FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting article:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/palace-coup-overthrows-great-falls-citizen-leaders/article_2f8cd99e-1bc7-411f-8290-4b4cfe98d097.html

Note that the dethroned GFCA officers look like they are at least in their 60s, which tells you this is about perceived threats to their property values, not education or what’s best for kids.


So wait - what is this about for people like Karl Frisch, who has no kids to speak of? Or any member of the SB with no kids or kids who are now adults?
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Anonymous wrote:Why would parents hate a school so much that they'd put their kids in private schools rather than have their kids attend a certain public school?

Is it the teachers? Are there really horrible teachers at those schools?

Is it that parents don't like the way a school looks? The classrooms look too old and shoddy?

Or is it the kids in the school itself? That you don't like those kids attending those schools?


Families have many reasons for wanting their kids in particular schools. Unsurprisingly, and without any basis whatsoever, you are attempting to spin this as an issue with those students. It’s not.

The only person attempting to foment racial strife or unfairly go after these kids is you, the boy who cries wolf.


There could be valid reasons for a student wanting to attend a certain school, such as a student receiving specific counseling or disability support at one school not provided at another.

But the primary reason, as outlined on page after page ad nauseam here, is that parents want their kids to go to schools within certain neighborhoods and with certain other students. And those "desirable" schools tend to be of higher wealth and lower Hispanic populations.

It's like the people who bend over in contortions to claim that the Civil War wasn't about slavery; no, no, it was about states rights, they'll say in a defensive tone. Great-great Grandpappy couldn't have fought for slavery.... Then dig a little deeper and the reason is revealed that it's states rights to own slaves....

No matter how much things are contorted with this boundary argument, it comes back to parents wanting to avoid schools represented by a population they view as undesirable. It's a very ugly look.


What school are your kids zoned for?
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Anonymous wrote:Interesting article:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/palace-coup-overthrows-great-falls-citizen-leaders/article_2f8cd99e-1bc7-411f-8290-4b4cfe98d097.html

Note that the dethroned GFCA officers look like they are at least in their 60s, which tells you this is about perceived threats to their property values, not education or what’s best for kids.


Reid is in her 60s and no kids in FCPS so she doesn’t care what’s best for kids either then, right?


Exactly. I actually laughed out loud at the PP's idiotic comment.
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Anonymous wrote:I understand residents not wanting to change school districts. However, if your house is in the periphery of any PUBLIC school district, there will always be a chance they will get moved, for any variety of reasons. Our house is walking distance to the high school we chose for our kids for our kids to attend.


But when the school board decides to change the rules of the game and the implicit agreement with UMC that their kids won’t be moved absent compelling reason (which doesn’t exist here) in exchange for UMC support for public schools, it creates real risk for the entire school system. At this point UMC is the only segment of the population that really is going to stand up for public school - that’s why this whole exercise is uber-dangerous.

I’ve been on DCUM long enough to know that most people arguing for boundary changes do so out of spite for neighbors that they perceive as richer. There are the posters that claim that anyone against moving their kids must be in the level of the KKK. These posters seek to cut off their nose to spite their face.

You know who you are.


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What?? Most are arguing for a comprehensive study. Conspiracy theorists against change are arguing against that. Everyone knows there are changes to be made, most easily around reducing commuting time. Knowledge is power you all are off your rockers, the data will show what you don't want to happen (which really solidifies it's factual), or it will play out less drastic. Either way let the options be presented before you jump to conclusions.


+1000. No one should be getting bussed over 8 miles to a school if there is a closer option with space.


How many times are you going to repeat this? The SB doesn’t care about transportation efficiency. This is proven with AAP centers. We are walkers to a level 4 elementary school. But if we wanted we could be bused the center school out of pyramid 10+ minutes away. How is that efficient with resources? Centers are redundant when level 4 is already in almost every elementary school. And since you want to just keep repeating miles the distance for most from western great falls to cooper versus Herndon middle is 2 minutes further. And for the high school 9 minutes. You’re not saving drivers/buses on the road. You’re just switching which direction they go. And the time piece is minimal. Also while they way overbuilt HHS and now have empty seats almost 300 kids pupil place out so the extra capacity isn’t that much if you bring them back, and there isn’t the capacity at the middle school. Especially if you bring kids back to base schools. And get rid of AAP centers in middle. Herndon kids go to Hughes for AAP middle. There is a disparity between middle school capacity versus high school.


She says it because that’s all she’s got. It’s just obvious to anyone with Google maps that the argument doesn’t pass muster under any metric. (Don’t take my word for it, check it out yourselves!)

The extra time from Forestville to Cooper instead of HMS is quite literally two minutes. There are people in the community who would see a longer commute to HMS.

The commute to Langley vs HHS is slightly longer, but not by much. It’s on average about 9.8 minutes longer from Forestville (at the time the bus rolls through the neighborhood). The 8-mile poster wants people to look at that figure and gasp at how far eight miles is, but in reality there are de minimus time savings and zero transportation savings to be gleaned from a Forestville change.

Now, as you say, getting rid of AAP centers is a different story. I don’t feel strongly about going that route, but since certain school members clamor about transportation savings, this clearly must be considered.


Yet, most of the homes that feed into Forestville are further west, and many are much closer to the Herndon schools. All those homes south of Route 7 with Herndon zip codes are suspiciously zoned for Langley, Forestville or Cooper. You cannot use the school to school proximity so support your claim. People don’t live in schools.


This is true. But, what is also true is that you are suggesting is that we create more split feeders.

It seems to me that the people pushing this are the people who want other kids in their schools. So, who is the racist here?

There was a thread on here a couple of years ago that was really, really vocal about getting GF into Herndon. When she got shut down on that, she turned to the Oak Hill section of Herndon--and was demanding Floris be sent to Herndon. Then, at some point. all Oak Hill students attend Herndon High because Herndon is their communitiy. She may have been the same person who posted on this thread recently saying that Floris is in the middle of Herndon (absolutely false statement.)

If this were really about transportation, the SB and Robyn Lady would be pushing to put Coates into Herndon High. Coates is pretty crowded now and that would settle the issue. Simply and completely. It is a hop skip and jump from Herndon Middle and much, much closer than Forestville.. Also, with all the new construction, it should become more affluent over the next years.


This post makes no sense. PP wasn’t calling for the creation of split feeders and the solution to overcrowding at Coates is to move some kids into other elementary schools, not to reassign all of Coates to Herndon High.

Forestville is a different issue -namely, whether it should continue to be bussed completely across the county to Langley when Herndon now has space.


Your a broken record on your last paragraph had been directly refuted, even discussed today. I know you are trying to will that narrative into existence, but it’s wholly without merit and is just meant as a pretext to justifying your “racism” viewpoint.


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This is *exactly* what the PP is trying to do. She thinks if she repeats it enough, it will actually happened. Reminds me of a spoiled child.
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Anonymous wrote:I understand residents not wanting to change school districts. However, if your house is in the periphery of any PUBLIC school district, there will always be a chance they will get moved, for any variety of reasons. Our house is walking distance to the high school we chose for our kids for our kids to attend.


But when the school board decides to change the rules of the game and the implicit agreement with UMC that their kids won’t be moved absent compelling reason (which doesn’t exist here) in exchange for UMC support for public schools, it creates real risk for the entire school system. At this point UMC is the only segment of the population that really is going to stand up for public school - that’s why this whole exercise is uber-dangerous.

I’ve been on DCUM long enough to know that most people arguing for boundary changes do so out of spite for neighbors that they perceive as richer. There are the posters that claim that anyone against moving their kids must be in the level of the KKK. These posters seek to cut off their nose to spite their face.

You know who you are.


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What?? Most are arguing for a comprehensive study. Conspiracy theorists against change are arguing against that. Everyone knows there are changes to be made, most easily around reducing commuting time. Knowledge is power you all are off your rockers, the data will show what you don't want to happen (which really solidifies it's factual), or it will play out less drastic. Either way let the options be presented before you jump to conclusions.


+1000. No one should be getting bussed over 8 miles to a school if there is a closer option with space.


How many times are you going to repeat this? The SB doesn’t care about transportation efficiency. This is proven with AAP centers. We are walkers to a level 4 elementary school. But if we wanted we could be bused the center school out of pyramid 10+ minutes away. How is that efficient with resources? Centers are redundant when level 4 is already in almost every elementary school. And since you want to just keep repeating miles the distance for most from western great falls to cooper versus Herndon middle is 2 minutes further. And for the high school 9 minutes. You’re not saving drivers/buses on the road. You’re just switching which direction they go. And the time piece is minimal. Also while they way overbuilt HHS and now have empty seats almost 300 kids pupil place out so the extra capacity isn’t that much if you bring them back, and there isn’t the capacity at the middle school. Especially if you bring kids back to base schools. And get rid of AAP centers in middle. Herndon kids go to Hughes for AAP middle. There is a disparity between middle school capacity versus high school.


She says it because that’s all she’s got. It’s just obvious to anyone with Google maps that the argument doesn’t pass muster under any metric. (Don’t take my word for it, check it out yourselves!)

The extra time from Forestville to Cooper instead of HMS is quite literally two minutes. There are people in the community who would see a longer commute to HMS.

The commute to Langley vs HHS is slightly longer, but not by much. It’s on average about 9.8 minutes longer from Forestville (at the time the bus rolls through the neighborhood). The 8-mile poster wants people to look at that figure and gasp at how far eight miles is, but in reality there are de minimus time savings and zero transportation savings to be gleaned from a Forestville change.

Now, as you say, getting rid of AAP centers is a different story. I don’t feel strongly about going that route, but since certain school members clamor about transportation savings, this clearly must be considered.


Yet, most of the homes that feed into Forestville are further west, and many are much closer to the Herndon schools. All those homes south of Route 7 with Herndon zip codes are suspiciously zoned for Langley, Forestville or Cooper. You cannot use the school to school proximity so support your claim. People don’t live in schools.


This is true. But, what is also true is that you are suggesting is that we create more split feeders.

It seems to me that the people pushing this are the people who want other kids in their schools. So, who is the racist here?

There was a thread on here a couple of years ago that was really, really vocal about getting GF into Herndon. When she got shut down on that, she turned to the Oak Hill section of Herndon--and was demanding Floris be sent to Herndon. Then, at some point. all Oak Hill students attend Herndon High because Herndon is their communitiy. She may have been the same person who posted on this thread recently saying that Floris is in the middle of Herndon (absolutely false statement.)

If this were really about transportation, the SB and Robyn Lady would be pushing to put Coates into Herndon High. Coates is pretty crowded now and that would settle the issue. Simply and completely. It is a hop skip and jump from Herndon Middle and much, much closer than Forestville.. Also, with all the new construction, it should become more affluent over the next years.


This post makes no sense. PP wasn’t calling for the creation of split feeders and the solution to overcrowding at Coates is to move some kids into other elementary schools, not to reassign all of Coates to Herndon High.

Forestville is a different issue -namely, whether it should continue to be bussed completely across the county to Langley when Herndon now has space.


Your a broken record on your last paragraph had been directly refuted, even discussed today. I know you are trying to will that narrative into existence, but it’s wholly without merit and is just meant as a pretext to justifying your “racism” viewpoint.


Your problem is that, with Herndon HS now expanded, the case for moving part of Great Falls back to Herndon to shorten transportation times and distances is clear. You can’t refute that, so you just throw a lot of spaghetti against a wall hoping something will stick.

Hopefully Robyn Lady is not going to allow herself to be intimidated by your crowd. This notion that one privileged community always gets an exemption from boundary studies while others are not is deeply offensive and inconsistent with One Fairfax.


What school are your kids zoned for? Do you even have kids?
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Anonymous wrote:I read these boundary posts and release just how selfish and ugly people are not to
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Admit that it's about not sending your kids to certain low performing schools while maintaining your property values. Just be up front about this so we can all have a real and candid discussion. Let's not pussyfoot around what is driving this resistance.


First admit that you don’t view your neighbors’ kids as human beings and instead view them as cogs in an equity machine. Then admit that there really is no urgent or compelling reason to redistrict kids. Then admit that the school board members aren’t going to move their own kids. Then admit that the community, as shown from the notes of the community meetings don’t want these changes. Then admit that you wouldn’t want your own kids moved. Then admit this will cause UMC families to flee Fairfax county. Then admit that vouchers are much more likely with these boundary changes. Then admit that this will exacerbate the housing crisis with UMC families renting relatively affordable homes in their desired school districts. Then admit that many of your comrades are selfishly pushing boundary changes to profit from an increase in their own property values. Then admit these changes won’t help any current students at these schools.

Then admit that you are a clown. Let’s not pussyfoot around.



Mic drop.
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Anonymous wrote:Really more about Coates and Parklawn, but also some reference to the comprehensive study.

https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/03/18/fairfax-school-board-split-on-when-to-address-overcrowded-elementary-schools/


From that article- cram the kids and continue to stall out on boundaries, but good news!! Hayfield getting new turf field for close to a million. How’s that for a reward for last year’s mess!


Boundary issue buried in the article includes Armstrong being expanded to 800 capacity. Design capacity will expand from 784 to 800. That's only adding 16 but program capacity is 482 [membership about 360] so this huge project should allign design and program capacity for general education. 8 more gen ed classrooms adding 200 to program capacity?
https://www.ffxnow.com/2024/03/13/plan-to-renovate-armstrong-es-heads-to-planning-commission/

Dranesville ES expansion adds 12-14 gen ed classrooms - program capacity for gen ed increases by a mi nimum of 300?https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/DranesvilleESReno2023PresentationPlanningCommission1042023.pdf

So these 2 Herndon feeders intersect for current boundaries with Forestville No impact on the boundary review? The Colvin Run area parent meeting with Supt Reid at the Great Falls Libary? Great Falls addresses sent to Colvin Run? Vienna addresses - Hunter Mill district - sent to Colvin Run? Colvin Run has SPA 1806 next to 1809 Forest Edge/South Lakes. https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/Coates-Area-Boundary-Maps.pdf

When Reid added the 3rd Woodson rep [Mantua-Winterset] and did not define base schools on all extra non pyramid BRAC members the process really got distorted. Even school staff live somewhere. Fairfacts Matters posted it will have 3 on BRAC- 2 not Langley and will include a West Springfield. This will be the 3rd known extra plus the 2 Langley for the pyramid. For all anyone knows Vienna/Great Falls Colvin Run parents at the Reid meeting could have been offering up Forestville or Great Falls Elementary as a middle school for her grades 6-8 project. 6-8 does not fit in Cooper. Anything is possible.


I interpret this as a way to justify taking more kids out of Forestville and that this whole boundary study is to take kids out of Langley and send them to Herndon. And, maybe, take kids from WS and send them to Lewis. But, the Langley issue is top of mind to SB. Think about it. It has co The dome up for years. Omeish was interviewed on podcast and stated that --and she's been off the board for well over a year.

Meanwhile, the rest of the county is going to pay the price to justify that move. This is going to be a mess, a big mess. The domino effect will be devastating to the whole county.


Was that omeish podcast recent? Do you remember what it was?

Thanks.


I am not sure if it was a podcast or a broadcast. It was an interview with someone from Reston who does radio ro something. I'll see if I can figure it out. But, Omeish was definitely talking about moving Langley kids. It was when she was running for office--I think for her second term.

Omeish didn't run for a 2nd term. What are you even talking about?
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Admit that it's about not sending your kids to certain low performing schools while maintaining your property values. Just be up front about this so we can all have a real and candid discussion. Let's not pussyfoot around what is driving this resistance.


I moved to the neighborhood I selected primarily for the school. The house was priced higher than comparable houses in large part because of the school district. I don't want my kid moved to a lower performing school, and I don't want to lose property value as a result, especially for a One Fairfax driven boundary review fraught with misguided objectives and no clear benefits. Please don't tell me this is about "efficiency" or sleep time for kids or some other nonesense. Be honest about that too.


DP. Thank you for your honesty. I can understand why you would not be happy with a boundary change that would affect yout family. However, as most of know, school boundaries can change every so often for a variety of reasons. There was no guarantee / contract between you and fcps when you bought your house stating your address would always be zoned for your desired schools. Homes can loose their values for a variety of reasons. We all gamble when we invest in something, be it stocks or real estate. If your home gets redistricted, and you do not like the new schools, luckily we still live in a free country, and you can send your kids to private school. This is what we did for k-8 for our kids. We cut a lot of expenses, and made a few more sacrifices to make it work.


This is one of the most condescending and brainless posts I have seen in awhile, and there have been some bad posts on here. No one said there was a contract, no one said they were guaranteed a school district, and everyone know houses "loose" value for many reasons. But they don't want a boundary change fot this misguided and frankly illegal reason, and they have enough spine to not just sit there and say oh well I gambled and lost. Thankfully there are enough people with backbones to push back here.


DP. You say "no one said there was a contract," but at least one anti-boundary poster has repeatedly claimed there is an "implicit agreement" between FCPS and UMC parents that their kids wouldn't get moved except in rare circumstances. A contract is an agreement, so...

Also, even if what FCPS does is poorly reasoned and not aligned with the preferences of certain communities, it's not illegal just because it may affect the loudest or wealthiest parents in the county. The anti-boundary crowd is its own echo chamber, just like the School Board. You can work yourselves into a frenzy and convince yourself that a boundary change is illegal, but that doesn't make it so unless you find evidence that you clearly haven't found yet.


I said implicit agreement. You have to be pretty dense to think that implicit agreement =contract. What it does mean is that there has been a quid pro quo in our county that UMC will support public schools, even allowing more money to go to poorer performing schools, and in exchange FCPS won’t try to ram unpopular unnecessary boundary changes through over the objections of the vast majority of county residents.

Just like you believe they can ram these changes through, UMC can likewise vote with their feet. Once we leave the school system who is going to support your programs? Vouchers are tantalizingly close to reality in Virginia. You sure you can lose our support? Really think that one through.


Fear not. No one thinks for a second there's been an enforceable contract not to change the boundaries of UMC neighborhoods. I was just pointing out the self-serving gloss you've put on the past practice of certain School Board members of favoring the interests of their wealthier constituents over others. [P.S. - The term "quid pro quo" often has an unsavory connotation, so you might reconsider your use of it here.]

Also, you previously claimed the contemplated boundary changes were "frankly illegal." At present, you have no basis to make such an assertion. If a legal boundary change causes you to leave the county, so be it. You can take your wagon train of angry former Langley parents to the hills, and life will go on.


Well, the current administration disagrees with you. Read the February 14 Dear Colleague Letter from the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights. The letter "explains and reiterates existing legal requirements under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution, and other relevant authorities." One Fairfax was designed to acheive "racial and social equity" and the school board expressly stated multiple times on the record that the boundary policy was to be conducted under the One Fairfax lens to achieve those goals. In fact, they are required to do so based on their revision to Policy 8130. As set forth in the Febraury 14 letter, "The law is clear: treating students differently on the basis of race to achieve nebulous goals such as diversity, racial balancing, social justice, or equity is illegal under controlling Supreme Court precedent." "All educational institutions are advised to: (1) ensure that their policies and actions comply with existing civil rights law; (2) cease all efforts to circumvent prohibitions on the use of race by relying on proxies or other indirect means to accomplish such ends; and (3) cease all reliance on third-party contractors, clearinghouses, or aggregators that are being used by institutions in an effort to circumvent prohibited uses of race."


First of all, that letter is just an interpretation by some Trump/MAGA appointee. It has no legal effect in and of itself and, in case you haven't noticed, judges appointed by Presidents of both parties are now reining in the worst impulses of Trump and his crew of sycophants.

But, more importantly, the letter, while disparaging goals such as social justice and equity, does not deem them illegal, nor could it. It simply reiterates existing Supreme Court precedent that treating students differently on the basis of race to advance those goals has been deemed unconstitutional. FCPS is not doing that, so it is not at risk if it adjusts boundaries based on Policy 8130.


Are you somehow saying a government policy that is "unconstitutional" is not "illegal"? That is an interesting argument for sure. And the SB expressly stated that the boundary review was to be conducted under the One Fairfax lens, which means it has to promote racial and social equity. Obviously you don't like the current administration, but the country voted for it, and "sometimes things don't go your way." Bad time for the SB to try to push this through.


Read again.

The boundary change would be done in accordance in Policy 8130, not on the basis of race. Further, Policy 8130 does not include any reference to One Fairfax. And One Fairfax itself does not commit to making decisions "based on race," but rather with a view to making sure that all residents, regardless of their race, have access to opportunities.

You want to toss out "One Fairfax" as if it's some roadmap to explicit demographic balancing in FCPS schools, yet you've pointed to nothing in the document itself that calls for that result.



This is such a lie!

Both the One Fairfax and Policy 8130 are riddled with the specific word “equity,” and anyone living in Fairfax county knows by now what FCPS means by their use of the term “equity.” FCPS is specifically referring to racial equity. And to a lesser degree: economic equity.

Stop trying to hide what you are doing through redistribution of students in FCPS. Drop the NDA. Allow at least some transparency, FCPS !


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I think the PP needs a little reminder of exactly what "One Fairfax" says:

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and School Board adopted a joint social and racial equity policy called One Fairfax. The School Board adopted the One Fairfax Policy at their meeting on November 20, 2017. The Board of Supervisors adopted the policy at their meeting on November 21, 2017.

https://www.fcps.edu/onefairfax

The entire thing is riddled with references to "equity."
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She also needs a hobby. I would love to know how many posts this “shill” overuser has made on the boundary threads. I also bet she is a senior citizen who doesn’t even have kids in the schools.


Not that poster, but it's strange that you're not at all concerned that Karl Frisch has no kids at all. Why is that?
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Admit that it's about not sending your kids to certain low performing schools while maintaining your property values. Just be up front about this so we can all have a real and candid discussion. Let's not pussyfoot around what is driving this resistance.


First admit that you don’t view your neighbors’ kids as human beings and instead view them as cogs in an equity machine. Then admit that there really is no urgent or compelling reason to redistrict kids. Then admit that the school board members aren’t going to move their own kids. Then admit that the community, as shown from the notes of the community meetings don’t want these changes. Then admit that you wouldn’t want your own kids moved. Then admit this will cause UMC families to flee Fairfax county. Then admit that vouchers are much more likely with these boundary changes. Then admit that this will exacerbate the housing crisis with UMC families renting relatively affordable homes in their desired school districts. Then admit that many of your comrades are selfishly pushing boundary changes to profit from an increase in their own property values. Then admit these changes won’t help any current students at these schools.

Then admit that you are a clown. Let’s not pussyfoot around.


The only clowns are racists like you. If UMC want to flee, let them go. Bye. Try to get admission into the already crowded and highly selective privates around here. There aren't many so good luck! Hopefully their DC doesn't have a special need because most privates are notoriously bad at dealing with that. I for one am fine with my kids going to any FCPS school because I parent my kids well enough to know that they will succeed wherever they are. If you're insecure about your kids then I guess you have to go find the exact perfect situation for them to be mediocre. So sad for you. The reason to redistrict is there but you want to act like an ass instead of paying attention. School are overcrowded with kids in trailers, kids are having to take long bus rides in certain cases to get to their base school, and that money and time save could go elsewhere. AND yes it is about positive peer pressure for underperforming schools to level up but also to high achieving kids to get out for their bubbles and learn to live in diversity and empathy. Lessons that a lot of parents on these stupid sites could learn. Most people in this current environment aren't going to be able to own or rent two houses to get their kids to their preferred school and that's okay because their kids will be fine. They aren't going to sell in this market and be able to buy new with these interest rate. That's just facts. The few who can should just go because they won't do much but being morale down for everyone. The greatest predictor for your kid's success isn't the FCPS school they go to it's YOU and your involvement in their learning, your engagement with whatever school they are in, your attitude towards change, and teaching that change is inevitable but also a learning opportunity. Raise kids with grit and not in a bubble of your choosing. My neighborhood will likely get moved. I also bought for the schools because I wanted my kid to have the stability of being with the same kids. But if we are redistricted my kids will be fine because I raised them to be fine and to succeed in any environment they're placed. Sorry you didn't prepare your kids well enough it's too bad for them.


Awesome! They should definitely take volunteers for a couple years to experiment with and rate teen mental health, GPAs and leadership positions. Your kid can be the experimental group and mine can be in the control group. I hope you child is a current freshman and will have to move Junior year. The can really prove their grit! You must be excited to have your parenting rated in this way!



What are you going on about? You're making no sense. Get it together.


DP. I understood perfectly. We hope your kids have to move to a different school - preferably Lewis, Mt. Vernon, or Herndon. What school are they currently zoned for? Let's make this happen!
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She also needs a hobby. I would love to know how many posts this “shill” overuser has made on the boundary threads. I also bet she is a senior citizen who doesn’t even have kids in the schools.


I do call you both “SB shills” a lot. It’s such a spot on definition. It’s nearly impossible to come up with a better fit for the clowns that have for months pushed boundary changes for their neighbors but not come up with one single compelling reason for them.

Tell me, since I have your ear, what do you think about requiring the school board’s kids to be moved if they vote for boundary changes. Since you both so love the thought of these changes, surely that is a just result. Right?


You are not talking to two people. You are talking to many people. I guess the Internet is tough for you old folks in Great Falls to understand.
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She also needs a hobby. I would love to know how many posts this “shill” overuser has made on the boundary threads. I also bet she is a senior citizen who doesn’t even have kids in the schools.


Not that poster, but it's strange that you're not at all concerned that Karl Frisch has no kids at all. Why is that?


He was elected to his position by his constituents (not me) so he has earned his position and vote. The seniors in Great Falls are only concerned about their property values.
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She also needs a hobby. I would love to know how many posts this “shill” overuser has made on the boundary threads. I also bet she is a senior citizen who doesn’t even have kids in the schools.


I do call you both “SB shills” a lot. It’s such a spot on definition. It’s nearly impossible to come up with a better fit for the clowns that have for months pushed boundary changes for their neighbors but not come up with one single compelling reason for them.

Tell me, since I have your ear, what do you think about requiring the school board’s kids to be moved if they vote for boundary changes. Since you both so love the thought of these changes, surely that is a just result. Right?


You are not talking to two people. You are talking to many people. I guess the Internet is tough for you old folks in Great Falls to understand.


By definition, you could never know that on an anonymous forum.

Mere puffery. Next you’ll be calling me racist, right?
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She also needs a hobby. I would love to know how many posts this “shill” overuser has made on the boundary threads. I also bet she is a senior citizen who doesn’t even have kids in the schools.


Not that poster, but it's strange that you're not at all concerned that Karl Frisch has no kids at all. Why is that?


He was elected to his position by his constituents (not me) so he has earned his position and vote. The seniors in Great Falls are only concerned about their property values.


It’s funny how much you are stereotyping seniors. It’s almost like all your claims of bias and discrimination are a tell for your own thoughts.

Were all of the community meeting participants who were overwhelmingly against boundary changes old too?

Yep, time to sit down, shill. You frankly just aren’t very good at this. But to be fair, you don’t have compelling arguments because there aren’t any to be had.

No one wants boundary changes, everyone who went to the community meetings saw that.
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