Well, okay. Enjoy your junior's new high school then. |
They are counting on you to fold like a deck of cards as long as your own kids can finish HS at their existing schools if you can toss them a pair of car keys. You don’t care at all about the kids who’ll have to attend schools they didn’t want to attend or who can’t arrange for their own transportation. Gross. |
You’re the definition of a quisling. |
Exactly - as I mentioned earlier, the grandfathering amendment is a nice bone the SB is throwing to distract us from the bigger problem of a county-wide boundary change instead of fixing problems where they are. Please don't be fooled: demand change if you're at a school with a problem and demand No Change if you're at a school without a problem! |
Agree that they are hoping this buys some parents off. And for many of us that HS grandfathering will address the biggest worry. I posted earlier that my kid will be a rising sophomore when it implements (or junior if this gets delayed which would be even worse) and by far my biggest worry in the process had been them moving during those key HS years. But a move for us would be to a comparable school so it’s not that groaning is awful in my neighborhood’s case. It’s just that a change at a particularly fragile time would be awful. I would still support others who oppose changes but it would dial the temperature on this way down for me.
There are still many ES and MS families though in the county to be engaged in any inherently bad changes. |
The clown show continues. Step 1 in reaching the logical conclusion to abandon a comprehensive boundary review altogether.
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I am also glad to see them change the grandfathering rules.
But, honestly, it just makes the rest of the policy seem that much more ridiculous. Isn't it part of the policy that a review of boundaries should happen every 5 years? If it takes 2-3 years to actually make any changes - as we're seeing - and then they grandfather 3 years of kids, there could be new changes before the changes from the previous review are even fully implemented. So ridiculous and all of their decisions are short-sighted and nonsense. |
What’s crazy is that this amendment wouldn’t even apply to this round of boundary changes because of KAA.
From the proposed amendment: These allowances shall not be applicable in the opening of a new school, or in the closing of an existing school. If that new school gets opened fall of 2026, then the grandfathering wouldn’t apply. |
All they want to do is salvage their political careers. They’d look bad if they admitted the boundary review was a largely unnecessary waste of time so they are just going to complicate things further to save face. It’s probably not a coincidence this half-baked grandfathering policy is getting floated right around the time that Moon and Sizemore-Heizer are considering runs for the BoS. |
To students zoned to KAA. There are many recommended adjustments to high school boundaries that are not related to KAA. |
That’s open to interpretation - the amendment is not drafted well. |
Okay, yeah. If the school board is full of mustache twirling villains (which many on this board believe) then yes, absolutely, they’ll pass the amendment to lull people into a false sense of compromise and then snatch away grandfathering on a technicality. |
I don’t think that’s the issue. The proposed amendment is explicit that grandfathering wouldn’t necessarily apply to boundary changes associated with the opening or closing of a school. Assuming they reopen KAA as a neighborhood HS, the most likely scenario is that it opens as 9-11 school the first year, with no grandfathering. They’ll want to get it up and running. The next year it will then be a 9-12 school. For other boundary changes, they’d grandfather students in grades 10-12 but you’d apparently have to provide your own transportation. That favors wealthier kids and would mean a lot more cars on the streets near the high schools. That’s could be pretty crazy at some schools where there is already limited parking. |
Aren’t they mostly moving the wealthier kids around anyway? And, the Fairfax connector is free to FCPS kids. |
The Fairfax connector? Not relevant to most of the neighborhoods. Hardly anyone lives walking distance to a connector station or has a connector station walking distance to their high school. |