FCPS HS Boundary

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can the puss off enough NoVa residents enough to make Virginia go red in November?

Doubt it. The boundary changes will be limited to specific areas and only impact a small segment of the student population. Those parents will undoubtedly be pissed so lots of barking but no real bite.

They plan to redistrict every five years. As much as you pretend that it’ll just be a handful of residents impacted, it’s the thousands of residents that will be impacted and the ongoing and unnecessary risk of redistricting that will put the democrats at risk.

Minimize the risk at your agenda’s peril.

Review or redistrict? A review of boundaries to address capacity issues, etc. every few years seems appropriate and responsible.

We are in the phase of becoming an urban center where 50% of the kids are poor. Time to just accept that and look at it like living in the city. Go private or move further out if you must, but the FCPS of the 90s-00s is a distant memory.

And as an urban center, we need to be efficient with our resources.

[Anonymous]

Dear Hunt Valley Parents south of FFX county parkway: As a result of updating policy 8130 to prioritize transportation and reduce travel times, your children will now travel a longer, more dangerous route to Key Middle and Lewis HS. The SB promises this boundary change will provide improved transportation and a better educational experience for all.
P.S. Please ensure you teach your high schoolers defensive driving maneuvers to avoid erratic Maryland drivers making last second changes out of the FFX County Parkway/Gambrill exit only lane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can the puss off enough NoVa residents enough to make Virginia go red in November?

Doubt it. The boundary changes will be limited to specific areas and only impact a small segment of the student population. Those parents will undoubtedly be pissed so lots of barking but no real bite.

They plan to redistrict every five years. As much as you pretend that it’ll just be a handful of residents impacted, it’s the thousands of residents that will be impacted and the ongoing and unnecessary risk of redistricting that will put the democrats at risk.

Minimize the risk at your agenda’s peril.

Review or redistrict? A review of boundaries to address capacity issues, etc. every few years seems appropriate and responsible.

No, it doesn’t - not when FCPS has very deliberately put different programs in place at different schools and touted the variety of offerings.

If they want to start moving kids around like widgets, then standardize the schools first. Replace IB with AP at every high school, centralize the academy programs at a single school, and offer the same foreign languages at every school. Otherwise they are breaking the implicit bargain they made with families.

[Anonymous]

Even worse, those erratic Maryland drivers are on their way to drop their kids off at FCPS schools because FCPS doesn’t check addresses after the initial intake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can the puss off enough NoVa residents enough to make Virginia go red in November?

Doubt it. The boundary changes will be limited to specific areas and only impact a small segment of the student population. Those parents will undoubtedly be pissed so lots of barking but no real bite.

They plan to redistrict every five years. As much as you pretend that it’ll just be a handful of residents impacted, it’s the thousands of residents that will be impacted and the ongoing and unnecessary risk of redistricting that will put the democrats at risk.

Minimize the risk at your agenda’s peril.

Review or redistrict? A review of boundaries to address capacity issues, etc. every few years seems appropriate and responsible.

We are in the phase of becoming an urban center where 50% of the kids are poor. Time to just accept that and look at it like living in the city. Go private or move further out if you must, but the FCPS of the 90s-00s is a distant memory.

And as an urban center, we need to be efficient with our resources.

Too bad to see Fairfax County schools turn into this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can the puss off enough NoVa residents enough to make Virginia go red in November?

Doubt it. The boundary changes will be limited to specific areas and only impact a small segment of the student population. Those parents will undoubtedly be pissed so lots of barking but no real bite.

They plan to redistrict every five years. As much as you pretend that it’ll just be a handful of residents impacted, it’s the thousands of residents that will be impacted and the ongoing and unnecessary risk of redistricting that will put the democrats at risk.

Minimize the risk at your agenda’s peril.

Review or redistrict? A review of boundaries to address capacity issues, etc. every few years seems appropriate and responsible.

We are in the phase of becoming an urban center where 50% of the kids are poor. Time to just accept that and look at it like living in the city. Go private or move further out if you must, but the FCPS of the 90s-00s is a distant memory.

And as an urban center, we need to be efficient with our resources.

Take your word salad elsewhere. Fairfax is one of the wealthiest counties in the country and we shouldn’t cease to protect our school pyramids and invest in our school facilities simply because some far-left Democrats like Robyn Lady have decided the best way to move part of Langley to Herndon is to pretend we’re out of money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can the puss off enough NoVa residents enough to make Virginia go red in November?

Doubt it. The boundary changes will be limited to specific areas and only impact a small segment of the student population. Those parents will undoubtedly be pissed so lots of barking but no real bite.

They plan to redistrict every five years. As much as you pretend that it’ll just be a handful of residents impacted, it’s the thousands of residents that will be impacted and the ongoing and unnecessary risk of redistricting that will put the democrats at risk.

Minimize the risk at your agenda’s peril.

Review or redistrict? A review of boundaries to address capacity issues, etc. every few years seems appropriate and responsible.

No, it doesn’t - not when FCPS has very deliberately put different programs in place at different schools and touted the variety of offerings.

If they want to start moving kids around like widgets, then standardize the schools first. Replace IB with AP at every high school, centralize the academy programs at a single school, and offer the same foreign languages at every school. Otherwise they are breaking the implicit bargain they made with families.

The thing about this approach is it will result in fewer options. That isn’t great and takes away the benefit of living in an area with a large population. If we all just have French Spanish and Arabic as languages in an area with children from all over the world, that is ruining the best part of FCPS. You can move to any school in the US where French and Spanish are offered why be here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can the puss off enough NoVa residents enough to make Virginia go red in November?

Doubt it. The boundary changes will be limited to specific areas and only impact a small segment of the student population. Those parents will undoubtedly be pissed so lots of barking but no real bite.

They plan to redistrict every five years. As much as you pretend that it’ll just be a handful of residents impacted, it’s the thousands of residents that will be impacted and the ongoing and unnecessary risk of redistricting that will put the democrats at risk.

Minimize the risk at your agenda’s peril.

Review or redistrict? A review of boundaries to address capacity issues, etc. every few years seems appropriate and responsible.

“Review” - the very definition of a euphemism for Redistricting and continuous uncertainty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can the puss off enough NoVa residents enough to make Virginia go red in November?

Doubt it. The boundary changes will be limited to specific areas and only impact a small segment of the student population. Those parents will undoubtedly be pissed so lots of barking but no real bite.

They plan to redistrict every five years. As much as you pretend that it’ll just be a handful of residents impacted, it’s the thousands of residents that will be impacted and the ongoing and unnecessary risk of redistricting that will put the democrats at risk.

Minimize the risk at your agenda’s peril.

Review or redistrict? A review of boundaries to address capacity issues, etc. every few years seems appropriate and responsible.

No, it doesn’t - not when FCPS has very deliberately put different programs in place at different schools and touted the variety of offerings.

If they want to start moving kids around like widgets, then standardize the schools first. Replace IB with AP at every high school, centralize the academy programs at a single school, and offer the same foreign languages at every school. Otherwise they are breaking the implicit bargain they made with families.

The thing about this approach is it will result in fewer options. That isn’t great and takes away the benefit of living in an area with a large population. If we all just have French Spanish and Arabic as languages in an area with children from all over the world, that is ruining the best part of FCPS. You can move to any school in the US where French and Spanish are offered why be here?

Seems like these changes would also take a while to implement. Unfortunately, time is of the essence after years of kicking the can down the road on this issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can the puss off enough NoVa residents enough to make Virginia go red in November?

Doubt it. The boundary changes will be limited to specific areas and only impact a small segment of the student population. Those parents will undoubtedly be pissed so lots of barking but no real bite.

They plan to redistrict every five years. As much as you pretend that it’ll just be a handful of residents impacted, it’s the thousands of residents that will be impacted and the ongoing and unnecessary risk of redistricting that will put the democrats at risk.

Minimize the risk at your agenda’s peril.

Review or redistrict? A review of boundaries to address capacity issues, etc. every few years seems appropriate and responsible.

We are in the phase of becoming an urban center where 50% of the kids are poor. Time to just accept that and look at it like living in the city. Go private or move further out if you must, but the FCPS of the 90s-00s is a distant memory.

And as an urban center, we need to be efficient with our resources.

I don’t buy this. The density in Arlington is much greater and they don’t see themselves as an urban center.

I think Lewis should be turned into a smaller high school but have an early childhood and community center within it. FCPS Needs space to integrate their early childhood as they have been in trouble with alining their program with the new state standard that requires all ECE sped programs to be inclusive. Crestwood has an early head start center in it. Let Lewis become a tech center with ECE as its focus. You can have adult ESL classes and a model program for Early childhood integration all while getting young students a AA degree in early childhood.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The biggest INequity in FCPS is allowing AAP kids to choose which school they'd like to attend. This needs to stop. The center model needs to end. How on earth is it fair to give some kids options that other kids aren't given?

That’s coming now that LLIV is just about at every school now. Centers will be going away soon, I suspect.

Good. This is way overdue.

I mean they haven’t actually come out and said that… but it seems like a reasonable take.

+2 once LLIV is established at every school there’s no need for centers, so hopefully they decide to eliminate that and can save some money and buses.

AAP centers were an easier way to use capacity than doing base school boundary changes. Historically there was the break up of Longfellow to Kilmer where FCPS even floated sending some to the new at the time Carson. Some transfer numbers now from the dashboard are:
106 herndon to hughes (AAP 94)
286 franklin to carson
carson transfer in 303/ out 10: net 293, AAP 280
whitman to sandburg 101
cooper transfer in 9/out 7: net 2

At the ES level there are some big numbers for transfer in but the dashboard doesn't show by reason/program per school like MS. Fort Hunt island when the school only has about 550 with over 200 transferring in. Whitman walkers bussed to Sandburg. All sorts of stuff that could be cleaned up in this county wiide school division.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can the puss off enough NoVa residents enough to make Virginia go red in November?

Doubt it. The boundary changes will be limited to specific areas and only impact a small segment of the student population. Those parents will undoubtedly be pissed so lots of barking but no real bite.

They plan to redistrict every five years. As much as you pretend that it’ll just be a handful of residents impacted, it’s the thousands of residents that will be impacted and the ongoing and unnecessary risk of redistricting that will put the democrats at risk.

Minimize the risk at your agenda’s peril.

Review or redistrict? A review of boundaries to address capacity issues, etc. every few years seems appropriate and responsible.

We are in the phase of becoming an urban center where 50% of the kids are poor. Time to just accept that and look at it like living in the city. Go private or move further out if you must, but the FCPS of the 90s-00s is a distant memory.

And as an urban center, we need to be efficient with our resources.

Too bad to see Fairfax County schools turn into this

Fairfax blue voters have supported this at the local, state, and federal level for thirty years. Chickens are coming home to roost. While some will say take this to the political forum, that would deny the connection between how people vote and the impact on schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can the puss off enough NoVa residents enough to make Virginia go red in November?

Doubt it. The boundary changes will be limited to specific areas and only impact a small segment of the student population. Those parents will undoubtedly be pissed so lots of barking but no real bite.

They plan to redistrict every five years. As much as you pretend that it’ll just be a handful of residents impacted, it’s the thousands of residents that will be impacted and the ongoing and unnecessary risk of redistricting that will put the democrats at risk.

Minimize the risk at your agenda’s peril.

Review or redistrict? A review of boundaries to address capacity issues, etc. every few years seems appropriate and responsible.

“Review” - the very definition of a euphemism for Redistricting and continuous uncertainty.

Uncertainty? A permanent boundary was not apart of your real estate purchase in FFX county. That was as assumption on your part. You should be glad that you were able to benefit from decades of inaction in the past.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can the puss off enough NoVa residents enough to make Virginia go red in November?

Doubt it. The boundary changes will be limited to specific areas and only impact a small segment of the student population. Those parents will undoubtedly be pissed so lots of barking but no real bite.

They plan to redistrict every five years. As much as you pretend that it’ll just be a handful of residents impacted, it’s the thousands of residents that will be impacted and the ongoing and unnecessary risk of redistricting that will put the democrats at risk.

Minimize the risk at your agenda’s peril.

Review or redistrict? A review of boundaries to address capacity issues, etc. every few years seems appropriate and responsible.

We are in the phase of becoming an urban center where 50% of the kids are poor. Time to just accept that and look at it like living in the city. Go private or move further out if you must, but the FCPS of the 90s-00s is a distant memory.

And as an urban center, we need to be efficient with our resources.

Too bad to see Fairfax County schools turn into this

Fairfax blue voters have supported this at the local, state, and federal level for thirty years. Chickens are coming home to roost. While some will say take this to the political forum, that would deny the connection between how people vote and the impact on schools.

And some people want a dictatorship and support tyranny by taking over women’s bodies and overthrowing democracy.
If those are my choices give me boundary changes.
At the local level I don’t want vouchers and think there are many solutions other than the one the board is chasing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dear Hunt Valley Parents south of FFX county parkway: As a result of updating policy 8130 to prioritize transportation and reduce travel times, your children will now travel a longer, more dangerous route to Key Middle and Lewis HS. The SB promises this boundary change will provide improved transportation and a better educational experience for all.
P.S. Please ensure you teach your high schoolers defensive driving maneuvers to avoid erratic Maryland drivers making last second changes out of the FFX County Parkway/Gambrill exit only lane.

+1 as a resident of this area, oh but it’s “ToO CoMpLiCaTeD” according to an equity troll who clearly has no idea about the area, to eliminate the Sangster split feeder and send all its kids to Lake Braddock, thus reducing enrollment at Irving and WSHS.