FCPS HS Boundary

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Policy 8130 is on the agenda for the Governance Committee meeting today but no documents are posted about it.

They posted the 5/15 draft after the meeting today and it looks close to final. Probably up for a vote soon.

What do you think will happen after it is finalized?

As the dranesville rep Robyn lady said in her newsletter last week. Once (Not if) they approve it, they will operationalize it. She and Kyle McDaniel and most of the board are going to try to equitize the county.

If you like your current school pyramid, now might be a good time to reach out to your rep to let them know your thoughts. McDaniel said he wants to move quickly to redistrict (probably to try to avoid making immensely unpopular changes in an election year).

I just hope they do something with the document that they’ve invested so much time on. And that future boards stay on top of adjusting as needed rather than kicking things down the road. If previous boards had done their jobs properly, then the noise from the LWNJ and RWNJ on this thread would be more muted.

If the SB does nothing now, they are suppressing the underprivileged. If the SB rebalances schools now, they are doing it for some equity purpose.

All they need is some common sense. The only school really needing an adjustment is Lewis, and changing the boundary should only happen, if at all, after they’ve made a sustained effort to improve academics and reduce out-placements there.

They want to throw kids at schools to cover up problems that are the result of their predecessors’ actions and inaction.

This isn’t true. Many schools need enrollment adjustments. Overcrowded schools don’t need to be next to under capacity ones.

Unless there is a severe imbalance among neighboring schools all you’re doing is creating unnecessary havoc and quite possibly creating overcrowding at the under-enrolled school and vice versa.

This SB doesn’t realize how fragile FCPS is right now and how much damage they will do if they make unnecessary boundary changes that only a handful of activists seem to want.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Policy 8130 is on the agenda for the Governance Committee meeting today but no documents are posted about it.

They posted the 5/15 draft after the meeting today and it looks close to final. Probably up for a vote soon.

What do you think will happen after it is finalized?

As the dranesville rep Robyn lady said in her newsletter last week. Once (Not if) they approve it, they will operationalize it. She and Kyle McDaniel and most of the board are going to try to equitize the county.

If you like your current school pyramid, now might be a good time to reach out to your rep to let them know your thoughts. McDaniel said he wants to move quickly to redistrict (probably to try to avoid making immensely unpopular changes in an election year).

I just hope they do something with the document that they’ve invested so much time on. And that future boards stay on top of adjusting as needed rather than kicking things down the road. If previous boards had done their jobs properly, then the noise from the LWNJ and RWNJ on this thread would be more muted.

If the SB does nothing now, they are suppressing the underprivileged. If the SB rebalances schools now, they are doing it for some equity purpose.

“Suppressing the underprivileged”? What a hyperbolic statement to make. And implicit in that statement is some fanciful thinking that redistricting is somehow a panacea for the underprivileged.

All Lewis kids need is another WS kid at their school. That didn’t work? Add another, and another. I don’t know why Robyn Lady and Kyle McDaniel believe it is acceptable to take so much from one kid for the mere slight possibility of marginally helping another. And before you lay into me about how this wouldn’t hurt these kids, I invite you to go look at the Herndon High thread, where some poster believes that the only way to fix the problems with the principal and school board and general horrible situation at the school is to bring in the Forestville kids.

I am PP ans a Herndon high parent. Redistricting is the least of your worries. Trust me. If not for the SBG nonsense this year, your kids would do more than fine there. Just wait. You will see.

No thanks. I’ll pass. Not interested in subjecting my kids to the uncertainty based on the assurances of anonymous message board poster.

Sorry, but SBG is coming to your school. They don’t need to redistrict you.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Policy 8130 is on the agenda for the Governance Committee meeting today but no documents are posted about it.

They posted the 5/15 draft after the meeting today and it looks close to final. Probably up for a vote soon.

What do you think will happen after it is finalized?

As the dranesville rep Robyn lady said in her newsletter last week. Once (Not if) they approve it, they will operationalize it. She and Kyle McDaniel and most of the board are going to try to equitize the county.

If you like your current school pyramid, now might be a good time to reach out to your rep to let them know your thoughts. McDaniel said he wants to move quickly to redistrict (probably to try to avoid making immensely unpopular changes in an election year).

I just hope they do something with the document that they’ve invested so much time on. And that future boards stay on top of adjusting as needed rather than kicking things down the road. If previous boards had done their jobs properly, then the noise from the LWNJ and RWNJ on this thread would be more muted.

If the SB does nothing now, they are suppressing the underprivileged. If the SB rebalances schools now, they are doing it for some equity purpose.

“Suppressing the underprivileged”? What a hyperbolic statement to make. And implicit in that statement is some fanciful thinking that redistricting is somehow a panacea for the underprivileged.

All Lewis kids need is another WS kid at their school. That didn’t work? Add another, and another. I don’t know why Robyn Lady and Kyle McDaniel believe it is acceptable to take so much from one kid for the mere slight possibility of marginally helping another. And before you lay into me about how this wouldn’t hurt these kids, I invite you to go look at the Herndon High thread, where some poster believes that the only way to fix the problems with the principal and school board and general horrible situation at the school is to bring in the Forestville kids.

I am PP ans a Herndon high parent. Redistricting is the least of your worries. Trust me. If not for the SBG nonsense this year, your kids would do more than fine there. Just wait. You will see.

No thanks. I’ll pass. Not interested in subjecting my kids to the uncertainty based on the assurances of anonymous message board poster.

Sorry, but SBG is coming to your school. They don’t need to redistrict you.

I know that you’re against SBG, and I’d probably be there with you if I wasn’t focused on the equity redistricting efforts from Robyn lady and Kyle McDaniel, but you’re shooting yourself in the foot by being so dismissive of the board’s other equity efforts. It’s pretty off putting and detrimental to your own cause.

[Anonymous]

"Community building" is grasping for straws. If changes occurred bringing new (more Black/brown) neighborhoods into your school, are you implying you can't build a community along with them?

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Anonymous wrote:"Community building" is grasping for straws. If changes occurred bringing new (more Black/brown) neighborhoods into your school, are you implying you can't build a community along with them?

DP. I am sincerely now getting a little worried for you. Why are you so angry?

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Anonymous wrote:"Community building" is grasping for straws. If changes occurred bringing new (more Black/brown) neighborhoods into your school, are you implying you can't build a community along with them?

Not really my kids elementary is majority minority. And yes community building is important. A major reason why people are pissed at schools is because they are a symbol of local community. When the pandemic broke down community and relationships, the schools because a flash point for anger because they are a bedrock of the community. We are losing teachers, the parents are all anxious and the kids are not doing well also. The answer is to maintain and build up the current school communities through discourse, activities and allowing families to learn to ry in societal systems and schools again. Redistricting now will only further undermine teacher, family and child confidence in these systems. It is antithesis of what we need.

You can say this is “grasping at straws”
But you also have zero argument against it because it is the truth.

[Anonymous]

The forestville part of great falls could more easily build community at Herndon given how far away they are from Langley.

[Anonymous]

In the email that Kyle McDaniel just sent out, he says that the boundary changes are coming and will likely be implemented fall 2025 or fall 2026.

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Anonymous wrote:In the email that Kyle McDaniel just sent out, he says that the boundary changes are coming and will likely be implemented fall 2025 or fall 2026.

I just read that too.

We’re a Hunt Valley family. My kids are currently 8th and 10th graders and I have questions.

We live close to the school, not not in the Gambrills neighborhood, so maybe this won’t impact us, but if they make Gambrills kids go to Lewis, wouldn’t that make for a longer bus ride than what they currently have to WSHS and wouldn’t that be making HVES a split feeder school? Which both go against what McDaniels is saying they’re trying to reduce or eliminate…

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Anonymous wrote:In the email that Kyle McDaniel just sent out, he says that the boundary changes are coming and will likely be implemented fall 2025 or fall 2026.

I just read that too.

We’re a Hunt Valley family. My kids are currently 8th and 10th graders and I have questions.

We live close to the school, not not in the Gambrills neighborhood, so maybe this won’t impact us, but if they make Gambrills kids go to Lewis, wouldn’t that make for a longer bus ride than what they currently have to WSHS and wouldn’t that be making HVES a split feeder school? Which both go against what McDaniels is saying they’re trying to reduce or eliminate…

Don’t just complain here. Now is the time to let your rep And at large members know your true feelings on this. Time is ticking and they’re not hiding their plans.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In the email that Kyle McDaniel just sent out, he says that the boundary changes are coming and will likely be implemented fall 2025 or fall 2026.

I just read that too.

We’re a Hunt Valley family. My kids are currently 8th and 10th graders and I have questions.

We live close to the school, not not in the Gambrills neighborhood, so maybe this won’t impact us, but if they make Gambrills kids go to Lewis, wouldn’t that make for a longer bus ride than what they currently have to WSHS and wouldn’t that be making HVES a split feeder school? Which both go against what McDaniels is saying they’re trying to reduce or eliminate…

McDaniel is an idiot. And if they move Forestville because of fake “one hour” bus rides but don’t rezone WS kids to Lewis, Langley parents absolutely should sue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In the email that Kyle McDaniel just sent out, he says that the boundary changes are coming and will likely be implemented fall 2025 or fall 2026.

I just read that too.

We’re a Hunt Valley family. My kids are currently 8th and 10th graders and I have questions.

We live close to the school, not not in the Gambrills neighborhood, so maybe this won’t impact us, but if they make Gambrills kids go to Lewis, wouldn’t that make for a longer bus ride than what they currently have to WSHS and wouldn’t that be making HVES a split feeder school? Which both go against what McDaniels is saying they’re trying to reduce or eliminate…

McDaniel is an idiot. And if they move Forestville because of fake “one hour” bus rides but don’t rezone WS kids to Lewis, Langley parents absolutely should sue.

Please let the board know your thoughts and concerns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the email that Kyle McDaniel just sent out, he says that the boundary changes are coming and will likely be implemented fall 2025 or fall 2026.

Yay! It’s about damn time!

Signed, another Saratoga mom

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In the email that Kyle McDaniel just sent out, he says that the boundary changes are coming and will likely be implemented fall 2025 or fall 2026.

I just read that too.

We’re a Hunt Valley family. My kids are currently 8th and 10th graders and I have questions.

We live close to the school, not not in the Gambrills neighborhood, so maybe this won’t impact us, but if they make Gambrills kids go to Lewis, wouldn’t that make for a longer bus ride than what they currently have to WSHS and wouldn’t that be making HVES a split feeder school? Which both go against what McDaniels is saying they’re trying to reduce or eliminate…

Don’t just complain here. Now is the time to let your rep And at large members know your true feelings on this. Time is ticking and they’re not hiding their plans.

They are just putting it back to the way it was. It is not a longer bus ride. They used to pick up and shoot straight down the parkway. They are going to shift that boundary and those Gambrill kids might end up going to Saratoga/Key/Lewis. It's one neighborhood on that side of the parkway. It makes no sense. Look at the old maps. And think about the townhomes next to Linden Tree - Lewis.

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What schools are being considered to rezone?

Lewis
West Springfield
Herndon
Langley