FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They can put mosby woods back to Fairfax too - they are right there!

Why is Fairfax HS split the way it is? Why wouldn’t the western part of Woodson go to there and the large Fairfax island go further out?

This is one of the attendance islands Thru has identified in their analysis to BRAC. I’m sure that’s coming into consideration.

Why doesn’t Fairfax Villa attend Fairfax High?

It used to but Fairfax HS got overcrowded and the City of Fairfax, which owns FHS, demanded that FCPS pull some county kids out of FHS. As a result, Fairfax Villa got reassigned to Woodson and Fairfax ended up with a big attendance island.

[Anonymous]

How many corrupt school board members/actions need to come to light in order for this process to be stopped???

[Anonymous]

McDaniel… the hayfield situation… the mom #35 thing…

[Anonymous]

One of the accusations is that he used the company credit card in New Orleans when he was on a School Board trip.

I would suggest that someone FOIA his travel expenses with FCPS.

[Anonymous]

This taints the other school board members too. It’s at best incompetent to be advocating for saving pennies when there is an alleged fox in the henhouse.

The boundary changes must be stopped until we can see how far this goes and whether other board members might be implicated. Don’t forget, McDaniel has aligned himself with Sandy Anderson in the quest for these equity boundary changes, and I wonder if he’s aligned with her willingly, or whether there might be something nefarious in their professional partnership?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the accusations is that he used the company credit card in New Orleans when he was on a School Board trip.

I would suggest that someone FOIA his travel expenses with FCPS.

Male or female strip club? This guy is so slimy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One of the accusations is that he used the company credit card in New Orleans when he was on a School Board trip.

I would suggest that someone FOIA his travel expenses with FCPS.

Male or female strip club? This guy is so slimy.

Did Frisch donate all that money to him before or after he came out as "bisexual?"

[Anonymous]

Boundary changes are moving forward. Trying to stop them because of meritless accusations against a single school board member is fruitless. FCPS has invested a lot of money in the process. Demographic and other changes to the area make it necessary for the board to take action now.

[Anonymous]

I wish boundary review opponents would stop coopting every fcps issue with their single issue focus. It does a big disservice to fcps and all of us. The boundaries need to be reviewed and there are other valid issues happening in fcps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish boundary review opponents would stop coopting every fcps issue with their single issue focus. It does a big disservice to fcps and all of us. The boundaries need to be reviewed and there are other valid issues happening in fcps.

You do realize this is the "boundary Review Update" thread?

There are many other issues brought up on this thread related to the waste that is this boundary review.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish boundary review opponents would stop coopting every fcps issue with their single issue focus. It does a big disservice to fcps and all of us. The boundaries need to be reviewed and there are other valid issues happening in fcps.

I know this hard to understand, but if FCPS doesn’t first make decisions on things such as AAP Centers, How many, if any IB programs, will MS go to 6-8, then any boundary study result will be essentially meaningless.

But reason and logic are not going to stop a bunch of clowns from putting on a clown show.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How will boundary changes improve the quality of education at FCPS?

First question that should be asked. Has it been?

Teacher here. We have kids in our boundary that have 2-3 ES that are much closer. Many of these kids are FRM and some parents don’t all have cars. If a kid misses bus or has a doctor appt, they usually do not come to school at all. If you look at chronic absenteeism, this group is a huge part of it. If they could go to schools closer this could help. One of them they could even walk to. Parents might be more involved if the school was closer as well.

Secondly, you literally have under enrolled buildings and buildings bursting at seams. This will help balance that out.

My main hope for the boundary adjustments are that the boundaries make sense. All kids should go to the school CLOSEST to them. AAP centers should also go away.

So what about if a middle school in another pyramid is closer than your current middle school, but the high school in your pyramid is closer than the high school in that other pyramid?

Should your ES switch pyramids based solely on proximity to the middle school in the other pyramid when your ES is not a split feeder, does not contain or cause any attendance islands, and has the same mailing address name as your current high school? Wouldn’t that shift be trading two years of shorter bus rides in middle school for 4 years of a further ride (including 2-3 years as a new, teenage driver) to attend school outside of your community? Does that make sense?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish boundary review opponents would stop coopting every fcps issue with their single issue focus. It does a big disservice to fcps and all of us. The boundaries need to be reviewed and there are other valid issues happening in fcps.

I know this hard to understand, but if FCPS doesn’t first make decisions on things such as AAP Centers, How many, if any IB programs, will MS go to 6-8, then any boundary study result will be essentially meaningless.

But reason and logic are not going to stop a bunch of clowns from putting on a clown show.

My prediction, some of the above is going to happen with this boundary change.

Most AAP centers will go- keeping the ones where the feeder ES’s do not have robust LL.
IB will change to fewer schools- mostly on the eastern part of the county. South Lakes and Marshall are well placed to keep theirs.
MS will not go to 6-8 this round, but hopes will stay for the next round in 5 years, OR they will implement it like they did full day kindergarten and change the ones that work now, and see if more can be changed in the next round.

IB and AAP changes are the easiest to implement when they do a district wide boundary adjustment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish boundary review opponents would stop coopting every fcps issue with their single issue focus. It does a big disservice to fcps and all of us. The boundaries need to be reviewed and there are other valid issues happening in fcps.

I know this hard to understand, but if FCPS doesn’t first make decisions on things such as AAP Centers, How many, if any IB programs, will MS go to 6-8, then any boundary study result will be essentially meaningless.

But reason and logic are not going to stop a bunch of clowns from putting on a clown show.

My prediction, some of the above is going to happen with this boundary change.

Most AAP centers will go- keeping the ones where the feeder ES’s do not have robust LL.
IB will change to fewer schools- mostly on the eastern part of the county. South Lakes and Marshall are well placed to keep theirs.
MS will not go to 6-8 this round, but hopes will stay for the next round in 5 years, OR they will implement it like they did full day kindergarten and change the ones that work now, and see if more can be changed in the next round.
IB and AAP changes are the easiest to implement when they do a district wide boundary adjustment.

I will add, they can also do the streamlining of classes at the same time - same three foreign languages at all HS and same AP offererings all AP high schools too.

[Anonymous]

IB will change to fewer schools- mostly on the eastern part of the county. South Lakes and Marshall are well placed to keep theirs.

If you took a survey of current South Lakes parents (in boundary only) they would vote overwhelmingly against IB in favor of AP.

If you leave IB at South Lakes, you will continue to have mass exit from Herndon.