Boundary Review Meetings

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they moving kids to west springfield from lewis?

Moving the Rolling Valley Lewis students to WSHS and moving other neighborhoods out of WSHS to make room for the Lewis kids has been the Springfield representative's biggest rezoning priority since FCPS started revising policy 8130.

So who is it? Which family supported Anderson or is close to Anderson’s family if this is the case?

We were told that she was advocating for this group because some groups can’t organize and spend time advocating like our group. It was a very surprising statement, because we are also households of busy working parents, who are federal workers, military, teachers, etc. We don’t have any more resources than this RVES pocket.

So, equity??

That doesn't make sense.

That RV neighborhood is just as wealthy as the rest of 22152 and has a similar demographic as the rest of WSHS.

DP. Whenever the school board hears that a community doesn’t want something, they immediately pretend that there is some other silent community who wants the opposite. That way, they can justify screwing over the first community.

For the most part, they just keep revising the proposals to reflect the last group of noisy parents who chewed their ear off. Not sure the end result will be anything like what they claimed they wanted to accomplish.

Comprehensive boundary review is a shitty game of musical chairs.

Every boundary review is musical chairs because every boundary review shifts seats in a zero sum environment.

That's an odd statement. How is it a zero sum environment when they get money every few years for capital projects and boundary changes can be one-way? It's not like they move kids out of every school they move kids into.

School A loses 100 kids.

School B receives the 100 kids.

-100 from school A

+

+100 to school B

=

0

Or School L loses 20 kids

+

School WS gains 80 kids

= + 60 kids

Or

School JM loses 90 kids

+

School GCM gains 60 kids

= - 30 kids

The kids don’t magically cease to exist with a boundary change. They go to a different school.

If you want to talk general patterns of population/enrollment shifting, that’s a different point all together.

DP. I know families who have ceased to exist in Fairfax county schools because of the boundary review.

Frankly, that's better for us. They're still paying taxes and there are fewer kids which means more money for my kid.

What is, how to be penny-wise and pound-foolish, Alex.

(And some moved out of the county altogether.)

Doesn't matter. Housing values are still up, and someone is paying that property tax.

Yikes.

All we hear is that the school board needs rich kids and their families to fill out the poorer performing schools, and now the same folks are telling us it doesn’t matter if UMC goes elsewhere. I guess they have to delude themselves to believe that their social experiment will work.

It’s too bad they’ll make the school system mediocre at best in the process.

I really wish these folks were better informed than this.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they moving kids to west springfield from lewis?

Moving the Rolling Valley Lewis students to WSHS and moving other neighborhoods out of WSHS to make room for the Lewis kids has been the Springfield representative's biggest rezoning priority since FCPS started revising policy 8130.

So who is it? Which family supported Anderson or is close to Anderson’s family if this is the case?

We were told that she was advocating for this group because some groups can’t organize and spend time advocating like our group. It was a very surprising statement, because we are also households of busy working parents, who are federal workers, military, teachers, etc. We don’t have any more resources than this RVES pocket.

So, equity??

That doesn't make sense.

That RV neighborhood is just as wealthy as the rest of 22152 and has a similar demographic as the rest of WSHS.

DP. Whenever the school board hears that a community doesn’t want something, they immediately pretend that there is some other silent community who wants the opposite. That way, they can justify screwing over the first community.

For the most part, they just keep revising the proposals to reflect the last group of noisy parents who chewed their ear off. Not sure the end result will be anything like what they claimed they wanted to accomplish.

Comprehensive boundary review is a shitty game of musical chairs.

Every boundary review is musical chairs because every boundary review shifts seats in a zero sum environment.

That's an odd statement. How is it a zero sum environment when they get money every few years for capital projects and boundary changes can be one-way? It's not like they move kids out of every school they move kids into.

School A loses 100 kids.

School B receives the 100 kids.

-100 from school A

+

+100 to school B

=

0

Or School L loses 20 kids

+

School WS gains 80 kids

= + 60 kids

Or

School JM loses 90 kids

+

School GCM gains 60 kids

= - 30 kids

The kids don’t magically cease to exist with a boundary change. They go to a different school.

If you want to talk general patterns of population/enrollment shifting, that’s a different point all together.

DP. I know families who have ceased to exist in Fairfax county schools because of the boundary review.

Frankly, that's better for us. They're still paying taxes and there are fewer kids which means more money for my kid.

What is, how to be penny-wise and pound-foolish, Alex.

(And some moved out of the county altogether.)

Doesn't matter. Housing values are still up, and someone is paying that property tax.

Yikes.

All we hear is that the school board needs rich kids and their families to fill out the poorer performing schools, and now the same folks are telling us it doesn’t matter if UMC goes elsewhere. I guess they have to delude themselves to believe that their social experiment will work.

It’s too bad they’ll make the school system mediocre at best in the process.

I really wish these folks were better informed than this.

All this complaining and yet you are still here. Must not be the big problem you are making it out to be.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they moving kids to west springfield from lewis?

Moving the Rolling Valley Lewis students to WSHS and moving other neighborhoods out of WSHS to make room for the Lewis kids has been the Springfield representative's biggest rezoning priority since FCPS started revising policy 8130.

So who is it? Which family supported Anderson or is close to Anderson’s family if this is the case?

We were told that she was advocating for this group because some groups can’t organize and spend time advocating like our group. It was a very surprising statement, because we are also households of busy working parents, who are federal workers, military, teachers, etc. We don’t have any more resources than this RVES pocket.

So, equity??

That doesn't make sense.

That RV neighborhood is just as wealthy as the rest of 22152 and has a similar demographic as the rest of WSHS.

DP. Whenever the school board hears that a community doesn’t want something, they immediately pretend that there is some other silent community who wants the opposite. That way, they can justify screwing over the first community.

For the most part, they just keep revising the proposals to reflect the last group of noisy parents who chewed their ear off. Not sure the end result will be anything like what they claimed they wanted to accomplish.

Comprehensive boundary review is a shitty game of musical chairs.

Every boundary review is musical chairs because every boundary review shifts seats in a zero sum environment.

That's an odd statement. How is it a zero sum environment when they get money every few years for capital projects and boundary changes can be one-way? It's not like they move kids out of every school they move kids into.

School A loses 100 kids.

School B receives the 100 kids.

-100 from school A

+

+100 to school B

=

0

Or School L loses 20 kids

+

School WS gains 80 kids

= + 60 kids

Or

School JM loses 90 kids

+

School GCM gains 60 kids

= - 30 kids

The kids don’t magically cease to exist with a boundary change. They go to a different school.

If you want to talk general patterns of population/enrollment shifting, that’s a different point all together.

DP. I know families who have ceased to exist in Fairfax county schools because of the boundary review.

Frankly, that's better for us. They're still paying taxes and there are fewer kids which means more money for my kid.

What is, how to be penny-wise and pound-foolish, Alex.

(And some moved out of the county altogether.)

Just because 5 wealthy families you know moved away "because of the schools" doesn't mean they all are. There's not going to be a mass exodus of wealthy families from Fairfax County because of the boundary changes. Is there a possibility that the Herndon families that go to Langley will move to Loudoun when they get redistricted in five years? Yes, absolutely but that's also not that many people (even though it seems like a lot because they are so vocal). You really need to relax.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they moving kids to west springfield from lewis?

Moving the Rolling Valley Lewis students to WSHS and moving other neighborhoods out of WSHS to make room for the Lewis kids has been the Springfield representative's biggest rezoning priority since FCPS started revising policy 8130.

So who is it? Which family supported Anderson or is close to Anderson’s family if this is the case?

We were told that she was advocating for this group because some groups can’t organize and spend time advocating like our group. It was a very surprising statement, because we are also households of busy working parents, who are federal workers, military, teachers, etc. We don’t have any more resources than this RVES pocket.

So, equity??

That doesn't make sense.

That RV neighborhood is just as wealthy as the rest of 22152 and has a similar demographic as the rest of WSHS.

DP. Whenever the school board hears that a community doesn’t want something, they immediately pretend that there is some other silent community who wants the opposite. That way, they can justify screwing over the first community.

For the most part, they just keep revising the proposals to reflect the last group of noisy parents who chewed their ear off. Not sure the end result will be anything like what they claimed they wanted to accomplish.

Comprehensive boundary review is a shitty game of musical chairs.

Every boundary review is musical chairs because every boundary review shifts seats in a zero sum environment.

That's an odd statement. How is it a zero sum environment when they get money every few years for capital projects and boundary changes can be one-way? It's not like they move kids out of every school they move kids into.

School A loses 100 kids.

School B receives the 100 kids.

-100 from school A

+

+100 to school B

=

0

Or School L loses 20 kids

+

School WS gains 80 kids

= + 60 kids

Or

School JM loses 90 kids

+

School GCM gains 60 kids

= - 30 kids

The kids don’t magically cease to exist with a boundary change. They go to a different school.

If you want to talk general patterns of population/enrollment shifting, that’s a different point all together.

DP. I know families who have ceased to exist in Fairfax county schools because of the boundary review.

Frankly, that's better for us. They're still paying taxes and there are fewer kids which means more money for my kid.

What is, how to be penny-wise and pound-foolish, Alex.

(And some moved out of the county altogether.)

Doesn't matter. Housing values are still up, and someone is paying that property tax.

Yikes.

All we hear is that the school board needs rich kids and their families to fill out the poorer performing schools, and now the same folks are telling us it doesn’t matter if UMC goes elsewhere. I guess they have to delude themselves to believe that their social experiment will work.

It’s too bad they’ll make the school system mediocre at best in the process.

I really wish these folks were better informed than this.

All this complaining and yet you are still here. Must not be the big problem you are making it out to be.

It’s okay, you don’t have to put your brave face on for us. The kids who have moved out are from the exact families that you and other lazy parents drool over. These families were engaged in the school and would have filled in the gaps at the schools that you can’t be bothered to fill.

They are the families that you would need to see an increase in your property value, and we understand that’s why you want these students moved to your school. Anyway, don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll come volunteer for your pta even though they moved, or I’m sure those other non-engaged families who don’t move will step up, right.

This is why the school board’s social experiment has always been doomed to failure. Sorry for your loss.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they moving kids to west springfield from lewis?

Moving the Rolling Valley Lewis students to WSHS and moving other neighborhoods out of WSHS to make room for the Lewis kids has been the Springfield representative's biggest rezoning priority since FCPS started revising policy 8130.

So who is it? Which family supported Anderson or is close to Anderson’s family if this is the case?

We were told that she was advocating for this group because some groups can’t organize and spend time advocating like our group. It was a very surprising statement, because we are also households of busy working parents, who are federal workers, military, teachers, etc. We don’t have any more resources than this RVES pocket.

So, equity??

That doesn't make sense.

That RV neighborhood is just as wealthy as the rest of 22152 and has a similar demographic as the rest of WSHS.

DP. Whenever the school board hears that a community doesn’t want something, they immediately pretend that there is some other silent community who wants the opposite. That way, they can justify screwing over the first community.

For the most part, they just keep revising the proposals to reflect the last group of noisy parents who chewed their ear off. Not sure the end result will be anything like what they claimed they wanted to accomplish.

Comprehensive boundary review is a shitty game of musical chairs.

Every boundary review is musical chairs because every boundary review shifts seats in a zero sum environment.

That's an odd statement. How is it a zero sum environment when they get money every few years for capital projects and boundary changes can be one-way? It's not like they move kids out of every school they move kids into.

School A loses 100 kids.

School B receives the 100 kids.

-100 from school A

+

+100 to school B

=

0

Or School L loses 20 kids

+

School WS gains 80 kids

= + 60 kids

Or

School JM loses 90 kids

+

School GCM gains 60 kids

= - 30 kids

The kids don’t magically cease to exist with a boundary change. They go to a different school.

If you want to talk general patterns of population/enrollment shifting, that’s a different point all together.

DP. I know families who have ceased to exist in Fairfax county schools because of the boundary review.

Frankly, that's better for us. They're still paying taxes and there are fewer kids which means more money for my kid.

What is, how to be penny-wise and pound-foolish, Alex.

(And some moved out of the county altogether.)

Just because 5 wealthy families you know moved away "because of the schools" doesn't mean they all are. There's not going to be a mass exodus of wealthy families from Fairfax County because of the boundary changes. Is there a possibility that the Herndon families that go to Langley will move to Loudoun when they get redistricted in five years? Yes, absolutely but that's also not that many people (even though it seems like a lot because they are so vocal). You really need to relax.

Did they solve the Herndon high student’s murder from last week yet? Is there an ongoing threat to that community still?

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Anonymous wrote:Another DP in the WS conversation regarding the swap of neighborhoods into and out of the high school. I was in one meeting where Sandy was asked about this and she flat out told the person asking “just because you’re loud doesn’t mean you’ll win. You’re lucky you’re not getting rezoned to Lewis and you have a great school as your new school”. As a former SA supporter, that completely changed my opinion of her. #1 as a school board member you should never. Ever. Call out a school like that And #2. It felt almost like a threat to stop fighting back on the changes because the more people asked and questioned the less likely they would get what they wanted. I was expecting, at least, a fake politician that would pretend to hear the constituents concerns, but instead it felt dismissive and rude. Because of that exchange I have since felt that no matter when the public says or comments on those maps, the decisions have already been made.

Wow. Talk about clueless.

I don't claim to be the brightest bulb, but I know better than to keep from throwing dirt on another school.

Keep voting straight down the blue ballot each year folks. Goodness.

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Can someone explain why McLean HD goes around Pimmit Hills? It makes no sense as it puts it on an island, while under scenario 4 there is a McLean island to the east of the Marshall HS district.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain why McLean HD goes around Pimmit Hills? It makes no sense as it puts it on an island, while under scenario 4 there is a McLean island to the east of the Marshall HS district.

Pimmit Hills abuts Marshall. How can it be an island?

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain why McLean HD goes around Pimmit Hills? It makes no sense as it puts it on an island, while under scenario 4 there is a McLean island to the east of the Marshall HS district.

Part of Pimmit Hills walks to Marshall. Technically, if assigned, part of Pimmit Hills would walk to McLean. Instead of splitting the neighborhood, everyone is sent to Marshall. McLean doesn’t have the capacity to take the whole neighborhood, even if they dropped the Timber Lane island.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they moving kids to west springfield from lewis?

Moving the Rolling Valley Lewis students to WSHS and moving other neighborhoods out of WSHS to make room for the Lewis kids has been the Springfield representative's biggest rezoning priority since FCPS started revising policy 8130.

So who is it? Which family supported Anderson or is close to Anderson’s family if this is the case?

We were told that she was advocating for this group because some groups can’t organize and spend time advocating like our group. It was a very surprising statement, because we are also households of busy working parents, who are federal workers, military, teachers, etc. We don’t have any more resources than this RVES pocket.

So, equity??

That doesn't make sense.

That RV neighborhood is just as wealthy as the rest of 22152 and has a similar demographic as the rest of WSHS.

DP. Whenever the school board hears that a community doesn’t want something, they immediately pretend that there is some other silent community who wants the opposite. That way, they can justify screwing over the first community.

For the most part, they just keep revising the proposals to reflect the last group of noisy parents who chewed their ear off. Not sure the end result will be anything like what they claimed they wanted to accomplish.

Comprehensive boundary review is a shitty game of musical chairs.

Every boundary review is musical chairs because every boundary review shifts seats in a zero sum environment.

That's an odd statement. How is it a zero sum environment when they get money every few years for capital projects and boundary changes can be one-way? It's not like they move kids out of every school they move kids into.

School A loses 100 kids.

School B receives the 100 kids.

-100 from school A

+

+100 to school B

=

0

Or School L loses 20 kids

+

School WS gains 80 kids

= + 60 kids

Or

School JM loses 90 kids

+

School GCM gains 60 kids

= - 30 kids

The kids don’t magically cease to exist with a boundary change. They go to a different school.

If you want to talk general patterns of population/enrollment shifting, that’s a different point all together.

DP. I know families who have ceased to exist in Fairfax county schools because of the boundary review.

Frankly, that's better for us. They're still paying taxes and there are fewer kids which means more money for my kid.

What is, how to be penny-wise and pound-foolish, Alex.

(And some moved out of the county altogether.)

Just because 5 wealthy families you know moved away "because of the schools" doesn't mean they all are. There's not going to be a mass exodus of wealthy families from Fairfax County because of the boundary changes. Is there a possibility that the Herndon families that go to Langley will move to Loudoun when they get redistricted in five years? Yes, absolutely but that's also not that many people (even though it seems like a lot because they are so vocal). You really need to relax.

Aren't they more likely to attend private? I honestly do not know many wealthy families that attend public school.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are they moving kids to west springfield from lewis?

Moving the Rolling Valley Lewis students to WSHS and moving other neighborhoods out of WSHS to make room for the Lewis kids has been the Springfield representative's biggest rezoning priority since FCPS started revising policy 8130.

So who is it? Which family supported Anderson or is close to Anderson’s family if this is the case?

We were told that she was advocating for this group because some groups can’t organize and spend time advocating like our group. It was a very surprising statement, because we are also households of busy working parents, who are federal workers, military, teachers, etc. We don’t have any more resources than this RVES pocket.

So, equity??

That doesn't make sense.

That RV neighborhood is just as wealthy as the rest of 22152 and has a similar demographic as the rest of WSHS.

DP. Whenever the school board hears that a community doesn’t want something, they immediately pretend that there is some other silent community who wants the opposite. That way, they can justify screwing over the first community.

For the most part, they just keep revising the proposals to reflect the last group of noisy parents who chewed their ear off. Not sure the end result will be anything like what they claimed they wanted to accomplish.

Comprehensive boundary review is a shitty game of musical chairs.

Every boundary review is musical chairs because every boundary review shifts seats in a zero sum environment.

That's an odd statement. How is it a zero sum environment when they get money every few years for capital projects and boundary changes can be one-way? It's not like they move kids out of every school they move kids into.

School A loses 100 kids.

School B receives the 100 kids.

-100 from school A

+

+100 to school B

=

0

Or School L loses 20 kids

+

School WS gains 80 kids

= + 60 kids

Or

School JM loses 90 kids

+

School GCM gains 60 kids

= - 30 kids

The kids don’t magically cease to exist with a boundary change. They go to a different school.

If you want to talk general patterns of population/enrollment shifting, that’s a different point all together.

DP. I know families who have ceased to exist in Fairfax county schools because of the boundary review.

Frankly, that's better for us. They're still paying taxes and there are fewer kids which means more money for my kid.

What is, how to be penny-wise and pound-foolish, Alex.

(And some moved out of the county altogether.)

Doesn't matter. Housing values are still up, and someone is paying that property tax.

Yikes.

All we hear is that the school board needs rich kids and their families to fill out the poorer performing schools, and now the same folks are telling us it doesn’t matter if UMC goes elsewhere. I guess they have to delude themselves to believe that their social experiment will work.

It’s too bad they’ll make the school system mediocre at best in the process.

I really wish these folks were better informed than this.

All this complaining and yet you are still here. Must not be the big problem you are making it out to be.

It’s okay, you don’t have to put your brave face on for us. The kids who have moved out are from the exact families that you and other lazy parents drool over. These families were engaged in the school and would have filled in the gaps at the schools that you can’t be bothered to fill.

They are the families that you would need to see an increase in your property value, and we understand that’s why you want these students moved to your school. Anyway, don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll come volunteer for your pta even though they moved, or I’m sure those other non-engaged families who don’t move will step up, right.

This is why the school board’s social experiment has always been doomed to failure. Sorry for your loss.

You think the parents that aren't active in their kids' schools are the ones posting here? Not seeing the logic in that one.
Of course there is no logic in any of your posts, all just emotional reactions and anecdotes that you are trying to push as proof as something that isn't actually happening.
At least we know where you are from with your focus on property value. I'm willing to bet you don't even have kids in school.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain why McLean HD goes around Pimmit Hills? It makes no sense as it puts it on an island, while under scenario 4 there is a McLean island to the east of the Marshall HS district.

Part of Pimmit Hills walks to Marshall. Technically, if assigned, part of Pimmit Hills would walk to McLean. Instead of splitting the neighborhood, everyone is sent to Marshall. McLean doesn’t have the capacity to take the whole neighborhood, even if they dropped the Timber Lane island.

Under Scenarios 1-3 part of Pimmit Hills was supposed to go to McLean HS, so clearly they understand that a portion can walk to McLean. It seems very odd to do a complete 180.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain why McLean HD goes around Pimmit Hills? It makes no sense as it puts it on an island, while under scenario 4 there is a McLean island to the east of the Marshall HS district.

Part of Pimmit Hills walks to Marshall. Technically, if assigned, part of Pimmit Hills would walk to McLean. Instead of splitting the neighborhood, everyone is sent to Marshall. McLean doesn’t have the capacity to take the whole neighborhood, even if they dropped the Timber Lane island.

Under Scenarios 1-3 part of Pimmit Hills was supposed to go to McLean HS, so clearly they understand that a portion can walk to McLean. It seems very odd to do a complete 180.

Actually the portion that could walk to McLean has never been recommended for McLean HS. It’s a portion of Westgate that’s across Magarity from the Commons of McLean. The McLean assigned portion of Westgate are walkers. If they understood that portion, they’d have split the neighborhood by Griffith Rd. Then the Lemon Road and Westgate splits would have been more evenly split, and they’d pick up McLean walkers without losing Marshall ones.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain why McLean HD goes around Pimmit Hills? It makes no sense as it puts it on an island, while under scenario 4 there is a McLean island to the east of the Marshall HS district.

Part of Pimmit Hills walks to Marshall. Technically, if assigned, part of Pimmit Hills would walk to McLean. Instead of splitting the neighborhood, everyone is sent to Marshall. McLean doesn’t have the capacity to take the whole neighborhood, even if they dropped the Timber Lane island.

Under Scenarios 1-3 part of Pimmit Hills was supposed to go to McLean HS, so clearly they understand that a portion can walk to McLean. It seems very odd to do a complete 180.

All of the prior proposals involving McLean resulted in complaints from either McLean (Timber Lane) or Marshall (Lemon Road) parents. They’ve scaled it back to just moving the Spring Hill attendance island from McLean to Langley. Honestly, with McLean’s enrollment starting to come down, they probably don’t need to do anything, but they will in order to justify the lengthy boundary review.

There are other proposals involving the Marshall and Madison boundaries in Scenario 4, but they don’t involve McLean.

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Thru’s analysis is so mind bogglingly bad, and riddled with errors. Just looking at the FCHS presentation. Slide 22. Westgate ES and Stenwood ES report no changes under scenario 4, and yet their lowest percentage split feeders change from 26% to 20% for Westgate and 36% to 39% for Stenwood between the baseline and scenario 4. If there were no changes from baseline, why are the percentages changing?

Then try to make sense of their reference scenarios starting on slide 25. Elementary counts is fine, but then look at MS counts on slide 27. What in the world are those numbers? Carson count 1744, Franklin count 2552(!?!), Poe count 1440, and Thoreau count 3247(!?!) What do those numbers represent? Is it supposed to be the base number of elementary school students that live within the physical boundaries of a middle school? High school students? It certainly isn’t middle school students. How can we have any confidence in these results when the raw numbers behind their analysis don’t make sense?

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-10/fall_2025_community_meetings_10-16-25_falls_church_and_marshall.pdf