kids moved. Not a single one on the committee has said, "please move my kid." Parent #35 is not special. She is the same as all other parents who didn't get on the committee. There are only a couple of representatives from each pyramid. Get over yourself.

Parent #35 is a great example of a tainted process and an FCPS break in ethics. 1) Not all parents voiced their concerns in a way that identified themselves, parent #35 did. 2) Not all parents stepped up to volunteer for the BRAC, parent #35 did. So, the takeaway is that 1) FCPS had the ability to identify unsupportive parents based on previous communication to FCPS and the SB, and 2) FCPS did in fact remove parents based on this ability.

+1
Yep. It’s all so blatant. Someone needs to do an expose on this corrupt and biased school board.
NP

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Anonymous wrote:It needs to be paused. Too many changes at once.

The incompetence that FairFACTS Matters has uncovered relating to the selection of BRAC members raises bigger issues as to whether those currently running FCPS and on the School Board could possibly be trusted with fair and valid county-wide boundary changes.

FCPS has never had a more incompetent Superintendent and School Board and they need to pause the boundary study, figure out how to improve their processes, and form a new advisory committee (one where obnoxious School Board shills aren't rewarded with seats for their long history of sucking up to the School Board) before doing any further work.

Fairfax matters discovered a typo on a spreadsheet, maybe. Theres a reason no legitimate new outlet is running that “story” except a local blog.

I see what you did there. What makes a news outlet “legitimate”? Is WaPo “legitimate” under Bezos. Is WTOP legitimate in their “hard hitting” reporting? Would a larger news outlet national (WaPo) or even regional (pick one) outlet report on such a local issue? Or would you expect a local, county news outlet to report on it:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html

Ah, but this particular reporter and this publication has reported on FCPS in the past so this must not be “legitimate.”

That is hilarious. Legitimately hilarious.

Thanks.

I really do not see how anyone can support the current boundary adjustment, given how obviously corrupted and biased the process has been shown to be:

“Scott Jones, a member of the local group FairFACTS Matters, which advocates on education issues, received a copy of the video and other documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by a local father. Parents and community members are now expressing outrage at the sequence of events captured in the video as they watch the segment on social media postings in local neighborhood groups.

The disclosure underscores deeper issues into the integrity, legitimacy, and transparency of the FCPS boundary review committee selection process, which requires members to sign non-disclosure agreements. The documents in the public records request included a file marked “Superintendent’s Boundary Review Committee,” which included a comment from Tracey Wynne, FCPS director of community relations, stating, “Each member has signed a limited non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in order to participate on the committee.”

For Jones, the selection process is “invalid” due to how FCPS officials allegedly mishandled it. He said the incident raises questions about whether FCPS officials intentionally selected only people who would rubber stamp the school district’s remapping of the district.

The public records documents released for the first time revealed all of the committee's members. A Dec. 11 Excel spreadsheet titled “Advisory Committee” includes the names of 87 people in a list marked “Confirmation NDA.” Of those listed, 22 are FCPS employees.

That poster doesn’t care about facts. She’s got her own alternative facts to fit her narrative of unwavering support for corrupt FCPS.

Gaslight much? “That poster,” was me, and you failed to realize I quoted a reputable media source:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html


Question for you PP: You work for FCPS don’t you?

I don't work for FCPS, because I know you will ask and I am not the poster you are responding to.

Fairfax Times is not a reputable source, it is pretty biased in its reporting. And the FairFacts group, or whatever it is call, is pretty biased. I was on the FairFacts FB page for a while and there is a real bias there.

I don't think kids should be moved to rebalnace economic imbalances in the county. I do think that kids need to be moved to decrease enrollment at schools that are over capacity.

I think that IB should be dropped, and students should return to their base schools.

I think that we should be using the existing space that we have instead of expanding capacity at overcrowded schools. I don't think schools udnergoing a renovation should be expanded just because there is a renovation ongoing.

I think that schools that need to be renovated should be renovated, although that is technically a different conversation. It is a legitimate complaint that schools like McLean are falling apart and should be moved up in the renovation cue.

I understand that boundrary changes are disruptive and people don't like them but that doesn't mean there are not valid reasons for doing them. I don't think that FCPS is talking about these shifts for the right reasons, the focus on moving kids to balance FARMs rates in inappropriate. Some kids might be shifted to reduce overcrowding to a school that is a lower FARMs rate because the school closest by has a higher percentage of FARMs kids but a geographic shift possible.

The efforts of the people strongly opposed to redistricting to shut down anyone whose opinion disagrees with theirs is problematic. FCPS didn't need to hrie consultants to do this, they needed maps and people to look at the maps and make adjustments based on relieving overcrowded schools based on geography.

Fairfax Times does meticulous investigative reporting. They broke the Hayfield scandal months before everyone else.

Their issue is that in the midst of their very good reporting, they throw in a bit too much editorial and hyperbole, with a right wing bent. But the reporting is sound, thoroughly researched, and supported by extensive FIOA requests.

They do some of the best investigative reporting anywhere in the area.

If they had a left wing bent, even with the same amount of editorial and hyperbole, you would be falling all over yourself to laud them for their journalism.

Don't let the messenger get in the way of their very valid investigative reporting.

Look beyond your political biases to see the extensive facts behind their reporting.

The Fairfax Times is a reputable, reliable, and accurate source of factual news concerning events in our county.

Fairfax Times is a piece of garbage. Everyone knows. Read it at your peril. Believe the Nomani Times if you have no brain cells.

It really is scary. After reading three articles I started cooking at home and working out. I lost 20lbs my skin is softer, and my husband started lifting weights and grew a beard. Bit by bit they will turn you right wing.

I love you.