FCPS comprehensive boundary review

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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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

How do your kids feel about this, because most absolutely want to stay with their friends rather than be forced to switch schools. Mine certainly do.

[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?

I think there are a small number of Oakton parents living near the western part of the Oakton boundary who complain their kids aren’t at Chantilly. But someone has to go to Oakton, which just got a big expansion, and they aren’t getting moved to Chantilly unless someone else who also lives close to Chantilly gets moved to another school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ok, so it’s western Great Falls on the far north end of the county and the western bounds of Oakton? I don’t think you can count far-flung areas like Mason Neck and Clifton in this because those kids have to go to school somewhere. And without the mythical new western HS, there’s nothing that can be done to move kids to Chantilly or Centreville.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Weird that you keeping calling friendships “curated.” Pretty telling.

Anyway, so glad to hear that your kids have friend at different schools. Mine do too, but the bulk are at the school’s they are at, since they are who my kids see most. Maybe the difference is what qualifies as a “friend” for your kids?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

+1. Also, parents knew full well the commute to schools when we bought houses. Thanks for trying to be paternalistic for our kids, but you know who is better equipped to make those decisions than anonymous internet poster who thinks knows what’s best for my child? Me and the other affected parents.

I’d give your argument a little credibility if you lived in the potentially affected school districts, but of course you don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Weird that you keeping calling friendships “curated.” Pretty telling.

Anyway, so glad to hear that your kids have friend at different schools. Mine do too, but the bulk are at the school’s they are at, since they are who my kids see most. Maybe the difference is what qualifies as a “friend” for your kids?

PP is big on pushing the narrative that they are prepared to sacrifice if it’s in the greater good, but hasn’t otherwise explained what good would actually come out of boundary changes at a time when FCPS enrollment is stable and even slightly down. Still waiting to hear what problem(s) she actually thinks exists, and where, and how disruptive boundary changes are going to solve it. At some point it becomes a solution in search of a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Weird that you keeping calling friendships “curated.” Pretty telling.

Anyway, so glad to hear that your kids have friend at different schools. Mine do too, but the bulk are at the school’s they are at, since they are who my kids see most. Maybe the difference is what qualifies as a “friend” for your kids?

PP is big on pushing the narrative that they are prepared to sacrifice if it’s in the greater good, but hasn’t otherwise explained what good would actually come out of boundary changes at a time when FCPS enrollment is stable and even slightly down. Still waiting to hear what problem(s) she actually thinks exists, and where, and how disruptive boundary changes are going to solve it. At some point it becomes a solution in search of a problem.

Yep. Similar to what we hear from the school board members. I fear that their echo chamber prevents the school board from seeing this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I’m not forgetting in the next election that they didn’t even discuss grandfathering until minutes before the vote. Completely incompetence and willful blindness over the impact of their actions was show by doing that. Here is to hoping some moderate republicans run. I can’t do the book banning or hate filled moms of liberty, but if the republicans get a middle of the road candidate. I’m there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Weird that you keeping calling friendships “curated.” Pretty telling.

Anyway, so glad to hear that your kids have friend at different schools. Mine do too, but the bulk are at the school’s they are at, since they are who my kids see most. Maybe the difference is what qualifies as a “friend” for your kids?

PP is big on pushing the narrative that they are prepared to sacrifice if it’s in the greater good, but hasn’t otherwise explained what good would actually come out of boundary changes at a time when FCPS enrollment is stable and even slightly down. Still waiting to hear what problem(s) she actually thinks exists, and where, and how disruptive boundary changes are going to solve it. At some point it becomes a solution in search of a problem.

DP than the person you are responding to but, unless you work for Gatehouse, you yourself have absolutely no idea where all the problem areas are and likely zero experience implementing county-wide boundary changes. That’s why we are waiting for the professionals to propose appropriate solutions.

You seem to continue to want to debate about the merits of even conducting the review, but we are past that stage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Weird that you keeping calling friendships “curated.” Pretty telling.

Anyway, so glad to hear that your kids have friend at different schools. Mine do too, but the bulk are at the school’s they are at, since they are who my kids see most. Maybe the difference is what qualifies as a “friend” for your kids?

PP is big on pushing the narrative that they are prepared to sacrifice if it’s in the greater good, but hasn’t otherwise explained what good would actually come out of boundary changes at a time when FCPS enrollment is stable and even slightly down. Still waiting to hear what problem(s) she actually thinks exists, and where, and how disruptive boundary changes are going to solve it. At some point it becomes a solution in search of a problem.

How else is FCPS going to achieve equity. The problem is every kid in FCPS is not slightly below average. That is the problem to be solved. Moving everyone around and dumbing down education for everyone is how the problem is solved.