FCPS Boundary Review - New Maps

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mateo Dunne has been flip flopping since the maps came out earlier this year. He has been hesitant to take a stance and will never answer a question directly. He hosted a session at Whitman Middle School this summer and everyone left with more questions than answers.

It has been rumored by many that he had a hand in creating the initial boundary maps which are creating issues, especially addressing the Whitman attendance island which makes no sense and creates more issues than it solves.

Also, his point about voting for grandfathering only creates more issues as it will be a drain on transportation resources that now have to send multiple buses to the same neighborhoods since children will be going to many schools and not just one specific school. My understanding is that there was no proper analysis done on that topic and they voted off of the emotions of families potentially impacted by the boundary review.

He quotes numbers on what he has done but most of his meetings were not supposed to address boundary review (and thus no one joined to discuss boundary review) and he just worked it in so it is disingenuous to state those claims.

I would not trust anything that Mateo puts in his newsletters or voices to families.

While no formal decision was reached, the discussion at the last work session suggested they will break from past practice by offering grandfathering without transportation.

You have to pick your poison with these School Board members and decide whether you're better off if they blow with the wind like Dunne and Meren (and are prepared to toss Reid under a bus) or are just brain-dead and support whatever Reid wants to do (like Frisch and St. John-Cunning).

The absolute worst person on the school board is Sandy A. She snivels at her constituents, just oozes incredible disdain for them.

[Anonymous]

Slides are up. Nothing riveting.

https://www.fcps.edu/august-5-2025-superintendents-boundary-review-advisory-committee-meeting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slides are up. Nothing riveting.

https://www.fcps.edu/august-5-2025-superintendents-boundary-review-advisory-committee-meeting

This is from a meeting a month ago and the materials from the meeting earlier this week don't seem to be available yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mateo Dunne has been flip flopping since the maps came out earlier this year. He has been hesitant to take a stance and will never answer a question directly. He hosted a session at Whitman Middle School this summer and everyone left with more questions than answers.

It has been rumored by many that he had a hand in creating the initial boundary maps which are creating issues, especially addressing the Whitman attendance island which makes no sense and creates more issues than it solves.

Also, his point about voting for grandfathering only creates more issues as it will be a drain on transportation resources that now have to send multiple buses to the same neighborhoods since children will be going to many schools and not just one specific school. My understanding is that there was no proper analysis done on that topic and they voted off of the emotions of families potentially impacted by the boundary review.

He quotes numbers on what he has done but most of his meetings were not supposed to address boundary review (and thus no one joined to discuss boundary review) and he just worked it in so it is disingenuous to state those claims.

I would not trust anything that Mateo puts in his newsletters or voices to families.

While no formal decision was reached, the discussion at the last work session suggested they will break from past practice by offering grandfathering without transportation.

You have to pick your poison with these School Board members and decide whether you're better off if they blow with the wind like Dunne and Meren (and are prepared to toss Reid under a bus) or are just brain-dead and support whatever Reid wants to do (like Frisch and St. John-Cunning).

The absolute worst person on the school board is Sandy A. She snivels at her constituents, just oozes incredible disdain for them.

I think it's a defense mechanism. She's clearly not very bright.

[Anonymous]

What the heck? They sent out an email with a broken link to slides??

https://www.fcps.edu/september-3-2025-superintendents-boundary-review-advisory-committee-meeting

Link to Slides is throwing a "You are not authorized to access this page."

[Anonymous]

Look at them squeezing in a bunch of community meetings over the next two weeks to cover the “all impacted pyramids” clause, as if they’ll have ANY impact on the next draft of maps due out. There’s a two week pause between the pre-proposal meeting and post-proposal meeting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at them squeezing in a bunch of community meetings over the next two weeks to cover the “all impacted pyramids” clause, as if they’ll have ANY impact on the next draft of maps due out. There’s a two week pause between the pre-proposal meeting and post-proposal meeting.

Yeah they’re starting up another round of meaningless meetings but the updated scenarios won’t be available until “mid-October?” Which we all know probably means around Halloween. So what’s the point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What the heck? They sent out an email with a broken link to slides??

https://www.fcps.edu/september-3-2025-superintendents-boundary-review-advisory-committee-meeting

Link to Slides is throwing a "You are not authorized to access this page."

The "Agenda" linked is also the agenda for the August 5th meeting rather than the September 3rd meeting.

If they can't get a simple web page with a few attachments in working order, they sure as hell won't be able to implement county-wide boundary changes.

Reid really does need to be fired. Her incompetence, and the incompetence of those she has working for her, is evident in everything FCPS does now.

[Anonymous]

What is the point of a meeting next week when we already provided feedback on the old maps?? This whole thing is ridiculous. The maps were in May and it’s September - if they want this done in Jan they should have maps for feedback now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the point of a meeting next week when we already provided feedback on the old maps?? This whole thing is ridiculous. The maps were in May and it’s September - if they want this done in Jan they should have maps for feedback now

+1,000 there are going to be drastically changes maps released when? Just before the meeting? When do we get to know? This is ridiculous

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the point of a meeting next week when we already provided feedback on the old maps?? This whole thing is ridiculous. The maps were in May and it’s September - if they want this done in Jan they should have maps for feedback now

They are going to drag this out for a while so they can claim later they need to act quickly to cram through boundary changes effective next fall.

Utter incompetence along with a strong dose of contempt for Fairfax families. The entire School Board and Reid need to be replaced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the new maps don't have the KAA school boundary on them, then they are pointless, right?

I think so, but Reid apparently thought they didn't need to adjust the maps to reflect new boundaries for KAA because it's going to be a magnet.

Yet the new boundaries are supposed to go in effect the same year KAA re-opens. You can't make up this level of incompetence.

And it all happens while Sizemore-Heizer and Moon are supposed to be overseeing Reid, so they shouldn't get a pass either.

Yup, this is crazy.

Yes we don’t know if KAA will be a community, hybrid or magnet but they should prepare for all different scenarios.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mateo Dunne has been flip flopping since the maps came out earlier this year. He has been hesitant to take a stance and will never answer a question directly. He hosted a session at Whitman Middle School this summer and everyone left with more questions than answers.

It has been rumored by many that he had a hand in creating the initial boundary maps which are creating issues, especially addressing the Whitman attendance island which makes no sense and creates more issues than it solves.

Also, his point about voting for grandfathering only creates more issues as it will be a drain on transportation resources that now have to send multiple buses to the same neighborhoods since children will be going to many schools and not just one specific school. My understanding is that there was no proper analysis done on that topic and they voted off of the emotions of families potentially impacted by the boundary review.

He quotes numbers on what he has done but most of his meetings were not supposed to address boundary review (and thus no one joined to discuss boundary review) and he just worked it in so it is disingenuous to state those claims.

I would not trust anything that Mateo puts in his newsletters or voices to families.

While no formal decision was reached, the discussion at the last work session suggested they will break from past practice by offering grandfathering without transportation.

You have to pick your poison with these School Board members and decide whether you're better off if they blow with the wind like Dunne and Meren (and are prepared to toss Reid under a bus) or are just brain-dead and support whatever Reid wants to do (like Frisch and St. John-Cunning).

The absolute worst person on the school board is Sandy A. She snivels at her constituents, just oozes incredible disdain for them.

I think it's a defense mechanism. She's clearly not very bright.

It absolutely is. All conversations with her have her coming in on the defensive. I have not met anyone who has truly felt like their position was heard.

[Anonymous]

https://www.fcps.edu/form/presentation-slides-9-3-2025-boundary-review-advisory-committee-meeting

Lots of things pointing to Scenario 3, which is the absolute worst of all of them. Mental gymnastics

[Anonymous]

This link is the public meeting law in the Virginia Code:

"...The notice shall be posted at least three working days prior to the meeting.

E. Notice, reasonable under the circumstance, of special, emergency, or continued meetings shall be given contemporaneously with the notice provided to the members of the public body conducting the meeting..."

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title2.2/chapter37/section2.2-3707/