Thoreau AAP

[Anonymous]

The first set of monthly membership reports should show up in October 2018 and the state will release more detailed demographic and FARMS information by early 2019. The changes at Jackson and Thoreau will be significant.

[Anonymous]

I'm sure those who go to either school will get newsletters or hear discussions at pta mtgs that say what the enrollments are. The schools will be making changes as a result of the rezoning and they will likely tell membership. I'd think LJ would be happy to tell families that they will only have 9 trailers instead of 19, or they are allowing kids to travel in both directions in hallway A next year. I'm sure there will be procedural changes at TMS too...and people want to know how the school they've known is going to be different.

Wasn't there some argument a year ago about how "disruptive " it would be to add 300 kids to Cooper all at once? And some vocal people were trying to slow down a change? Well.....that's what LJ and TMS are dealing with. They will handle it well; but parents want to know how it is going and what to expect....on both sides.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure those who go to either school will get newsletters or hear discussions at pta mtgs that say what the enrollments are. The schools will be making changes as a result of the rezoning and they will likely tell membership. I'd think LJ would be happy to tell families that they will only have 9 trailers instead of 19, or they are allowing kids to travel in both directions in hallway A next year. I'm sure there will be procedural changes at TMS too...and people want to know how the school they've known is going to be different.

Wasn't there some argument a year ago about how "disruptive " it would be to add 300 kids to Cooper all at once? And some vocal people were trying to slow down a change? Well.....that's what LJ and TMS are dealing with. They will handle it well; but parents want to know how it is going and what to expect....on both sides.

The enrollment at Cooper is only up 110 students this year, and it wasn't part of a redistricting that will significantly change the demographics at another school.

The better analogy for the Jackson/Thoreau redistricting is not Cooper, but instead Poe, where the enrollment has declined by over 250 students and the poverty rate has shot through the roof since FCPS started redistricting the wealthier areas to other schools.

[Anonymous]

The analogy was about a sizable portion of the school increasing or decreasing in one year's time....and how parents have concerns about that big of a shift in one year. I believe others involved with the Cooper rezoning argued against shifting all at once because they said it was too much. I'm not saying it is too much too fast. I'm just saying people want to know the impact and the numbers (and referencing that other families in other schools were so freaked out about changes that they lobbied against the quick implementation). I'm just asking for info...not trying to lobby against it.

Poe's decrease over time is not relevant to the parental interest analogy.

[Anonymous]

Btw, to the person always arguing that lj kids should have been rezoned to Poe to keep Oakton pyramid kids in lj....Poe is one of three MSs in FCPS that is 6th grade through 8th grade. Moving kids there would create a lot of problems involving elementary school reconfiguration.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure those who go to either school will get newsletters or hear discussions at pta mtgs that say what the enrollments are. The schools will be making changes as a result of the rezoning and they will likely tell membership. I'd think LJ would be happy to tell families that they will only have 9 trailers instead of 19, or they are allowing kids to travel in both directions in hallway A next year. I'm sure there will be procedural changes at TMS too...and people want to know how the school they've known is going to be different.

Wasn't there some argument a year ago about how "disruptive " it would be to add 300 kids to Cooper all at once? And some vocal people were trying to slow down a change? Well.....that's what LJ and TMS are dealing with. They will handle it well; but parents want to know how it is going and what to expect....on both sides.

The enrollment at Cooper is only up 110 students this year, and it wasn't part of a redistricting that will significantly change the demographics at another school.

The better analogy for the Jackson/Thoreau redistricting is not Cooper, but instead Poe, where the enrollment has declined by over 250 students and the poverty rate has shot through the roof since FCPS started redistricting the wealthier areas to other schools.

Please give it a rest. We beg you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Btw, to the person always arguing that lj kids should have been rezoned to Poe to keep Oakton pyramid kids in lj....Poe is one of three MSs in FCPS that is 6th grade through 8th grade. Moving kids there would create a lot of problems involving elementary school reconfiguration.

Didn’t stop FCPS from redistricting kids from Poe to Frost and Lake Braddock, neither of which has 6th grades. These hurdles only get raised when they might involve moving kids to, not from, lower SES schools. Stop manufacturing fake arguments and just acknowledge you’re happy to concentrate poverty in certain schools as long as your kids go to a different school or are in AAP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Btw, to the person always arguing that lj kids should have been rezoned to Poe to keep Oakton pyramid kids in lj....Poe is one of three MSs in FCPS that is 6th grade through 8th grade. Moving kids there would create a lot of problems involving elementary school reconfiguration.

Didn’t stop FCPS from redistricting kids from Poe to Frost and Lake Braddock, neither of which has 6th grades. These hurdles only get raised when they might involve moving kids to, not from, lower SES schools. Stop manufacturing fake arguments and just acknowledge you’re happy to concentrate poverty in certain schools as long as your kids go to a different school or are in AAP.

Not the pp but I have (several times) acknowledged that! Acknowledge again! Will you PLEASE stop posting. Nobody cares..

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Btw, to the person always arguing that lj kids should have been rezoned to Poe to keep Oakton pyramid kids in lj....Poe is one of three MSs in FCPS that is 6th grade through 8th grade. Moving kids there would create a lot of problems involving elementary school reconfiguration.

Didn’t stop FCPS from redistricting kids from Poe to Frost and Lake Braddock, neither of which has 6th grades. These hurdles only get raised when they might involve moving kids to, not from, lower SES schools. Stop manufacturing fake arguments and just acknowledge you’re happy to concentrate poverty in certain schools as long as your kids go to a different school or are in AAP.

Not the pp but I have (several times) acknowledged that! Acknowledge again! Will you PLEASE stop posting. Nobody cares..

This. Clearly the miserable lady has a kid in lj in the base program and or did have that and or just cares about her property values. Move it to the real estate section.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Btw, to the person always arguing that lj kids should have been rezoned to Poe to keep Oakton pyramid kids in lj....Poe is one of three MSs in FCPS that is 6th grade through 8th grade. Moving kids there would create a lot of problems involving elementary school reconfiguration.

Didn’t stop FCPS from redistricting kids from Poe to Frost and Lake Braddock, neither of which has 6th grades. These hurdles only get raised when they might involve moving kids to, not from, lower SES schools. Stop manufacturing fake arguments and just acknowledge you’re happy to concentrate poverty in certain schools as long as your kids go to a different school or are in AAP.

Not the pp but I have (several times) acknowledged that! Acknowledge again! Will you PLEASE stop posting. Nobody cares..

If you aren’t the PP there is no need for you to respond.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Btw, to the person always arguing that lj kids should have been rezoned to Poe to keep Oakton pyramid kids in lj....Poe is one of three MSs in FCPS that is 6th grade through 8th grade. Moving kids there would create a lot of problems involving elementary school reconfiguration.

Didn’t stop FCPS from redistricting kids from Poe to Frost and Lake Braddock, neither of which has 6th grades. These hurdles only get raised when they might involve moving kids to, not from, lower SES schools. Stop manufacturing fake arguments and just acknowledge you’re happy to concentrate poverty in certain schools as long as your kids go to a different school or are in AAP.

Not the pp but I have (several times) acknowledged that! Acknowledge again! Will you PLEASE stop posting. Nobody cares..

This. Clearly the miserable lady has a kid in lj in the base program and or did have that and or just cares about her property values. Move it to the real estate section.

If that were the case, why would it bother you so much that someone was sticking up for the base parents at LJ.

Clearly this was done to appease parents who wanted to move to Thoreau and AAP parents, even more of whom will now have a choice between two schools. The views of other base parents at LJ, who won’t have a choice and whose kids will now be at a school that concentrates poverty in GenEd classes were not solicited or adequately taken into account. That has more to do with education than real estate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Btw, to the person always arguing that lj kids should have been rezoned to Poe to keep Oakton pyramid kids in lj....Poe is one of three MSs in FCPS that is 6th grade through 8th grade. Moving kids there would create a lot of problems involving elementary school reconfiguration.

Didn’t stop FCPS from redistricting kids from Poe to Frost and Lake Braddock, neither of which has 6th grades. These hurdles only get raised when they might involve moving kids to, not from, lower SES schools. Stop manufacturing fake arguments and just acknowledge you’re happy to concentrate poverty in certain schools as long as your kids go to a different school or are in AAP.

Not the pp but I have (several times) acknowledged that! Acknowledge again! Will you PLEASE stop posting. Nobody cares..

This. Clearly the miserable lady has a kid in lj in the base program and or did have that and or just cares about her property values. Move it to the real estate section.

If that were the case, why would it bother you so much that someone was sticking up for the base parents at LJ.

Clearly this was done to appease parents who wanted to move to Thoreau and AAP parents, even more of whom will now have a choice between two schools. The views of other base parents at LJ, who won’t have a choice and whose kids will now be at a school that concentrates poverty in GenEd classes were not solicited or adequately taken into account. That has more to do with education than real estate.

We all agree and acknowledge. Anything else we need to do to stop you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Btw, to the person always arguing that lj kids should have been rezoned to Poe to keep Oakton pyramid kids in lj....Poe is one of three MSs in FCPS that is 6th grade through 8th grade. Moving kids there would create a lot of problems involving elementary school reconfiguration.

Didn’t stop FCPS from redistricting kids from Poe to Frost and Lake Braddock, neither of which has 6th grades. These hurdles only get raised when they might involve moving kids to, not from, lower SES schools. Stop manufacturing fake arguments and just acknowledge you’re happy to concentrate poverty in certain schools as long as your kids go to a different school or are in AAP.

Not the pp but I have (several times) acknowledged that! Acknowledge again! Will you PLEASE stop posting. Nobody cares..

This. Clearly the miserable lady has a kid in lj in the base program and or did have that and or just cares about her property values. Move it to the real estate section.

If that were the case, why would it bother you so much that someone was sticking up for the base parents at LJ.

Clearly this was done to appease parents who wanted to move to Thoreau and AAP parents, even more of whom will now have a choice between two schools. The views of other base parents at LJ, who won’t have a choice and whose kids will now be at a school that concentrates poverty in GenEd classes were not solicited or adequately taken into account. That has more to do with education than real estate.

We all agree and acknowledge. Anything else we need to do to stop you?

No one is bothered by someone sticking up for the base parents. It is the shoving it down our throats and going at it ad nauseum that is off putting. WE HEARD YOU. Sticking up is one thing - the inability to do anything but harp on and on and on is another. MOVE ON.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Btw, to the person always arguing that lj kids should have been rezoned to Poe to keep Oakton pyramid kids in lj....Poe is one of three MSs in FCPS that is 6th grade through 8th grade. Moving kids there would create a lot of problems involving elementary school reconfiguration.

Didn’t stop FCPS from redistricting kids from Poe to Frost and Lake Braddock, neither of which has 6th grades. These hurdles only get raised when they might involve moving kids to, not from, lower SES schools. Stop manufacturing fake arguments and just acknowledge you’re happy to concentrate poverty in certain schools as long as your kids go to a different school or are in AAP.

Not the pp but I have (several times) acknowledged that! Acknowledge again! Will you PLEASE stop posting. Nobody cares..

This. Clearly the miserable lady has a kid in lj in the base program and or did have that and or just cares about her property values. Move it to the real estate section.

If that were the case, why would it bother you so much that someone was sticking up for the base parents at LJ.

Clearly this was done to appease parents who wanted to move to Thoreau and AAP parents, even more of whom will now have a choice between two schools. The views of other base parents at LJ, who won’t have a choice and whose kids will now be at a school that concentrates poverty in GenEd classes were not solicited or adequately taken into account. That has more to do with education than real estate.

We all agree and acknowledge. Anything else we need to do to stop you?

No one is bothered by someone sticking up for the base parents. It is the shoving it down our throats and going at it ad nauseum that is off putting. WE HEARD YOU. Sticking up is one thing - the inability to do anything but harp on and on and on is another. MOVE ON.

You seem to want to squelch discussion. Are you worried that perhaps this bad decision may be revisited at some point. Stop with the yelling and all caps posts. It’s rather belligerent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Btw, to the person always arguing that lj kids should have been rezoned to Poe to keep Oakton pyramid kids in lj....Poe is one of three MSs in FCPS that is 6th grade through 8th grade. Moving kids there would create a lot of problems involving elementary school reconfiguration.

Didn’t stop FCPS from redistricting kids from Poe to Frost and Lake Braddock, neither of which has 6th grades. These hurdles only get raised when they might involve moving kids to, not from, lower SES schools. Stop manufacturing fake arguments and just acknowledge you’re happy to concentrate poverty in certain schools as long as your kids go to a different school or are in AAP.

Not the pp but I have (several times) acknowledged that! Acknowledge again! Will you PLEASE stop posting. Nobody cares..

This. Clearly the miserable lady has a kid in lj in the base program and or did have that and or just cares about her property values. Move it to the real estate section.

If that were the case, why would it bother you so much that someone was sticking up for the base parents at LJ.

Agree! As a LJ parent I'm very happy that a move was done which will decrease the crowding! Instead of focusing one the world is ending, maybe direct your anger in a more productive way...a way that supports current LJ kids and families and makes it a better school instead of this obsession on what should have been (in your opinion).

Clearly this was done to appease parents who wanted to move to Thoreau and AAP parents, even more of whom will now have a choice between two schools. The views of other base parents at LJ, who won’t have a choice and whose kids will now be at a school that concentrates poverty in GenEd classes were not solicited or adequately taken into account. That has more to do with education than real estate.

We all agree and acknowledge. Anything else we need to do to stop you?

No one is bothered by someone sticking up for the base parents. It is the shoving it down our throats and going at it ad nauseum that is off putting. WE HEARD YOU. Sticking up is one thing - the inability to do anything but harp on and on and on is another. MOVE ON.