FCPS comprehensive boundary review

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Anonymous wrote:If a second magnet school was in the cards, don't you think we would have heard about this by now? Seems like it would be a natural topic for feedback at these regional meetings.

But there's been no suggestion that FCPS wants to convert another high school to a magnet program. If one of their priorities is equitable access to programming, they already have to play mental gymnastics to pretend kids at the other high/secondary schools have the same opportunities as students at TJ. They'd only magnify this problem with yet another magnet program with courses not available at other schools. There would be a fresh round of scrutiny over who gets admitted, and whether the admissions are truly "merit-based," etc. Yes, Richmond has Maggie Walker, but it doesn't have a TJ. Opening another magnet in FCPS is pretty much the exact opposite of the direction in which Reid and the School Board are taking FCPS.

We are just saying that if FCPS was,serious about actually fixing the Lewis problem, a magnet school for languages, humanities, IB, new arrivals/esol, trades, non traditional students, etc would be a better, more effective, less diruptive and more popular way to fix the problem long term, than the virtue signaling ineffective bandaid of rezoning and moving kids around based on their demographics to try to mask low performance at Lewis.

Problem is this really isn't credible.

It's not clear how much of a market there would be for the school you're describing generally, and at that location in particular. So not clearly "more effective."

If you turn Lewis into a magnet, you have to start by reassigning about 1900 kids (1600 at Lewis and 300 pupil placed) to new high schools, which could have ripple effects on boundaries. So not clearly "less disruptive."

This reshuffling might be more popular among those who do not want to attend or be redistricted to Lewis, but not with others, and magnet schools breed never-ending controversy over access and admissions. So not clearly "more popular."

More feasible is completely ridding Lewis of IB; adding a full menu of AP courses; ensuring that its course electives are comparable with those available at other schools; de-emphasizing the lightweight "leadership" program; and overhauling the Lewis administration to assign some of FCPS's top staff there. Give that five years and then make a decision whether to redistrict kids there or close it entirely.

So essentially push this out until your kids aren't impacted.
Some of you are so transparent.

I recently spoke with an empty nester from one of the schools potentially in the rezoning mix who is VERY pro rezoning and politically involved.

They parrot many of the rezoning for equity talking points in this thread, along with some doozies about neighboring schools that were simply untrue internet gossip, probably from this site or reddit.

What it seemed to boil down to, in spite of the mask of "equity" was that they want rezoning so their neighborhood is more desireable so their property value goes up. They also agreed that unless the core problems are visibly fixed at their high school, rezoning won't work, and that rezoning won't fix those issues. But they still wanted rezoning, with no grandfathering, even if it is doomed to fail, and even if it disrupted many kids and destroyed the property values of other people. I got the impression that they don't want a solution. They want rezoning out of spite.

I hope my impression is wrong. Spite is a terrible reason to disrupt people's lives.

You are advocating for your property values (among other things), why shouldn’t they?

Because they are adcocating for using other people's children to try to pad their property values.

There is a large degree of self serving selfishness to wanting to use someone else's kids like pawns.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If a second magnet school was in the cards, don't you think we would have heard about this by now? Seems like it would be a natural topic for feedback at these regional meetings.

But there's been no suggestion that FCPS wants to convert another high school to a magnet program. If one of their priorities is equitable access to programming, they already have to play mental gymnastics to pretend kids at the other high/secondary schools have the same opportunities as students at TJ. They'd only magnify this problem with yet another magnet program with courses not available at other schools. There would be a fresh round of scrutiny over who gets admitted, and whether the admissions are truly "merit-based," etc. Yes, Richmond has Maggie Walker, but it doesn't have a TJ. Opening another magnet in FCPS is pretty much the exact opposite of the direction in which Reid and the School Board are taking FCPS.

We are just saying that if FCPS was,serious about actually fixing the Lewis problem, a magnet school for languages, humanities, IB, new arrivals/esol, trades, non traditional students, etc would be a better, more effective, less diruptive and more popular way to fix the problem long term, than the virtue signaling ineffective bandaid of rezoning and moving kids around based on their demographics to try to mask low performance at Lewis.

Problem is this really isn't credible.

It's not clear how much of a market there would be for the school you're describing generally, and at that location in particular. So not clearly "more effective."

If you turn Lewis into a magnet, you have to start by reassigning about 1900 kids (1600 at Lewis and 300 pupil placed) to new high schools, which could have ripple effects on boundaries. So not clearly "less disruptive."

This reshuffling might be more popular among those who do not want to attend or be redistricted to Lewis, but not with others, and magnet schools breed never-ending controversy over access and admissions. So not clearly "more popular."

More feasible is completely ridding Lewis of IB; adding a full menu of AP courses; ensuring that its course electives are comparable with those available at other schools; de-emphasizing the lightweight "leadership" program; and overhauling the Lewis administration to assign some of FCPS's top staff there. Give that five years and then make a decision whether to redistrict kids there or close it entirely.

So essentially push this out until your kids aren't impacted.
Some of you are so transparent.

I recently spoke with an empty nester from one of the schools potentially in the rezoning mix who is VERY pro rezoning and politically involved.

They parrot many of the rezoning for equity talking points in this thread, along with some doozies about neighboring schools that were simply untrue internet gossip, probably from this site or reddit.

What it seemed to boil down to, in spite of the mask of "equity" was that they want rezoning so their neighborhood is more desireable so their property value goes up. They also agreed that unless the core problems are visibly fixed at their high school, rezoning won't work, and that rezoning won't fix those issues. But they still wanted rezoning, with no grandfathering, even if it is doomed to fail, and even if it disrupted many kids and destroyed the property values of other people. I got the impression that they don't want a solution. They want rezoning out of spite.

I hope my impression is wrong. Spite is a terrible reason to disrupt people's lives.

You are advocating for your property values (among other things), why shouldn’t they?

DP. It’s not really FCPS’s mandate to redistribute home equity. When they lose sight of their limited role, it’s ultimately not good for anyone, as education suffers and their attempts at social engineering invariably fail.

Everybody is advocating for their own interests. I'm not seeing anybody doing anything altruistically here.

Except those of you pushing for unwanted rezoning want to harm children that are not your child.

Nothing triggers a mama bear like going after her cubs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a second magnet school was in the cards, don't you think we would have heard about this by now? Seems like it would be a natural topic for feedback at these regional meetings.

But there's been no suggestion that FCPS wants to convert another high school to a magnet program. If one of their priorities is equitable access to programming, they already have to play mental gymnastics to pretend kids at the other high/secondary schools have the same opportunities as students at TJ. They'd only magnify this problem with yet another magnet program with courses not available at other schools. There would be a fresh round of scrutiny over who gets admitted, and whether the admissions are truly "merit-based," etc. Yes, Richmond has Maggie Walker, but it doesn't have a TJ. Opening another magnet in FCPS is pretty much the exact opposite of the direction in which Reid and the School Board are taking FCPS.

We are just saying that if FCPS was,serious about actually fixing the Lewis problem, a magnet school for languages, humanities, IB, new arrivals/esol, trades, non traditional students, etc would be a better, more effective, less diruptive and more popular way to fix the problem long term, than the virtue signaling ineffective bandaid of rezoning and moving kids around based on their demographics to try to mask low performance at Lewis.

Problem is this really isn't credible.

It's not clear how much of a market there would be for the school you're describing generally, and at that location in particular. So not clearly "more effective."

If you turn Lewis into a magnet, you have to start by reassigning about 1900 kids (1600 at Lewis and 300 pupil placed) to new high schools, which could have ripple effects on boundaries. So not clearly "less disruptive."

This reshuffling might be more popular among those who do not want to attend or be redistricted to Lewis, but not with others, and magnet schools breed never-ending controversy over access and admissions. So not clearly "more popular."

More feasible is completely ridding Lewis of IB; adding a full menu of AP courses; ensuring that its course electives are comparable with those available at other schools; de-emphasizing the lightweight "leadership" program; and overhauling the Lewis administration to assign some of FCPS's top staff there. Give that five years and then make a decision whether to redistrict kids there or close it entirely.

So essentially push this out until your kids aren't impacted.
Some of you are so transparent.

I recently spoke with an empty nester from one of the schools potentially in the rezoning mix who is VERY pro rezoning and politically involved.

They parrot many of the rezoning for equity talking points in this thread, along with some doozies about neighboring schools that were simply untrue internet gossip, probably from this site or reddit.

What it seemed to boil down to, in spite of the mask of "equity" was that they want rezoning so their neighborhood is more desireable so their property value goes up. They also agreed that unless the core problems are visibly fixed at their high school, rezoning won't work, and that rezoning won't fix those issues. But they still wanted rezoning, with no grandfathering, even if it is doomed to fail, and even if it disrupted many kids and destroyed the property values of other people. I got the impression that they don't want a solution. They want rezoning out of spite.

I hope my impression is wrong. Spite is a terrible reason to disrupt people's lives.

You are advocating for your property values (among other things), why shouldn’t they?

DP. It’s not really FCPS’s mandate to redistribute home equity. When they lose sight of their limited role, it’s ultimately not good for anyone, as education suffers and their attempts at social engineering invariably fail.

Everybody is advocating for their own interests. I'm not seeing anybody doing anything altruistically here.

Except those of you pushing for unwanted rezoning want to harm children that are not your child.

Nothing triggers a mama bear like going after her cubs.

Totally agree. They love meddling with other people’s kids and communities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a second magnet school was in the cards, don't you think we would have heard about this by now? Seems like it would be a natural topic for feedback at these regional meetings.

But there's been no suggestion that FCPS wants to convert another high school to a magnet program. If one of their priorities is equitable access to programming, they already have to play mental gymnastics to pretend kids at the other high/secondary schools have the same opportunities as students at TJ. They'd only magnify this problem with yet another magnet program with courses not available at other schools. There would be a fresh round of scrutiny over who gets admitted, and whether the admissions are truly "merit-based," etc. Yes, Richmond has Maggie Walker, but it doesn't have a TJ. Opening another magnet in FCPS is pretty much the exact opposite of the direction in which Reid and the School Board are taking FCPS.

We are just saying that if FCPS was,serious about actually fixing the Lewis problem, a magnet school for languages, humanities, IB, new arrivals/esol, trades, non traditional students, etc would be a better, more effective, less diruptive and more popular way to fix the problem long term, than the virtue signaling ineffective bandaid of rezoning and moving kids around based on their demographics to try to mask low performance at Lewis.

Problem is this really isn't credible.

It's not clear how much of a market there would be for the school you're describing generally, and at that location in particular. So not clearly "more effective."

If you turn Lewis into a magnet, you have to start by reassigning about 1900 kids (1600 at Lewis and 300 pupil placed) to new high schools, which could have ripple effects on boundaries. So not clearly "less disruptive."

This reshuffling might be more popular among those who do not want to attend or be redistricted to Lewis, but not with others, and magnet schools breed never-ending controversy over access and admissions. So not clearly "more popular."

More feasible is completely ridding Lewis of IB; adding a full menu of AP courses; ensuring that its course electives are comparable with those available at other schools; de-emphasizing the lightweight "leadership" program; and overhauling the Lewis administration to assign some of FCPS's top staff there. Give that five years and then make a decision whether to redistrict kids there or close it entirely.

So essentially push this out until your kids aren't impacted.
Some of you are so transparent.

I recently spoke with an empty nester from one of the schools potentially in the rezoning mix who is VERY pro rezoning and politically involved.

They parrot many of the rezoning for equity talking points in this thread, along with some doozies about neighboring schools that were simply untrue internet gossip, probably from this site or reddit.

What it seemed to boil down to, in spite of the mask of "equity" was that they want rezoning so their neighborhood is more desireable so their property value goes up. They also agreed that unless the core problems are visibly fixed at their high school, rezoning won't work, and that rezoning won't fix those issues. But they still wanted rezoning, with no grandfathering, even if it is doomed to fail, and even if it disrupted many kids and destroyed the property values of other people. I got the impression that they don't want a solution. They want rezoning out of spite.

I hope my impression is wrong. Spite is a terrible reason to disrupt people's lives.

You are advocating for your property values (among other things), why shouldn’t they?

DP. It’s not really FCPS’s mandate to redistribute home equity. When they lose sight of their limited role, it’s ultimately not good for anyone, as education suffers and their attempts at social engineering invariably fail.

Everybody is advocating for their own interests. I'm not seeing anybody doing anything altruistically here.

Except those of you pushing for unwanted rezoning want to harm children that are not your child.

Nothing triggers a mama bear like going after her cubs.

Ha. Nobody cares about your kids. They are likely advocating for something that will be good for their own kids...again, just advocating for their own interests.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a second magnet school was in the cards, don't you think we would have heard about this by now? Seems like it would be a natural topic for feedback at these regional meetings.

But there's been no suggestion that FCPS wants to convert another high school to a magnet program. If one of their priorities is equitable access to programming, they already have to play mental gymnastics to pretend kids at the other high/secondary schools have the same opportunities as students at TJ. They'd only magnify this problem with yet another magnet program with courses not available at other schools. There would be a fresh round of scrutiny over who gets admitted, and whether the admissions are truly "merit-based," etc. Yes, Richmond has Maggie Walker, but it doesn't have a TJ. Opening another magnet in FCPS is pretty much the exact opposite of the direction in which Reid and the School Board are taking FCPS.

We are just saying that if FCPS was,serious about actually fixing the Lewis problem, a magnet school for languages, humanities, IB, new arrivals/esol, trades, non traditional students, etc would be a better, more effective, less diruptive and more popular way to fix the problem long term, than the virtue signaling ineffective bandaid of rezoning and moving kids around based on their demographics to try to mask low performance at Lewis.

Problem is this really isn't credible.

It's not clear how much of a market there would be for the school you're describing generally, and at that location in particular. So not clearly "more effective."

If you turn Lewis into a magnet, you have to start by reassigning about 1900 kids (1600 at Lewis and 300 pupil placed) to new high schools, which could have ripple effects on boundaries. So not clearly "less disruptive."

This reshuffling might be more popular among those who do not want to attend or be redistricted to Lewis, but not with others, and magnet schools breed never-ending controversy over access and admissions. So not clearly "more popular."

More feasible is completely ridding Lewis of IB; adding a full menu of AP courses; ensuring that its course electives are comparable with those available at other schools; de-emphasizing the lightweight "leadership" program; and overhauling the Lewis administration to assign some of FCPS's top staff there. Give that five years and then make a decision whether to redistrict kids there or close it entirely.

So essentially push this out until your kids aren't impacted.
Some of you are so transparent.

I recently spoke with an empty nester from one of the schools potentially in the rezoning mix who is VERY pro rezoning and politically involved.

They parrot many of the rezoning for equity talking points in this thread, along with some doozies about neighboring schools that were simply untrue internet gossip, probably from this site or reddit.

What it seemed to boil down to, in spite of the mask of "equity" was that they want rezoning so their neighborhood is more desireable so their property value goes up. They also agreed that unless the core problems are visibly fixed at their high school, rezoning won't work, and that rezoning won't fix those issues. But they still wanted rezoning, with no grandfathering, even if it is doomed to fail, and even if it disrupted many kids and destroyed the property values of other people. I got the impression that they don't want a solution. They want rezoning out of spite.

I hope my impression is wrong. Spite is a terrible reason to disrupt people's lives.

You are advocating for your property values (among other things), why shouldn’t they?

DP. It’s not really FCPS’s mandate to redistribute home equity. When they lose sight of their limited role, it’s ultimately not good for anyone, as education suffers and their attempts at social engineering invariably fail.

Everybody is advocating for their own interests. I'm not seeing anybody doing anything altruistically here.

Except those of you pushing for unwanted rezoning want to harm children that are not your child.

Nothing triggers a mama bear like going after her cubs.

FFS even being zoned to the worst school in Fairfax County is not going to harm a child. Ya'll are delusional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a second magnet school was in the cards, don't you think we would have heard about this by now? Seems like it would be a natural topic for feedback at these regional meetings.

But there's been no suggestion that FCPS wants to convert another high school to a magnet program. If one of their priorities is equitable access to programming, they already have to play mental gymnastics to pretend kids at the other high/secondary schools have the same opportunities as students at TJ. They'd only magnify this problem with yet another magnet program with courses not available at other schools. There would be a fresh round of scrutiny over who gets admitted, and whether the admissions are truly "merit-based," etc. Yes, Richmond has Maggie Walker, but it doesn't have a TJ. Opening another magnet in FCPS is pretty much the exact opposite of the direction in which Reid and the School Board are taking FCPS.

We are just saying that if FCPS was,serious about actually fixing the Lewis problem, a magnet school for languages, humanities, IB, new arrivals/esol, trades, non traditional students, etc would be a better, more effective, less diruptive and more popular way to fix the problem long term, than the virtue signaling ineffective bandaid of rezoning and moving kids around based on their demographics to try to mask low performance at Lewis.

Problem is this really isn't credible.

It's not clear how much of a market there would be for the school you're describing generally, and at that location in particular. So not clearly "more effective."

If you turn Lewis into a magnet, you have to start by reassigning about 1900 kids (1600 at Lewis and 300 pupil placed) to new high schools, which could have ripple effects on boundaries. So not clearly "less disruptive."

This reshuffling might be more popular among those who do not want to attend or be redistricted to Lewis, but not with others, and magnet schools breed never-ending controversy over access and admissions. So not clearly "more popular."

More feasible is completely ridding Lewis of IB; adding a full menu of AP courses; ensuring that its course electives are comparable with those available at other schools; de-emphasizing the lightweight "leadership" program; and overhauling the Lewis administration to assign some of FCPS's top staff there. Give that five years and then make a decision whether to redistrict kids there or close it entirely.

So essentially push this out until your kids aren't impacted.
Some of you are so transparent.

I recently spoke with an empty nester from one of the schools potentially in the rezoning mix who is VERY pro rezoning and politically involved.

They parrot many of the rezoning for equity talking points in this thread, along with some doozies about neighboring schools that were simply untrue internet gossip, probably from this site or reddit.

What it seemed to boil down to, in spite of the mask of "equity" was that they want rezoning so their neighborhood is more desireable so their property value goes up. They also agreed that unless the core problems are visibly fixed at their high school, rezoning won't work, and that rezoning won't fix those issues. But they still wanted rezoning, with no grandfathering, even if it is doomed to fail, and even if it disrupted many kids and destroyed the property values of other people. I got the impression that they don't want a solution. They want rezoning out of spite.

I hope my impression is wrong. Spite is a terrible reason to disrupt people's lives.

You are advocating for your property values (among other things), why shouldn’t they?

DP. It’s not really FCPS’s mandate to redistribute home equity. When they lose sight of their limited role, it’s ultimately not good for anyone, as education suffers and their attempts at social engineering invariably fail.

Everybody is advocating for their own interests. I'm not seeing anybody doing anything altruistically here.

Except those of you pushing for unwanted rezoning want to harm children that are not your child.

Nothing triggers a mama bear like going after her cubs.

FFS even being zoned to the worst school in Fairfax County is not going to harm a child. Ya'll are delusional.

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I don't understand these people that say "it's Fairfax County. Your kid will be fine." That's just not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand these people that say "it's Fairfax County. Your kid will be fine." That's just not true.

The Whitman MS kid choked on the bus leaving him with visible red marks on his neck wasn’t fine 🤷‍♀️

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand these people that say "it's Fairfax County. Your kid will be fine." That's just not true.

Education-wise, the county teaches the same basic curriculum. There are specialized classes at all the different schools, but geometry and algebra are the same regardless of what school you attend. Every school teaches English and history and science, right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand these people that say "it's Fairfax County. Your kid will be fine." That's just not true.

The Whitman MS kid choked on the bus leaving him with visible red marks on his neck wasn’t fine 🤷‍♀️

Ok and how about the second langley employee accused of sexual harassment? Bad people everywhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand these people that say "it's Fairfax County. Your kid will be fine." That's just not true.

The Whitman MS kid choked on the bus leaving him with visible red marks on his neck wasn’t fine 🤷‍♀️

Ok and how about the second langley employee accused of sexual harassment? Bad people everywhere.

Bad adults are prosecuted, bad kids are allowed to stay in the system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand these people that say "it's Fairfax County. Your kid will be fine." That's just not true.

The Whitman MS kid choked on the bus leaving him with visible red marks on his neck wasn’t fine 🤷‍♀️

Ok and how about the second langley employee accused of sexual harassment? Bad people everywhere.

Bad adults are prosecuted, bad kids are allowed to stay in the system.

This is patently false. Look up how many kids were reassigned to alternative instructional facilities, or suspended.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand these people that say "it's Fairfax County. Your kid will be fine." That's just not true.

The Whitman MS kid choked on the bus leaving him with visible red marks on his neck wasn’t fine 🤷‍♀️

Generally not interested in schools with gang issues either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If a second magnet school was in the cards, don't you think we would have heard about this by now? Seems like it would be a natural topic for feedback at these regional meetings.

But there's been no suggestion that FCPS wants to convert another high school to a magnet program. If one of their priorities is equitable access to programming, they already have to play mental gymnastics to pretend kids at the other high/secondary schools have the same opportunities as students at TJ. They'd only magnify this problem with yet another magnet program with courses not available at other schools. There would be a fresh round of scrutiny over who gets admitted, and whether the admissions are truly "merit-based," etc. Yes, Richmond has Maggie Walker, but it doesn't have a TJ. Opening another magnet in FCPS is pretty much the exact opposite of the direction in which Reid and the School Board are taking FCPS.

We are just saying that if FCPS was,serious about actually fixing the Lewis problem, a magnet school for languages, humanities, IB, new arrivals/esol, trades, non traditional students, etc would be a better, more effective, less diruptive and more popular way to fix the problem long term, than the virtue signaling ineffective bandaid of rezoning and moving kids around based on their demographics to try to mask low performance at Lewis.

Problem is this really isn't credible.

It's not clear how much of a market there would be for the school you're describing generally, and at that location in particular. So not clearly "more effective."

If you turn Lewis into a magnet, you have to start by reassigning about 1900 kids (1600 at Lewis and 300 pupil placed) to new high schools, which could have ripple effects on boundaries. So not clearly "less disruptive."

This reshuffling might be more popular among those who do not want to attend or be redistricted to Lewis, but not with others, and magnet schools breed never-ending controversy over access and admissions. So not clearly "more popular."

More feasible is completely ridding Lewis of IB; adding a full menu of AP courses; ensuring that its course electives are comparable with those available at other schools; de-emphasizing the lightweight "leadership" program; and overhauling the Lewis administration to assign some of FCPS's top staff there. Give that five years and then make a decision whether to redistrict kids there or close it entirely.

So essentially push this out until your kids aren't impacted.
Some of you are so transparent.

I recently spoke with an empty nester from one of the schools potentially in the rezoning mix who is VERY pro rezoning and politically involved.

They parrot many of the rezoning for equity talking points in this thread, along with some doozies about neighboring schools that were simply untrue internet gossip, probably from this site or reddit.

What it seemed to boil down to, in spite of the mask of "equity" was that they want rezoning so their neighborhood is more desireable so their property value goes up. They also agreed that unless the core problems are visibly fixed at their high school, rezoning won't work, and that rezoning won't fix those issues. But they still wanted rezoning, with no grandfathering, even if it is doomed to fail, and even if it disrupted many kids and destroyed the property values of other people. I got the impression that they don't want a solution. They want rezoning out of spite.

I hope my impression is wrong. Spite is a terrible reason to disrupt people's lives.

You are advocating for your property values (among other things), why shouldn’t they?

DP. It’s not really FCPS’s mandate to redistribute home equity. When they lose sight of their limited role, it’s ultimately not good for anyone, as education suffers and their attempts at social engineering invariably fail.

Everybody is advocating for their own interests. I'm not seeing anybody doing anything altruistically here.

Except those of you pushing for unwanted rezoning want to harm children that are not your child.

Nothing triggers a mama bear like going after her cubs.

FFS even being zoned to the worst school in Fairfax County is not going to harm a child. Ya'll are delusional.

Great! So when will you be pupil placing your own kids there?
DP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand these people that say "it's Fairfax County. Your kid will be fine." That's just not true.

The Whitman MS kid choked on the bus leaving him with visible red marks on his neck wasn’t fine 🤷‍♀️

Generally not interested in schools with gang issues either.

What schools have gang issues? Or is your assumption that if a school has a certain race, there must be gangs?