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FCPS comprehensive boundary review
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Anonymous
Frequent and wordy newsletters aren't necessarily a great thing. Sizemore-Heizer puts out ones where she pats herself on the back for paragraphs on end or rambles on. Not very useful. McLaughlin used to have frequent and more pithy emails with things constituents might need to know (mostly, at least). |
Anonymous
They are “white-adjacent” and therefore “white” for the purposes of demographic redistribution. |
Anonymous
All children deserve high-performance schools. The board can make that happen by starting from scratch and moving enough high-performing children to schools that need them. In the end, all the schools and the children in them will be better off. |
Anonymous
That only works with extensive bussing which will never happen |
Anonymous
That’s kind of tired trolling. No one expects that to happen and it would entail a patchwork quilt of boundaries full of attendance islands and requiring long commutes. |
Anonymous
It's how equity troll typically writes, so it's probably equity troll. Not sure why they feel the need to interject these comments on most threads. |
Anonymous
Children already ride buses 🚌 to school. If you are saying that transit times would drastically increase trying to distribute family incomes EQUALLY, you are correct. That would result in ridiculously gerrymandered boundaries. We can make things less drastically imbalanced with boundaries that decrease transit times substantially for some children, increase it insignificantly for some, and keep it the same for many others. |
Anonymous
That’s the one dimensional thinking that the school board is using. |
Anonymous
You’re living in a ridiculous fantasy world. |
Anonymous
That's not how things work. West Potomac HS was formed by the merger of Fort Hunt HS and Groveton HS. In today's terms, Fort Hunt was like Langley and Groveton was like Annandale or Falls Church. The schools combined and, over time, West Potomac ended up looking a lot more like Groveton than Fort Hunt. |
Anonymous
That’s how blue voters operate. They will watch their schools and neighborhoods decline and continue to vote blue. The rich ones (including the politicians) can pay to mitigate the damage, whether it’s moving to a richer neighborhood whose residents take steps to protect it or putting their own children in private schools 🤷♀️. As long as they can pat themselves on the back for making the “morally superior” voting choice, it’s all good. |
Anonymous
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This seems relevant. Once the school board pushes through these unpopular and unnecessary boundary changes, vouchers are going to become much more likely in our state.
https://abcnews.go.com/538/2024-election-big-impact-education-policy/story?id=114849832 The school board will win the battle and lose the war. I’m done with their nonsense and salivating over the prospect of vouchers. |
Anonymous
In practice the School Board acts for a relatively small group - mostly White middle and upper middle class parents who bought houses zoned for low-performing schools and want FCPS to give them a windfall to increase their housing equity. They don’t realize that the short-term rush they’ll get from these changes will be outweighed by the accelerated decline in the county as a whole as a larger number of residents realize their desire for stability when it comes to school boundaries is ignored. This will translate into less support for FCPS, more support for vouchers, and more people with other options avoiding leaving or avoiding the county. |
Anonymous
You first. |
Anonymous
We can’t keep the status quo. It’s untenable for the disparities to be so vast in the same system. |