FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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Anonymous wrote:I heard fair facts matters raised over $50,000 to fight the boundary review. Is that right? If so, crazy!!!

The focus on Fairfacts matters today definitely has me thinking that the school board and gatehouse are trying to vilify the organization because of the recent revelations of corruption in the BRAC selection process.

Really? It has me thinking that the group is getting desperate for attention because their efforts have gone nowhere.

They raised money months ago and so far no sign of them spending it. Maybe fairfacts matters needs to come clean and open their books to an audit.

Ha, proving my point.🤣

Totally on brand that you would demand a non profit to open its books based off of ???(your perception that the money is not being spent?) while doggedly defending FCPS’s BRAC-selection scandal.

Legitimate nonprofits post their financials all the time and fill out IRS disclosure forms that are all publicly available. It’s called a form 990. Google it.

Facebook groups masquerading as non profits? They don’t publish financials. Gee I wonder which category “fairfacts matters” falls into?? Who did all that money go to anyway? Now the GFCA is embroiled in a scandal for donating to this “nonprofit”??

Btw. Soliciting funds for reason X, then not spending them on reason X, is not a good look and may violate the law.

This “group” has some explaining to do.

Getting awfully close to libel here.

Armchair lawyers trying to limit free speech.

Not trying to limit free speech, but pointing out defamation when I see it.

Sounds like fair facts is planning to use their big bucks to sue parents for free speech on DCUM? Color me surprised.

I don’t speak for them, not do they know who you are. I bet if you go post that statement on their Facebook page they might take interest.

Anyway, your silence speaks volumes about you not actually having any specific lies to tell us - lord knows you would if you did. I think you’re just looking to distract from the actual boundary discussion, as you did the other night too.

[Anonymous]

The video is patronizing and potentially misleading. It makes a big deal out of the notion that students currently may not be attending the same schools as others in their neighborhood, but says nothing about the very real possibility that FCPS could require some kids to attend new schools while their classmates get to stay at their existing schools.

I wouldn't expect them to be honest, though. They are big on PR these days and not so committed to honesty.

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I made the BIG effin mistake of voting for
some of these people school board people and I have major buyers remorse. I thought they would be sane, thoughtful, and fair. I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views. BUT this boundary situation is an expensive mess and I've lost complete faith in Reid's ability to handle this with care. She has made so many missteps on other matters. The school board continues to be less than transparent while spending a ton of money to appear transparent. The smart thing to do right now is to table it until we figure out how Fairfax is going to fare with all of these upcoming federal changes. Instead the FCPS leadership is hell bent on creating more chaos and uncertainty. Did they forget that actual
kids lives are at stake here? You're upending their lives in the middle of an already turbulent time for our country and county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The video is patronizing and potentially misleading. It makes a big deal out of the notion that students currently may not be attending the same schools as others in their neighborhood, but says nothing about the very real possibility that FCPS could require some kids to attend new schools while their classmates get to stay at their existing schools.

I wouldn't expect them to be honest, though. They are big on PR these days and not so committed to honesty.

It honestly feels like thru was just hired to be a $500,000 PR face for the SB. Dunne even hinted at that during one of their sessions asking if thru would educate parents as part of the community sessions.

It’s pretty patronizing if you think about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I made the BIG effin mistake of voting for
some of these people school board people and I have major buyers remorse. I thought they would be sane, thoughtful, and fair. I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views. BUT this boundary situation is an expensive mess and I've lost complete faith in Reid's ability to handle this with care. She has made so many missteps on other matters. The school board continues to be less than transparent while spending a ton of money to appear transparent. The smart thing to do right now is to table it until we figure out how Fairfax is going to fare with all of these upcoming federal changes. Instead the FCPS leadership is hell bent on creating more chaos and uncertainty. Did they forget that actual
kids lives are at stake here? You're upending their lives in the middle of an already turbulent time for our country and county.

"I'm a Democrat."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I made the BIG effin mistake of voting for
some of these people school board people and I have major buyers remorse. I thought they would be sane, thoughtful, and fair. I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views. BUT this boundary situation is an expensive mess and I've lost complete faith in Reid's ability to handle this with care. She has made so many missteps on other matters. The school board continues to be less than transparent while spending a ton of money to appear transparent. The smart thing to do right now is to table it until we figure out how Fairfax is going to fare with all of these upcoming federal changes. Instead the FCPS leadership is hell bent on creating more chaos and uncertainty. Did they forget that actual
kids lives are at stake here? You're upending their lives in the middle of an already turbulent time for our country and county.

"I'm a Democrat."

They always say that online and IRL to let you know they are very nice, reasonable people who are disposed toward the right(blue) side of things ordinarily, but this issue or that is just too much. This is most democrats on this issue. The others are dyed-in-the-wool, hell the sheep was born blue, democrats and they won't waver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I made the BIG effin mistake of voting for
some of these people school board people and I have major buyers remorse. I thought they would be sane, thoughtful, and fair. I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views. BUT this boundary situation is an expensive mess and I've lost complete faith in Reid's ability to handle this with care. She has made so many missteps on other matters. The school board continues to be less than transparent while spending a ton of money to appear transparent. The smart thing to do right now is to table it until we figure out how Fairfax is going to fare with all of these upcoming federal changes. Instead the FCPS leadership is hell bent on creating more chaos and uncertainty. Did they forget that actual
kids lives are at stake here? You're upending their lives in the middle of an already turbulent time for our country and county.

You get the school district you vote for. One-party rule in Fairfax County.

"I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views." That's your problem. You shouldn't be looking at the School Board elections like a political election. The job of the public schools is to run an efficient education system that focuses on educating children and leaves politics out of it. FCPS has been failing for years now.

The political hacks on the FCPS school board toss some red meat to their "I'm a Democrat" voter base, rile people up about Trump and woke political issues, the drones go and reflexively "Vote Blue" year after year for the FCPS School Board, and here we are.

We tried to warn you all as far back as 2019 during the last FCPS School Board election I paid attention to. The writing on the wall for school rezoning and bussing was clear to see to anyone who was interested. Anyone who spoke out against it was derided as a secret Trumpster intent on taking over Fairfax County lol.

We left for private school and never looked back. My property values are still tied to FCPS so I maintain a mild interest, but it's so ironic to see people talking about this issue now, six years later.

[Anonymous]

Having a School Board where every member is from the same party is a disaster. They don’t always agree on everything but they won’t openly disagree with each other. We just saw it with the CIP, where at least half the members clearly had reservations about Karl Frisch’s ridiculous waste of money on Dunn Loring ES. Two caved and went ahead and voted for a CiP that included this massive waste of taxpayer money, and those who either voted against the CIP or abstained still wouldn’t make a clear public statement as to why they wouldn’t support a CIP with Frisch’s boondoggle funded.

I fear the same thing will happy with the boundary review. The majority will approve something harmful and ridiculous, and those who won’t go along nevertheless will pull their punches. If we had a more politically diverse SB there would at least be a more spirited challenge to the majority, even if the end result was the same. It would shine a light on how crazy some of their actions are.

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Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of reasons for boundary changes. They have been stated repeatedly. You don’t agree with them but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. The bullying from anti change people who immediately insult people to shut down discussion is aggressive and ugly.

And fair facts matter sent its members to community meetings throughout county (and spread them at different tables) even though they lived in great falls to make it seem there was opposition everywhere.

The need for some boundary changes are obvious (over and undercrowding, islands, split feeders, long commutes) like you say.
The fair facts matters people have made pests of themselves everywhere. People are sick of their bullying and lies.

What lies? Because without any you are crossing the libel line here.

NP.

It appears to be a lie that the BRAC meetings are closed to the public.

Wasn’t that revealed through the FOIA documents?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of reasons for boundary changes. They have been stated repeatedly. You don’t agree with them but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. The bullying from anti change people who immediately insult people to shut down discussion is aggressive and ugly.

And fair facts matter sent its members to community meetings throughout county (and spread them at different tables) even though they lived in great falls to make it seem there was opposition everywhere.

The need for some boundary changes are obvious (over and undercrowding, islands, split feeders, long commutes) like you say.
The fair facts matters people have made pests of themselves everywhere. People are sick of their bullying and lies.

What lies? Because without any you are crossing the libel line here.

NP.

It appears to be a lie that the BRAC meetings are closed to the public.

Wasn’t that revealed through the FOIA documents?

Quick, someone (Fairfacts?) please FOIA the BRAC meetings. PP claims they are public.

[Anonymous]

How are people finding out specifically what schools are up for grabs? Is if conjecture or is there info somewhere?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of reasons for boundary changes. They have been stated repeatedly. You don’t agree with them but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. The bullying from anti change people who immediately insult people to shut down discussion is aggressive and ugly.

And fair facts matter sent its members to community meetings throughout county (and spread them at different tables) even though they lived in great falls to make it seem there was opposition everywhere.

The need for some boundary changes are obvious (over and undercrowding, islands, split feeders, long commutes) like you say.
The fair facts matters people have made pests of themselves everywhere. People are sick of their bullying and lies.

What lies? Because without any you are crossing the libel line here.

NP.

It appears to be a lie that the BRAC meetings are closed to the public.

Wasn’t that revealed through the FOIA documents?

Are you saying these meetings are open to the public? You might want to check your source on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I made the BIG effin mistake of voting for
some of these people school board people and I have major buyers remorse. I thought they would be sane, thoughtful, and fair. I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views. BUT this boundary situation is an expensive mess and I've lost complete faith in Reid's ability to handle this with care. She has made so many missteps on other matters. The school board continues to be less than transparent while spending a ton of money to appear transparent. The smart thing to do right now is to table it until we figure out how Fairfax is going to fare with all of these upcoming federal changes. Instead the FCPS leadership is hell bent on creating more chaos and uncertainty. Did they forget that actual
kids lives are at stake here? You're upending their lives in the middle of an already turbulent time for our country and county.

Lemme guess. You live in Great Falls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are people finding out specifically what schools are up for grabs? Is if conjecture or is there info somewhere?

Conjecture. No proposals have been created yet. Great Falls is especially defensive because a simple look at a map would tell anyone it’s ridiculous that parts of great falls go to Langley.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How are people finding out specifically what schools are up for grabs? Is if conjecture or is there info somewhere?

Conjecture. No proposals have been created yet. Great Falls is especially defensive because a simple look at a map would tell anyone it’s ridiculous that parts of great falls go to Langley.

2 minutes more to Cooper than HMS and 9 min more to Langley than HHS.

The distance argument shatters under even the lightest scrutiny.