Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not surprised the Region 5 BRAC would support what Reid wants

It includes Chantilly and Westfield.

Again, there are NO reps from Chantilly that live near KAA.
there are NO reps from Westfield who live in the KAA area.

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In fact, there are NO reps on BRAC who live in the area that could attend KAA if it is a traditional school. I doubt anyone on BRAC understands the need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not surprised the Region 5 BRAC would support what Reid wants

Why?

[Anonymous]

Who was answering the questions if thru was not there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was Crestwood.

Listening on line and the Board seems to not know what is going on or even to have any power. The consultants appear to be running the show.

That’s shocking. That wasn’t on any of the maps and they are pretty close to Lewis (well, all of Lewis’s boundaries are fairly close except perhaps the furthest ends of Saratoga).

Do we think this is some kind of move of Crestwood to WSHS and Hunt Valley to Lewis?

makes sense. HV is 200 more students than crestwood. so that adds students to Lewis which is underenrolled and reduces WSHS by 200 which is overenrolled. crestwood is also 50% FARMs and ESL while HV is like 10%. this helps with equitable outcomes between the schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was Crestwood.

Listening on line and the Board seems to not know what is going on or even to have any power. The consultants appear to be running the show.

That’s shocking. That wasn’t on any of the maps and they are pretty close to Lewis (well, all of Lewis’s boundaries are fairly close except perhaps the furthest ends of Saratoga).

Do we think this is some kind of move of Crestwood to WSHS and Hunt Valley to Lewis?

makes sense. HV is 200 more students than crestwood. so that adds students to Lewis which is underenrolled and reduces WSHS by 200 which is overenrolled. crestwood is also 50% FARMs and ESL while HV is like 10%. this helps with equitable outcomes between the schools.

It also gives Sandy Anderson room to move her friends from Rolling Valley into WSHS and out of Lewis. This was probably the plan all along. Going to be lots of surprises in October when the new maps are released!

[Anonymous]

Looking at the BRAC feedback for each region, it's clear that they are putting in the work to actually resolve issues. While not all of BRAC's recommendations may be spot on, they at least looked at community feedback and proposed more logical solutions.

Will be interesting to see if these recommendations are what underlies the next boundary maps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was Crestwood.

Listening on line and the Board seems to not know what is going on or even to have any power. The consultants appear to be running the show.

That’s shocking. That wasn’t on any of the maps and they are pretty close to Lewis (well, all of Lewis’s boundaries are fairly close except perhaps the furthest ends of Saratoga).

Do we think this is some kind of move of Crestwood to WSHS and Hunt Valley to Lewis?

makes sense. HV is 200 more students than crestwood. so that adds students to Lewis which is underenrolled and reduces WSHS by 200 which is overenrolled. crestwood is also 50% FARMs and ESL while HV is like 10%. this helps with equitable outcomes between the schools.

It actually doesn't make sense (and I'm not a Hunt Valley parent). WSHS is about 400-500 students overenrolled. They could move all of Hunt Valley and only just bring WSHS down to capacity. It wouldn't "make room" for Crestwood and RVES students. Likely adding those would easily keep it at it's super high numbers and completely defeat the point of trying to address over-crowding at WSHS. As we saw when the Daventry parents convinced the district to move from WSES/Key/Lewis to WSES/Irving/WSHS back in the early 2000s, those townhomes that used to have a small number of families at Lewis BALLOONED to adding a ton to WSHS. Everyone with kids who used to move or do private when they got to middle and high school stayed and went to WSHS. The same would happen with the "small" amount of kids that split off from Rolling Valley and likely the Crestwood community.

There should not be ONE SINGLE HOUSEHOLD added to WSHS boundaries. Not one. And I think there should be some adjustments made to alleviate the overcrowding. Like Sangster to LBSS and possibly some of the HV communities south of the parkway moving to South County.

Adding ANY students to WSHS is ridiculous and I hope it is not the plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not surprised the Region 5 BRAC would support what Reid wants

Why?

Because one of them was hand picked by the SB for BRAC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was Crestwood.

Listening on line and the Board seems to not know what is going on or even to have any power. The consultants appear to be running the show.

That’s shocking. That wasn’t on any of the maps and they are pretty close to Lewis (well, all of Lewis’s boundaries are fairly close except perhaps the furthest ends of Saratoga).

Do we think this is some kind of move of Crestwood to WSHS and Hunt Valley to Lewis?

makes sense. HV is 200 more students than crestwood. so that adds students to Lewis which is underenrolled and reduces WSHS by 200 which is overenrolled. crestwood is also 50% FARMs and ESL while HV is like 10%. this helps with equitable outcomes between the schools.

It actually doesn't make sense (and I'm not a Hunt Valley parent). WSHS is about 400-500 students overenrolled. They could move all of Hunt Valley and only just bring WSHS down to capacity. It wouldn't "make room" for Crestwood and RVES students. Likely adding those would easily keep it at it's super high numbers and completely defeat the point of trying to address over-crowding at WSHS. As we saw when the Daventry parents convinced the district to move from WSES/Key/Lewis to WSES/Irving/WSHS back in the early 2000s, those townhomes that used to have a small number of families at Lewis BALLOONED to adding a ton to WSHS. Everyone with kids who used to move or do private when they got to middle and high school stayed and went to WSHS. The same would happen with the "small" amount of kids that split off from Rolling Valley and likely the Crestwood community.

There should not be ONE SINGLE HOUSEHOLD added to WSHS boundaries. Not one. And I think there should be some adjustments made to alleviate the overcrowding. Like Sangster to LBSS and possibly some of the HV communities south of the parkway moving to South County.

Adding ANY students to WSHS is ridiculous and I hope it is not the plan.

yeah maybe just adding HV to lewis is all that is needed to balance the schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was Crestwood.

Listening on line and the Board seems to not know what is going on or even to have any power. The consultants appear to be running the show.

That’s shocking. That wasn’t on any of the maps and they are pretty close to Lewis (well, all of Lewis’s boundaries are fairly close except perhaps the furthest ends of Saratoga).

Do we think this is some kind of move of Crestwood to WSHS and Hunt Valley to Lewis?

makes sense. HV is 200 more students than crestwood. so that adds students to Lewis which is underenrolled and reduces WSHS by 200 which is overenrolled. crestwood is also 50% FARMs and ESL while HV is like 10%. this helps with equitable outcomes between the schools.

It actually doesn't make sense (and I'm not a Hunt Valley parent). WSHS is about 400-500 students overenrolled. They could move all of Hunt Valley and only just bring WSHS down to capacity. It wouldn't "make room" for Crestwood and RVES students. Likely adding those would easily keep it at it's super high numbers and completely defeat the point of trying to address over-crowding at WSHS. As we saw when the Daventry parents convinced the district to move from WSES/Key/Lewis to WSES/Irving/WSHS back in the early 2000s, those townhomes that used to have a small number of families at Lewis BALLOONED to adding a ton to WSHS. Everyone with kids who used to move or do private when they got to middle and high school stayed and went to WSHS. The same would happen with the "small" amount of kids that split off from Rolling Valley and likely the Crestwood community.

There should not be ONE SINGLE HOUSEHOLD added to WSHS boundaries. Not one. And I think there should be some adjustments made to alleviate the overcrowding. Like Sangster to LBSS and possibly some of the HV communities south of the parkway moving to South County.

Adding ANY students to WSHS is ridiculous and I hope it is not the plan.

yeah maybe just adding HV to lewis is all that is needed to balance the schools.

Lewis’s program capacity doesn’t currently support it. It can be increased, but so far all of Thru’s modeling has been based on those numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.fcps.edu/form/graphic-organizer-summaries

Am I missing something here? I don't see any maps of Chantilly/Centreville/Westfield area.

[Anonymous]

Interesting that the meeting for Westfield and Chantilly (two schools that might be most affected) is at the Sully Community Center instead of in a school theater or gym.
Also, two of the largest schools in Fairfax County.

What are these people thinking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that the meeting for Westfield and Chantilly (two schools that might be most affected) is at the Sully Community Center instead of in a school theater or gym.
Also, two of the largest schools in Fairfax County.

What are these people thinking?

And in the middle of the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that the meeting for Westfield and Chantilly (two schools that might be most affected) is at the Sully Community Center instead of in a school theater or gym.
Also, two of the largest schools in Fairfax County.

What are these people thinking?

And in the middle of the day.[/quote]

Can't believe I missed that!

Sounds like they do not want participation of anyone that works.

Well, I hope Discovery Square turns out. It's walkable for them if they are not working.

Small venue, middle of the day. Make it make sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was Crestwood.

Listening on line and the Board seems to not know what is going on or even to have any power. The consultants appear to be running the show.

That’s shocking. That wasn’t on any of the maps and they are pretty close to Lewis (well, all of Lewis’s boundaries are fairly close except perhaps the furthest ends of Saratoga).

Do we think this is some kind of move of Crestwood to WSHS and Hunt Valley to Lewis?

makes sense. HV is 200 more students than crestwood. so that adds students to Lewis which is underenrolled and reduces WSHS by 200 which is overenrolled. crestwood is also 50% FARMs and ESL while HV is like 10%. this helps with equitable outcomes between the schools.

It also gives Sandy Anderson room to move her friends from Rolling Valley into WSHS and out of Lewis. This was probably the plan all along. Going to be lots of surprises in October when the new maps are released!

Which interestingly enough, on the region priority feedback documents, the original proposal of moving those students to Saratoga was supported. At least the way I was reading it. So if that is a change, it’s definitely Sandy Anderson meddling.