Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:lol. So funny. I just want my kids to walk to school 5 minutes away and that’s not happening

That's why we bought our house. Neighborhood with an elementary school. Best move ever!

What neighborhood has its own school? I would think a school that’s 5 minutes walk away would be the school. It use to be but they changed the boundaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:lol. So funny. I just want my kids to walk to school 5 minutes away and that’s not happening

That's why we bought our house. Neighborhood with an elementary school. Best move ever!

What neighborhood has its own school? I would think a school that’s 5 minutes walk away would be the school. It use to be but they changed the boundaries.

Lots of neighborhoods have schools. It is a public school that is in a neighborhood. It may have kids from other neighborhoods, as well.

I don't know what PP is talking about a school that is five minutes away and not going there.

[Anonymous]

I think Pp is upset they are 5 minutes walk to a neighborhood school from which they are excluded from.

[Anonymous]

When do next round of maps come out?

[Anonymous]

wonder if the big election wins in state mean more equitable boundary changes like GF to Herndon and HV to Lewis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wonder if the big election wins in state mean more equitable boundary changes like GF to Herndon and HV to Lewis.

Great Falls to Herndon is maybe a 2030 thing. It’s not happening now as much as it might make you happy.

And giving Great Falls five more years to strategize is like an eternity given how much more nimble GF is than FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

There is a neighborhood at our high school that is passionately fighting against rezoning citing "longer bus ride" as one of their reasons. The schools are about 1.5 miles apart, and to get to the new high school they would go against rush hour traffic, while the current school is with rush hour traffic, so the bus ride is really just a few minutes difference. Busses to that high school already travel through that neighborhood due to AAP and the quarter of that neighborhood that already attends the other high school.

I get putting forth your best argument, but some of the transportation arguments are very eye roll worthy and really grasping for straws, even if they are very valid in other scenarios in other parts of the county.

There were 4 main points that FCPS put out regarding how and why to change boundaries. They included proximity and transportation. Because of that, people are using bus ride arguments to make their case. If that is what FCPS claims to be focused on, it makes sense that parents will use that as their argument to stay or go. It might not be their strongest argument, but by using a FCPS priority to make their point they are hoping to garner some support.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wonder if the big election wins in state mean more equitable boundary changes like GF to Herndon and HV to Lewis.

Hunt Valley to Lewis does not make sense.

The only WSHS areas that make sense to get rezoned to Lewis are Daventry and the parts of Keene Mill Elementary that are 5 minutes from Lewis along Old Keene Mill Road, like the Tiverton townhouses, plus Harwood Place and Glenister. They probably should have been part of Lewis long ago.

If any neighborhoods from WSHS go to Lewis, it should be those areas. They are minutes from Lewis, instead of moving one of the farthest neighborhoods from Lewis. They already bus to WSHS, so it would be a shorter bus ride in the opposite direction.

But yes, the school board is going to feel incredibly emboldened over this election.

Once Brac finishes their input on Map 5, maps 6 & 7 from reid and the school board have the potential to be very disruptive and back to the equity rezoning goals they started with. The FCPS school board will have complete backing from both the state, the far left attorney general and the new super majority in the general assembly, who have openly said they are swinging hard left on every policy, especially equity stuff in schools and eliminating the ability to purchase gas cars by 2030. FFX voted 70% for these policies. The residents cannot argue otherwise after this election. FcPS now has the endorsement and support of the majority of the voters to equity rezone and bussing in the name of One Fairfax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There is a neighborhood at our high school that is passionately fighting against rezoning citing "longer bus ride" as one of their reasons. The schools are about 1.5 miles apart, and to get to the new high school they would go against rush hour traffic, while the current school is with rush hour traffic, so the bus ride is really just a few minutes difference. Busses to that high school already travel through that neighborhood due to AAP and the quarter of that neighborhood that already attends the other high school.

I get putting forth your best argument, but some of the transportation arguments are very eye roll worthy and really grasping for straws, even if they are very valid in other scenarios in other parts of the county.

There were 4 main points that FCPS put out regarding how and why to change boundaries. They included proximity and transportation. Because of that, people are using bus ride arguments to make their case. If that is what FCPS claims to be focused on, it makes sense that parents will use that as their argument to stay or go. It might not be their strongest argument, but by using a FCPS priority to make their point they are hoping to garner some support.

A 1.5 mile/5 minute variance in commute is not a valid transportation argument.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There is a neighborhood at our high school that is passionately fighting against rezoning citing "longer bus ride" as one of their reasons. The schools are about 1.5 miles apart, and to get to the new high school they would go against rush hour traffic, while the current school is with rush hour traffic, so the bus ride is really just a few minutes difference. Busses to that high school already travel through that neighborhood due to AAP and the quarter of that neighborhood that already attends the other high school.

I get putting forth your best argument, but some of the transportation arguments are very eye roll worthy and really grasping for straws, even if they are very valid in other scenarios in other parts of the county.

There were 4 main points that FCPS put out regarding how and why to change boundaries. They included proximity and transportation. Because of that, people are using bus ride arguments to make their case. If that is what FCPS claims to be focused on, it makes sense that parents will use that as their argument to stay or go. It might not be their strongest argument, but by using a FCPS priority to make their point they are hoping to garner some support.

A 1.5 mile/5 minute variance in commute is not a valid transportation argument.

Don’t tell the Sangster families that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There is a neighborhood at our high school that is passionately fighting against rezoning citing "longer bus ride" as one of their reasons. The schools are about 1.5 miles apart, and to get to the new high school they would go against rush hour traffic, while the current school is with rush hour traffic, so the bus ride is really just a few minutes difference. Busses to that high school already travel through that neighborhood due to AAP and the quarter of that neighborhood that already attends the other high school.

I get putting forth your best argument, but some of the transportation arguments are very eye roll worthy and really grasping for straws, even if they are very valid in other scenarios in other parts of the county.

There were 4 main points that FCPS put out regarding how and why to change boundaries. They included proximity and transportation. Because of that, people are using bus ride arguments to make their case. If that is what FCPS claims to be focused on, it makes sense that parents will use that as their argument to stay or go. It might not be their strongest argument, but by using a FCPS priority to make their point they are hoping to garner some support.

A 1.5 mile/5 minute variance in commute is not a valid transportation argument.

Any transportation argument, absent full analysis of the actual savings, is just dumb speculation. Posters love using distance as a proxy, but it’s a weak weak correlation to cost savings. That’s probably why transportation is and will remain an afterthought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When do next round of maps come out?

My guess: They are incorporating the western boundaries into the total boundary review and no changes will be made until 27-28.

[Anonymous]

That 27-28 change will also include removing AAP Centers at the middle school level and instead having AAP at all middle schools. Someone finally realized all these projects need to be combined into one comprehensive effort.

[Anonymous]

We wish they were this smart. But comprehensive really should be everything done at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We wish they were this smart. But comprehensive really should be everything done at the same time.

Yes I think they have finally realized that.