FCPS comprehensive boundary review

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Westfield/Chantilly/South Lakes area just had huge and controversial boundary changes around 2012-sh.

It was 2008, not 2012. Westfield/Oakton/Madison to South Lakes, plus Chantilly to Oakton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Westfield/Chantilly/South Lakes area just had huge and controversial boundary changes around 2012-sh.

It was 2008, not 2012. Westfield/Oakton/Madison to South Lakes, plus Chantilly to Oakton.

And they redid a lot of the local ES boundaries as well, and closed Clifton ES. It was a lot of drama. If they had done their jobs and planned the new Western HS, we wouldn't be here again rearranging deck chairs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Westfield/Chantilly/South Lakes area just had huge and controversial boundary changes around 2012-sh.

It was 2008, not 2012. Westfield/Oakton/Madison to South Lakes, plus Chantilly to Oakton.

And they redid a lot of the local ES boundaries as well, and closed Clifton ES. It was a lot of drama. If they had done their jobs and planned the new Western HS, we wouldn't be here again rearranging deck chairs.

They decided to close Clifton in July 2010, and that was folded into a "southwestern boundary study" that affected a number of elementary schools in that part of the county and was approved in February 2011. I don't think any high school boundaries changed at that time.

[Anonymous]

Was this when that politician played musical chairs with the trailer park neighborhood to score full day K for her own neighborhood ES.

[Anonymous]

Kathy Smith.

Yes, she zoned the trailer park to Poplar Tree ES for ONE year to get full day K at Poplar Tree (one of the lowest FARM schools in FCPS at the time) and then zoned them to another school the very next year. This was when full day K was only for schools with a certain number of FARMs kids. It was shameless and she paid no political price for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Westfield/Chantilly/South Lakes area just had huge and controversial boundary changes around 2012-sh.

It was 2008, not 2012. Westfield/Oakton/Madison to South Lakes, plus Chantilly to Oakton.

And they redid a lot of the local ES boundaries as well, and closed Clifton ES. It was a lot of drama. If they had done their jobs and planned the new Western HS, we wouldn't be here again rearranging deck chairs.

The fact that they can't even get the Western HS done is what makes a full district redistricting - with this board that tries to keep everyone happy while simultaneously doing exactly and only what they want - seem so unlikely. A lot of $$$ will be spent, but I predict little real change. They don't seem to be capable of doing much any more. Combination of incompetence at the top and the district being so big causes it, I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Westfield/Chantilly/South Lakes area just had huge and controversial boundary changes around 2012-sh.

It was 2008, not 2012. Westfield/Oakton/Madison to South Lakes, plus Chantilly to Oakton.

And they redid a lot of the local ES boundaries as well, and closed Clifton ES. It was a lot of drama. If they had done their jobs and planned the new Western HS, we wouldn't be here again rearranging deck chairs.

The fact that they can't even get the Western HS done is what makes a full district redistricting - with this board that tries to keep everyone happy while simultaneously doing exactly and only what they want - seem so unlikely. A lot of $$$ will be spent, but I predict little real change. They don't seem to be capable of doing much any more. Combination of incompetence at the top and the district being so big causes it, I think.

Um, parents were not happy last night. If the board is trying to keep everyone happy, they are doing a horrible job at it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was this when that politician played musical chairs with the trailer park neighborhood to score full day K for her own neighborhood ES.

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Westfield/Chantilly/South Lakes area just had huge and controversial boundary changes around 2012-sh.

It was 2008, not 2012. Westfield/Oakton/Madison to South Lakes, plus Chantilly to Oakton.

And they redid a lot of the local ES boundaries as well, and closed Clifton ES. It was a lot of drama. If they had done their jobs and planned the new Western HS, we wouldn't be here again rearranging deck chairs.

The fact that they can't even get the Western HS done is what makes a full district redistricting - with this board that tries to keep everyone happy while simultaneously doing exactly and only what they want - seem so unlikely. A lot of $$$ will be spent, but I predict little real change. They don't seem to be capable of doing much any more. Combination of incompetence at the top and the district being so big causes it, I think.

They can't investigate a single sports program at a single school competently.

They can't get a single new high school built even though it's been in their Capital Improvement Programs for the better part of the last 20 years.

All they can do is make some random changes to say they've done something, and most of those changes are probably going to be unpopular and unnecessary.

Most people just want to be left alone by these clowns.

[Anonymous]

Looking at a map, the Meadows neighborhood (trailer park over by Chantilly Target) is nowhere near Poplar Tree! That is pretty insane.

[Anonymous]

Its really crazy how there are so many underutilized HS buildings in the eastern part of the county and so few in the west. The facilities don't match where the people live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its really crazy how there are so many underutilized HS buildings in the eastern part of the county and so few in the west. The facilities don't match where the people live.

The middle schools and high schools in the same pyramid don’t come close to matching either (HS should be approximately double the size of a 2 grade middle). It’s a disgrace.

[Anonymous]

I'm old enough to remember when the School Board stated emphatically that every HS should be around 2000 students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its really crazy how there are so many underutilized HS buildings in the eastern part of the county and so few in the west. The facilities don't match where the people live.

Guess you mean southeastern part of the county. Northeastern part of the county has a number of crowded schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm old enough to remember when the School Board stated emphatically that every HS should be around 2000 students.

Those days are long gone. Wasn't it mostly just a convenient line trotted out years ago to justify moving kids into South Lakes and out of Westfield and Oakton? Then they expanded South Lakes itself to well over 2000.