School Board Forum on "Boundary and Capacity"

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Anonymous wrote:Some Franklin Farm kids need to be sent to Herndon. Franklin Middle needs to feed to Oakton.

Some Westfield and Chantilly kids need to be sent to Centerville (Virginia Run/Bull Run and Poplar Tree (make is a split feeder).

No and no. You have no idea what you are talking about.

First you say you would you send kids a mile or two from Chantilly and not far from Westfield to Herndon. And then you say send all of Franklin to Oakton. The non-Oakton piece of Franklin IS Franklin Farm.

So are you sending the kids who live the closest to Chantilly HS to Herndon or Oakton (45 minute rush hour commute)?

Not to poster to whom you’re responding, but curious as to who you think will get moved to Centreville since it’s now clear that at some level they’ve decided the solution to the overcrowding at Chantilly is to expand Centreville to 3000 (just as they previously, though incorrectly, decided the solution to overcrowding at McLean was to expand Langley to 2370).

I suggested Oakton because those parents would settle for that vs the other high school choices in the area. I mean, they could draw the boundary at 50 and all of Franklin could get shifted to Westfield. Because centreville is meant to relieve Westfield (bull run es/Virginia run es), leaving room to shift Chantilly kids to Westfield.

Chantilly is literally sitting on 50. That would move kids who live 1/4 mile from Chantilly in the neighborhoods right across the street on long bus rides. If they care about efficient use of busing, sending kids who are walkable on long bus rides ain’t ir. .

And no, Parents who live near Chantilly would not “settle” for their kids sitting on 66 for 45 minutes to get to school when there is an equally good high school a mile/ 5 minutes from their house. And that is not a commute I would let a high school aged driver do. I’d send my kids to Centreville or Westfield or apply for pupil placement to SLHS IB before I signed up to do more than an hour round trip for every sports pickup and after school activity. You have to draw a long, narrow rectangle with a ton of rush hour traffic going nowhere to make that boundary work. Would you send kids who live near the Vienna metro to Chantilly? Didn’t think so.

I'm happy to hear you are a parent open to that area moving to Westfields. We need more people like you.

“We need more parents like you” willing to tear entire communities apart and potentially hurt their own property values and totally upend their kids’ lives to save the county a little bit of gas money.

Like it or not, redistricting has major impacts to communities, that’s why it gets done only on the margins.

Have you considered the existence of tens of thousands of kids and their families whose property values have already been plummetting and that currently attend failing schools within FCPS? All because we deliberately concentrate them. Roughly 10 of our 25 pyramids are below the Virginia average performance based on SAT. Property value should be a moot point anyway, but the fact that we have so many failing schools is indefensible.

You should for sure run for office with “property value should be a moot point anyway” as your slogan and see how badly you lose, because you are in a distinct minority if you don’t think homeowners care about property values.

I am all for lifting up as many students possible. Redistricting ain’t the answer.

FCPS is a taxpayer-funded K-12 institution serving the public. FCPS has [/i]zero responsibility to real estate investors in private markets. No decision by FCPS should be based on preference of property values of the elites who live over here versus the poverty class over there.

This Board at least stated last meeting that they have the "moral fortitude" to make these hard decisions on the upcoming boundary review, but even I am doubtful they follow through.

Umm, you realize that the “real estate investors in private markets” are the people who pay the taxes for the schools, right? And they are by and large Fairfax County citizens. I’m not saying that they are the SB’s only responsibility, or even the primary one, but it is certainly a consideration. We aren’t in a communist country, and I certainly wouldn’t want an unaccountable school board.

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Anonymous wrote:Some Franklin Farm kids need to be sent to Herndon. Franklin Middle needs to feed to Oakton.

Some Westfield and Chantilly kids need to be sent to Centerville (Virginia Run/Bull Run and Poplar Tree (make is a split feeder).

No and no. You have no idea what you are talking about.

First you say you would you send kids a mile or two from Chantilly and not far from Westfield to Herndon. And then you say send all of Franklin to Oakton. The non-Oakton piece of Franklin IS Franklin Farm.

So are you sending the kids who live the closest to Chantilly HS to Herndon or Oakton (45 minute rush hour commute)?

Not to poster to whom you’re responding, but curious as to who you think will get moved to Centreville since it’s now clear that at some level they’ve decided the solution to the overcrowding at Chantilly is to expand Centreville to 3000 (just as they previously, though incorrectly, decided the solution to overcrowding at McLean was to expand Langley to 2370).

I suggested Oakton because those parents would settle for that vs the other high school choices in the area. I mean, they could draw the boundary at 50 and all of Franklin could get shifted to Westfield. Because centreville is meant to relieve Westfield (bull run es/Virginia run es), leaving room to shift Chantilly kids to Westfield.

Chantilly is literally sitting on 50. That would move kids who live 1/4 mile from Chantilly in the neighborhoods right across the street on long bus rides. If they care about efficient use of busing, sending kids who are walkable on long bus rides ain’t ir. .

And no, Parents who live near Chantilly would not “settle” for their kids sitting on 66 for 45 minutes to get to school when there is an equally good high school a mile/ 5 minutes from their house. And that is not a commute I would let a high school aged driver do. I’d send my kids to Centreville or Westfield or apply for pupil placement to SLHS IB before I signed up to do more than an hour round trip for every sports pickup and after school activity. You have to draw a long, narrow rectangle with a ton of rush hour traffic going nowhere to make that boundary work. Would you send kids who live near the Vienna metro to Chantilly? Didn’t think so.

I'm happy to hear you are a parent open to that area moving to Westfields. We need more people like you.

“We need more parents like you” willing to tear entire communities apart and potentially hurt their own property values and totally upend their kids’ lives to save the county a little bit of gas money.

Like it or not, redistricting has major impacts to communities, that’s why it gets done only on the margins.

Have you considered the existence of tens of thousands of kids and their families whose property values have already been plummetting and that currently attend failing schools within FCPS? All because we deliberately concentrate them. Roughly 10 of our 25 pyramids are below the Virginia average performance based on SAT. Property value should be a moot point anyway, but the fact that we have so many failing schools is indefensible.

You should for sure run for office with “property value should be a moot point anyway” as your slogan and see how badly you lose, because you are in a distinct minority if you don’t think homeowners care about property values.

I am all for lifting up as many students possible. Redistricting ain’t the answer.

FCPS is a taxpayer-funded K-12 institution serving the public. FCPS has [/i]zero responsibility to real estate investors in private markets. No decision by FCPS should be based on preference of property values of the elites who live over here versus the poverty class over there.

This Board at least stated last meeting that they have the "moral fortitude" to make these hard decisions on the upcoming boundary review, but even I am doubtful they follow through.

Umm, you realize that the “real estate investors in private markets” are the people who pay the taxes for the schools, right? And they are by and large Fairfax County citizens. I’m not saying that they are the SB’s only responsibility, or even the primary one, but it is certainly a consideration. We aren’t in a communist country, and I certainly wouldn’t want an unaccountable school board.

Unaccountable to who though? During last Tuesday’s school board meeting, multiple school board members suggested that, in recent history, board members have only been accountable to the loudest voices, and, as a result, this has led to a prioritization of resources for areas with the loudest voices rather than a prioritization based on needs across the county. And that this has led to a highly inefficient allocation of resources which has put us in the situation we are in today, with overcrowding across large parts of the school system.

[Anonymous]

^ As one example of the misallocation of resources, school board members brought up the fact that FCPS now has the second largest class sizes of any school district in Virginia. And excluding the top 5 schools, FCPS has the largest class sizes of any school district in Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ As one example of the misallocation of resources, school board members brought up the fact that FCPS now has the second largest class sizes of any school district in Virginia. And excluding the top 5 schools, FCPS has the largest class sizes of any school district in Virginia.

^ As another example of the miss allocation of resources, school board members noted that the number of FCPS students learning in trailers exceeds the total number of students in Arlington County Public Schools.

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Anonymous wrote:^ As one example of the misallocation of resources, school board members brought up the fact that FCPS now has the second largest class sizes of any school district in Virginia. And excluding the top 5 schools, FCPS has the largest class sizes of any school district in Virginia.

What does this even mean? The top schools in FCPS have larger class sizes, not smaller class sizes.

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Anonymous wrote:Some Franklin Farm kids need to be sent to Herndon. Franklin Middle needs to feed to Oakton.

Some Westfield and Chantilly kids need to be sent to Centerville (Virginia Run/Bull Run and Poplar Tree (make is a split feeder).

No and no. You have no idea what you are talking about.

First you say you would you send kids a mile or two from Chantilly and not far from Westfield to Herndon. And then you say send all of Franklin to Oakton. The non-Oakton piece of Franklin IS Franklin Farm.

So are you sending the kids who live the closest to Chantilly HS to Herndon or Oakton (45 minute rush hour commute)?

Not to poster to whom you’re responding, but curious as to who you think will get moved to Centreville since it’s now clear that at some level they’ve decided the solution to the overcrowding at Chantilly is to expand Centreville to 3000 (just as they previously, though incorrectly, decided the solution to overcrowding at McLean was to expand Langley to 2370).

I suggested Oakton because those parents would settle for that vs the other high school choices in the area. I mean, they could draw the boundary at 50 and all of Franklin could get shifted to Westfield. Because centreville is meant to relieve Westfield (bull run es/Virginia run es), leaving room to shift Chantilly kids to Westfield.

Chantilly is literally sitting on 50. That would move kids who live 1/4 mile from Chantilly in the neighborhoods right across the street on long bus rides. If they care about efficient use of busing, sending kids who are walkable on long bus rides ain’t ir. .

And no, Parents who live near Chantilly would not “settle” for their kids sitting on 66 for 45 minutes to get to school when there is an equally good high school a mile/ 5 minutes from their house. And that is not a commute I would let a high school aged driver do. I’d send my kids to Centreville or Westfield or apply for pupil placement to SLHS IB before I signed up to do more than an hour round trip for every sports pickup and after school activity. You have to draw a long, narrow rectangle with a ton of rush hour traffic going nowhere to make that boundary work. Would you send kids who live near the Vienna metro to Chantilly? Didn’t think so.

I'm happy to hear you are a parent open to that area moving to Westfields. We need more people like you.

“We need more parents like you” willing to tear entire communities apart and potentially hurt their own property values and totally upend their kids’ lives to save the county a little bit of gas money.

Like it or not, redistricting has major impacts to communities, that’s why it gets done only on the margins.

Have you considered the existence of tens of thousands of kids and their families whose property values have already been plummetting and that currently attend failing schools within FCPS? All because we deliberately concentrate them. Roughly 10 of our 25 pyramids are below the Virginia average performance based on SAT. Property value should be a moot point anyway, but the fact that we have so many failing schools is indefensible.

You should for sure run for office with “property value should be a moot point anyway” as your slogan and see how badly you lose, because you are in a distinct minority if you don’t think homeowners care about property values.

I am all for lifting up as many students possible. Redistricting ain’t the answer.

FCPS is a taxpayer-funded K-12 institution serving the public. FCPS has [/i]zero responsibility to real estate investors in private markets. No decision by FCPS should be based on preference of property values of the elites who live over here versus the poverty class over there.

This Board at least stated last meeting that they have the "moral fortitude" to make these hard decisions on the upcoming boundary review, but even I am doubtful they follow through.

Umm, you realize that the “real estate investors in private markets” are the people who pay the taxes for the schools, right? And they are by and large Fairfax County citizens. I’m not saying that they are the SB’s only responsibility, or even the primary one, but it is certainly a consideration. We aren’t in a communist country, and I certainly wouldn’t want an unaccountable school board.

Unaccountable to who though? During last Tuesday’s school board meeting, multiple school board members suggested that, in recent history, board members have only been accountable to the loudest voices, and, as a result, this has led to a prioritization of resources for areas with the loudest voices rather than a prioritization based on needs across the county. And that this has led to a highly inefficient allocation of resources which has put us in the situation we are in today, with overcrowding across large parts of the school system.

Parroting back the babble doesn’t make it more convincing.

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Anonymous wrote:Some Franklin Farm kids need to be sent to Herndon. Franklin Middle needs to feed to Oakton.

Some Westfield and Chantilly kids need to be sent to Centerville (Virginia Run/Bull Run and Poplar Tree (make is a split feeder).

No and no. You have no idea what you are talking about.

First you say you would you send kids a mile or two from Chantilly and not far from Westfield to Herndon. And then you say send all of Franklin to Oakton. The non-Oakton piece of Franklin IS Franklin Farm.

So are you sending the kids who live the closest to Chantilly HS to Herndon or Oakton (45 minute rush hour commute)?

Not to poster to whom you’re responding, but curious as to who you think will get moved to Centreville since it’s now clear that at some level they’ve decided the solution to the overcrowding at Chantilly is to expand Centreville to 3000 (just as they previously, though incorrectly, decided the solution to overcrowding at McLean was to expand Langley to 2370).

I suggested Oakton because those parents would settle for that vs the other high school choices in the area. I mean, they could draw the boundary at 50 and all of Franklin could get shifted to Westfield. Because centreville is meant to relieve Westfield (bull run es/Virginia run es), leaving room to shift Chantilly kids to Westfield.

Chantilly is literally sitting on 50. That would move kids who live 1/4 mile from Chantilly in the neighborhoods right across the street on long bus rides. If they care about efficient use of busing, sending kids who are walkable on long bus rides ain’t ir. .

And no, Parents who live near Chantilly would not “settle” for their kids sitting on 66 for 45 minutes to get to school when there is an equally good high school a mile/ 5 minutes from their house. And that is not a commute I would let a high school aged driver do. I’d send my kids to Centreville or Westfield or apply for pupil placement to SLHS IB before I signed up to do more than an hour round trip for every sports pickup and after school activity. You have to draw a long, narrow rectangle with a ton of rush hour traffic going nowhere to make that boundary work. Would you send kids who live near the Vienna metro to Chantilly? Didn’t think so.

I'm happy to hear you are a parent open to that area moving to Westfields. We need more people like you.

“We need more parents like you” willing to tear entire communities apart and potentially hurt their own property values and totally upend their kids’ lives to save the county a little bit of gas money.

Like it or not, redistricting has major impacts to communities, that’s why it gets done only on the margins.

Have you considered the existence of tens of thousands of kids and their families whose property values have already been plummetting and that currently attend failing schools within FCPS? All because we deliberately concentrate them. Roughly 10 of our 25 pyramids are below the Virginia average performance based on SAT. Property value should be a moot point anyway, but the fact that we have so many failing schools is indefensible.

You should for sure run for office with “property value should be a moot point anyway” as your slogan and see how badly you lose, because you are in a distinct minority if you don’t think homeowners care about property values.

I am all for lifting up as many students possible. Redistricting ain’t the answer.

FCPS is a taxpayer-funded K-12 institution serving the public. FCPS has [/i]zero responsibility to real estate investors in private markets. No decision by FCPS should be based on preference of property values of the elites who live over here versus the poverty class over there.

This Board at least stated last meeting that they have the "moral fortitude" to make these hard decisions on the upcoming boundary review, but even I am doubtful they follow through.

Umm, you realize that the “real estate investors in private markets” are the people who pay the taxes for the schools, right? And they are by and large Fairfax County citizens. I’m not saying that they are the SB’s only responsibility, or even the primary one, but it is certainly a consideration. We aren’t in a communist country, and I certainly wouldn’t want an unaccountable school board.

Do you understand that someone in Mt. Vernon pays exactly the same property tax rate as someone in McLean? And who made FCPS the arbiter to define which citizens get to have their real estate gain value and which citizens lose value?

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Anonymous wrote:Some Franklin Farm kids need to be sent to Herndon. Franklin Middle needs to feed to Oakton.

Some Westfield and Chantilly kids need to be sent to Centerville (Virginia Run/Bull Run and Poplar Tree (make is a split feeder).

No and no. You have no idea what you are talking about.

First you say you would you send kids a mile or two from Chantilly and not far from Westfield to Herndon. And then you say send all of Franklin to Oakton. The non-Oakton piece of Franklin IS Franklin Farm.

So are you sending the kids who live the closest to Chantilly HS to Herndon or Oakton (45 minute rush hour commute)?

Not to poster to whom you’re responding, but curious as to who you think will get moved to Centreville since it’s now clear that at some level they’ve decided the solution to the overcrowding at Chantilly is to expand Centreville to 3000 (just as they previously, though incorrectly, decided the solution to overcrowding at McLean was to expand Langley to 2370).

I suggested Oakton because those parents would settle for that vs the other high school choices in the area. I mean, they could draw the boundary at 50 and all of Franklin could get shifted to Westfield. Because centreville is meant to relieve Westfield (bull run es/Virginia run es), leaving room to shift Chantilly kids to Westfield.

Chantilly is literally sitting on 50. That would move kids who live 1/4 mile from Chantilly in the neighborhoods right across the street on long bus rides. If they care about efficient use of busing, sending kids who are walkable on long bus rides ain’t ir. .

And no, Parents who live near Chantilly would not “settle” for their kids sitting on 66 for 45 minutes to get to school when there is an equally good high school a mile/ 5 minutes from their house. And that is not a commute I would let a high school aged driver do. I’d send my kids to Centreville or Westfield or apply for pupil placement to SLHS IB before I signed up to do more than an hour round trip for every sports pickup and after school activity. You have to draw a long, narrow rectangle with a ton of rush hour traffic going nowhere to make that boundary work. Would you send kids who live near the Vienna metro to Chantilly? Didn’t think so.

I'm happy to hear you are a parent open to that area moving to Westfields. We need more people like you.

“We need more parents like you” willing to tear entire communities apart and potentially hurt their own property values and totally upend their kids’ lives to save the county a little bit of gas money.

Like it or not, redistricting has major impacts to communities, that’s why it gets done only on the margins.

Have you considered the existence of tens of thousands of kids and their families whose property values have already been plummetting and that currently attend failing schools within FCPS? All because we deliberately concentrate them. Roughly 10 of our 25 pyramids are below the Virginia average performance based on SAT. Property value should be a moot point anyway, but the fact that we have so many failing schools is indefensible.

You should for sure run for office with “property value should be a moot point anyway” as your slogan and see how badly you lose, because you are in a distinct minority if you don’t think homeowners care about property values.

I am all for lifting up as many students possible. Redistricting ain’t the answer.

FCPS is a taxpayer-funded K-12 institution serving the public. FCPS has [/i]zero responsibility to real estate investors in private markets. No decision by FCPS should be based on preference of property values of the elites who live over here versus the poverty class over there.

This Board at least stated last meeting that they have the "moral fortitude" to make these hard decisions on the upcoming boundary review, but even I am doubtful they follow through.

Umm, you realize that the “real estate investors in private markets” are the people who pay the taxes for the schools, right? And they are by and large Fairfax County citizens. I’m not saying that they are the SB’s only responsibility, or even the primary one, but it is certainly a consideration. We aren’t in a communist country, and I certainly wouldn’t want an unaccountable school board.

Do you understand that someone in Mt. Vernon pays exactly the same property tax rate as someone in McLean? And who made FCPS the arbiter to define which citizens get to have their real estate gain value and which citizens lose value?

I do understand that, but I also passed third grade math and know that a constant percentage doesn’t directly translate to the same absolute amount paid in taxes.

Regardless, that is only indirectly related to the point that I was making, which was in response to the prior poster saying that the board has “zero responsibility” to real estate investors (Fairfax county citizens).

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Anonymous wrote:Some Franklin Farm kids need to be sent to Herndon. Franklin Middle needs to feed to Oakton.

Some Westfield and Chantilly kids need to be sent to Centerville (Virginia Run/Bull Run and Poplar Tree (make is a split feeder).

No and no. You have no idea what you are talking about.

First you say you would you send kids a mile or two from Chantilly and not far from Westfield to Herndon. And then you say send all of Franklin to Oakton. The non-Oakton piece of Franklin IS Franklin Farm.

So are you sending the kids who live the closest to Chantilly HS to Herndon or Oakton (45 minute rush hour commute)?

Not to poster to whom you’re responding, but curious as to who you think will get moved to Centreville since it’s now clear that at some level they’ve decided the solution to the overcrowding at Chantilly is to expand Centreville to 3000 (just as they previously, though incorrectly, decided the solution to overcrowding at McLean was to expand Langley to 2370).

I suggested Oakton because those parents would settle for that vs the other high school choices in the area. I mean, they could draw the boundary at 50 and all of Franklin could get shifted to Westfield. Because centreville is meant to relieve Westfield (bull run es/Virginia run es), leaving room to shift Chantilly kids to Westfield.

Chantilly is literally sitting on 50. That would move kids who live 1/4 mile from Chantilly in the neighborhoods right across the street on long bus rides. If they care about efficient use of busing, sending kids who are walkable on long bus rides ain’t ir. .

And no, Parents who live near Chantilly would not “settle” for their kids sitting on 66 for 45 minutes to get to school when there is an equally good high school a mile/ 5 minutes from their house. And that is not a commute I would let a high school aged driver do. I’d send my kids to Centreville or Westfield or apply for pupil placement to SLHS IB before I signed up to do more than an hour round trip for every sports pickup and after school activity. You have to draw a long, narrow rectangle with a ton of rush hour traffic going nowhere to make that boundary work. Would you send kids who live near the Vienna metro to Chantilly? Didn’t think so.

I'm happy to hear you are a parent open to that area moving to Westfields. We need more people like you.

“We need more parents like you” willing to tear entire communities apart and potentially hurt their own property values and totally upend their kids’ lives to save the county a little bit of gas money.

Like it or not, redistricting has major impacts to communities, that’s why it gets done only on the margins.

Have you considered the existence of tens of thousands of kids and their families whose property values have already been plummetting and that currently attend failing schools within FCPS? All because we deliberately concentrate them. Roughly 10 of our 25 pyramids are below the Virginia average performance based on SAT. Property value should be a moot point anyway, but the fact that we have so many failing schools is indefensible.

You should for sure run for office with “property value should be a moot point anyway” as your slogan and see how badly you lose, because you are in a distinct minority if you don’t think homeowners care about property values.

I am all for lifting up as many students possible. Redistricting ain’t the answer.

FCPS is a taxpayer-funded K-12 institution serving the public. FCPS has [/i]zero responsibility to real estate investors in private markets. No decision by FCPS should be based on preference of property values of the elites who live over here versus the poverty class over there.

This Board at least stated last meeting that they have the "moral fortitude" to make these hard decisions on the upcoming boundary review, but even I am doubtful they follow through.

Umm, you realize that the “real estate investors in private markets” are the people who pay the taxes for the schools, right? And they are by and large Fairfax County citizens. I’m not saying that they are the SB’s only responsibility, or even the primary one, but it is certainly a consideration. We aren’t in a communist country, and I certainly wouldn’t want an unaccountable school board.

Do you understand that someone in Mt. Vernon pays exactly the same property tax rate as someone in McLean? And who made FCPS the arbiter to define which citizens get to have their real estate gain value and which citizens lose value?

DP, but it's hard to see what your point is when two of the most neglected high schools in FCPS (by FCPS leadership and the School Board, not the school-based administrators and teachers) are Mount Vernon and McLean.

I fear this new tone from the School Board is intended to excuse prior neglect and mismanagement by senior leadership and their School Board predecessors by throwing shade at some communities and claiming their voices are too loud. If anything, local communities should be more vocal about their treatment at the hands of Gatehouse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Karl Frisch is claiming that the School Board shouldn’t make “one-off” decisions about boundaries or school expansions because they are politicians, yet he single-handedly is going to force boundary adjustments for most of the elementary schools within the Marshall pyramid in a few years by pushing through the Dunn Loring ES project, which based on staff’s prior analysis was on the back burner and not at all a priority before Frisch decided to accelerate it.

Why they are doing now will just be used as an excuse for not dealing with long-overcrowded and/or neglected schools. These people suck.

Karl Frisch shouldn't even be allowed on the school board. Having children in the system should be a requirement for being elected to the school board, and having children in the system should be a requirement for voting for the school board. Why are we allowing people without any skin in the game to make decisions about our kid's education?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Property value should be a moot point anyway, but the fact that we have so many failing schools is indefensible.

Property values should be a huge consideration, since those families are the ones who vote for school board members.

And we don't have failing schools, we have failing students. It's not the schools or the teachers, it's failing parents. Moving kids around between schools isn't going to fix that problem. Failing students are still going to fail, but they will continue to suck up disproportionate resources and attention from kids who have actual potential.

[Anonymous]

PP who said they wouldn't broadcast the forum discussion (even though it was under the broader "work session" heading) was right. So they apparently had a discussion this week about pushing forward revisions to the boundary policy so that (according to Kyle McDaniel, at least) they can propose county-wide boundary adjustments, and at this point no one knows what they intend to prioritize or hope to accomplish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP who said they wouldn't broadcast the forum discussion (even though it was under the broader "work session" heading) was right. So they apparently had a discussion this week about pushing forward revisions to the boundary policy so that (according to Kyle McDaniel, at least) they can propose county-wide boundary adjustments, and at this point no one knows what they intend to prioritize or hope to accomplish.

Yep, I tried finding it on the YouTube channel yesterday. I really hope that cooler heads prevail and that they don’t do a country-wide redistricting. It’d really mess with a lot of kids’ lives, and as one board member put it last week, kids who get redistricted tend to have poorer outcomes, and in particular, low income kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP who said they wouldn't broadcast the forum discussion (even though it was under the broader "work session" heading) was right. So they apparently had a discussion this week about pushing forward revisions to the boundary policy so that (according to Kyle McDaniel, at least) they can propose county-wide boundary adjustments, and at this point no one knows what they intend to prioritize or hope to accomplish.

I think everyone knows what they intend to accomplish. "Equity". Spread out the poor students so there are no more "good schools" or "bad schools". Even though there will still be the same number of failing kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Karl Frisch is claiming that the School Board shouldn’t make “one-off” decisions about boundaries or school expansions because they are politicians, yet he single-handedly is going to force boundary adjustments for most of the elementary schools within the Marshall pyramid in a few years by pushing through the Dunn Loring ES project, which based on staff’s prior analysis was on the back burner and not at all a priority before Frisch decided to accelerate it.

Why they are doing now will just be used as an excuse for not dealing with long-overcrowded and/or neglected schools. These people suck.

Karl Frisch shouldn't even be allowed on the school board. Having children in the system should be a requirement for being elected to the school board, and having children in the system should be a requirement for voting for the school board. Why are we allowing people without any skin in the game to make decisions about our kid's education?

If you tax me, I want a say.