FCPS comprehensive boundary review

[Anonymous]

I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

Oh sweetie- this is my only social media.

And it is to not two
But mostly, fake outrage that I'm overreacting just shows how irrational your stance is. You can’t even construct cogent points.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

It makes every school heavy with ELL and lowers SES for some and raises for others. Obvs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

It makes every school heavy with ELL and lowers SES for some and raises for others. Obvs.

Obvs that isn’t going to help any individual students. Not at the high school level anyway. Those kids are already tracked into ell or IB or AP programs. So why switch the high schoolers?

The only reason is to improve metrics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

DP, isn’t that what the boundary review is for? To figure out what adjustments are needed and how they might improve outcomes for school communities?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

DP, isn’t that what the boundary review is for? To figure out what adjustments are needed and how they might improve outcomes for school communities?

Reid said it was about One Fairfax at the daytime planning meeting

It is not about improving schools or outcomes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

DP, isn’t that what the boundary review is for? To figure out what adjustments are needed and how they might improve outcomes for school communities?

FCPS staff is perfectly capable of making that threshold determination before a consultant gets a $500K contract. By entering into the contract, they are guaranteeing changes that may not be necessary will be recommended to justify the contract.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

I don’t understand this comment, but it is patently absurd for anyone to think that this won’t have significant consequences for the impacted kids.

Only people with no friends or social IQ will struggle to understand those consequences.

[Anonymous]

I’d pay the consultants $500K if they’d provide an honest opinion as to whether there’s any need for the $80M Dunn Loring project. Clearly the new School Board members themselves are unwilling to exercise any independent judgment to challenge a project that their incompetent leader, Karl Frisch, has promoted.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

It makes every school heavy with ELL and lowers SES for some and raises for others. Obvs.

Obvs that isn’t going to help any individual students. Not at the high school level anyway. Those kids are already tracked into ell or IB or AP programs. So why switch the high schoolers?

The only reason is to improve metrics.

Maybe it's because there are parents who hate that their high schoolers are on the bus for almost an hour to get to and from school when there are at least two other high schools that are only 10 minutes away that they could be going to? You think this is all about politics but it's not, there are real children impacted by this, and we are not concerned about if our kids can stay with their friends, we're concerned that our kids will be able to have an hour and a half of their lives back every day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

It makes every school heavy with ELL and lowers SES for some and raises for others. Obvs.

Obvs that isn’t going to help any individual students. Not at the high school level anyway. Those kids are already tracked into ell or IB or AP programs. So why switch the high schoolers?

The only reason is to improve metrics.

Maybe it's because there are parents who hate that their high schoolers are on the bus for almost an hour to get to and from school when there are at least two other high schools that are only 10 minutes away that they could be going to? You think this is all about politics but it's not, there are real children impacted by this, and we are not concerned about if our kids can stay with their friends, we're concerned that our kids will be able to have an hour and a half of their lives back every day.

The only place I can think of where this is even remotely the case is Langley/Herndon with the kids at the far western edge of the county. But is Herndon closed to pupil placements right now? Couldn’t you just place there for a shorter commute?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

I don’t understand this comment, but it is patently absurd for anyone to think that this won’t have significant consequences for the impacted kids.

Only people with no friends or social IQ will struggle to understand those consequences.

Sometimes things are more important than your childrens' highly curated social lives. I don't know about your kids, but mine have friends that go to other schools. If they had to switch junior year, yes it absolutely would SUCK but (a) they wouldn't be the only ones and (b) they have friends at these other schools that they see every week and I have no doubt they'd continue to see their other friends, too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

It makes every school heavy with ELL and lowers SES for some and raises for others. Obvs.

Obvs that isn’t going to help any individual students. Not at the high school level anyway. Those kids are already tracked into ell or IB or AP programs. So why switch the high schoolers?

The only reason is to improve metrics.

Maybe it's because there are parents who hate that their high schoolers are on the bus for almost an hour to get to and from school when there are at least two other high schools that are only 10 minutes away that they could be going to? You think this is all about politics but it's not, there are real children impacted by this, and we are not concerned about if our kids can stay with their friends, we're concerned that our kids will be able to have an hour and a half of their lives back every day.

The only place I can think of where this is even remotely the case is Langley/Herndon with the kids at the far western edge of the county. But is Herndon closed to pupil placements right now? Couldn’t you just place there for a shorter commute?

This is the FCPS HS Boundary map. It's a lot more than Langley. https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/SY2024-25HighSchoolBoundaries.pdf

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe my baby may have two switch schools and because I have closely curated their lives (just like my insta and TikTok, omg!!!), this will ruin everything.

You loaded up on the snark but said nothing about how these boundary changes are necessary or would make anything better for anyone.

It suggests you like reshuffling people just to piss them off, which isn't a great look for you, much less the School Board.

It makes every school heavy with ELL and lowers SES for some and raises for others. Obvs.

Obvs that isn’t going to help any individual students. Not at the high school level anyway. Those kids are already tracked into ell or IB or AP programs. So why switch the high schoolers?

The only reason is to improve metrics.

Maybe it's because there are parents who hate that their high schoolers are on the bus for almost an hour to get to and from school when there are at least two other high schools that are only 10 minutes away that they could be going to? You think this is all about politics but it's not, there are real children impacted by this, and we are not concerned about if our kids can stay with their friends, we're concerned that our kids will be able to have an hour and a half of their lives back every day.

The only place I can think of where this is even remotely the case is Langley/Herndon with the kids at the far western edge of the county. But is Herndon closed to pupil placements right now? Couldn’t you just place there for a shorter commute?

This is the FCPS HS Boundary map. It's a lot more than Langley. https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/SY2024-25HighSchoolBoundaries.pdf

I think a lot of people on this board don't know how bad rush hour traffic gets and that nowadays rush hour traffic goes in ALL directions.