Amendments to Policy 8130 re Grandfathering of Current Students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Fairfax connector? Not relevant to most of the neighborhoods. Hardly anyone lives walking distance to a connector station or has a connector station walking distance to their high school.

Just looked at the maps/routes.
I guess if your high school is next to a Metro station or a Park n Ride, it's possible.
Unfortunately, that would not work for us.

Sounds like someone who never rides a bus or has a kid in school wrote the comment about the buses being free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Fairfax connector? Not relevant to most of the neighborhoods. Hardly anyone lives walking distance to a connector station or has a connector station walking distance to their high school.

Just looked at the maps/routes.
I guess if your high school is next to a Metro station or a Park n Ride, it's possible.
Unfortunately, that would not work for us.

Sounds like someone who never rides a bus or has a kid in school wrote the comment about the buses being free.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/connector/student-pass

Click on high school bus routes and find out!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Fairfax connector? Not relevant to most of the neighborhoods. Hardly anyone lives walking distance to a connector station or has a connector station walking distance to their high school.

Just looked at the maps/routes.
I guess if your high school is next to a Metro station or a Park n Ride, it's possible.
Unfortunately, that would not work for us.

Sounds like someone who never rides a bus or has a kid in school wrote the comment about the buses being free.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/connector/student-pass

Click on high school bus routes and find out!

Bascially a joke for a lot of schools and barely worth a mention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Fairfax connector? Not relevant to most of the neighborhoods. Hardly anyone lives walking distance to a connector station or has a connector station walking distance to their high school.

Just looked at the maps/routes.
I guess if your high school is next to a Metro station or a Park n Ride, it's possible.
Unfortunately, that would not work for us.

Sounds like someone who never rides a bus or has a kid in school wrote the comment about the buses being free.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/connector/student-pass

Click on high school bus routes and find out!

Great idea! Everyone who is being moved, look up directions in Google maps and select the public transit tab. Post your estimated travel time and number of transfers required! I bet they’ll all be super reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Fairfax connector? Not relevant to most of the neighborhoods. Hardly anyone lives walking distance to a connector station or has a connector station walking distance to their high school.

Just looked at the maps/routes.
I guess if your high school is next to a Metro station or a Park n Ride, it's possible.
Unfortunately, that would not work for us.

Sounds like someone who never rides a bus or has a kid in school wrote the comment about the buses being free.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/connector/student-pass

Click on high school bus routes and find out!

Great idea! Everyone who is being moved, look up directions in Google maps and select the public transit tab. Post your estimated travel time and number of transfers required! I bet they’ll all be super reasonable.

Oops! I thought you were worried about the low income kids who couldn’t carpool to school. Most Fairfax low income neighborhoods are located near public transit. Laughably, you are concerned about you own kids and trying to stop grandfathering for all kids until you get what you want.

Got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Fairfax connector? Not relevant to most of the neighborhoods. Hardly anyone lives walking distance to a connector station or has a connector station walking distance to their high school.

Just looked at the maps/routes.
I guess if your high school is next to a Metro station or a Park n Ride, it's possible.
Unfortunately, that would not work for us.

Sounds like someone who never rides a bus or has a kid in school wrote the comment about the buses being free.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/connector/student-pass

Click on high school bus routes and find out!

Great idea! Everyone who is being moved, look up directions in Google maps and select the public transit tab. Post your estimated travel time and number of transfers required! I bet they’ll all be super reasonable.

Oops! I thought you were worried about the low income kids who couldn’t carpool to school. Most Fairfax low income neighborhoods are located near public transit. Laughably, you are concerned about you own kids and trying to stop grandfathering for all kids until you get what you want.

Got it.

DP. You’re so full of crap. The low-income areas may near public transit that will take kids to DC, but not to their high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Fairfax connector? Not relevant to most of the neighborhoods. Hardly anyone lives walking distance to a connector station or has a connector station walking distance to their high school.

Just looked at the maps/routes.
I guess if your high school is next to a Metro station or a Park n Ride, it's possible.
Unfortunately, that would not work for us.

Sounds like someone who never rides a bus or has a kid in school wrote the comment about the buses being free.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/connector/student-pass

Click on high school bus routes and find out!

Great idea! Everyone who is being moved, look up directions in Google maps and select the public transit tab. Post your estimated travel time and number of transfers required! I bet they’ll all be super reasonable.

Oops! I thought you were worried about the low income kids who couldn’t carpool to school. Most Fairfax low income neighborhoods are located near public transit. Laughably, you are concerned about you own kids and trying to stop grandfathering for all kids until you get what you want.

Got it.

Oops, you’re conflating many posters again. You lose a ton of credibility when you do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Fairfax connector? Not relevant to most of the neighborhoods. Hardly anyone lives walking distance to a connector station or has a connector station walking distance to their high school.

Just looked at the maps/routes.
I guess if your high school is next to a Metro station or a Park n Ride, it's possible.
Unfortunately, that would not work for us.

Sounds like someone who never rides a bus or has a kid in school wrote the comment about the buses being free.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/connector/student-pass

Click on high school bus routes and find out!

Great idea! Everyone who is being moved, look up directions in Google maps and select the public transit tab. Post your estimated travel time and number of transfers required! I bet they’ll all be super reasonable.

Oops! I thought you were worried about the low income kids who couldn’t carpool to school. Most Fairfax low income neighborhoods are located near public transit. Laughably, you are concerned about you own kids and trying to stop grandfathering for all kids until you get what you want.

Got it.

Oops, you’re conflating many posters again. You lose a ton of credibility when you do that.

Ha! I saw someone posting like this before in this thread and it makes me laugh. If you want people to keep posters straight, create a user name, until then we are all anonymous.

[Anonymous]

Well, I clicked on mine--we are under three miles to the school. It's closer than the buses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Fairfax connector? Not relevant to most of the neighborhoods. Hardly anyone lives walking distance to a connector station or has a connector station walking distance to their high school.

Just looked at the maps/routes.
I guess if your high school is next to a Metro station or a Park n Ride, it's possible.
Unfortunately, that would not work for us.

Sounds like someone who never rides a bus or has a kid in school wrote the comment about the buses being free.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/connector/student-pass

Click on high school bus routes and find out!

Great idea! Everyone who is being moved, look up directions in Google maps and select the public transit tab. Post your estimated travel time and number of transfers required! I bet they’ll all be super reasonable.

Oops! I thought you were worried about the low income kids who couldn’t carpool to school. Most Fairfax low income neighborhoods are located near public transit. Laughably, you are concerned about you own kids and trying to stop grandfathering for all kids until you get what you want.

Got it.

This is sadly what I see in my neighborhood group. Folks opposing grandfathering seem worried that if it goes through, others will stop fighting the boundary change in general. I find the all or nothing attitude very sad. This needs to be treated as a separate issue --- a policy change that impacts all boundary changes current and future, some of which may end up being truly necessary. It doesn't have to mean that we stop pushing back against current unnecessary boundary changes. It is just another layer of protection against moving kids at particularly harmful time --- the middle of high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Fairfax connector? Not relevant to most of the neighborhoods. Hardly anyone lives walking distance to a connector station or has a connector station walking distance to their high school.

Just looked at the maps/routes.
I guess if your high school is next to a Metro station or a Park n Ride, it's possible.
Unfortunately, that would not work for us.

Sounds like someone who never rides a bus or has a kid in school wrote the comment about the buses being free.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/connector/student-pass

Click on high school bus routes and find out!

Great idea! Everyone who is being moved, look up directions in Google maps and select the public transit tab. Post your estimated travel time and number of transfers required! I bet they’ll all be super reasonable.

Oops! I thought you were worried about the low income kids who couldn’t carpool to school. Most Fairfax low income neighborhoods are located near public transit. Laughably, you are concerned about you own kids and trying to stop grandfathering for all kids until you get what you want.

Got it.

Oops, you’re conflating many posters again. You lose a ton of credibility when you do that.

Ha! I saw someone posting like this before in this thread and it makes me laugh. If you want people to keep posters straight, create a user name, until then we are all anonymous.

Ironic post from an anonymous poster, who continually drops racial epithets on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Fairfax connector? Not relevant to most of the neighborhoods. Hardly anyone lives walking distance to a connector station or has a connector station walking distance to their high school.

Just looked at the maps/routes.
I guess if your high school is next to a Metro station or a Park n Ride, it's possible.
Unfortunately, that would not work for us.

Sounds like someone who never rides a bus or has a kid in school wrote the comment about the buses being free.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/connector/student-pass

Click on high school bus routes and find out!

Great idea! Everyone who is being moved, look up directions in Google maps and select the public transit tab. Post your estimated travel time and number of transfers required! I bet they’ll all be super reasonable.

Oops! I thought you were worried about the low income kids who couldn’t carpool to school. Most Fairfax low income neighborhoods are located near public transit. Laughably, you are concerned about you own kids and trying to stop grandfathering for all kids until you get what you want.

Got it.

This is sadly what I see in my neighborhood group. Folks opposing grandfathering seem worried that if it goes through, others will stop fighting the boundary change in general. I find the all or nothing attitude very sad. This needs to be treated as a separate issue --- a policy change that impacts all boundary changes current and future, some of which may end up being truly necessary. It doesn't have to mean that we stop pushing back against current unnecessary boundary changes. It is just another layer of protection against moving kids at particularly harmful time --- the middle of high school.

That's a very odd way to articulate it. I think the people who are against the boundary changes are still against the boundary changes. Then you have a group that's quickly decided to start taking up the School Board's cause, either because (1) their own kids would benefit from grandfathering, with or without transportation; or (2) they stand to benefit from the KAA acquisition, so a School Board that just dropped $150 million on a school for them can do little wrong in their eyes.

I mean, kudos to the School Board for rolling out this type of "divide and conquer" strategy, but the potential boundary changes themselves are still imbecilic in many if not most instances, and they deserve to remain the primary focus of attention, not the bone tossed to soften the blow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree that they are hoping this buys some parents off. And for many of us that HS grandfathering will address the biggest worry. I posted earlier that my kid will be a rising sophomore when it implements (or junior if this gets delayed which would be even worse) and by far my biggest worry in the process had been them moving during those key HS years. But a move for us would be to a comparable school so it’s not that groaning is awful in my neighborhood’s case. It’s just that a change at a particularly fragile time would be awful. I would still support others who oppose changes but it would dial the temperature on this way down for me.

There are still many ES and MS families though in the county to be engaged in any inherently bad changes.

100% this.

I was more motvated to continue working against rezoning when this grandfathering update came out, like I have been for the past year.

But reading that poster calling those of us who have been doing the work this whole time "selfish" and gullible make me want to say F it, let those posters go it alone instead of continuing to help them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s crazy is that this amendment wouldn’t even apply to this round of boundary changes because of KAA.

From the proposed amendment: These allowances shall not be applicable in the opening of a new school, or in the closing of an existing school.

If that new school gets opened fall of 2026, then the grandfathering wouldn’t apply.

It applies to 2/3 of the county notaffected by the new high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s crazy is that this amendment wouldn’t even apply to this round of boundary changes because of KAA.

From the proposed amendment: These allowances shall not be applicable in the opening of a new school, or in the closing of an existing school.

If that new school gets opened fall of 2026, then the grandfathering wouldn’t apply.

To students zoned to KAA. There are many recommended adjustments to high school boundaries that are not related to KAA.

That’s open to interpretation - the amendment is not drafted well.

The amendment is very clear on that part.