FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reid wants 6-8 middle school to make space in elementary schools for universal pre-k. Would have made sense at one time but times have changed.

Reid wants 6-8 middle school because she thinks it's what's best for 6th graders. Many FCPS parents (and the vast majority of researchers and the rest of the USA) agree.

Have you polled "the rest of the USA"? I have a niece in another state who is in a 6-8 middle school and she (and her parents) absolutely hate it. The 7-8th graders are more mature, both physically and emotionally. She is exposed to vaping and sexual behavior that she wouldn't have been exposed to for another year, if 6th graders were still in elementary school there. There is no benefit to rushing these tweens to grow up.

Agre.

I taught middle school in several states with 6th in middle school and have several family members who experienced it.

6th in middle school is not a positive experience, unless the school is tiny, which excludes all FCPS middle schools

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When is the next BRAC? Is there an agenda for it yet?

Are they still violating FOIA by excluding the public?

Guessing there will be another in April. They were supposed to be twice a week and then once a month.

Will note that Rachna Sizemore Heizer is holding a town hall to discuss boundary changes on April 9 from 545-630 at Wakefield Forest Elementary School. If you’re in the area, please attend!

So are the individual School Board members now trying to provide assurances to individual communities in their own districts after people like Sizemore-Heizer were the very ones insisting there needed to be a comprehensive review? Robyn Lady met with Langley earlier this week. They set the kitchen on fire and now they are running around with fire extinguishers.

It’s like some pathetic shell game where they’ll still pick a few targets to “fix” to save face and they won’t care if it’s fair or not to those folks.

Went to one of these meetings at an elementary school which was set up by the PTA. VERY few parents in attendance. Probably b/c there are an incredible number of people who are ignorant of the boundary review or thought it was just a standard review of the overcrowded schools that wouldn't affect them. There was no useful information presented except a lot of generic talk about why they're doing it and how there's no "secret maps" and no decisions have been made. It wasn't helpful at all. It really needed to be done at the high school for our pyramid so that more parents would have been there to hear it. My experience has been that many of the elementary school parents who aren't invested yet in the middle/high school are kind of ambivalent to the change. It's the high school parents who don't want their child moved from the school they're currently at or don't want younger siblings to attend a different high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When is the next BRAC? Is there an agenda for it yet?

Are they still violating FOIA by excluding the public?

Guessing there will be another in April. They were supposed to be twice a week and then once a month.

Will note that Rachna Sizemore Heizer is holding a town hall to discuss boundary changes on April 9 from 545-630 at Wakefield Forest Elementary School. If you’re in the area, please attend!

So are the individual School Board members now trying to provide assurances to individual communities in their own districts after people like Sizemore-Heizer were the very ones insisting there needed to be a comprehensive review? Robyn Lady met with Langley earlier this week. They set the kitchen on fire and now they are running around with fire extinguishers.

It’s like some pathetic shell game where they’ll still pick a few targets to “fix” to save face and they won’t care if it’s fair or not to those folks.

Went to one of these meetings at an elementary school which was set up by the PTA. VERY few parents in attendance. Probably b/c there are an incredible number of people who are ignorant of the boundary review or thought it was just a standard review of the overcrowded schools that wouldn't affect them. There was no useful information presented except a lot of generic talk about why they're doing it and how there's no "secret maps" and no decisions have been made. It wasn't helpful at all. It really needed to be done at the high school for our pyramid so that more parents would have been there to hear it. My experience has been that many of the elementary school parents who aren't invested yet in the middle/high school are kind of ambivalent to the change. It's the high school parents who don't want their child moved from the school they're currently at or don't want younger siblings to attend a different high school.

Many elementary school parents who are in their crosshairs are engaged. Really it’s parents whose kids might be moved that are fired up.

With extremely rare exception, no one wants their kids moved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When is the next BRAC? Is there an agenda for it yet?

Are they still violating FOIA by excluding the public?

Guessing there will be another in April. They were supposed to be twice a week and then once a month.

Will note that Rachna Sizemore Heizer is holding a town hall to discuss boundary changes on April 9 from 545-630 at Wakefield Forest Elementary School. If you’re in the area, please attend!

I don't know if this meeting is to discuss boundary changes. This is an open house for the community to celebrate/tour the recent renovations at WFES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When is the next BRAC? Is there an agenda for it yet?

Are they still violating FOIA by excluding the public?

Guessing there will be another in April. They were supposed to be twice a week and then once a month.

Will note that Rachna Sizemore Heizer is holding a town hall to discuss boundary changes on April 9 from 545-630 at Wakefield Forest Elementary School. If you’re in the area, please attend!

I don't know if this meeting is to discuss boundary changes. This is an open house for the community to celebrate/tour the recent renovations at WFES.

I'm the poster here and correcting my own misinformation: "Our FCPS School Board member, Rachna Sizemore-Heizer will host a town hall at Wakefield Forest on April 9, 2025 from 5:45 - 6:30 to address community concerns around the boundary. We are also opening the building for our community to see the newly renovated spaces 6:00 - 8:00 PM. Please let your neighbors know they're invited!!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When is the next BRAC? Is there an agenda for it yet?

Are they still violating FOIA by excluding the public?

Guessing there will be another in April. They were supposed to be twice a week and then once a month.

Will note that Rachna Sizemore Heizer is holding a town hall to discuss boundary changes on April 9 from 545-630 at Wakefield Forest Elementary School. If you’re in the area, please attend!

So are the individual School Board members now trying to provide assurances to individual communities in their own districts after people like Sizemore-Heizer were the very ones insisting there needed to be a comprehensive review? Robyn Lady met with Langley earlier this week. They set the kitchen on fire and now they are running around with fire extinguishers.

It’s like some pathetic shell game where they’ll still pick a few targets to “fix” to save face and they won’t care if it’s fair or not to those folks.

Went to one of these meetings at an elementary school which was set up by the PTA. VERY few parents in attendance. Probably b/c there are an incredible number of people who are ignorant of the boundary review or thought it was just a standard review of the overcrowded schools that wouldn't affect them. There was no useful information presented except a lot of generic talk about why they're doing it and how there's no "secret maps" and no decisions have been made. It wasn't helpful at all. It really needed to be done at the high school for our pyramid so that more parents would have been there to hear it. My experience has been that many of the elementary school parents who aren't invested yet in the middle/high school are kind of ambivalent to the change. It's the high school parents who don't want their child moved from the school they're currently at or don't want younger siblings to attend a different high school.

Many elementary school parents who are in their crosshairs are engaged. Really it’s parents whose kids might be moved that are fired up.

With extremely rare exception, no one wants their kids moved.

Fair enough. In our situation, our elementary school boundaries likely are not on the chopping block but the school could potentially be re-zoned to a new middle/high school. So that's likely why there were so few parents at the meeting I attended. It was the parents of kids already at the secondary level (who came from that elementary school) who did not want their kids moved in the middle of high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When is the next BRAC? Is there an agenda for it yet?

Are they still violating FOIA by excluding the public?

Guessing there will be another in April. They were supposed to be twice a week and then once a month.

Will note that Rachna Sizemore Heizer is holding a town hall to discuss boundary changes on April 9 from 545-630 at Wakefield Forest Elementary School. If you’re in the area, please attend!

I don't know if this meeting is to discuss boundary changes. This is an open house for the community to celebrate/tour the recent renovations at WFES.

I'm the poster here and correcting my own misinformation: "Our FCPS School Board member, Rachna Sizemore-Heizer will host a town hall at Wakefield Forest on April 9, 2025 from 5:45 - 6:30 to address community concerns around the boundary. We are also opening the building for our community to see the newly renovated spaces 6:00 - 8:00 PM. Please let your neighbors know they're invited!!"

Our civic association also sent this notice out with emphasis on the boundary issue. Hoping this grabs attention to many who may not know this analysis is occurring

[Anonymous]

I just saw the FCPS email about the budget shortfall. It takes a lot of chutzpah to ask for families to advocate for more money when the SB is about to significantly and detrimentally unnecessarily move kids as part of the boundary review.

If they go through with the boundary changes, I look forward to annually advocating for as little money to go to FCPS as possible.

If they drop the whole boundary change nonsense then I’d consider advocating for more money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just saw the FCPS email about the budget shortfall. It takes a lot of chutzpah to ask for families to advocate for more money when the SB is about to significantly and detrimentally unnecessarily move kids as part of the boundary review.

If they go through with the boundary changes, I look forward to annually advocating for as little money to go to FCPS as possible.

If they drop the whole boundary change nonsense then I’d consider advocating for more money.

So here's the situation as you propose:

FCPS will no longer operate your schools as, effectively, tax-payer funded private-like schools? Your response is to stop funding FCPS.
And if FCPS will allow you to continue attending your private-like schools? Let's make the taxpayers pay even more for your continued self-interest!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just saw the FCPS email about the budget shortfall. It takes a lot of chutzpah to ask for families to advocate for more money when the SB is about to significantly and detrimentally unnecessarily move kids as part of the boundary review.

If they go through with the boundary changes, I look forward to annually advocating for as little money to go to FCPS as possible.

If they drop the whole boundary change nonsense then I’d consider advocating for more money.

So here's the situation as you propose:

FCPS will no longer operate your schools as, effectively, tax-payer funded private-like schools? Your response is to stop funding FCPS.
And if FCPS will allow you to continue attending your private-like schools? Let's make the taxpayers pay even more for your continued self-interest!

DP. Seems like you’re ignoring the fact that Karl Frisch wants to gouge county taxpayers by trying to blackmail them into spending over $85 million on his Dunn Loring ES boondoggle (otherwise other school projects get held up).

Between that and potential boundary changes that are largely unnecessary, it’s entirely reasonable for people to decide they can’t support additional funding for FCPS until there’s a change in direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just saw the FCPS email about the budget shortfall. It takes a lot of chutzpah to ask for families to advocate for more money when the SB is about to significantly and detrimentally unnecessarily move kids as part of the boundary review.

If they go through with the boundary changes, I look forward to annually advocating for as little money to go to FCPS as possible.

If they drop the whole boundary change nonsense then I’d consider advocating for more money.

So here's the situation as you propose:

FCPS will no longer operate your schools as, effectively, tax-payer funded private-like schools? Your response is to stop funding FCPS.
And if FCPS will allow you to continue attending your private-like schools? Let's make the taxpayers pay even more for your continued self-interest!

DP. This boundary review is going to cost more money than it will ever save.

There are tons of places the budget could be cut and enable them to pay more to the teachers. Start with Nardos King's empire.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just saw the FCPS email about the budget shortfall. It takes a lot of chutzpah to ask for families to advocate for more money when the SB is about to significantly and detrimentally unnecessarily move kids as part of the boundary review.

If they go through with the boundary changes, I look forward to annually advocating for as little money to go to FCPS as possible.

If they drop the whole boundary change nonsense then I’d consider advocating for more money.

So here's the situation as you propose:

FCPS will no longer operate your schools as, effectively, tax-payer funded private-like schools? Your response is to stop funding FCPS.
And if FCPS will allow you to continue attending your private-like schools? Let's make the taxpayers pay even more for your continued self-interest!

DP. This boundary review is going to cost more money than it will ever save.

There are tons of places the budget could be cut and enable them to pay more to the teachers. Start with Nardos King's empire.

+1. That entire group needs to be reassigned to classrooms or terminated.

[Anonymous]

Time to lobby for charter schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just saw the FCPS email about the budget shortfall. It takes a lot of chutzpah to ask for families to advocate for more money when the SB is about to significantly and detrimentally unnecessarily move kids as part of the boundary review.

If they go through with the boundary changes, I look forward to annually advocating for as little money to go to FCPS as possible.

If they drop the whole boundary change nonsense then I’d consider advocating for more money.

So here's the situation as you propose:

FCPS will no longer operate your schools as, effectively, tax-payer funded private-like schools? Your response is to stop funding FCPS.
And if FCPS will allow you to continue attending your private-like schools? Let's make the taxpayers pay even more for your continued self-interest!

I want to support public schools and do my part to ensure Fairfax kids are educated. I don’t want my kids used as a resource to further that goal. No one does. I’ll reluctantly use whatever leverage I have to look out for my kids.

Boundary changes are not the answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just saw the FCPS email about the budget shortfall. It takes a lot of chutzpah to ask for families to advocate for more money when the SB is about to significantly and detrimentally unnecessarily move kids as part of the boundary review.

If they go through with the boundary changes, I look forward to annually advocating for as little money to go to FCPS as possible.

If they drop the whole boundary change nonsense then I’d consider advocating for more money.

This is some dumb ass logic bordering. If the SB doesn't do what I want I'm going to hurt my kids more by asking the county to further defund the schools. Unless you have NO actual kids in the schools system, this makes no sense. Which means you're either dumb OR you don't have any kids in the schools now but you're here bugging out about your property value.