Boundary Review Meetings

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Anonymous wrote:Is there evidence of the donor connection that can be brought up at the boundary meeting ?

I am not a fan of that particular school board rep, but that accusation is either an unfounded rumor, or a poorly worded sarcasm attempt that got picked up online and stuck.

I don't want to add fuel to the fire on this one, but I actually heard the 'donor' is a wealthy attorney in Sandy's neighborhood who pushed FCPS to have every single holiday off.

Sandy's neighborhood is not Rolling Valley.

I am not a fan of that rep.

But there needs to be proof before pushing a serious, unfounded rumor like this.

I agree that her fixation on that Rolling Valley neighborhood is absurd.

That neighborhood going to WSHS from Lewis was not on any of the maps.

It was not on any of the Brac committee recommendations from a few weeks ago.

It was not something that the Franconia school board rep is asking for, or something the Lewis community needs.

The numbers used are ignoring all the high school students from that neighborhood who pupil place out of Lewis to LB, Edison, SoCo or other schools, so they are inaccurate and undercounted.

Based on the overcrowding at WSHS, rezoning this neighborhood does not make sense, especially since neither Thru nor BRAC recommended it.

Based on geography, the move does make sense, but then we circle back to overcrowding at WSHS and underenrollment at Lewis, and it ceases to make sense.

I think though that without proof, to keep repeating that rumor is at best, unhelpful, even though the whole laser sharp fixation on getting that Lewis neighborhood from Lewis to WSHS has been SAs #1 priority since the school board started revising policy 8130 over a year ago, amd likely the reason why Anderson pushed so hard for this county wide rezoning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there evidence of the donor connection that can be brought up at the boundary meeting ?

I am not a fan of that particular school board rep, but that accusation is either an unfounded rumor, or a poorly worded sarcasm attempt that got picked up online and stuck.

I don't want to add fuel to the fire on this one, but I actually heard the 'donor' is a wealthy attorney in Sandy's neighborhood who pushed FCPS to have every single holiday off.

Sandy's neighborhood is not Rolling Valley.

I am not a fan of that rep.

But there needs to be proof before pushing a serious, unfounded rumor like this.

I agree that her fixation on that Rolling Valley neighborhood is absurd.

That neighborhood going to WSHS from Lewis was not on any of the maps.

It was not on any of the Brac committee recommendations from a few weeks ago.

It was not something that the Franconia school board rep is asking for, or something the Lewis community needs.

The numbers used are ignoring all the high school students from that neighborhood who pupil place out of Lewis to LB, Edison, SoCo or other schools, so they are inaccurate and undercounted.

Based on the overcrowding at WSHS, rezoning this neighborhood does not make sense, especially since neither Thru nor BRAC recommended it.

Based on geography, the move does make sense, but then we circle back to overcrowding at WSHS and underenrollment at Lewis, and it ceases to make sense.

I think though that without proof, to keep repeating that rumor is at best, unhelpful, even though the whole laser sharp fixation on getting that Lewis neighborhood from Lewis to WSHS has been SAs #1 priority since the school board started revising policy 8130 over a year ago, amd likely the reason why Anderson pushed so hard for this county wide rezoning.

But it was. Read priority 7 from region 6:
https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-09/advisory_priority_analysis_-_region_6_9-8_update_epg1_0.pdf

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I doubt the whole Oak Hill would go to KAA. But maybe Emerald Chase goes to South Lakes and the rest of Oak Hill go to KAA.

Remember currently Emerald Chase kids (and Bradley Farm kids south of West Ox) go to Westfield. Moving them to KAA won’t give relief to Chantilly.

I don't take it for granted that Thru and the school board will do what makes sense, but what makes sense is to send Emerald Chase to KAA with the rest of Oak Hill in order to keep pyramids aligned (and, assuming the Franklin Middle School kids get redistricted for Carson, to eliminate a split feeder).

I agree. The school board has an opportunity to build an actual school pyramid with no split feeders with just making a few changes. I hope they don’t find a way to screw that up.

From last night's meeting:

Centerville had three split feeders (Bull Run, Powell ES and Union). They fixes ZERO of these split feeders
Robinson had one split feeder (Oak View). They DID NOT fix this split feeder.

Why are they 'fixing' some split feeders and not others? This was never about fixing split feeders.

Because this map version is highly focused on feedback from the BRAC. The Thru guy at the meeting last night made that very clear. He didn't sound happy about it either.

I could not care less if he wasn't happy. His outfit was the one that came up with ridiculous scenarios that would move kids living next door to Marshall to McLean and next door to Westgate to Franklin Sherman, create a new, lopsided split feeder at Shrevewood, and even now leave Marshall with a ridiculous Westbriar attendance island out near Reston even after many families asked to move to closer Colvin Run. And we're still paying them for this garbage.

If the quality of Thru's earlier work had been better, we wouldn't have what we now have, which are basically a limited number of changes largely intended to allow the School Board to wrap up this turd and move on to the next great thing.

What’s the point of implementing any of it? Just look at Marshall. Shrevewood still becomes a split feeder under scenario 4. The Westbriar attendance island is even more isolated. And Thoreau is still a three way feeder.

Marshall could just as easily be fixed by adding the 200 seats back to Kilmer that mysteriously disappeared after the 2023-24 school year.

According to FCPS Kilmer had a program capacity of 1080 in 2016-17, 1272 in 2021-22, and 1023 in 2024-25. I never understood why the program capacity there fluctuates so much. I assume it went up when it got a modular, but why did it go back down? Had space at Kilmer Center been counted and then excluded?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there evidence of the donor connection that can be brought up at the boundary meeting ?

I am not a fan of that particular school board rep, but that accusation is either an unfounded rumor, or a poorly worded sarcasm attempt that got picked up online and stuck.

I don't want to add fuel to the fire on this one, but I actually heard the 'donor' is a wealthy attorney in Sandy's neighborhood who pushed FCPS to have every single holiday off.

Sandy's neighborhood is not Rolling Valley.

I am not a fan of that rep.

But there needs to be proof before pushing a serious, unfounded rumor like this.

I agree that her fixation on that Rolling Valley neighborhood is absurd.

That neighborhood going to WSHS from Lewis was not on any of the maps.

It was not on any of the Brac committee recommendations from a few weeks ago.

It was not something that the Franconia school board rep is asking for, or something the Lewis community needs.

The numbers used are ignoring all the high school students from that neighborhood who pupil place out of Lewis to LB, Edison, SoCo or other schools, so they are inaccurate and undercounted.

Based on the overcrowding at WSHS, rezoning this neighborhood does not make sense, especially since neither Thru nor BRAC recommended it.

Based on geography, the move does make sense, but then we circle back to overcrowding at WSHS and underenrollment at Lewis, and it ceases to make sense.

I think though that without proof, to keep repeating that rumor is at best, unhelpful, even though the whole laser sharp fixation on getting that Lewis neighborhood from Lewis to WSHS has been SAs #1 priority since the school board started revising policy 8130 over a year ago, amd likely the reason why Anderson pushed so hard for this county wide rezoning.

I didn't say her neighborhood was RV. I said she is bankrolled by a donor in her neighborhood who pushed for FCPS to have literally every religious holiday off.

[Anonymous]

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I doubt the whole Oak Hill would go to KAA. But maybe Emerald Chase goes to South Lakes and the rest of Oak Hill go to KAA.

Remember currently Emerald Chase kids (and Bradley Farm kids south of West Ox) go to Westfield. Moving them to KAA won’t give relief to Chantilly.

I don't take it for granted that Thru and the school board will do what makes sense, but what makes sense is to send Emerald Chase to KAA with the rest of Oak Hill in order to keep pyramids aligned (and, assuming the Franklin Middle School kids get redistricted for Carson, to eliminate a split feeder).

I agree. The school board has an opportunity to build an actual school pyramid with no split feeders with just making a few changes. I hope they don’t find a way to screw that up.

From last night's meeting:

Centerville had three split feeders (Bull Run, Powell ES and Union). They fixes ZERO of these split feeders
Robinson had one split feeder (Oak View). They DID NOT fix this split feeder.

Why are they 'fixing' some split feeders and not others? This was never about fixing split feeders.

Because this map version is highly focused on feedback from the BRAC. The Thru guy at the meeting last night made that very clear. He didn't sound happy about it either.

I can see why- it seems like THRU was a massive waste of time and money. Most of their suggestions were reversed and now we're going with a low fewer minor changes made by someone else (BRAC).

Changes based on a ragtag group of volunteers are not what the comprehensive boundary review was supposed to result in. What a waste of consultant money and a whole bunch of time and angst. The policy goals are not advanced in scenario 4. It’s just a wishlist of vocal residents - just like other boundary changes. This was supposed to fix the mess caused by one offs and personal interest. And now our system which always cries poverty spent a huge amount of money on this nonsense. Scenario 4 should be dropped in favor of the expert created ones.

The "expert created ones" were just as, if not more, ludicrous than whatever it is you don't like in Scenario 4, even if you may not have been affected by them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Man, I know they really want to keep the boundary review conversation to one thread, but I sure do wish everyone talking about the Springfield high schools could have their own thread. A lot of passionate conversation to be had there... And I want to hear what other people around the county are thinking about the new scenario!

I agree. Maybe break this boundary discussion by region 1-6 like the FCPS.

You could start a thread on "Website Feedback," explain that FCPS is broken into six regions, and ask if there could be separate threads for the boundary changes affecting each region.

I've noticed Jeff allows more overlapping threads on the MCPS forum relating to boundary changes on the horizon in MCPS than he does on this forum, probably because some of the earlier FCPS threads got particularly nasty.

No this is a stupid idea, not everyone knows what region they are in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are we really supposed to believe there’s a $$$ donor to Sandy Anderson living in those townhouses? Come on, they’d have bought a SFH elsewhere in the first place if they had enough money to do that.

You're believing someone who had a vendetta against Sandy Anderson. There is one person who just hates her and goes on and on and sock puppets about it. It's a lie.

[Anonymous]

how can i see if there are any changes to the Woodson pyramid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there evidence of the donor connection that can be brought up at the boundary meeting ?

I am not a fan of that particular school board rep, but that accusation is either an unfounded rumor, or a poorly worded sarcasm attempt that got picked up online and stuck.

I don't want to add fuel to the fire on this one, but I actually heard the 'donor' is a wealthy attorney in Sandy's neighborhood who pushed FCPS to have every single holiday off.

Sandy's neighborhood is not Rolling Valley.

I am not a fan of that rep.

But there needs to be proof before pushing a serious, unfounded rumor like this.

I agree that her fixation on that Rolling Valley neighborhood is absurd.

That neighborhood going to WSHS from Lewis was not on any of the maps.

It was not on any of the Brac committee recommendations from a few weeks ago.

It was not something that the Franconia school board rep is asking for, or something the Lewis community needs.

The numbers used are ignoring all the high school students from that neighborhood who pupil place out of Lewis to LB, Edison, SoCo or other schools, so they are inaccurate and undercounted.

Based on the overcrowding at WSHS, rezoning this neighborhood does not make sense, especially since neither Thru nor BRAC recommended it.

Based on geography, the move does make sense, but then we circle back to overcrowding at WSHS and underenrollment at Lewis, and it ceases to make sense.

I think though that without proof, to keep repeating that rumor is at best, unhelpful, even though the whole laser sharp fixation on getting that Lewis neighborhood from Lewis to WSHS has been SAs #1 priority since the school board started revising policy 8130 over a year ago, amd likely the reason why Anderson pushed so hard for this county wide rezoning.

I didn't say her neighborhood was RV. I said she is bankrolled by a donor in her neighborhood who pushed for FCPS to have literally every religious holiday off.

Oh my god, your conspiracy theories are comic GOLD!!! 👑🏆🥇🌟

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we really supposed to believe there’s a $$$ donor to Sandy Anderson living in those townhouses? Come on, they’d have bought a SFH elsewhere in the first place if they had enough money to do that.

You're believing someone who had a vendetta against Sandy Anderson. There is one person who just hates her and goes on and on and sock puppets about it. It's a lie.

I think we found Sandy.

No, and I don't even live in your area, but you are out of control.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are we really supposed to believe there’s a $$$ donor to Sandy Anderson living in those townhouses? Come on, they’d have bought a SFH elsewhere in the first place if they had enough money to do that.

You're believing someone who had a vendetta against Sandy Anderson. There is one person who just hates her and goes on and on and sock puppets about it. It's a lie.

DP. Do you remember when Sandy sniveled at her constituents at the July 2024 boundary meeting?

Man, she’s the worst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we really supposed to believe there’s a $$$ donor to Sandy Anderson living in those townhouses? Come on, they’d have bought a SFH elsewhere in the first place if they had enough money to do that.

You're believing someone who had a vendetta against Sandy Anderson. There is one person who just hates her and goes on and on and sock puppets about it. It's a lie.

I think we found Sandy.

No, and I don't even live in your area, but you are out of control.

Ok, Sandy. Wink, Wink. You're secret is safe with me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there evidence of the donor connection that can be brought up at the boundary meeting ?

I am not a fan of that particular school board rep, but that accusation is either an unfounded rumor, or a poorly worded sarcasm attempt that got picked up online and stuck.

I don't want to add fuel to the fire on this one, but I actually heard the 'donor' is a wealthy attorney in Sandy's neighborhood who pushed FCPS to have every single holiday off.

Sandy's neighborhood is not Rolling Valley.

I am not a fan of that rep.

But there needs to be proof before pushing a serious, unfounded rumor like this.

I agree that her fixation on that Rolling Valley neighborhood is absurd.

That neighborhood going to WSHS from Lewis was not on any of the maps.

It was not on any of the Brac committee recommendations from a few weeks ago.

It was not something that the Franconia school board rep is asking for, or something the Lewis community needs.

The numbers used are ignoring all the high school students from that neighborhood who pupil place out of Lewis to LB, Edison, SoCo or other schools, so they are inaccurate and undercounted.

Based on the overcrowding at WSHS, rezoning this neighborhood does not make sense, especially since neither Thru nor BRAC recommended it.

Based on geography, the move does make sense, but then we circle back to overcrowding at WSHS and underenrollment at Lewis, and it ceases to make sense.

I think though that without proof, to keep repeating that rumor is at best, unhelpful, even though the whole laser sharp fixation on getting that Lewis neighborhood from Lewis to WSHS has been SAs #1 priority since the school board started revising policy 8130 over a year ago, amd likely the reason why Anderson pushed so hard for this county wide rezoning.

But it was. Read priority 7 from region 6:
https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-09/advisory_priority_analysis_-_region_6_9-8_update_epg1_0.pdf

Wasn't priority 7 below other priorities asking to move more kids into Lewis?

Skipping priorities 1-6 and jumping to priority 7 is a slap in the face to Lewis families.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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I doubt the whole Oak Hill would go to KAA. But maybe Emerald Chase goes to South Lakes and the rest of Oak Hill go to KAA.

Remember currently Emerald Chase kids (and Bradley Farm kids south of West Ox) go to Westfield. Moving them to KAA won’t give relief to Chantilly.

I don't take it for granted that Thru and the school board will do what makes sense, but what makes sense is to send Emerald Chase to KAA with the rest of Oak Hill in order to keep pyramids aligned (and, assuming the Franklin Middle School kids get redistricted for Carson, to eliminate a split feeder).

I agree. The school board has an opportunity to build an actual school pyramid with no split feeders with just making a few changes. I hope they don’t find a way to screw that up.

From last night's meeting:

Centerville had three split feeders (Bull Run, Powell ES and Union). They fixes ZERO of these split feeders
Robinson had one split feeder (Oak View). They DID NOT fix this split feeder.

Why are they 'fixing' some split feeders and not others? This was never about fixing split feeders.

Because this map version is highly focused on feedback from the BRAC. The Thru guy at the meeting last night made that very clear. He didn't sound happy about it either.

I could not care less if he wasn't happy. His outfit was the one that came up with ridiculous scenarios that would move kids living next door to Marshall to McLean and next door to Westgate to Franklin Sherman, create a new, lopsided split feeder at Shrevewood, and even now leave Marshall with a ridiculous Westbriar attendance island out near Reston even after many families asked to move to closer Colvin Run. And we're still paying them for this garbage.

If the quality of Thru's earlier work had been better, we wouldn't have what we now have, which are basically a limited number of changes largely intended to allow the School Board to wrap up this turd and move on to the next great thing.

What’s the point of implementing any of it? Just look at Marshall. Shrevewood still becomes a split feeder under scenario 4. The Westbriar attendance island is even more isolated. And Thoreau is still a three way feeder.

Marshall could just as easily be fixed by adding the 200 seats back to Kilmer that mysteriously disappeared after the 2023-24 school year.

I think it's too late to revert to the status quo given the options that have been dangled before people but it would certainly make more sense if:

1. The Westbriar island moves to Colvin Run/Cooper/Langley (and part of Forestville moves into the Herndon pyramid, if but only if truly necessary);

2. The area east of Trap Road, south of the Dulles Toll Road, and north of Old Courthouse moves from Wolftrap to Westbriar, and stays at Kilmer/Marshall;

3. The remainder of the Wolftrap area south of the Dulles Toll Road previously at Kilmer/Marshall moves to Thoreau/Madison;

4. The remainder of the Westbriar area previously at Kilmer/Madison moves to Marshall and stays at Kilmer; and

5. The small area at Vienna ES that currently feeds to Kilmer/Marshall moves to Thoreau/Madison with the rest of Vienna ES.

This would result in more compact boundaries, eliminate split feeders at Wolftrap, Westbriar, and Vienna, and eliminate (rather than make worse) the Westbriar attendance island.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there evidence of the donor connection that can be brought up at the boundary meeting ?

I am not a fan of that particular school board rep, but that accusation is either an unfounded rumor, or a poorly worded sarcasm attempt that got picked up online and stuck.

I don't want to add fuel to the fire on this one, but I actually heard the 'donor' is a wealthy attorney in Sandy's neighborhood who pushed FCPS to have every single holiday off.

Sandy's neighborhood is not Rolling Valley.

I am not a fan of that rep.

But there needs to be proof before pushing a serious, unfounded rumor like this.

I agree that her fixation on that Rolling Valley neighborhood is absurd.

That neighborhood going to WSHS from Lewis was not on any of the maps.

It was not on any of the Brac committee recommendations from a few weeks ago.

It was not something that the Franconia school board rep is asking for, or something the Lewis community needs.

The numbers used are ignoring all the high school students from that neighborhood who pupil place out of Lewis to LB, Edison, SoCo or other schools, so they are inaccurate and undercounted.

Based on the overcrowding at WSHS, rezoning this neighborhood does not make sense, especially since neither Thru nor BRAC recommended it.

Based on geography, the move does make sense, but then we circle back to overcrowding at WSHS and underenrollment at Lewis, and it ceases to make sense.

I think though that without proof, to keep repeating that rumor is at best, unhelpful, even though the whole laser sharp fixation on getting that Lewis neighborhood from Lewis to WSHS has been SAs #1 priority since the school board started revising policy 8130 over a year ago, amd likely the reason why Anderson pushed so hard for this county wide rezoning.

I didn't say her neighborhood was RV. I said she is bankrolled by a donor in her neighborhood who pushed for FCPS to have literally every religious holiday off.

What on earth does that have to do with rezoning, Rolling Valley, WSHS or Lewis?

Post that over in the calender threads.

Rumors about non related political topics doesn't help what is already a fraught discussion.