Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

wtf they’re delaying the western school but going forward with the boundary moves?

[Anonymous]

Meren is the only one saying the new school is on hold. Saturdays open house was very much saying it opens next year. Meren also posted a video saying Reid is making promises that the school board has to vote on. I think Meren is trying to stall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meren is the only one saying the new school is on hold. Saturdays open house was very much saying it opens next year. Meren also posted a video saying Reid is making promises that the school board has to vote on. I think Meren is trying to stall.

Meren and Reid in a simmering feud because the school board is giving reid unreasonable timelines and they can’t/aren’t meeting them.

They have too much on their plates, and it’s almost like they brought this upon themselves with an unnecessary boundary review. I’d feel sorry for them, but sometimes karma works when you’ve decided to screw over thousands of kids in the county unnecessarily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wtf they’re delaying the western school but going forward with the boundary moves?

They should be delaying boundary and focusing on KAA and COATES for the new school year.

Jesus H. these people are incompetent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf they’re delaying the western school but going forward with the boundary moves?

They should be delaying boundary and focusing on KAA and COATES for the new school year.

Jesus H. these people are incompetent.

They should CANCEL, not delay, comprehensive boundary changes. They should rescind the changes to policy 8130 while they are at it, so that we can have stability in our school system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf they’re delaying the western school but going forward with the boundary moves?

They should be delaying boundary and focusing on KAA and COATES for the new school year.

Jesus H. these people are incompetent.

Remember: KAA puts Meren in the hot seat for some of her constituents--the ones who want to go to KAA and the ones who will continue to be at South Lakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf they’re delaying the western school but going forward with the boundary moves?

They should be delaying boundary and focusing on KAA and COATES for the new school year.

Jesus H. these people are incompetent.

Remember: KAA puts Meren in the hot seat for some of her constituents--the ones who want to go to KAA and the ones who will continue to be at South Lakes.

Meren voted for the revisions to policy 8130, right? She owns this mess, much as she is trying to distance herself from it now.

Imagine being so incompetent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf they’re delaying the western school but going forward with the boundary moves?

They should be delaying boundary and focusing on KAA and COATES for the new school year.

Jesus H. these people are incompetent.

Remember: KAA puts Meren in the hot seat for some of her constituents--the ones who want to go to KAA and the ones who will continue to be at South Lakes.

Meren voted for the revisions to policy 8130, right? She owns this mess, much as she is trying to distance herself from it now.

Imagine being so incompetent.

She's been trying to argue that 8130 is no longer valid or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf they’re delaying the western school but going forward with the boundary moves?

They should be delaying boundary and focusing on KAA and COATES for the new school year.

Jesus H. these people are incompetent.

Remember: KAA puts Meren in the hot seat for some of her constituents--the ones who want to go to KAA and the ones who will continue to be at South Lakes.

I suspect that she thought no one from SLHS would be moved and is now in a position where SLHS will be impacted with plenty of parents supporting the move.

[Anonymous]

Well, if what Meren says is correct about delaying the opening, why didn't Reid mention that at the Saturday meeting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, if what Meren says is correct about delaying the opening, why didn't Reid mention that at the Saturday meeting?

Because the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing? Idk I’ve worked in plenty of dysfunctional organizations and this all seems pretty par for the course, lots of people making statements that may or may not be true and never checking with anyone else first, lots of abrupt deadline changes, lots of “well let’s fold in this slightly related but ultimately not core project into this larger project so we can fix both things at the same time” muddying the waters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, if what Meren says is correct about delaying the opening, why didn't Reid mention that at the Saturday meeting?

Because the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing? Idk I’ve worked in plenty of dysfunctional organizations and this all seems pretty par for the course, lots of people making statements that may or may not be true and never checking with anyone else first, lots of abrupt deadline changes, lots of “well let’s fold in this slightly related but ultimately not core project into this larger project so we can fix both things at the same time” muddying the waters.

DP. It might be somewhere in the middle. At the Chantilly meeting, Reid said they still wanted to do a soft open in 2026 but they would focus on finishing the county wide study first before looking at the KAA boundaries early next year.

[Anonymous]

Meren has a lot of upset constituents now, between her constituents who do or do not want to move to Western (or in some cases do not want others moving to Western), and people in Vienna upset about potential Madison/Marshall boundary changes. It doesn’t help when Reid shows up at meetings and provides a lot of false assurances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, if what Meren says is correct about delaying the opening, why didn't Reid mention that at the Saturday meeting?

Because the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing? Idk I’ve worked in plenty of dysfunctional organizations and this all seems pretty par for the course, lots of people making statements that may or may not be true and never checking with anyone else first, lots of abrupt deadline changes, lots of “well let’s fold in this slightly related but ultimately not core project into this larger project so we can fix both things at the same time” muddying the waters.

DP. It might be somewhere in the middle. At the Chantilly meeting, Reid said they still wanted to do a soft open in 2026 but they would focus on finishing the county wide study first before looking at the KAA boundaries early next year.

What is a “soft open” for a high school? How would people have any idea what they are signing their kids up for, other than that it wouldn’t have VHSL sports?

I’ve yet to see a compelling reason why they shouldn’t delay opening Western until it has three grades, with only juniors given an automatic option to remain at their current schools.

[Anonymous]

What is a “soft open” for a high school? How would people have any idea what they are signing their kids up for, other than that it wouldn’t have VHSL sports?

I think it falls in the same category as a "drafty draft."