Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She said there will be 4 different maps presented at the Open House. She also pretty definitively said that KAA Maps would be part of the Boundary review maps that the SB would approve in January.

That’s interesting because with the county-wide study some pyramids essentially saw a single map for Scenarios 1-3 and perhaps revisions in Scenario 4. So basically two maps at most.

But for KAA they’ll apparently share multiple options - another example of how this county-wide study treats some pyramids like crap while all this money and attention gets focused on one part of the county.

That one part of the county has been treated very poorly for many years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth do we need a huge preschool space at a high school?

So Merin can claim there just isn’t space to redistrict kids from South Lakes.

It’s Meren and she’s one of the only School Board members asking the right questions these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth do we need a huge preschool space at a high school?

So Merin can claim there just isn’t space to redistrict kids from South Lakes.

It’s Meren and she’s one of the only School Board members asking the right questions these days.

Yeah, her idea to put a pre-school at a high school is totally the normal thing to do. Don't you remember all those 4 year olds running around the place back when you went to high school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She said there will be 4 different maps presented at the Open House. She also pretty definitively said that KAA Maps would be part of the Boundary review maps that the SB would approve in January.

That’s interesting because with the county-wide study some pyramids essentially saw a single map for Scenarios 1-3 and perhaps revisions in Scenario 4. So basically two maps at most.

But for KAA they’ll apparently share multiple options - another example of how this county-wide study treats some pyramids like crap while all this money and attention gets focused on one part of the county.

That one part of the county has been treated very poorly for many years.

Look at the FCPS bond documents highlighting the anticipated capital projects in the 2019, 2021, 2023, and proposed 2025 bond referenda. They are very heavily concentrated in western Fairfax.

The only thing you hadn’t gotten was a new HS in the Floris/Oak Hill area, but meanwhile South Lakes, Oakton, and Herndon were expanded, as Westfield had been expanded earlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth do we need a huge preschool space at a high school?

So Merin can claim there just isn’t space to redistrict kids from South Lakes.

It’s Meren and she’s one of the only School Board members asking the right questions these days.

Yeah, her idea to put a pre-school at a high school is totally the normal thing to do. Don't you remember all those 4 year olds running around the place back when you went to high school?

That is about taking advantage of existing, customized space at KAA, as opposed to ripping it apart and retrofitting space that was originally constructed less than a decade ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth do we need a huge preschool space at a high school?

So Merin can claim there just isn’t space to redistrict kids from South Lakes.

It’s Meren and she’s one of the only School Board members asking the right questions these days.

Yeah, her idea to put a pre-school at a high school is totally the normal thing to do. Don't you remember all those 4 year olds running around the place back when you went to high school?

McLean High School had a preschool when my older children attended (pre-covid). I did no5 know it closed. - I thought several high schools had them.

[Anonymous]

Not everyone is going to be able to make the open house. They will have to upload thee boundary proposals to some website at some point, hopefully tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth do we need a huge preschool space at a high school?

So Merin can claim there just isn’t space to redistrict kids from South Lakes.

It’s Meren and she’s one of the only School Board members asking the right questions these days.

Yeah, her idea to put a pre-school at a high school is totally the normal thing to do. Don't you remember all those 4 year olds running around the place back when you went to high school?

Robinson has a preschool on campus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth do we need a huge preschool space at a high school?

So Merin can claim there just isn’t space to redistrict kids from South Lakes.

It’s Meren and she’s one of the only School Board members asking the right questions these days.

Yeah, her idea to put a pre-school at a high school is totally the normal thing to do. Don't you remember all those 4 year olds running around the place back when you went to high school?

That is about taking advantage of existing, customized space at KAA, as opposed to ripping it apart and retrofitting space that was originally constructed less than a decade ago.

+1 it’s a good idea to take advantage of a space that’s already there and doesn’t have to be remodeled. The preschool programs take up a lot of space especially if they have special needs kids (there is a half day program and a full-day/half-day mix for kids with more restrictive IEP’s/needs) where the ratios need to be lower. They are in regular sized classrooms the same as a K-6 class, but there are probably only 8-10 kids in a class vs. the 25 or so you’d see in an elementary class. So it takes a lot more physical space. And not every ES has room for a preschool program, so there’s a fair bit of bussing going on to get kids to a preschool program - so I could definitely see them wanting to expand preschool wherever possible.

[Anonymous]

Is anybody able to share actual, real justification that is being used to move Rolling Valley into WSHS?
I understand why neighborhoods would be moved out. I can't understand at all why neighborhoods would be moved into WSHS, especially Rolling Valley. Makes sense to leave it where it is.

Can anybody at least share the STATED justification? If this happens, feel like this whole thing is just corrupt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is anybody able to share actual, real justification that is being used to move Rolling Valley into WSHS?
I understand why neighborhoods would be moved out. I can't understand at all why neighborhoods would be moved into WSHS, especially Rolling Valley. Makes sense to leave it where it is.

Can anybody at least share the STATED justification? If this happens, feel like this whole thing is just corrupt.

The stated justification(s) are at pp. 24-25 of these slides: https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-10/fall_2025_community_meetings_10-27-25_lake_braddock_and_west_springfield.pdf; and

p.22 of these slides: https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-10/fall_2025_community_meetings_10-24-25_lewis_and_edison.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is anybody able to share actual, real justification that is being used to move Rolling Valley into WSHS?
I understand why neighborhoods would be moved out. I can't understand at all why neighborhoods would be moved into WSHS, especially Rolling Valley. Makes sense to leave it where it is.

Can anybody at least share the STATED justification? If this happens, feel like this whole thing is just corrupt.

The process is completely broken because they started out with a policy with specific goals, then proposed boundary changes that didn't fully track the policy but at least tried to do, although very poorly, some specific things (eliminate attendance islands, put schools within their attendance areas, eliminate lopsided split feeders, and get schools at or under 105% capacity), and then devolved to making changes when vocal, organized groups asked for them and got BRAC members to take up their causes.

It's basically turned into a free-for-all. Some will walk away next January feeling heard and others will walk away feeling ignored. Overall it will be a negative for FCPS because any benefits will be outweighed by greater distrust and lack of confidence in FCPS leadership at the Superintendent/School Board level.

If anyone deserves to be singled out for blame it is Rachna Sizemore-Heizer, who chaired the School Board's Governance Committee when the amendments to the policy governing boundary changes were adopted. She pushed through the policy changes without obtaining sufficient public input. Then, as they realized that the priorities in the policy don't align with what the public wants or expects from FCPS, they started paying less attention to the policy and more attention to just doing whatever the loudest groups of parents want. It's a complete and utter shit show.

[Anonymous]

I am just noticing program capacity without Modulars have been loaded

[Anonymous]

Reid just said at tonight’s boundary meeting that she didn’t know they were taking students from Lewis to WSHS 🥴

[Anonymous]

What meeting is tonight