FCPS comprehensive boundary review

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Anonymous wrote:To those who want a boundary change on this forum:
1. Do you have a child attending or soon attending high school?
2. Do you want your child to attend the current high school?

Yes and yes. The schools need to be rebalanced. Whether our HS pyramid is affected or not doesn’t matter to me, nor whether my kids get moved. I also expect the boundaries to be reviews at least every 10 years though major changes may not always be necessary.

I object to parents feeling entitled to a specific pyramid especially if they live in neighborhoods in the edges. This is a county wide district not some podunk city district that has a few high schools.

Tell me your kids are in a poor performing school without telling me that they are…

NP. My school is in a middle of the road pyramid. I'm not worried about whether is performs better or worse. I'm worried about overcrowding.

Literally and figuratively you find/seek comfort in mediocrity.

How did your parents raise you? So what if they are - did you need to wrote that out as a reponse?

I sleep well at night. Come after my kids and make an enemy is a pretty fundamental approach to life.

Lollllll...."come after my kids". Okkkkkk

Your response is precisely why the school board has this so wrong. They don’t realize the intensity with which people will hate them after their kids are forced to move. I get you are just shilling and that you realize this too.

The majority of families don't care about boundary changes. Maybe on a forum like this, but the day-to-day, nope. People are more concerned about losing their jobs and paying for groceries. Some might even be worried about getting deported. School board crap, not at all.

Transparently wrong given the hundreds of families that have been showing up on random weekday evenings to protest the changes.

We will see in the next SB elections how much people care.

If the changes are widespread and get a lot of adverse publicity it will have an impact on future elections. Typically SB members seen as responsible for controversial boundary changes or school closures don’t bother running again (examples: Gibson, Bradsher, Tholen).

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The majority of families don't care about boundary changes. Maybe on a forum like this, but the day-to-day, nope. People are more concerned about losing their jobs and paying for groceries. Some might even be worried about getting deported. School board crap, not at all.

The majority of parents DO care. They are just not aware. There is very little local news about this and most people assume their kids will stay where they are.

If you’re ensconced in the middle of a district, you don’t have to care. If you are zoned to a good high school surrounded by good schools, you don’t have to care. There are a very few terrible schools parents are worried about out and there is one situation where parents are looking and being shifted from the best school to an mediocre school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To those who want a boundary change on this forum:
1. Do you have a child attending or soon attending high school?
2. Do you want your child to attend the current high school?

Yes and yes. The schools need to be rebalanced. Whether our HS pyramid is affected or not doesn’t matter to me, nor whether my kids get moved. I also expect the boundaries to be reviews at least every 10 years though major changes may not always be necessary.

I object to parents feeling entitled to a specific pyramid especially if they live in neighborhoods in the edges. This is a county wide district not some podunk city district that has a few high schools.

Tell me your kids are in a poor performing school without telling me that they are…

NP. My school is in a middle of the road pyramid. I'm not worried about whether is performs better or worse. I'm worried about overcrowding.

Literally and figuratively you find/seek comfort in mediocrity.

How did your parents raise you? So what if they are - did you need to wrote that out as a reponse?

I sleep well at night. Come after my kids and make an enemy is a pretty fundamental approach to life.

Lollllll...."come after my kids". Okkkkkk

Your response is precisely why the school board has this so wrong. They don’t realize the intensity with which people will hate them after their kids are forced to move. I get you are just shilling and that you realize this too.

DP but your kid isn't that special. Even if you move to avoid the newly zoned school, somebody else will buy your house and likely go to that school. Your specific kids are not being targeted. I also don't think the school board cares how much people hate this process. The next crop of parents won't even know you or your outrage existed.

These meetings are just for show to check the box that there was community engagement/input for the rezoning process.

+1. And if people have commutes tied to DC, where exactly are they going to go? (Yes I know there are other options, ut either the schools are worse or the commutes are crazy)

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Anonymous wrote:To those who want a boundary change on this forum:
1. Do you have a child attending or soon attending high school?
2. Do you want your child to attend the current high school?

Yes and yes. The schools need to be rebalanced. Whether our HS pyramid is affected or not doesn’t matter to me, nor whether my kids get moved. I also expect the boundaries to be reviews at least every 10 years though major changes may not always be necessary.

I object to parents feeling entitled to a specific pyramid especially if they live in neighborhoods in the edges. This is a county wide district not some podunk city district that has a few high schools.

Tell me your kids are in a poor performing school without telling me that they are…

NP. My school is in a middle of the road pyramid. I'm not worried about whether is performs better or worse. I'm worried about overcrowding.

Literally and figuratively you find/seek comfort in mediocrity.

How did your parents raise you? So what if they are - did you need to wrote that out as a reponse?

I sleep well at night. Come after my kids and make an enemy is a pretty fundamental approach to life.

Lollllll...."come after my kids". Okkkkkk

Your response is precisely why the school board has this so wrong. They don’t realize the intensity with which people will hate them after their kids are forced to move. I get you are just shilling and that you realize this too.

The majority of families don't care about boundary changes. Maybe on a forum like this, but the day-to-day, nope. People are more concerned about losing their jobs and paying for groceries. Some might even be worried about getting deported. School board crap, not at all.

Transparently wrong given the hundreds of families that have been showing up on random weekday evenings to protest the changes.

We will see in the next SB elections how much people care.

If the changes are widespread and get a lot of adverse publicity it will have an impact on future elections. Typically SB members seen as responsible for controversial boundary changes or school closures don’t bother running again (examples: Gibson, Bradsher, Tholen).

Most of the electorate will not be affected. It will not change the overall dynamic of the school board - maybe one or two.

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The majority of families don't care about boundary changes. Maybe on a forum like this, but the day-to-day, nope. People are more concerned about losing their jobs and paying for groceries. Some might even be worried about getting deported. School board crap, not at all.

The majority of parents DO care. They are just not aware. There is very little local news about this and most people assume their kids will stay where they are.

If you’re ensconced in the middle of a district, you don’t have to care. If you are zoned to a good high school surrounded by good schools, you don’t have to care. There are a very few terrible schools parents are worried about out and there is one situation where parents are looking and being shifted from the best school to an mediocre school

And, guess what? If those kids get rezoned to that “mediocre school”, they will be just fine, or even better. They might get to be the big fish in the pond. It is not the end of the world.

My kid graduated from one of those “mediocre schools”. She is now at a top 25 university. Had she gone to Langley, Oakton or Mclean, she would have had more competition in the admission process. Some might think her “mediocre school” did not prepare her well, this was not her experience. She is working her rear off, and getting good grades. Yes, there were few students taking advanced courses at her high school, but they were a tightknit group, and they supported each other. Not cut throat at all.

There were also fewer sections of advanced courses, but it all worked out in the end. Many universities want your kids to take those super advanced stem courses on their campuses anyway.

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The majority of families don't care about boundary changes. Maybe on a forum like this, but the day-to-day, nope. People are more concerned about losing their jobs and paying for groceries. Some might even be worried about getting deported. School board crap, not at all.

The majority of parents DO care. They are just not aware. There is very little local news about this and most people assume their kids will stay where they are.

Parents are not the majority in the county. Most of the adults in the county do not have children enrolled in the public schools.

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The majority of families don't care about boundary changes. Maybe on a forum like this, but the day-to-day, nope. People are more concerned about losing their jobs and paying for groceries. Some might even be worried about getting deported. School board crap, not at all.

The majority of parents DO care. They are just not aware. There is very little local news about this and most people assume their kids will stay where they are.

If you’re ensconced in the middle of a district, you don’t have to care. If you are zoned to a good high school surrounded by good schools, you don’t have to care. There are a very few terrible schools parents are worried about out and there is one situation where parents are looking and being shifted from the best school to an mediocre school

And, guess what? If those kids get rezoned to that “mediocre school”, they will be just fine, or even better. They might get to be the big fish in the pond. It is not the end of the world.

My kid graduated from one of those “mediocre schools”. She is now at a top 25 university. Had she gone to Langley, Oakton or Mclean, she would have had more competition in the admission process. Some might think her “mediocre school” did not prepare her well, this was not her experience. She is working her rear off, and getting good grades. Yes, there were few students taking advanced courses at her high school, but they were a tightknit group, and they supported each other. Not cut throat at all.

There were also fewer sections of advanced courses, but it all worked out in the end. Many universities want your kids to take those super advanced stem courses on their campuses anyway.

+1 this was the experience of our friend's son as well who is now entering medical school.

Too many parents here tie their identity and self worth to their kids' school, sports clubs and accomplishments so they are going to go to the mat over this.

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The majority of families don't care about boundary changes. Maybe on a forum like this, but the day-to-day, nope. People are more concerned about losing their jobs and paying for groceries. Some might even be worried about getting deported. School board crap, not at all.

The majority of parents DO care. They are just not aware. There is very little local news about this and most people assume their kids will stay where they are.

If you’re ensconced in the middle of a district, you don’t have to care. If you are zoned to a good high school surrounded by good schools, you don’t have to care. There are a very few terrible schools parents are worried about out and there is one situation where parents are looking and being shifted from the best school to an mediocre school

And, guess what? If those kids get rezoned to that “mediocre school”, they will be just fine, or even better. They might get to be the big fish in the pond. It is not the end of the world.

My kid graduated from one of those “mediocre schools”. She is now at a top 25 university. Had she gone to Langley, Oakton or Mclean, she would have had more competition in the admission process. Some might think her “mediocre school” did not prepare her well, this was not her experience. She is working her rear off, and getting good grades. Yes, there were few students taking advanced courses at her high school, but they were a tightknit group, and they supported each other. Not cut throat at all.

There were also fewer sections of advanced courses, but it all worked out in the end. Many universities want your kids to take those super advanced stem courses on their campuses anyway.

I always make important life choices based on the one off exception. 🙄

Your anecdote is paternalistic and worthless drivel.

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The majority of families don't care about boundary changes. Maybe on a forum like this, but the day-to-day, nope. People are more concerned about losing their jobs and paying for groceries. Some might even be worried about getting deported. School board crap, not at all.

The majority of parents DO care. They are just not aware. There is very little local news about this and most people assume their kids will stay where they are.

If you’re ensconced in the middle of a district, you don’t have to care. If you are zoned to a good high school surrounded by good schools, you don’t have to care. There are a very few terrible schools parents are worried about out and there is one situation where parents are looking and being shifted from the best school to an mediocre school

And, guess what? If those kids get rezoned to that “mediocre school”, they will be just fine, or even better. They might get to be the big fish in the pond. It is not the end of the world.

My kid graduated from one of those “mediocre schools”. She is now at a top 25 university. Had she gone to Langley, Oakton or Mclean, she would have had more competition in the admission process. Some might think her “mediocre school” did not prepare her well, this was not her experience. She is working her rear off, and getting good grades. Yes, there were few students taking advanced courses at her high school, but they were a tightknit group, and they supported each other. Not cut throat at all.

There were also fewer sections of advanced courses, but it all worked out in the end. Many universities want your kids to take those super advanced stem courses on their campuses anyway.

There is a difference between spending all 4 years at even a mediocre school and getting forcibly rezoned between your sophomore and junior year. That's my main concern. Moving kids at a critical time in high school. We're a military family who purposely planned to retire here to stop the churn during high school for our kids, so it does suck that our DC may be pulled away from sports teams and clubs they would possibly be in leadership positions for, not to mention a language that is not offered at the two likely schools they would be redistricted to. The SB seems to have decided that some kids just have to suck up for the greater good, and they will not commit to grandfathering. They want these changes, and they want them now. So, yes it sucks when your kid is part of the group that will likely experience the most negative outcomes in this deal. I'd be more supportive if the SB were going about this in a more measured way and were not being dismissive of reasonable concerns from parents. This first reshuffling will be a major one, so I don't see why it can't be phased. The ones that result from the five year reviews will be much smaller (yes those should be phased too).

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The majority of families don't care about boundary changes. Maybe on a forum like this, but the day-to-day, nope. People are more concerned about losing their jobs and paying for groceries. Some might even be worried about getting deported. School board crap, not at all.

The majority of parents DO care. They are just not aware. There is very little local news about this and most people assume their kids will stay where they are.

If you’re ensconced in the middle of a district, you don’t have to care. If you are zoned to a good high school surrounded by good schools, you don’t have to care. There are a very few terrible schools parents are worried about out and there is one situation where parents are looking and being shifted from the best school to an mediocre school

And, guess what? If those kids get rezoned to that “mediocre school”, they will be just fine, or even better. They might get to be the big fish in the pond. It is not the end of the world.

My kid graduated from one of those “mediocre schools”. She is now at a top 25 university. Had she gone to Langley, Oakton or Mclean, she would have had more competition in the admission process. Some might think her “mediocre school” did not prepare her well, this was not her experience. She is working her rear off, and getting good grades. Yes, there were few students taking advanced courses at her high school, but they were a tightknit group, and they supported each other. Not cut throat at all.

There were also fewer sections of advanced courses, but it all worked out in the end. Many universities want your kids to take those super advanced stem courses on their campuses anyway.

I always make important life choices based on the one off exception. 🙄

Your anecdote is paternalistic and worthless drivel.

To be frank, if a kid is the type that needs to be surrounded by only good influences to artificially reduce temptations and bad decisions, that kid is going to indulge in what was deprived once they are past high school. Seen it a thousand times...

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Anonymous wrote:To those who want a boundary change on this forum:
1. Do you have a child attending or soon attending high school?
2. Do you want your child to attend the current high school?

Yes and yes. The schools need to be rebalanced. Whether our HS pyramid is affected or not doesn’t matter to me, nor whether my kids get moved. I also expect the boundaries to be reviews at least every 10 years though major changes may not always be necessary.

I object to parents feeling entitled to a specific pyramid especially if they live in neighborhoods in the edges. This is a county wide district not some podunk city district that has a few high schools.

Tell me your kids are in a poor performing school without telling me that they are…

NP. My school is in a middle of the road pyramid. I'm not worried about whether is performs better or worse. I'm worried about overcrowding.

Literally and figuratively you find/seek comfort in mediocrity.

How did your parents raise you? So what if they are - did you need to wrote that out as a reponse?

I sleep well at night. Come after my kids and make an enemy is a pretty fundamental approach to life.

Lollllll...."come after my kids". Okkkkkk

Your response is precisely why the school board has this so wrong. They don’t realize the intensity with which people will hate them after their kids are forced to move. I get you are just shilling and that you realize this too.

DP but your kid isn't that special. Even if you move to avoid the newly zoned school, somebody else will buy your house and likely go to that school. Your specific kids are not being targeted. I also don't think the school board cares how much people hate this process. The next crop of parents won't even know you or your outrage existed.

These meetings are just for show to check the box that there was community engagement/input for the rezoning process.

Also, a DINK coupling might move into your house. Homes are still selling and will always sell in this area. Newly arriving families don't care.

Possibly right, but then again, DINKs don’t normally look for a house like mine unless it is offered at a significant discount to what it is currently at.

Once the dynamics in the county change where UMC families are no longer welcome, the school system as it currently exists will changes significantly, and not in the way you may hope.

What is a "house like mine" and exactly how are you stereotyping DINKs? Remember, they have a lot more cash flow than people with kids - and many of the people I know that choose not to have kids/can't still want nicer neighborhoods...unless they decide to live in the city.

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The majority of families don't care about boundary changes. Maybe on a forum like this, but the day-to-day, nope. People are more concerned about losing their jobs and paying for groceries. Some might even be worried about getting deported. School board crap, not at all.

The majority of parents DO care. They are just not aware. There is very little local news about this and most people assume their kids will stay where they are.

If you’re ensconced in the middle of a district, you don’t have to care. If you are zoned to a good high school surrounded by good schools, you don’t have to care. There are a very few terrible schools parents are worried about out and there is one situation where parents are looking and being shifted from the best school to an mediocre school

And, guess what? If those kids get rezoned to that “mediocre school”, they will be just fine, or even better. They might get to be the big fish in the pond. It is not the end of the world.

My kid graduated from one of those “mediocre schools”. She is now at a top 25 university. Had she gone to Langley, Oakton or Mclean, she would have had more competition in the admission process. Some might think her “mediocre school” did not prepare her well, this was not her experience. She is working her rear off, and getting good grades. Yes, there were few students taking advanced courses at her high school, but they were a tightknit group, and they supported each other. Not cut throat at all.

There were also fewer sections of advanced courses, but it all worked out in the end. Many universities want your kids to take those super advanced stem courses on their campuses anyway.

I always make important life choices based on the one off exception. 🙄

Your anecdote is paternalistic and worthless drivel.

I disagree with your rude comment.

It's a lived experience - and that's why I'm on this site, to hear from other people. Not to shove my opinion down others throats.
I'll say thank you for sharing your experience.

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The majority of families don't care about boundary changes. Maybe on a forum like this, but the day-to-day, nope. People are more concerned about losing their jobs and paying for groceries. Some might even be worried about getting deported. School board crap, not at all.

The majority of parents DO care. They are just not aware. There is very little local news about this and most people assume their kids will stay where they are.

If you’re ensconced in the middle of a district, you don’t have to care. If you are zoned to a good high school surrounded by good schools, you don’t have to care. There are a very few terrible schools parents are worried about out and there is one situation where parents are looking and being shifted from the best school to an mediocre school

And, guess what? If those kids get rezoned to that “mediocre school”, they will be just fine, or even better. They might get to be the big fish in the pond. It is not the end of the world.

My kid graduated from one of those “mediocre schools”. She is now at a top 25 university. Had she gone to Langley, Oakton or Mclean, she would have had more competition in the admission process. Some might think her “mediocre school” did not prepare her well, this was not her experience. She is working her rear off, and getting good grades. Yes, there were few students taking advanced courses at her high school, but they were a tightknit group, and they supported each other. Not cut throat at all.

There were also fewer sections of advanced courses, but it all worked out in the end. Many universities want your kids to take those super advanced stem courses on their campuses anyway.

We are zoned for WSHS but on a boundary line. Not one that's often talked about as moving to Lewis, but you never know. I have kids who will graduate in 2028 and 2032. I'm being totally honest that if my 2032 kid gets moved to Key/Lewis (with a decent amount of kids so he still has a friend group there) we would not complain and get invested in the school and I think it would really be fine. But I will be LIVID if my 2028 kid has to move schools as a rising junior. He is putting in so much work already with sports teams and club/leadership opportunities. And he has a good idea of the AP classes he wants to take through senior year. Moving kids at that point - which the school board left as a very real possibility - is criminal.

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The majority of families don't care about boundary changes. Maybe on a forum like this, but the day-to-day, nope. People are more concerned about losing their jobs and paying for groceries. Some might even be worried about getting deported. School board crap, not at all.

The majority of parents DO care. They are just not aware. There is very little local news about this and most people assume their kids will stay where they are.

If you’re ensconced in the middle of a district, you don’t have to care. If you are zoned to a good high school surrounded by good schools, you don’t have to care. There are a very few terrible schools parents are worried about out and there is one situation where parents are looking and being shifted from the best school to an mediocre school

And, guess what? If those kids get rezoned to that “mediocre school”, they will be just fine, or even better. They might get to be the big fish in the pond. It is not the end of the world.

My kid graduated from one of those “mediocre schools”. She is now at a top 25 university. Had she gone to Langley, Oakton or Mclean, she would have had more competition in the admission process. Some might think her “mediocre school” did not prepare her well, this was not her experience. She is working her rear off, and getting good grades. Yes, there were few students taking advanced courses at her high school, but they were a tightknit group, and they supported each other. Not cut throat at all.

There were also fewer sections of advanced courses, but it all worked out in the end. Many universities want your kids to take those super advanced stem courses on their campuses anyway.

This type of post is so repetitive that it’s boring. Yes, maybe your kid can be the big fish in the smaller pond at one of the lower ranked schools. If that’s the case, you shouldn’t want more big fish redistricted into your school, and the parents of the big fish seem to be fairly comfortable with their kids swimming with the other big fish in the bigger ponds.

If you want to trade anecdotes, I will offer that we moved from a run-of-the-mill IB high school to a top AP school, and we soon noticed that expectations were higher, kids across the board worked harder, and the overall environment was more conducive to developing the habits necessary to succeed in college. We would not be happy to be redistricted now, given the pride that our community takes in our high school. It’s sad that the current leadership of FCPS ascribes so little value to that sense of community pride, and instead seems to be unleashing a bunch of proxies disseminating the message that kids will be OK if redistricted, without bothering to explain why redistricting is even necessary right now. It can’t be to save money, because they’ll have to run multiple bus routes if there is any grandfathering, which will cost more money, and they continue to be anything but cost-sensitive when funding projects like the big West Potomac expansion and the new Dunn Loring ES for which there is no obvious need.

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The majority of families don't care about boundary changes. Maybe on a forum like this, but the day-to-day, nope. People are more concerned about losing their jobs and paying for groceries. Some might even be worried about getting deported. School board crap, not at all.

The majority of parents DO care. They are just not aware. There is very little local news about this and most people assume their kids will stay where they are.

If you’re ensconced in the middle of a district, you don’t have to care. If you are zoned to a good high school surrounded by good schools, you don’t have to care. There are a very few terrible schools parents are worried about out and there is one situation where parents are looking and being shifted from the best school to an mediocre school

And, guess what? If those kids get rezoned to that “mediocre school”, they will be just fine, or even better. They might get to be the big fish in the pond. It is not the end of the world.

My kid graduated from one of those “mediocre schools”. She is now at a top 25 university. Had she gone to Langley, Oakton or Mclean, she would have had more competition in the admission process. Some might think her “mediocre school” did not prepare her well, this was not her experience. She is working her rear off, and getting good grades. Yes, there were few students taking advanced courses at her high school, but they were a tightknit group, and they supported each other. Not cut throat at all.

There were also fewer sections of advanced courses, but it all worked out in the end. Many universities want your kids to take those super advanced stem courses on their campuses anyway.

We are zoned for WSHS but on a boundary line. Not one that's often talked about as moving to Lewis, but you never know. I have kids who will graduate in 2028 and 2032. I'm being totally honest that if my 2032 kid gets moved to Key/Lewis (with a decent amount of kids so he still has a friend group there) we would not complain and get invested in the school and I think it would really be fine. But I will be LIVID if my 2028 kid has to move schools as a rising junior. He is putting in so much work already with sports teams and club/leadership opportunities. And he has a good idea of the AP classes he wants to take through senior year. Moving kids at that point - which the school board left as a very real possibility - is criminal.

Perfectly said.