FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[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. An educated guess based on the School Boards comments. I can fully see some of the border shifts that are being discussed, they fit with what the school board has laid out as their reasoning for redistricting.

But there is a lot of fear mongering with the hope that if the groups raise the alarm and FOIAing documents and pointing out how awful the school board is people will place pressure on the school board. This is coming from the same schools with the same posters. I would love to see an analysis of what percent of posters are responsible for the conversation in this topic. I suspect that a relativly small number of posters are responsible for the lions share of the posts.

Anyone who sees pros, to go along with the cons, is shouted down by the people who are violently opposed to any changes that moves their kids. There have been some good suggestions made in the topics, but they are hard to find.

I fully expect there to be large shifts in the Herndon, Centerville, Chantilly, South Lakes, Oakton, Westfield area because of the issues with over crowding and space available in some of the schools. The ES situation is problematic, and those shifts will affect MS and HS. That has been touched on a bit but for the most part the loudest voices have been the Great Falls and WSHS families.

FCPS is too big and really should be broken into smaller districts, but I doubt that is going to happen.

How many boundary change proponents really stop and think about the impact that this will have on moved kids?
That the school board glosses over this repeatedly while also claiming to be all about mental health is infuriating.

Might be one reason why McLaughlin didn't run again.

She always asked serious questions, and she repeatedly brought up the need to consider the social and emotional impacts of boundary changes on children. She was never "rah rah nuke the boundaries" and there's no place for someone who asks serious questions and considers the children.

[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. An educated guess based on the School Boards comments. I can fully see some of the border shifts that are being discussed, they fit with what the school board has laid out as their reasoning for redistricting.

But there is a lot of fear mongering with the hope that if the groups raise the alarm and FOIAing documents and pointing out how awful the school board is people will place pressure on the school board. This is coming from the same schools with the same posters. I would love to see an analysis of what percent of posters are responsible for the conversation in this topic. I suspect that a relativly small number of posters are responsible for the lions share of the posts.

Anyone who sees pros, to go along with the cons, is shouted down by the people who are violently opposed to any changes that moves their kids. There have been some good suggestions made in the topics, but they are hard to find.

I fully expect there to be large shifts in the Herndon, Centerville, Chantilly, South Lakes, Oakton, Westfield area because of the issues with over crowding and space available in some of the schools. The ES situation is problematic, and those shifts will affect MS and HS. That has been touched on a bit but for the most part the loudest voices have been the Great Falls and WSHS families.

FCPS is too big and really should be broken into smaller districts, but I doubt that is going to happen.

I think the opposition is fanning this flame - they keep bringing up Langley and Herndon all the time. It just creates a response. No where was that discussed in any meeting. But - there they are saying it will happen because of equity. The county, in their view, will pay extra, drive longer distances, just to bus people from GF Village all the way to HHS. Going after trans was the last election, CRT the one before, now it's equity driven boundary change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Conjecture. An educated guess based on the School Boards comments. I can fully see some of the border shifts that are being discussed, they fit with what the school board has laid out as their reasoning for redistricting.

But there is a lot of fear mongering with the hope that if the groups raise the alarm and FOIAing documents and pointing out how awful the school board is people will place pressure on the school board. This is coming from the same schools with the same posters. I would love to see an analysis of what percent of posters are responsible for the conversation in this topic. I suspect that a relativly small number of posters are responsible for the lions share of the posts.

Anyone who sees pros, to go along with the cons, is shouted down by the people who are violently opposed to any changes that moves their kids. There have been some good suggestions made in the topics, but they are hard to find.

I fully expect there to be large shifts in the Herndon, Centerville, Chantilly, South Lakes, Oakton, Westfield area because of the issues with over crowding and space available in some of the schools. The ES situation is problematic, and those shifts will affect MS and HS. That has been touched on a bit but for the most part the loudest voices have been the Great Falls and WSHS families.

FCPS is too big and really should be broken into smaller districts, but I doubt that is going to happen.

I think the opposition is fanning this flame - they keep bringing up Langley and Herndon all the time. It just creates a response. No where was that discussed in any meeting. But - there they are saying it will happen because of equity. The county, in their view, will pay extra, drive longer distances, just to bus people from GF Village all the way to HHS. Going after trans was the last election, CRT the one before, now it's equity driven boundary change.

From Forestville, 2 minutes longer to cooper than HMS. From Forestville, 9 minutes longer to Langley than HHS. Don’t take my word for it. Check on maps at relevant times of the day.

The narrative about transportation savings is a chimera.

[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.

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.

The opposition was busily discussing when Trans kids are an abomination, the candidate in my area had a truck covered with poster boards focused on Trans issues and only Trans issues and why Trans kids are bad, book banning and other such issues. When you asked them for a position on any type of educational issue, they waffled. If you want me to vote for someone who is more invested in education, run someone who is not a hate monger.

This should not be hard. But when you run a right-wing nut job whose only interest are on the fringe cases then you are not going to get my vote. I would rather vote for the person who is at least embracing treating people with kindness and inclusiveness over the fire and brimstone candidate.

I voted for moderates where I could. Run real moderates, not Mothers of Liberty who say one thing and then you do a google search and you read what they are posting and run the other way. Not the person who is openly discussing hating young people who are different than them.

The local Republican party needs to learn to read the room and run candidates that are less reactive and Evangelical, and they would win some seats. There are plenty of Independents and Moderate Democrats who are not happy with the school board, but I am not handing it over to people who actively hate other people.

FCRC would run more reasonable people if they could find them, I think. But why run when you're just going to lose?

I know personally one very reasonable person who was going to run, but decided not yo when the far left activists got wind of it and started going after that person's kids.

The moderate would have won.

The far left activists doxxing families and attacking people personally is why moderates don't run. No one sane will put their families through the Blue VA hell.

Unfortunately, your fringe leftist activists are chasing away the reasonable people on the left and right.

The right and far right have been doxxing and going after people's families forever. The went after the kids of former school board members too. The death threats that the school board has received are over the top, as well.

[Anonymous]

from Fairfax Now

“Without redistricting, students at overcrowded schools languish where they can’t access sports teams, drama, or highly desirable electives, while students at under-enrolled schools can’t even field teams or offer certain electives,” Dranesville District representative Robyn Lady said “…Shorter commutes, which are a potential result of boundary adjustments, can significantly impact students’ daily lives, contributing to better sleep, reduced stress, and more time for extracurricular activities.”

What a bogus excuse. Your child didn't make the team? It's because he goes to a large school- according to Robyn Lady. He can't take challenging classes?-the school is too small.

I graduated from a public high school with 276 in the graduating class. One of my classmates is a leading HIV researcher and another won two Super Bowl championships. You don't need a huge high school or a small high school to get brains and brawn.

I don't hear the families of the large high schools complaining. I also don't hear those from the smaller high schools. And, 1600 is plenty to have many AP classes. Maybe it is not big enough for IB.

And, just because your school offers unique classes does not mean your child will be able to take them. Frequently, those are onesies and may be offered at times not available to your child.

[Anonymous]

fully expect there to be large shifts in the Herndon, Centerville, Chantilly, South Lakes, Oakton, Westfield area because of the issues with over crowding and space available in some of the schools. The ES situation is problematic, and those shifts will affect MS and HS. That has been touched on a bit but for the most part the loudest voices have been the Great Falls and WSHS families.

Just because they are not ranting on here, does not mean those families do not care. You are just throwing that out there to justify this mess.

Chantilly is losing population over the next years. There is proof in the freshman class which has 100 fewer students than the older classes. There is no need to shift Chantilly boundaries which are already compact. None of the surrounding schools are underenrolled, so there is no place to send them. No student in Chantilly's boundary lives closer to another high school.

p.s. It is not Centerville. It is Centreville. I've seen no complaints from them except some don't want the expansion.

[Anonymous]

fully expect there to be large shifts in the Herndon, Centerville, Chantilly, South Lakes, Oakton, Westfield area because of the issues with over crowding and space available in some of the schools. The ES situation is problematic, and those shifts will affect MS and HS. That has been touched on a bit but for the most part the loudest voices have been the Great Falls and WSHS families.

Coates is overcrowding because there is tons of new construction. Coates is a relatively new school and FCPS dropped the ball on this. There is construction all over that area. There is a Silver Line stop adjacent to it.

[Anonymous]

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from Fairfax Now

“Without redistricting, students at overcrowded schools languish where they can’t access sports teams, drama, or highly desirable electives, while students at under-enrolled schools can’t even field teams or offer certain electives,” Dranesville District representative Robyn Lady said “…Shorter commutes, which are a potential result of boundary adjustments, can significantly impact students’ daily lives, contributing to better sleep, reduced stress, and more time for extracurricular activities.”

What a bogus excuse. Your child didn't make the team? It's because he goes to a large school- according to Robyn Lady. He can't take challenging classes?-the school is too small.

I graduated from a public high school with 276 in the graduating class. One of my classmates is a leading HIV researcher and another won two Super Bowl championships. You don't need a huge high school or a small high school to get brains and brawn.

I don't hear the families of the large high schools complaining. I also don't hear those from the smaller high schools. And, 1600 is plenty to have many AP classes. Maybe it is not big enough for IB.

And, just because your school offers unique classes does not mean your child will be able to take them. Frequently, those are onesies and may be offered at times not available to your child.

Also, it’s relative. For instance, McLean has a capacity under 2,000 and HHS has a capacity over 2,700. The current class sizes are close in size.

So if there is talk of moving several hundred kids from McLean with a domino effect moving students to HHS, all of a sudden you’re talking about McLean having 1,900 kids and HHS having 2,700.

Much easier to make that team in McLean and more difficult in HHS. How is that equity?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
from Fairfax Now

“Without redistricting, students at overcrowded schools languish where they can’t access sports teams, drama, or highly desirable electives, while students at under-enrolled schools can’t even field teams or offer certain electives,” Dranesville District representative Robyn Lady said “…Shorter commutes, which are a potential result of boundary adjustments, can significantly impact students’ daily lives, contributing to better sleep, reduced stress, and more time for extracurricular activities.”

What a bogus excuse. Your child didn't make the team? It's because he goes to a large school- according to Robyn Lady. He can't take challenging classes?-the school is too small.

I graduated from a public high school with 276 in the graduating class. One of my classmates is a leading HIV researcher and another won two Super Bowl championships. You don't need a huge high school or a small high school to get brains and brawn.

I don't hear the families of the large high schools complaining. I also don't hear those from the smaller high schools. And, 1600 is plenty to have many AP classes. Maybe it is not big enough for IB.

And, just because your school offers unique classes does not mean your child will be able to take them. Frequently, those are onesies and may be offered at times not available to your child.

Also, it’s relative. For instance, McLean has a capacity under 2,000 and HHS has a capacity over 2,700. The current class sizes are close in size.

So if there is talk of moving several hundred kids from McLean with a domino effect moving students to HHS, all of a sudden you’re talking about McLean having 1,900 kids and HHS having 2,700.

Much easier to make that team in McLean and more difficult in HHS. How is that equity?

DP. Equity would have been expanding McLean to a size comparable with other HS and not budgeting $85 million on an unnecessary ES in Dunn Loring. They were willing to expand Justice HS to 2500 seats outside the renovation queue but they couldn’t do the same for McLean. Now the consequences may affect other areas like Great Falls as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
from Fairfax Now

“Without redistricting, students at overcrowded schools languish where they can’t access sports teams, drama, or highly desirable electives, while students at under-enrolled schools can’t even field teams or offer certain electives,” Dranesville District representative Robyn Lady said “…Shorter commutes, which are a potential result of boundary adjustments, can significantly impact students’ daily lives, contributing to better sleep, reduced stress, and more time for extracurricular activities.”

What a bogus excuse. Your child didn't make the team? It's because he goes to a large school- according to Robyn Lady. He can't take challenging classes?-the school is too small.

I graduated from a public high school with 276 in the graduating class. One of my classmates is a leading HIV researcher and another won two Super Bowl championships. You don't need a huge high school or a small high school to get brains and brawn.

I don't hear the families of the large high schools complaining. I also don't hear those from the smaller high schools. And, 1600 is plenty to have many AP classes. Maybe it is not big enough for IB.

And, just because your school offers unique classes does not mean your child will be able to take them. Frequently, those are onesies and may be offered at times not available to your child.

Also, it’s relative. For instance, McLean has a capacity under 2,000 and HHS has a capacity over 2,700. The current class sizes are close in size.

So if there is talk of moving several hundred kids from McLean with a domino effect moving students to HHS, all of a sudden you’re talking about McLean having 1,900 kids and HHS having 2,700.

Much easier to make that team in McLean and more difficult in HHS. How is that equity?

It depends on how many kids are trying out. Madison has a smaller enrollment than most schools but it’s still hard to make some teams given the demographics and interests of the students. Lots of kids interested in sports and they are less likely to have after-school jobs to support their families like at Herndon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
from Fairfax Now

“Without redistricting, students at overcrowded schools languish where they can’t access sports teams, drama, or highly desirable electives, while students at under-enrolled schools can’t even field teams or offer certain electives,” Dranesville District representative Robyn Lady said “…Shorter commutes, which are a potential result of boundary adjustments, can significantly impact students’ daily lives, contributing to better sleep, reduced stress, and more time for extracurricular activities.”

What a bogus excuse. Your child didn't make the team? It's because he goes to a large school- according to Robyn Lady. He can't take challenging classes?-the school is too small.

I graduated from a public high school with 276 in the graduating class. One of my classmates is a leading HIV researcher and another won two Super Bowl championships. You don't need a huge high school or a small high school to get brains and brawn.

I don't hear the families of the large high schools complaining. I also don't hear those from the smaller high schools. And, 1600 is plenty to have many AP classes. Maybe it is not big enough for IB.

And, just because your school offers unique classes does not mean your child will be able to take them. Frequently, those are onesies and may be offered at times not available to your child.

Also, it’s relative. For instance, McLean has a capacity under 2,000 and HHS has a capacity over 2,700. The current class sizes are close in size.

So if there is talk of moving several hundred kids from McLean with a domino effect moving students to HHS, all of a sudden you’re talking about McLean having 1,900 kids and HHS having 2,700.

Much easier to make that team in McLean and more difficult in HHS. How is that equity?

It depends on how many kids are trying out. Madison has a smaller enrollment than most schools but it’s still hard to make some teams given the demographics and interests of the students. Lots of kids interested in sports and they are less likely to have after-school jobs to support their families like at Herndon.

So the notion of equity requires us to move kids from their schools based on how many kids in those schools are interested in a sport?

This is a big reason why the country hates equity.

[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.

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.

The opposition was busily discussing when Trans kids are an abomination, the candidate in my area had a truck covered with poster boards focused on Trans issues and only Trans issues and why Trans kids are bad, book banning and other such issues. When you asked them for a position on any type of educational issue, they waffled. If you want me to vote for someone who is more invested in education, run someone who is not a hate monger.

This should not be hard. But when you run a right-wing nut job whose only interest are on the fringe cases then you are not going to get my vote. I would rather vote for the person who is at least embracing treating people with kindness and inclusiveness over the fire and brimstone candidate.

I voted for moderates where I could. Run real moderates, not Mothers of Liberty who say one thing and then you do a google search and you read what they are posting and run the other way. Not the person who is openly discussing hating young people who are different than them.

The local Republican party needs to learn to read the room and run candidates that are less reactive and Evangelical, and they would win some seats. There are plenty of Independents and Moderate Democrats who are not happy with the school board, but I am not handing it over to people who actively hate other people.

FCRC would run more reasonable people if they could find them, I think. But why run when you're just going to lose?

Try running and you might win. Run the nut jobs and you are guarenteed to lose. I have no idea how many different people have posted but no one seems to listen. Many people are fed up with the school board but I am not voting for a MAGA candidate even if I am holding my nose to vote for their opponent. The Democrats have yet to learn that Moderates make more sense in any election, even when they lose the independents at the National and State level. I don't get it and I don't like it but I am not voting for the Mom's of Liberty or the Ban books that scare me crowd.

I don’t know what part of the county you’re in but the GOP-endorsed candidate in our district and some of the at-large candidates, while more conservative than their opponents, were not nut jobs.

I think a lot of people are trying to make themselves feel better about having voted for SB candidates who are now implementing policies they intensely dislike. The natural inclination is to let themselves off the hook by saying they simply voted for the lesser of two evils.

I think you have to own your decisions. You voted for one-party rule where any opposition to what the likes of Karl Frisch want to do is muted, and now they feel they have a green light to move forward with divisive and disruptive county-wide boundary changes, described back in 2018 or 2019 as the “nuclear option.” Enjoy.

When I arrived at my polling place one of the Candidates was there with her van/truck that had posters attached to it. Every poster referenced the issue of Trans kids using the bathrooms and changing rooms. Every poster. She was talking to someone and all she addressed was the Trans kids and how kids were going to be harmed by having to share a bathroom with a Trans kid. The person she was speaking to asked about other issues but everything came back to Trans kids and bathrooms. The persons name was on the ballot. If I knew nothing about the other candidate, I would ahve voted for that person over the person who was a single-issue candidate obsessed with an issue that affects very few kids.

The far left and far right are awful about how they attack candidates for any office. The most vocal people for the Dems and Republicans are their far wing folks and they dominate the primaries. We end up with candidates that are not really acceptable to most people. Maybe if more of us show up at the primaries and vote for candidates that are less extreme than we will land in a better place. But yeah, running people who are more focused on fringe right wing positions is a non-starter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
from Fairfax Now

“Without redistricting, students at overcrowded schools languish where they can’t access sports teams, drama, or highly desirable electives, while students at under-enrolled schools can’t even field teams or offer certain electives,” Dranesville District representative Robyn Lady said “…Shorter commutes, which are a potential result of boundary adjustments, can significantly impact students’ daily lives, contributing to better sleep, reduced stress, and more time for extracurricular activities.”

What a bogus excuse. Your child didn't make the team? It's because he goes to a large school- according to Robyn Lady. He can't take challenging classes?-the school is too small.

I graduated from a public high school with 276 in the graduating class. One of my classmates is a leading HIV researcher and another won two Super Bowl championships. You don't need a huge high school or a small high school to get brains and brawn.

I don't hear the families of the large high schools complaining. I also don't hear those from the smaller high schools. And, 1600 is plenty to have many AP classes. Maybe it is not big enough for IB.

And, just because your school offers unique classes does not mean your child will be able to take them. Frequently, those are onesies and may be offered at times not available to your child.

Also, it’s relative. For instance, McLean has a capacity under 2,000 and HHS has a capacity over 2,700. The current class sizes are close in size.

So if there is talk of moving several hundred kids from McLean with a domino effect moving students to HHS, all of a sudden you’re talking about McLean having 1,900 kids and HHS having 2,700.

Much easier to make that team in McLean and more difficult in HHS. How is that equity?

It depends on how many kids are trying out. Madison has a smaller enrollment than most schools but it’s still hard to make some teams given the demographics and interests of the students. Lots of kids interested in sports and they are less likely to have after-school jobs to support their families like at Herndon.

So the notion of equity requires us to move kids from their schools based on how many kids in those schools are interested in a sport?

This is a big reason why the country hates equity.

I was responding to the claim that it would be much harder to make a team at Herndon than McLean if Herndon ends up with a larger enrollment. Read the thread.

I didn’t say boundary changes should be scaled to ensure every school has the same number of kids trying out for a sports team. Maybe you think that’s Robyn Lady’s view. It’s not mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Conjecture. An educated guess based on the School Boards comments. I can fully see some of the border shifts that are being discussed, they fit with what the school board has laid out as their reasoning for redistricting.

But there is a lot of fear mongering with the hope that if the groups raise the alarm and FOIAing documents and pointing out how awful the school board is people will place pressure on the school board. This is coming from the same schools with the same posters. I would love to see an analysis of what percent of posters are responsible for the conversation in this topic. I suspect that a relativly small number of posters are responsible for the lions share of the posts.

Anyone who sees pros, to go along with the cons, is shouted down by the people who are violently opposed to any changes that moves their kids. There have been some good suggestions made in the topics, but they are hard to find.

I fully expect there to be large shifts in the Herndon, Centerville, Chantilly, South Lakes, Oakton, Westfield area because of the issues with over crowding and space available in some of the schools. The ES situation is problematic, and those shifts will affect MS and HS. That has been touched on a bit but for the most part the loudest voices have been the Great Falls and WSHS families.

FCPS is too big and really should be broken into smaller districts, but I doubt that is going to happen.

I think the opposition is fanning this flame - they keep bringing up Langley and Herndon all the time. It just creates a response. No where was that discussed in any meeting. But - there they are saying it will happen because of equity. The county, in their view, will pay extra, drive longer distances, just to bus people from GF Village all the way to HHS. Going after trans was the last election, CRT the one before, now it's equity driven boundary change.

From Forestville, 2 minutes longer to cooper than HMS. From Forestville, 9 minutes longer to Langley than HHS. Don’t take my word for it. Check on maps at relevant times of the day.

The narrative about transportation savings is a chimera.

That 9 minutes is significant if they are trying to save costs via bus. It’s not just traveling TO Langley, but also the time it takes to get to those neighborhoods potentially out of route.

[Anonymous]

The right and far right have been doxxing and going after people's families forever. The went after the kids of former school board members too. The death threats that the school board has received are over the top, as well.

I think doxing is awful whomever does it. But, it is certainly a bi-partisan problem. I don't think it was the "right" who doxed the Supreme Court justices. I don't think it was the right who doxed JD Vance's home in Alexandria.

I am sorry if there are death threats to the SB members. Seems like there was a left wing protester who made some pretty egregious statements not too long ago. It was outside a SB meeting. You don't recall that?