School Board Forum on "Boundary and Capacity"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll wait until my school gets an expensive renovation and addition and has 2700 seats and then I’ll pontificate about what should happen to other schools.

She’s even worse than that, she’s demanding other kids suffer a redistricting because her kids are now safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll wait until my school gets an expensive renovation and addition and has 2700 seats and then I’ll pontificate about what should happen to other schools.

She’s even worse than that, she’s demanding other kids suffer a redistricting because her kids are now safe.

South Lakes has been very lucky at the hands of the FCPS gods: It had a local School Board member in the 00s who was prepared to get kids from UMC neighborhoods zoned for several other schools redistricted into South Lakes. Around the same time, it got an expensive renovation and expansion. At then, when the original expansion wasn't enough to handle the additional kids coming from Oakton, Westfield, and Madison, it got another, previously unplanned-for addition outside the renovation queue. If you think South Lakes parents weren't pushing for this at the relevant times, you'd be wrong.

It would be one thing if the South Lakes poster wished for every school what FCPS has done for South Lakes. People would still object to being redistricted, but at least they'd be moved to and from other schools in nice shape and with adequate capacity. Instead, she's just arguing in favor of a county-wide redistricting that would leave some schools weaker and still neglected, comfortable that her own kid would be unaffected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep let’s redraw all the boundaries at one time and make sure we move some South Lakes kids to Herndon in the process. And since we’re changing so many boundaries we probably can’t grandfather kids - it’s got to be cold turkey - so if PP’s kid is already at South Lakes or taking IB too bad. They’ll do just fine anywhere, lol.

We have friends at Herndon High, they love it there. Happy to join the McLean kids that would end up with us at Herndon.

Hush! Herndon is great, but we don’t want the snobs from the other parts of Dranesville district. You sound nice though, so your kids are welcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll wait until my school gets an expensive renovation and addition and has 2700 seats and then I’ll pontificate about what should happen to other schools.

She’s even worse than that, she’s demanding other kids suffer a redistricting because her kids are now safe.

South Lakes has been very lucky at the hands of the FCPS gods: It had a local School Board member in the 00s who was prepared to get kids from UMC neighborhoods zoned for several other schools redistricted into South Lakes. Around the same time, it got an expensive renovation and expansion. At then, when the original expansion wasn't enough to handle the additional kids coming from Oakton, Westfield, and Madison, it got another, previously unplanned-for addition outside the renovation queue. If you think South Lakes parents weren't pushing for this at the relevant times, you'd be wrong.

It would be one thing if the South Lakes poster wished for every school what FCPS has done for South Lakes. People would still object to being redistricted, but at least they'd be moved to and from other schools in nice shape and with adequate capacity. Instead, she's just arguing in favor of a county-wide redistricting that would leave some schools weaker and still neglected, comfortable that her own kid would be unaffected.

Not a SLHS parent but … LOL. SLHS is lucky??? Sorry your money isn’t good enough to jump the line as usual. This isn’t a Disney park. The line is 40 years long.

We have an overcrowded ES in our pyramid that has been pushed back in line few times. You’d never know it though because … Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll wait until my school gets an expensive renovation and addition and has 2700 seats and then I’ll pontificate about what should happen to other schools.

She’s even worse than that, she’s demanding other kids suffer a redistricting because her kids are now safe.

South Lakes has been very lucky at the hands of the FCPS gods: It had a local School Board member in the 00s who was prepared to get kids from UMC neighborhoods zoned for several other schools redistricted into South Lakes. Around the same time, it got an expensive renovation and expansion. At then, when the original expansion wasn't enough to handle the additional kids coming from Oakton, Westfield, and Madison, it got another, previously unplanned-for addition outside the renovation queue. If you think South Lakes parents weren't pushing for this at the relevant times, you'd be wrong.

It would be one thing if the South Lakes poster wished for every school what FCPS has done for South Lakes. People would still object to being redistricted, but at least they'd be moved to and from other schools in nice shape and with adequate capacity. Instead, she's just arguing in favor of a county-wide redistricting that would leave some schools weaker and still neglected, comfortable that her own kid would be unaffected.

Not a SLHS parent but … LOL. SLHS is lucky??? Sorry your money isn’t good enough to jump the line as usual. This isn’t a Disney park. The line is 40 years long.

We have an overcrowded ES in our pyramid that has been pushed back in line few times. You’d never know it though because … Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.

South Lakes jumped the line with its second addition, but apparently you're too stupid to recognize that.

[Anonymous]

The SB should take the bandaid off and redraw the lines across the board. Call people’s bluff about leaving the system and/or county. Truth is people make a lot of money off jobs in this area and they’re addicted or have jobs here that don’t really exist elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
We have an overcrowded ES in our pyramid that has been pushed back in line few times. You’d never know it though because … Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.

With a few exceptions, which FCPS is now addressing, ES in FCPS aren't as overcrowded as some of the high schools. And I'm curious as to what ES has been "pushed back."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll wait until my school gets an expensive renovation and addition and has 2700 seats and then I’ll pontificate about what should happen to other schools.

She’s even worse than that, she’s demanding other kids suffer a redistricting because her kids are now safe.

South Lakes has been very lucky at the hands of the FCPS gods: It had a local School Board member in the 00s who was prepared to get kids from UMC neighborhoods zoned for several other schools redistricted into South Lakes. Around the same time, it got an expensive renovation and expansion. At then, when the original expansion wasn't enough to handle the additional kids coming from Oakton, Westfield, and Madison, it got another, previously unplanned-for addition outside the renovation queue. If you think South Lakes parents weren't pushing for this at the relevant times, you'd be wrong.

It would be one thing if the South Lakes poster wished for every school what FCPS has done for South Lakes. People would still object to being redistricted, but at least they'd be moved to and from other schools in nice shape and with adequate capacity. Instead, she's just arguing in favor of a county-wide redistricting that would leave some schools weaker and still neglected, comfortable that her own kid would be unaffected.

Not a SLHS parent but … LOL. SLHS is lucky??? Sorry your money isn’t good enough to jump the line as usual. This isn’t a Disney park. The line is 40 years long.

We have an overcrowded ES in our pyramid that has been pushed back in line few times. You’d never know it though because … Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.

South Lakes jumped the line with its second addition, but apparently you're too stupid to recognize that.

I’m well aware as I live nearby. I still don’t consider SLHS lucky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The SB should take the bandaid off and redraw the lines across the board. Call people’s bluff about leaving the system and/or county. Truth is people make a lot of money off jobs in this area and they’re addicted or have jobs here that don’t really exist elsewhere.

I don't see how they lavish money on some schools, continue to ignore others, and then claim the fix is to redraw lines across the board. It's a recipe for political suicide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
We have an overcrowded ES in our pyramid that has been pushed back in line few times. You’d never know it though because … Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.

With a few exceptions, which FCPS is now addressing, ES in FCPS aren't as overcrowded as some of the high schools. And I'm curious as to what ES has been "pushed back."

The school has used closets and hallways for pullouts for years. Not going to name it because I don’t want to sound like McLean mom. We’ll wait our turn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SB should take the bandaid off and redraw the lines across the board. Call people’s bluff about leaving the system and/or county. Truth is people make a lot of money off jobs in this area and they’re addicted or have jobs here that don’t really exist elsewhere.

I don't see how they lavish money on some schools, continue to ignore others, and then claim the fix is to redraw lines across the board. It's a recipe for political suicide.

They need to be brave. It could actually be a boost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SB should take the bandaid off and redraw the lines across the board. Call people’s bluff about leaving the system and/or county. Truth is people make a lot of money off jobs in this area and they’re addicted or have jobs here that don’t really exist elsewhere.

I don't see how they lavish money on some schools, continue to ignore others, and then claim the fix is to redraw lines across the board. It's a recipe for political suicide.

Lavish? LOLOLOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The SB should take the bandaid off and redraw the lines across the board. Call people’s bluff about leaving the system and/or county. Truth is people make a lot of money off jobs in this area and they’re addicted or have jobs here that don’t really exist elsewhere.

The bluff isn't people leaving the system, the bluff is political careers ending. Even if they could deal with the blow back, your county rep doesn't want to deal with irate calls from parents and pressure to vote against school budgets until the idea dies, but that's what would happen. For redistricting county wide to work, all of the county level politicians representing the areas that lose out would have to accept that their careers are over. Depending on how widespread the anger is, McKay might be done too. It's not worth it for any of them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SB should take the bandaid off and redraw the lines across the board. Call people’s bluff about leaving the system and/or county. Truth is people make a lot of money off jobs in this area and they’re addicted or have jobs here that don’t really exist elsewhere.

I don't see how they lavish money on some schools, continue to ignore others, and then claim the fix is to redraw lines across the board. It's a recipe for political suicide.

They need to be brave. It could actually be a boost.

DP. Definitely political suicide. Only in the upside down would this ever provide a boost.

[Anonymous]

It won't be a boost if they go down this path. Very few people want boundaries completely redrawn.