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Anonymous
That whipsaws kids within a span of a few years from one school and back again. Under your approach, mental health is an afterthought. I swear the people who advocate for this crap are devoid of any concern for Fcps students. |
Anonymous
You’re just talking about enrollment forecasts. Since the actual capital expenditures on FCPS are based primarily on an obsolete 2008 plan, your point is largely moot. FCPS facilities planning has been and remains a joke. |
Anonymous
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What company are they using to figure this out? The parameters are vague, to say the least. Is this a situation where the company being used, is a friend of the board and a backroom deal to feed money? |
Anonymous
It’s not my approach. I am looking at the parameters. |
Anonymous
I suspect the “obsolete 2008” plan will be adjusted to reflect the boundary changes. |
Anonymous
It would be logical to have a rep [5]from each of the City of Fairfax, Towns of Herndon, Vienna plus Reston and Mclean special tax districts on the Boundary Review Advisory Committee in addition to the 48 pyramid randoms. 8000 housing units Town of Herndon or a Herndon address? Comstock was 281 residential units in "classic" downtown Herndon. Herndon HS is actually in something called Sugarland precinct [schools Langley HS and Herndon HS]and then there's Herndon 1, 2, 3 plus Clearview, Hutchison etc. North of Sugarland [route 7 partial border ] is Seneca. |
Anonymous
They are in way over their heads. Pretending it’s 1984 again when FCPS has spent the last 40 years installing different programs at different schools and then encouraging parents to find the schools that appeal most to their families will backfire spectacularly. If there is any consolation it is knowing this debacle in the making may spell the end of the political careers of idiots like Karl Frisch. |
Anonymous
The company hired is Thru. https://www.thru.co/ |
Anonymous
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Fairfax County is composed--I think- of mostly people from other places in the United States and around the world. One thing that most of the people share in common is that they are from "somewhere else."
The one thing people crave is stability. Why would a school system destroy that? What is going to be the result? A fruitbasket turnover. Even the kids who stay where they are are likely to lose friends to other schools. Some will be transferred with lots of friends. Others will be transferred with just a few. Some will stay in their community where they have played sports and participated in other activities, etc. Others will be shifted to a place where they may not know anyone. The School Board needs to look at themselves. How many of them have come from elsewhere? Most or all of them. Do they not understand? Would they want their own kids (most of whom are grown) to go through this? That is doubtful. I'm guessing that McElveen would like his girls to have a stable environment and likely bought his own home with that in mind. Do you think Rachna would have appreciated this for her son? Do you think Moon's community wants this? Lady wants Great Falls for her Herndon school. Who knows what Frisch really wants except to get political points from his Progressive base. I think most of us want what is best for ALL children, but our own come first. I just don't see where any kids are going to benefit from this. This is NOT about the kids, it is about test scores on paper. Just like the renaming--it has no effect. Most of the boundaries were created for a reason. Until 2008, it was for convenience. Then, it became extremely political when one school's PTA was given the power to pick and choose from other schools. It worked for that school at the expense of others. |
Anonymous
This does not give me any confidence in this process. People who have made a career of telling other people what to do without doing it themselves. Think Instructional Coaches on steroids. I saw nothing about redistricting. I saw nothing about a sense of the communities in Fairfax County. I saw nothing about IB/AP. I also saw nothing about success. |
Anonymous
“Thru Consulting” is a fair name. They are basically a conduit for the left-wing zealots on the School Board to effect the changes they want to make. The changes can be laundered “thru” the consulting firm so board members can assert they are acting based on third-party recommendations. |
Anonymous
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So it appears this GIS tool is designed to play around with boundaries on a map to "capture" the right amount of non-poor kids just outside of an existing low-SES HS boundary.
The options to make this whole thing work appear to be: 1) cut over entire high SES elementary schools to adjacent low-SES pyramid pros: only affects a concentrated localized population cons: maximum disruption to that population 2) adjust the majority of ES boundaries across multiple pyramids to 'equitize' two adjacent high schools pros: maintains proximity, community, transportation cons: highest level of disruption, potentially affects all not living a stone's throw from elementary school 3) low-SES high school pyramid captures adjacent high-SES high school student population, pros: minimizes the breadth of population disruption within donor pyramids cons: maximizes negative impact on that population (proximity, community, transportation) The unspoken con for each of these options is that it results in papering up the low-SES high school to mask instead of help its failing student population. I am in the WSHS pyramid and am thinking how terrible the consequences could be for a Hunt Valley family that is told either Saratoga is their new ES, or HVES is now cutover to Lewis. |
Anonymous
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Can't help but think of these consultants doing this based only on numbers and percentages. They have no idea of the communities involved.
For years, I have thought that the SB was clueless. They have finally completed "jumping the shark." |
Anonymous
They work with Alexandria City Schools so you know that they know their stuff *sarcasm* |
Anonymous
| I also think that if they are doing this every 5 years, they should wait to see if these schools they are saying will be over capacity actually are. I really and truly don't think WSHS will be over capacity. |