What can we do to stop the boundary change?

[Anonymous]

Only way to stop is new school board and superintendent. Truly feel sorry for those that will be negatively impacted by the boundary changes.

They need to make other more important precursor decisions such as reducing or eliminating IB program, etc.

Just to stupid to know what to do when.

[Anonymous]

Not only is this boundary change happening, but they will happen every 5 years until enough people stop voting straight 'D' no matter what. Without at least a couple of dissenting voices on the board this is what you get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m pro boundary changes and I don’t understand why it takes them so long to do them. School boundaries should be more dynamic. My elementary school is currently very overcrowded because they opened a new development. But the other two elementary schools which are 1/4 mile and 1 mile away are under enrolled.

What we need is a neutral boundary change process that depends on data and not humans to do it. I’m sick of Gerrymandered boundaries.

How old are your kids? People like consistency. They don't want to be frequently changing schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only way to stop is new school board and superintendent. Truly feel sorry for those that will be negatively impacted by the boundary changes.

They need to make other more important precursor decisions such as reducing or eliminating IB program, etc.

Just to stupid to know what to do when.

You do know that OP is just complaining because their home value is declining, right? This has absolutely nothing to do with the children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only way to stop is new school board and superintendent. Truly feel sorry for those that will be negatively impacted by the boundary changes.

They need to make other more important precursor decisions such as reducing or eliminating IB program, etc.

Just to stupid to know what to do when.

You do know that OP is just complaining because their home value is declining, right? This has absolutely nothing to do with the children.

Nobody's home value is declining. They did away with any significant changes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to talk particulars of the different boundaries like the other threads. Just how to we, as individuals and groups, push the issue?

Letter writing? Collect and hire legal counsel for a class action? Picket?

I know there are some pretty smart people on here. What are the best courses of action?

A large supermajority of FCPS families aren’t going to have any reason to devote time and resources to stopping this boundary change. You are in a very small minority of people who have an issue.

Honestly, the best course of action for someone like you is to move to a jurisdiction with smaller independent school districts so you can choose to self-segregate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want to talk particulars of the different boundaries like the other threads. Just how to we, as individuals and groups, push the issue?

Letter writing? Collect and hire legal counsel for a class action? Picket?

I know there are some pretty smart people on here. What are the best courses of action?

Best thing you can do is reach out to your school board reps (all 4) to let them know you oppose the boundary changes. Make it personal, but avoid talking about property value - the school board members don’t care about property values even though school quality is linked to them.

Next is organize a campaign to contact school board members. Timber Lane had a big campaign to stay at McLean instead of being moved, and they were vindicated today when the new maps were released.

Next, longer term, is don’t just vote for these clowns because they have a D next to their names. I say that as someone who just filled out my mail in ballot voting for the Ds at the statewide level, but opposed the school bond, which I used to vote for. You are just one vote, but if the school board members fear for their jobs or funding then the boundary change crap will disappear mighty quick.

There is at least one organization, fairfact matters that appears to generally be against the boundary changes. You should consider reaching out to them to see if there are other things.

Ridiculous. I can't take anything you said seriously because you opposed the school bond.

DP. Why should people vote for this school bond? Enrollment is declining yet they want to open new schools and expand existing ones when they could be making current facilities nicer. They aren’t good stewards of taxpayer money.

Couldn’t agree more. Time to do the only thing voters can do at this time. Send a clear message that the superintendent and SB are poor stewards of taxpayer money by voting “no” on the school bond initiative on the ballot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want to talk particulars of the different boundaries like the other threads. Just how to we, as individuals and groups, push the issue?

Letter writing? Collect and hire legal counsel for a class action? Picket?

I know there are some pretty smart people on here. What are the best courses of action?

Best thing you can do is reach out to your school board reps (all 4) to let them know you oppose the boundary changes. Make it personal, but avoid talking about property value - the school board members don’t care about property values even though school quality is linked to them.

Next is organize a campaign to contact school board members. Timber Lane had a big campaign to stay at McLean instead of being moved, and they were vindicated today when the new maps were released.

Next, longer term, is don’t just vote for these clowns because they have a D next to their names. I say that as someone who just filled out my mail in ballot voting for the Ds at the statewide level, but opposed the school bond, which I used to vote for. You are just one vote, but if the school board members fear for their jobs or funding then the boundary change crap will disappear mighty quick.

There is at least one organization, fairfact matters that appears to generally be against the boundary changes. You should consider reaching out to them to see if there are other things.

Ridiculous. I can't take anything you said seriously because you opposed the school bond.

DP. Why should people vote for this school bond? Enrollment is declining yet they want to open new schools and expand existing ones when they could be making current facilities nicer. They aren’t good stewards of taxpayer money.

Couldn’t agree more. Time to do the only thing voters can do at this time. Send a clear message that the superintendent and SB are poor stewards of taxpayer money by voting “no” on the school bond initiative on the ballot.

I think that is a dumb move. It isn’t teach the board a lesson, it WILL mess with the renovation schedule more and keep FCPS schools that your kids go to dirty.

Vote in different board members and be vocal about supporting other candidates.

[Anonymous]

OP, you can't do anything unless you happen to be very buddy-buddy with a SB member and are prepared to return the favor when they ask you to.

We saw the writing on the wall when this whole discussion started and it was one reason we moved our younger two kids to private school. It sounds like this is an option for your family too and I would encourage you to explore it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only way to stop is new school board and superintendent. Truly feel sorry for those that will be negatively impacted by the boundary changes.

They need to make other more important precursor decisions such as reducing or eliminating IB program, etc.

Just to stupid to know what to do when.

You do know that OP is just complaining because their home value is declining, right? This has absolutely nothing to do with the children.

Nobody's home value is declining. They did away with any significant changes

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I looked at the latest maps for HS changes. Not seeing any shifts into the more controversial schools that were on the table earlier.

[Anonymous]

I think all the bigger unfounded changes were stopped thankfully

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want to talk particulars of the different boundaries like the other threads. Just how to we, as individuals and groups, push the issue?

Letter writing? Collect and hire legal counsel for a class action? Picket?

I know there are some pretty smart people on here. What are the best courses of action?

Best thing you can do is reach out to your school board reps (all 4) to let them know you oppose the boundary changes. Make it personal, but avoid talking about property value - the school board members don’t care about property values even though school quality is linked to them.

Next is organize a campaign to contact school board members. Timber Lane had a big campaign to stay at McLean instead of being moved, and they were vindicated today when the new maps were released.

Next, longer term, is don’t just vote for these clowns because they have a D next to their names. I say that as someone who just filled out my mail in ballot voting for the Ds at the statewide level, but opposed the school bond, which I used to vote for. You are just one vote, but if the school board members fear for their jobs or funding then the boundary change crap will disappear mighty quick.

There is at least one organization, fairfact matters that appears to generally be against the boundary changes. You should consider reaching out to them to see if there are other things.

Ridiculous. I can't take anything you said seriously because you opposed the school bond.

DP. Why should people vote for this school bond? Enrollment is declining yet they want to open new schools and expand existing ones when they could be making current facilities nicer. They aren’t good stewards of taxpayer money.

Couldn’t agree more. Time to do the only thing voters can do at this time. Send a clear message that the superintendent and SB are poor stewards of taxpayer money by voting “no” on the school bond initiative on the ballot.

I think that is a dumb move. It isn’t teach the board a lesson, it WILL mess with the renovation schedule more and keep FCPS schools that your kids go to dirty.

Vote in different board members and be vocal about supporting other candidates.

Really hope the republicans don’t put forth crap candidates or that ding dong blonde lady again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m pro boundary changes and I don’t understand why it takes them so long to do them. School boundaries should be more dynamic. My elementary school is currently very overcrowded because they opened a new development. But the other two elementary schools which are 1/4 mile and 1 mile away are under enrolled.

What we need is a neutral boundary change process that depends on data and not humans to do it. I’m sick of Gerrymandered boundaries.

How old are your kids? People like consistency. They don't want to be frequently changing schools.

+1. There are two trolls on this forum that are very into equity-based boundary changes. They can only see the trees, not the forest and think that bringing everyone down to the lowest level will somehow make FCPS better. It would be laughable, but there is so much at stake with their misguided social engineering.

OP, if you are fortunate enough to survive this year’s boundary debacle, make sure you understand the positions on boundary changes for the candidates next go round.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to talk particulars of the different boundaries like the other threads. Just how to we, as individuals and groups, push the issue?

Letter writing? Collect and hire legal counsel for a class action? Picket?

I know there are some pretty smart people on here. What are the best courses of action?

Best thing you can do is reach out to your school board reps (all 4) to let them know you oppose the boundary changes. Make it personal, but avoid talking about property value - the school board members don’t care about property values even though school quality is linked to them.

Next is organize a campaign to contact school board members. Timber Lane had a big campaign to stay at McLean instead of being moved, and they were vindicated today when the new maps were released.

Next, longer term, is don’t just vote for these clowns because they have a D next to their names. I say that as someone who just filled out my mail in ballot voting for the Ds at the statewide level, but opposed the school bond, which I used to vote for. You are just one vote, but if the school board members fear for their jobs or funding then the boundary change crap will disappear mighty quick.

There is at least one organization, fairfact matters that appears to generally be against the boundary changes. You should consider reaching out to them to see if there are other things.

Ridiculous. I can't take anything you said seriously because you opposed the school bond.

TBH, I was pretty torn about the no vote. I’ve always voted for the bond before - have historically been a big supporter of public schools.

But like many many others I’m angered that FCPS thinks that they can just move our kids around like pawns with impunity.

Until the boundary review and future boundary reviews shrink down to just the urgent needs (e.g. Coates), then I can’t in good faith continue to vote to fund their nonsense. And if it means that I have to send my kids private because the schools start to really suck, we can afford to do so. I don’t want to, but the school board does not get my rubber stamp vote. It shouldn’t get anybody’s vote like that. They need to understand that this disaster of a process drives families like mine away from and against the school system entirely.

Boundaries have never been set in stone. You knew that when you moved here. Boundaries get changed all the time, this is just the first time they are doing it all at once.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to talk particulars of the different boundaries like the other threads. Just how to we, as individuals and groups, push the issue?

Letter writing? Collect and hire legal counsel for a class action? Picket?

I know there are some pretty smart people on here. What are the best courses of action?

Best thing you can do is reach out to your school board reps (all 4) to let them know you oppose the boundary changes. Make it personal, but avoid talking about property value - the school board members don’t care about property values even though school quality is linked to them.

Next is organize a campaign to contact school board members. Timber Lane had a big campaign to stay at McLean instead of being moved, and they were vindicated today when the new maps were released.

Next, longer term, is don’t just vote for these clowns because they have a D next to their names. I say that as someone who just filled out my mail in ballot voting for the Ds at the statewide level, but opposed the school bond, which I used to vote for. You are just one vote, but if the school board members fear for their jobs or funding then the boundary change crap will disappear mighty quick.

There is at least one organization, fairfact matters that appears to generally be against the boundary changes. You should consider reaching out to them to see if there are other things.

Ridiculous. I can't take anything you said seriously because you opposed the school bond.

DP. Why should people vote for this school bond? Enrollment is declining yet they want to open new schools and expand existing ones when they could be making current facilities nicer. They aren’t good stewards of taxpayer money.

Couldn’t agree more. Time to do the only thing voters can do at this time. Send a clear message that the superintendent and SB are poor stewards of taxpayer money by voting “no” on the school bond initiative on the ballot.

I hope that readers here are smart enough to recognize that this person and the other who claims they voted NO are people who want to ensure that their children get vouchers for "school choice". It's fairly easy to spot you trolls nowadays.