FCPS comprehensive boundary review

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents shouldn’t be involved. That’s how you get these absurd little cutouts and gerrymanders. Let the consultants draw the maps.

This is not always the case. And consultants really know nothing about the county. Do you outsource everything else in your life, too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents shouldn’t be involved. That’s how you get these absurd little cutouts and gerrymanders. Let the consultants draw the maps.

Yeah, let the out of state no bid consultants who have never done anything like this before who advertised themselves as being broadband consultants do the work. They are much more qualified to determine the fate of FCPS students than parents.

In a sea of dumb SJW ideas…

[Anonymous]

Actually most of the cut-outs and islands have come from previous school board members themselves or from developers of new neighborhoods. Parents could probably do a better job!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually most of the cut-outs and islands have come from previous school board members themselves or from developers of new neighborhoods. Parents could probably do a better job!

Anyone else think it is a good idea to require the school board members’ kids to be redistricted every comprehensive boundary review? Any time someone else’s pyramid changes theirs should too.

Why should they be exempt? They should live their values.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually most of the cut-outs and islands have come from previous school board members themselves or from developers of new neighborhoods. Parents could probably do a better job!

Anyone else think it is a good idea to require the school board members’ kids to be redistricted every comprehensive boundary review? Any time someone else’s pyramid changes theirs should too.

Why should they be exempt? They should live their values.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually most of the cut-outs and islands have come from previous school board members themselves or from developers of new neighborhoods. Parents could probably do a better job!

Anyone else think it is a good idea to require the school board members’ kids to be redistricted every comprehensive boundary review? Any time someone else’s pyramid changes theirs should too.

Why should they be exempt? They should live their values.

+1000

Yes! Except that some of them don't have kids in school.

Put this up there with requiring every administrator in FCPS spend a couple of days a month as a substitute teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually most of the cut-outs and islands have come from previous school board members themselves or from developers of new neighborhoods. Parents could probably do a better job!

Anyone else think it is a good idea to require the school board members’ kids to be redistricted every comprehensive boundary review? Any time someone else’s pyramid changes theirs should too.

Why should they be exempt? They should live their values.

+1000

Yes! Except that some of them don't have kids in school.

Put this up there with requiring every administrator in FCPS spend a couple of days a month as a substitute teacher.

It's still a good idea. They'd have to answer to neighbors and watch their own property values fluctuate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually most of the cut-outs and islands have come from previous school board members themselves or from developers of new neighborhoods. Parents could probably do a better job!

Haha. Like the parents would ever agree with each other on this matter.

[Anonymous]

This is a zero sum game. Some schools are currently undesirable to UMC families for one reason or another. For that reason parents should not have significant sway in the process because things will shake out based on the loudest/most politically connected parents' interests not what's best for the county as a whole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually most of the cut-outs and islands have come from previous school board members themselves or from developers of new neighborhoods. Parents could probably do a better job!

Anyone else think it is a good idea to require the school board members’ kids to be redistricted every comprehensive boundary review? Any time someone else’s pyramid changes theirs should too.

Why should they be exempt? They should live their values.

+1000

Yes! Except that some of them don't have kids in school.

Put this up there with requiring every administrator in FCPS spend a couple of days a month as a substitute teacher.

+ a million
Honestly, I can't believe this isn't already required. Every principal and assistant principal should have a certain number of days/year that they sub. It would be quite an eye-opening experience for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a zero sum game. Some schools are currently undesirable to UMC families for one reason or another. For that reason parents should not have significant sway in the process because things will shake out based on the loudest/most politically connected parents' interests not what's best for the county as a whole.

It is not anywhere close to a zero sum game. It is a negative sum game.

Parents/families want reliability in their schools. When you take that away, you take away a ton of demand for FCPS, and it becomes a downward spiral. Tax rolls decrease, and all of a sudden there is much more of a budget shortfall requiring more difficult decisions.

Plus, vouchers are going to devour public school funding when they pass in the wake of this equity agenda.

Anyone who says fcps should not listen to parents should go ask Terry mcauliffe how that turned out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a zero sum game. Some schools are currently undesirable to UMC families for one reason or another. For that reason parents should not have significant sway in the process because things will shake out based on the loudest/most politically connected parents' interests not what's best for the county as a whole.

It is not anywhere close to a zero sum game. It is a negative sum game.

Parents/families want reliability in their schools. When you take that away, you take away a ton of demand for FCPS, and it becomes a downward spiral. Tax rolls decrease, and all of a sudden there is much more of a budget shortfall requiring more difficult decisions.

Plus, vouchers are going to devour public school funding when they pass in the wake of this equity agenda.

Anyone who says fcps should not listen to parents should go ask Terry mcauliffe how that turned out.

+1

[Anonymous]

This is correct.

Traffic patterns cannot be resolved by just looking at the maps. You need to live it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a zero sum game. Some schools are currently undesirable to UMC families for one reason or another. For that reason parents should not have significant sway in the process because things will shake out based on the loudest/most politically connected parents' interests not what's best for the county as a whole.

It is not anywhere close to a zero sum game. It is a negative sum game.

Parents/families want reliability in their schools. When you take that away, you take away a ton of demand for FCPS, and it becomes a downward spiral. Tax rolls decrease, and all of a sudden there is much more of a budget shortfall requiring more difficult decisions.

Plus, vouchers are going to devour public school funding when they pass in the wake of this equity agenda.

Anyone who says fcps should not listen to parents should go ask Terry mcauliffe how that turned out.

Are you missing the fact that Fairfax schools have been on the decline for over 20 years? The downward spiral began long ago. Maybe your school escaped it to this point, but that was never going to last forever. Perhaps importing so much poverty wasn't a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Are you missing the fact that Fairfax schools have been on the decline for over 20 years? The downward spiral began long ago. Maybe your school escaped it to this point, but that was never going to last forever. Perhaps importing so much poverty wasn't a good idea.

Perhaps FCPS should focus on teaching those in poverty rather than moving others around to make the scores look better.

Does our SB believe that these kids cannot learn?