FCPS comprehensive boundary review

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You're all insane. Redistricting happens. It's just a fact of life. It happened to my neighborhood in Ohio in the 1980s.

Thanks for sharing, boomer. I’m sure the situations were exactly the same.

Had the same thought. Sounds like she hasn’t quite gotten over it either.

NP. Thanks for sharing. Life is change, so get yourselves or move somewhere with a smaller school district where you have only one or two high school pyramids. FCPS has 175k+ students and requires more frequent rebalancing and checks.

NP unfortunately history does not show that is necessary- hence the decades that have passed between rebalancing.

Here is to hoping your high school kids gets
Moved after their sophomore year and mine doesn’t!

Try after junior year. They did NOT guarantee to grandfather any kids in except seniors at the high school level. A travesty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're all insane. Redistricting happens. It's just a fact of life. It happened to my neighborhood in Ohio in the 1980s.

Thanks for sharing, boomer. I’m sure the situations were exactly the same.

Had the same thought. Sounds like she hasn’t quite gotten over it either.

NP. Thanks for sharing. Life is change, so get yourselves or move somewhere with a smaller school district where you have only one or two high school pyramids. FCPS has 175k+ students and requires more frequent rebalancing and checks.

NP unfortunately history does not show that is necessary- hence the decades that have passed between rebalancing.

Here is to hoping your high school kids gets
Moved after their sophomore year and mine doesn’t!

Try after junior year. They did NOT guarantee to grandfather any kids in except seniors at the high school level. A travesty.

rising seniors - that means the current juniors are grandfathered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're all insane. Redistricting happens. It's just a fact of life. It happened to my neighborhood in Ohio in the 1980s.

Thanks for sharing, boomer. I’m sure the situations were exactly the same.

Had the same thought. Sounds like she hasn’t quite gotten over it either.

NP. Thanks for sharing. Life is change, so get yourselves or move somewhere with a smaller school district where you have only one or two high school pyramids. FCPS has 175k+ students and requires more frequent rebalancing and checks.

NP unfortunately history does not show that is necessary- hence the decades that have passed between rebalancing.

Here is to hoping your high school kids gets
Moved after their sophomore year and mine doesn’t!

NP. What history actually shows is that past boards were too worried about the political fallout to do anything about the boundary issues, which have become virtually impossible to ignore now.

The only people pushing back on this review are those thinking selfishly about what they may “lose” as a result (I’ve heard friend groups, property value, etc).

Unfortunately for them, this is business, the board are employees, and they have an obligation start making decisions that will improve the educational outcomes for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're all insane. Redistricting happens. It's just a fact of life. It happened to my neighborhood in Ohio in the 1980s.

Thanks for sharing, boomer. I’m sure the situations were exactly the same.

Had the same thought. Sounds like she hasn’t quite gotten over it either.

NP. Thanks for sharing. Life is change, so get yourselves or move somewhere with a smaller school district where you have only one or two high school pyramids. FCPS has 175k+ students and requires more frequent rebalancing and checks.

NP unfortunately history does not show that is necessary- hence the decades that have passed between rebalancing.

Here is to hoping your high school kids gets
Moved after their sophomore year and mine doesn’t!

NP. What history actually shows is that past boards were too worried about the political fallout to do anything about the boundary issues, which have become virtually impossible to ignore now.

The only people pushing back on this review are those thinking selfishly about what they may “lose” as a result (I’ve heard friend groups, property value, etc).

Unfortunately for them, this is business, the board are employees, and they have an obligation start making decisions that will improve the educational outcomes for everyone.

The burden is on you and the Board to explain why boundary issues have become "virtually impossible to ignore" when FCPS enrollment is flat and/or slightly declining, and why messing with families' expectations as to the schools their kids will attend "will improve educational outcomes for everyone."

Just making these assertions doesn't make them true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're all insane. Redistricting happens. It's just a fact of life. It happened to my neighborhood in Ohio in the 1980s.

Thanks for sharing, boomer. I’m sure the situations were exactly the same.

Had the same thought. Sounds like she hasn’t quite gotten over it either.

NP. Thanks for sharing. Life is change, so get yourselves or move somewhere with a smaller school district where you have only one or two high school pyramids. FCPS has 175k+ students and requires more frequent rebalancing and checks.

NP unfortunately history does not show that is necessary- hence the decades that have passed between rebalancing.

Here is to hoping your high school kids gets
Moved after their sophomore year and mine doesn’t!

NP. What history actually shows is that past boards were too worried about the political fallout to do anything about the boundary issues, which have become virtually impossible to ignore now.

The only people pushing back on this review are those thinking selfishly about what they may “lose” as a result (I’ve heard friend groups, property value, etc).

Unfortunately for them, this is business, the board are employees, and they have an obligation start making decisions that will improve the educational outcomes for everyone.

No for real. My kid loses out because he may be transferred just after his sophomore year. That sucks. Kids should be able to finish high school in the same high school they start if they hav been living at the same address k-12. We put contracts out in the Lewis area before we bought here. He would have been fine there. They fell through. It isn’t fair to my kid that he switches in the middle of high school. End stop. No way to couch that in niceties. It point blank sucks.

If FCPS wants to feign that flipping high schoolers around is ok for teens’ mental health and building relationships, clearly they can blatantly lie to all involved, but that is what they are doing, lying and being hypocrites. There isn’t any other way to put the truth other than state it.

I don’t really care about my property value, I do care that my kid may be transferred in the middle of high school.

They aren’t a business, they are part of the community and they aren’t reflecting their communities. Worse, they are claiming that by sending in rich kids, the rich kids will save schools from the poor kids. They go on about “our children are watching” when they are the ones sending disrespectful signals to low income children that those children are failing and need white saviors to help them. Ridiculous. Change the metrics and have the metrics reflect the community and what the school community needs, don’t tell brown kids they are failing and need white ones to help them/

[Anonymous]

I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

Oh sweetie- this is my only social media.

And it is to not two
But mostly, fake outrage that I'm overreacting just shows how irrational your stance is. You can’t even construct cogent points.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

It makes every school heavy with ELL and lowers SES for some and raises for others. Obvs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

It makes every school heavy with ELL and lowers SES for some and raises for others. Obvs.

Obvs that isn’t going to help any individual students. Not at the high school level anyway. Those kids are already tracked into ell or IB or AP programs. So why switch the high schoolers?

The only reason is to improve metrics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

DP, isn’t that what the boundary review is for? To figure out what adjustments are needed and how they might improve outcomes for school communities?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

DP, isn’t that what the boundary review is for? To figure out what adjustments are needed and how they might improve outcomes for school communities?

Reid said it was about One Fairfax at the daytime planning meeting

It is not about improving schools or outcomes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

DP, isn’t that what the boundary review is for? To figure out what adjustments are needed and how they might improve outcomes for school communities?

FCPS staff is perfectly capable of making that threshold determination before a consultant gets a $500K contract. By entering into the contract, they are guaranteeing changes that may not be necessary will be recommended to justify the contract.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

I don’t understand this comment, but it is patently absurd for anyone to think that this won’t have significant consequences for the impacted kids.

Only people with no friends or social IQ will struggle to understand those consequences.

[Anonymous]

I’d pay the consultants $500K if they’d provide an honest opinion as to whether there’s any need for the $80M Dunn Loring project. Clearly the new School Board members themselves are unwilling to exercise any independent judgment to challenge a project that their incompetent leader, Karl Frisch, has promoted.