FCPS comprehensive boundary review

[Anonymous]

One of the reps from my pyramid is from the far end of my school's boundary. We are at the other end.

[Anonymous]

A rep from my pyramid does not live within the current boundary. Adjacent, but not in. How did he get selected? Pupil placement?

[Anonymous]

So, special ed, NAACP, Title I, LGBT, Neurodivergent, Hispanic, Asian, Black educators, etc

Notice any group that is not represented?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, special ed, NAACP, Title I, LGBT, Neurodivergent, Hispanic, Asian, Black educators, etc

Notice any group that is not represented?

The two dozen other groups off the list that you didn’t bother to mention?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, special ed, NAACP, Title I, LGBT, Neurodivergent, Hispanic, Asian, Black educators, etc

Notice any group that is not represented?

The two dozen other groups off the list that you didn’t bother to mention?

DP. Don’t be pedantic, you understand the posters point I’m sure.

[Anonymous]

Well, it is clear that there is only one agenda here.

[Anonymous]

What I find so infuriating is that the majority of the pyramid members are likely against changing their kids schools, but they are just the parents supposedly chosen at random. Meanwhile, the professional equity guild has likely been hand-selected to overpower the pyramid participants.

It’s a farce.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, special ed, NAACP, Title I, LGBT, Neurodivergent, Hispanic, Asian, Black educators, etc

Notice any group that is not represented?

The two dozen other groups off the list that you didn’t bother to mention?

DP. Don’t be pedantic, you understand the posters point I’m sure.

DP, no I don’t. Spell it out for me, please.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, special ed, NAACP, Title I, LGBT, Neurodivergent, Hispanic, Asian, Black educators, etc

Notice any group that is not represented?

The two dozen other groups off the list that you didn’t bother to mention?

DP. Don’t be pedantic, you understand the posters point I’m sure.

DP, no I don’t. Spell it out for me, please.

Pretty obvious: the average kid is not represented. The non-minority kid is not represented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I find so infuriating is that the majority of the pyramid members are likely against changing their kids schools, but they are just the parents supposedly chosen at random. Meanwhile, the professional equity guild has likely been hand-selected to overpower the pyramid participants.

It’s a farce.

The committee is huge. Over 100 members. I know they’re “supposed to” meet in person all the time, but I’m curious to hear from a BRAC rep how many people are showing up and how these meetings are going. I can’t imagine running a meeting with that many people. Crazy land.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, special ed, NAACP, Title I, LGBT, Neurodivergent, Hispanic, Asian, Black educators, etc

Notice any group that is not represented?

The two dozen other groups off the list that you didn’t bother to mention?

DP. Don’t be pedantic, you understand the posters point I’m sure.

DP, no I don’t. Spell it out for me, please.

Pretty obvious: the average kid is not represented. The non-minority kid is not represented.

I don’t understand the inclusion of many of these groups on the BRAC. For instance, why FCPS Pride? Do these employees really need a special spot on the Committee? How do their interest in this diverge from other employees? Can anyone articulate how they may be more impacted by boundary changes such that they should have a place in the committee?

Seems like fcps is just stacking the deck with allies to push its own agenda. Also seems very illegal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, special ed, NAACP, Title I, LGBT, Neurodivergent, Hispanic, Asian, Black educators, etc

Notice any group that is not represented?

The two dozen other groups off the list that you didn’t bother to mention?

DP. Don’t be pedantic, you understand the posters point I’m sure.

DP, no I don’t. Spell it out for me, please.

Pretty obvious: the average kid is not represented. The non-minority kid is not represented.

There’s a rep for AAP, the PTA, elementary, middle, and high school principals, general education reps, a rep for military families…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This just made it more obvious that HVES will shift to Lewis.

Didn’t HVES go to Lewis before South County opened, or at least a portion of it? I was researching the redistricting that occurred when South County was built and HV had been pushing to be included in South County. It was ultimately decided that Mason Neck would be zoned to South County instead because the kids had close to an hour long one way bus ride to get to Hayfield and South County is much closer geographically to Mason Neck. However, as a compromise to HV (either the whole school or a neighborhood- they were rezoned from Lewis to WSHS.) This situation has been created over the past 20 years by continuing to move middle class areas out of Lewis.

Most of Hunt Valley has always been zoned for West Springfield.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

This just made it more obvious that HVES will shift to Lewis.

Didn’t HVES go to Lewis before South County opened, or at least a portion of it? I was researching the redistricting that occurred when South County was built and HV had been pushing to be included in South County. It was ultimately decided that Mason Neck would be zoned to South County instead because the kids had close to an hour long one way bus ride to get to Hayfield and South County is much closer geographically to Mason Neck. However, as a compromise to HV (either the whole school or a neighborhood- they were rezoned from Lewis to WSHS.) This situation has been created over the past 20 years by continuing to move middle class areas out of Lewis.

All of Hunt Valley was an original WSHS school since HV opened in 1969. WSHS opened in 1966 and HV 3 years later.

All of HV has always been zoned for WSHS, except for a short stint when a small portion of it off Gambrill was a split feeder to Lewis.

The split feeder was corrected in the early 2000s when South County opened.

The vast majority of Hunt Valley remained a WSHS feeder, as it always has been since it opened over 50 years ago.

Most of Hunt Valley has spent the entirety of its 55 year existence zoned for WSHS.

A small portion of Hunt Valley off Gambrill road has spent the majority of its time, more than 40 years, zoned for WSHS and a small portion as a split feeder to Lee, around 15 years.

Saratoga Mom claiming that Hunt Valley is historically a Lewis feeder is just wrong and spreading mistruths.

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Anonymous wrote:Committee members are up!

https://www.fcps.edu/members-superintendents-boundary-review-advisory-committee

Anyone see anything particularly interesting?

BOTH of the picks from WSHS are from Hunt Valley

Haha. I bet they are.

As a HVES parent I would like to personally thank the fake news article that lit a fire within our community.

Hopefully, some other WSHS parents will catch on and stop the process. It can’t possibly be fair when 2 people from the same school will push the rest of us out.

I don't know - I would hope they'd advocate for no one to have to leave WSHS.

From what I have heard, this is the goal