FCPS HS Boundary

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Someone needs to bring this to the attention of Youngkin, Sears, and Miyares. This is a PR goldmine for Republicans wanting to highlight how out-of-touch and despotic the local Democrats have become in NoVa.

I think their changes will be well received by the county and most of their constituents. I think many underestimate how popular these public school initiatives have become.

Seattle public schools recently eliminated their version of AAP in the name of equity.

I think you are wrong. But I guess we will see.

Of course she’s wrong. She wants to believe it, but there is zero chance that parents in the county are okay with a county wide realignment and ongoing uncertainty.

It’s not even close.

If you could look at the boundary study that they conducted you would have seen that residents were largely against this type of wholesale change. Now, if you go to the FCPS website and click on the "Learn more about the boundary policy review" link it goes to a dead page. Something is fishy here.

https://www.fcps.edu/facilities-planning-future/school-boundary-adjustments

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone needs to bring this to the attention of Youngkin, Sears, and Miyares. This is a PR goldmine for Republicans wanting to highlight how out-of-touch and despotic the local Democrats have become in NoVa.

I think their changes will be well received by the county and most of their constituents. I think many underestimate how popular these public school initiatives have become.

Seattle public schools recently eliminated their version of AAP in the name of equity.

I think you are wrong. But I guess we will see.

The changes to the TJ admissions process seem to be along similar lines and that was well-received. Sure a handful of people were upset, but I think it had overall popular support.

The TJ admissions change didn’t affect everyone, just a small minority of kids. Most kids aren’t gunning for TJ. And it really mostly harmed the test prep industry.

The changing of school boundaries potentially affects everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone needs to bring this to the attention of Youngkin, Sears, and Miyares. This is a PR goldmine for Republicans wanting to highlight how out-of-touch and despotic the local Democrats have become in NoVa.

I think their changes will be well received by the county and most of their constituents. I think many underestimate how popular these public school initiatives have become.

Seattle public schools recently eliminated their version of AAP in the name of equity.

I think you are wrong. But I guess we will see.

The changes to the TJ admissions process seem to be along similar lines and that was well-received. Sure a handful of people were upset, but I think it had overall popular support.

The difference of course is that you can’t really determine who was impacted by the TJ change, but it’ll be very clear who is impacted by this one. Also, many more people will be redistricted or in the line of fire, and redistricting as proposed will happen three or four times over the childhood of each student in the county. E.g., 1, 6, 11, and 16 years of age. Or 4, 9, 14, etc. this won’t be a one and done.

This is clearly much more broadly impactful than the narrower TJ policy.

You’ll see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone needs to bring this to the attention of Youngkin, Sears, and Miyares. This is a PR goldmine for Republicans wanting to highlight how out-of-touch and despotic the local Democrats have become in NoVa.

I plan to reach out to Youngkin on this soon. It really is such a boon for their party.

I suspect Youngkin will be hesitant to shout "stop the integration of Fairfax County Public Schools" from the rooftops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone needs to bring this to the attention of Youngkin, Sears, and Miyares. This is a PR goldmine for Republicans wanting to highlight how out-of-touch and despotic the local Democrats have become in NoVa.

I think their changes will be well received by the county and most of their constituents. I think many underestimate how popular these public school initiatives have become.

Seattle public schools recently eliminated their version of AAP in the name of equity.

I think you are wrong. But I guess we will see.

The changes to the TJ admissions process seem to be along similar lines and that was well-received. Sure a handful of people were upset, but I think it had overall popular support.

The difference of course is that you can’t really determine who was impacted by the TJ change, but it’ll be very clear who is impacted by this one. Also, many more people will be redistricted or in the line of fire, and redistricting as proposed will happen three or four times over the childhood of each student in the county. E.g., 1, 6, 11, and 16 years of age. Or 4, 9, 14, etc. this won’t be a one and done.

This is clearly much more broadly impactful than the narrower TJ policy.

You’ll see.

But this does seem inline with much of the positions and policies of the county. If the TJ policy was the right thing to do, then I would say this is right on par with that. Maybe not in scope but in purpose. Plus it’s practical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone needs to bring this to the attention of Youngkin, Sears, and Miyares. This is a PR goldmine for Republicans wanting to highlight how out-of-touch and despotic the local Democrats have become in NoVa.

I think their changes will be well received by the county and most of their constituents. I think many underestimate how popular these public school initiatives have become.

Seattle public schools recently eliminated their version of AAP in the name of equity.

I think you are wrong. But I guess we will see.

Of course she’s wrong. She wants to believe it, but there is zero chance that parents in the county are okay with a county wide realignment and ongoing uncertainty.

It’s not even close.

If you could look at the boundary study that they conducted you would have seen that residents were largely against this type of wholesale change. Now, if you go to the FCPS website and click on the "Learn more about the boundary policy review" link it goes to a dead page. Something is fishy here.

https://www.fcps.edu/facilities-planning-future/school-boundary-adjustments

**Residents who responded. One look at the survey demographics shows you it suffered greatly from self-selection and non-reporting bias.
I imagine if you went door to door and asked everyone if they would like to attend a successful school with a myriad of opportunities for their kids, they'd say yes and would welcome a boundary change to send them there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone needs to bring this to the attention of Youngkin, Sears, and Miyares. This is a PR goldmine for Republicans wanting to highlight how out-of-touch and despotic the local Democrats have become in NoVa.

I plan to reach out to Youngkin on this soon. It really is such a boon for their party.

I suspect Youngkin will be hesitant to shout "stop the integration of Fairfax County Public Schools" from the rooftops.

Sure, he’ll let it go through and then push for vouchers, which I’ve never supported until this latest SB disaster. I also think this leaves the state ripe for a Prop 13 style limitation on property tax increases, which again, I would never have supported previously, but makes sense where you have such an utterly incompetent board screwing things up so royally.

The republicans can largely sit back and watch this intraparty conflict play out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone needs to bring this to the attention of Youngkin, Sears, and Miyares. This is a PR goldmine for Republicans wanting to highlight how out-of-touch and despotic the local Democrats have become in NoVa.

I plan to reach out to Youngkin on this soon. It really is such a boon for their party.

I suspect Youngkin will be hesitant to shout "stop the integration of Fairfax County Public Schools" from the rooftops.

Sure, he’ll let it go through and then push for vouchers, which I’ve never supported until this latest SB disaster. I also think this leaves the state ripe for a Prop 13 style limitation on property tax increases, which again, I would never have supported previously, but makes sense where you have such an utterly incompetent board screwing things up so royally.

The republicans can largely sit back and watch this intraparty conflict play out.

Yep, the republicans are political losers in Fairfax county no matter what. Just grab some popcorn and wait to see who gets called a racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone needs to bring this to the attention of Youngkin, Sears, and Miyares. This is a PR goldmine for Republicans wanting to highlight how out-of-touch and despotic the local Democrats have become in NoVa.

I plan to reach out to Youngkin on this soon. It really is such a boon for their party.

I suspect Youngkin will be hesitant to shout "stop the integration of Fairfax County Public Schools" from the rooftops.

Sure, he’ll let it go through and then push for vouchers, which I’ve never supported until this latest SB disaster. I also think this leaves the state ripe for a Prop 13 style limitation on property tax increases, which again, I would never have supported previously, but makes sense where you have such an utterly incompetent board screwing things up so royally.

The republicans can largely sit back and watch this intraparty conflict play out.

Yep, the republicans are political losers in Fairfax county no matter what. Just grab some popcorn and wait to see who gets called a racist.

Republicans will never win here, but if they can tighten margins in Fairfax, they win state wide. If my kids' schools end up worse, I'll happily vote R

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone needs to bring this to the attention of Youngkin, Sears, and Miyares. This is a PR goldmine for Republicans wanting to highlight how out-of-touch and despotic the local Democrats have become in NoVa.

I plan to reach out to Youngkin on this soon. It really is such a boon for their party.

I suspect Youngkin will be hesitant to shout "stop the integration of Fairfax County Public Schools" from the rooftops.

Sure, he’ll let it go through and then push for vouchers, which I’ve never supported until this latest SB disaster. I also think this leaves the state ripe for a Prop 13 style limitation on property tax increases, which again, I would never have supported previously, but makes sense where you have such an utterly incompetent board screwing things up so royally.

The republicans can largely sit back and watch this intraparty conflict play out.

Yep, the republicans are political losers in Fairfax county no matter what. Just grab some popcorn and wait to see who gets called a racist.

Republicans will never win here, but if they can tighten margins in Fairfax, they win state wide. If my kids' schools end up worse, I'll happily vote R

Same. And that’s the broader point. A 5-point swing in Fairfax brings Virginia from reliable blue to a swing state. Ironically it could be the National republicans who stand to benefit from this.

Signed, a formerly reliable Fairfax county democrat

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: The one that makes the most sense out of all the elementary schools geographically is Keene Mill, which would also bring an AAP center to the Lewis pyramid.

This would take KMES from a part of a walkable pyramid to a 100% bussing HS connection. It would be terrible on multiple fronts, and the KMES boundary is a huge portion of WSHS's non-white demographic, which would be a huge step backward for WSHS.

Keene Mill busses to WSHS.

Honestly, though, there are empty classrooms at WSHS and zero trailers.

How does that justify emergency rezoning when there is plenty of space at that high school?

There are def trailers as WSES. KM can walk to Irving. WSES cannot walk to either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone needs to bring this to the attention of Youngkin, Sears, and Miyares. This is a PR goldmine for Republicans wanting to highlight how out-of-touch and despotic the local Democrats have become in NoVa.

I think their changes will be well received by the county and most of their constituents. I think many underestimate how popular these public school initiatives have become.

Seattle public schools recently eliminated their version of AAP in the name of equity.

I think you are wrong. But I guess we will see.

The changes to the TJ admissions process seem to be along similar lines and that was well-received. Sure a handful of people were upset, but I think it had overall popular support.

The difference of course is that you can’t really determine who was impacted by the TJ change, but it’ll be very clear who is impacted by this one. Also, many more people will be redistricted or in the line of fire, and redistricting as proposed will happen three or four times over the childhood of each student in the county. E.g., 1, 6, 11, and 16 years of age. Or 4, 9, 14, etc. this won’t be a one and done.

This is clearly much more broadly impactful than the narrower TJ policy.

You’ll see.

Yeah it is ridiculous to rezone every 4 years. The amount of instability is crazy and against the supposed principles in the document of keeping communities together.
I already reached out to my board member and the at large people. I only heard from my rep. She kept saying we are just revising this doc and she can’t speak to Kyle’s email.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:County FARMs rates have doubled to 40%. This change has taken place over the last 15 years. To put this in perspective, Alexandria is 53% FARMs students.

There’s nowhere else for the increasing poor population to live in NOVA. Arlington is too expensive and Alexandria is out of room. Plenty of room here in Fairfax.

You can’t hide from this anymore. Especially in our progressive enclave.

So to sum up, let’s just drag the whole system down to the lowest level? You know that the ability to sustain services for the FARMS kids is dependent on tax revenue directly linked to property value, including in outsized percent the property value in these low farms areas.

Redistricting doesn’t solve anything for those kids.

I don’t know what to tell you. These are the facts and there is no way to avoid it. Many metros are experiencing similar issues.

It’s time to changes the metrics that measure
Success in schools.
Testing ESL kids shouldn’t be done until they score out of ESL. Also and youngkin would agree with this, we need to not only look at attending college and college prep programs as a mark of a good school. Tech programs should be given statistical worth too.

[Anonymous]

I should say testing of ESL for school accreditation purposes shouldn’t be done until kids have above basic command of English. It takes years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone needs to bring this to the attention of Youngkin, Sears, and Miyares. This is a PR goldmine for Republicans wanting to highlight how out-of-touch and despotic the local Democrats have become in NoVa.

I plan to reach out to Youngkin on this soon. It really is such a boon for their party.

I suspect Youngkin will be hesitant to shout "stop the integration of Fairfax County Public Schools" from the rooftops.

Sure, he’ll let it go through and then push for vouchers, which I’ve never supported until this latest SB disaster. I also think this leaves the state ripe for a Prop 13 style limitation on property tax increases, which again, I would never have supported previously, but makes sense where you have such an utterly incompetent board screwing things up so royally.

The republicans can largely sit back and watch this intraparty conflict play out.

Yep, the republicans are political losers in Fairfax county no matter what. Just grab some popcorn and wait to see who gets called a racist.

Republicans will never win here, but if they can tighten margins in Fairfax, they win state wide. If my kids' schools end up worse, I'll happily vote R

Same. And that’s the broader point. A 5-point swing in Fairfax brings Virginia from reliable blue to a swing state. Ironically it could be the National republicans who stand to benefit from this.

Signed, a formerly reliable Fairfax county democrat

It’s really weird that you would make local school board action affect your state and national votes.