Glasgow MS boundary study - pulling in Frost MS and CWES AAP

[Anonymous]

At the risk of starting an absolute firestorm of misinformation, does the addition of Frost and CWES to the Glasgow MS boundary study mean those schools could possibly get more kids? I have no idea how this stuff works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At the risk of starting an absolute firestorm of misinformation, does the addition of Frost and CWES to the Glasgow MS boundary study mean those schools could possibly get more kids? I have no idea how this stuff works.

Yes, the staff recommendation was to add CWES AAP and Frost AAP to the boundary study. The implication was that they might want to move some Belvedere AAP students to CW and some Glasgow AAP students to Frost.

But when the staff recommendation was presented at a School Board meeting earlier this month there was all sorts of huffing and puffing about the scope. It was a fiasco, and the fault lies primarily with Ricardy Anderson, who should have made sure she and other SB members were comfortable with the scope before it was presented to the full board.

So staff was basically told to go back to the drawing board and no one really knows what will happen next.

[Anonymous]

Thank you! This is really helpful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the risk of starting an absolute firestorm of misinformation, does the addition of Frost and CWES to the Glasgow MS boundary study mean those schools could possibly get more kids? I have no idea how this stuff works.

Yes, the staff recommendation was to add CWES AAP and Frost AAP to the boundary study. The implication was that they might want to move some Belvedere AAP students to CW and some Glasgow AAP students to Frost.

But when the staff recommendation was presented at a School Board meeting earlier this month there was all sorts of huffing and puffing about the scope. It was a fiasco, and the fault lies primarily with Ricardy Anderson, who should have made sure she and other SB members were comfortable with the scope before it was presented to the full board.

So staff was basically told to go back to the drawing board and no one really knows what will happen next.

NP here - this explains the email I got today saying the public meetings had been pushed back. It seemed like they only added CWES and Frost recently, and then all of a sudden there was an email saying there's a change in scope and I wasn't sure what it was. I hadn't watched the meetings.

I haven't asked around at all, but I haven't heard anyone at CWES talking about this (AAP parents or gen ed parents) so I'm not sure how much people are aware.

[Anonymous]

Everything about the Glasgow MS study so far has been a joke.

It's all because Ricardy Anderson is more interested in getting attention than doing things right and rolling them out at the right time.

Glasgow isn't even that crowded given the available space at the school. Some of Anderson's friends just decided it's "too big."

[Anonymous]

It would be a terrible option anyway. Removing AAP kids from the east and sending them west would only deepen the divide in public reputation via SOL test scores. Frost/CW SOLs would get better, Glasgow/Belvedere SOLs would get worse, and flight from Glasgow's pyramid would accelerate leaving only the poorest kids. FCPS seems to be really bad at analyzing the optics through the public eye.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be a terrible option anyway. Removing AAP kids from the east and sending them west would only deepen the divide in public reputation via SOL test scores. Frost/CW SOLs would get better, Glasgow/Belvedere SOLs would get worse, and flight from Glasgow's pyramid would accelerate leaving only the poorest kids. FCPS seems to be really bad at analyzing the optics through the public eye.

It’s not staff’s fault. Ricardy Anderson just isn’t very bright. She’s obsessed with making her schools the center of attention, but doesn’t think through the implications of what she’s asking for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At the risk of starting an absolute firestorm of misinformation, does the addition of Frost and CWES to the Glasgow MS boundary study mean those schools could possibly get more kids? I have no idea how this stuff works.

Are any of these your schools? Seems like yet another variant on the same subject.