FCPS comprehensive boundary review

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Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t public schools strive to educate ALL students by offering as many courses and athletic options as possible?

If you think your kid might be a “pawn” in this possible plan, private school might be an option or a home closer to your desired school.

Your LCD vision of public schools will drive UMC/MC families away.

I wouldn’t be too quick to drive those families out of the school district, because from what I hear the Fcps schools are cash strapped, and man are those state wide vouchers going to cut deep in Fcps.

All you equity warriors may want to stop and think for a moment before you screw up the entire county.

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Some of us have roots on both coasts and are ready to move in the blink of an eye. Say goodbye to our taxes.

Don’t wait, leave now!

Your home will be repurchased quickly, so no worries about the taxes.

FCPS would be better off without parents like you.

DP. All we hear from the equity pushers is that you desperately need our kids. Make up your minds already.
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The family of a similar economic status who can afford your house will do just as well. Your kid is very replaceable in this equation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t public schools strive to educate ALL students by offering as many courses and athletic options as possible?

If you think your kid might be a “pawn” in this possible plan, private school might be an option or a home closer to your desired school.

Your LCD vision of public schools will drive UMC/MC families away.

I wouldn’t be too quick to drive those families out of the school district, because from what I hear the Fcps schools are cash strapped, and man are those state wide vouchers going to cut deep in Fcps.

All you equity warriors may want to stop and think for a moment before you screw up the entire county.

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Some of us have roots on both coasts and are ready to move in the blink of an eye. Say goodbye to our taxes.

Don’t wait, leave now!

Your home will be repurchased quickly, so no worries about the taxes.

FCPS would be better off without parents like you.

DP. All we hear from the equity pushers is that you desperately need our kids. Make up your minds already.
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You need to get your hearing checked then. That’s not what has been written except by the anti-change contingent.

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Anonymous wrote:It will be interesting to see if Sears proposes vouchers for all in her campaign. I'd consider voting for her if she did that. Also waiting to see how the sanctuary policy Youngkin is proposing shakes out

+1. We don’t need it to afford private, but FCPS school board does not deserve our funding after this equity-based redistricting.

What equity-based redistricting?

When they move MC/UMC kids to schools that are high FARMS and high ELL in an attempt to cover up the fact that they are failing the kids at those schools. Adults don't know how to do their jobs to enact policy to improve individual learners so instead they move kids around so that the test scores and other benchmarks don't look as terrible on paper.

It’s actually the exact opposite that has happened repeatedly in FCPS for the past 15+ years, but you know that. God forbid they try to undo even a small part of the damage they’ve inflicted on schools like Annandale and Lewis.

DP. What damage? Be specific.

They won't be specific of course because to do so would be to admit that they believe that certain children damage schools just by having demographics they also deem undesirable. That would be admitting to having the same thoughts as those that are trying to denigrate. Such hypocrisy.

Sounds like a self-own on your part.

It’s clear that MC/UMC kids are more likely to enable a school to offer more challenging academics and a wider range of electives and extra-curricular activities. The MC/UMC families are also far more able (and likely) to have the time and resources to participate in PTAs and booster programs.

For over 15 years, FCPS has only redistricted to move MC/UMC neighborhoods into wealthier schools. Moving Annandale kids to Woodson and Lewis kids to West Springfield are just two examples. It increased both the actual and the perceived disparities between neighboring schools. The wealthier schools got expanded and saw their enrollments grow, while the older, poorer schools get neglected.

Of course people pick up on this, and then object to potentially getting moved to the schools that FCPS itself has treated poorly. Now that FCPS is implicitly acknowledging its mistakes, and possibly poised to do something about it, people who benefitted from their past actions predictably object.

And, not surprisingly, no group defends the status quo as much as Langley parents, since that school is a case study in economic segregation facilitated by prior School Board members. They are today’s equivalent of the white supremacists who fought integration at every turn in the 1950s and 1960s.

DP. Could you please explain your first paragraph? How would sending MC/UMC kids to an underperforming school help that school? Your "argument" makes no sense at all - and your last paragraph is just the rantings of a crazy person. I mean, seriously? Do you hear yourself?

NP:

It would allow the underperforming schools to offer programs and clubs and teams that currently don’t exist. If the small underperforming school only has 6 kids interested in playing tennis, that program gets cut and they don’t have the opportunity to play. Once another neighborhood or 5 gets redistricted in, those 6 kids get peers to play with.

Repeat for foreign languages (some only offer Spanish/one other), electives, advanced classes. If there isn’t a critical mass of kids, those classes get dropped from the master schedule out of necessity. We need a minimum of 12 to run a class, but in reality if we run one class of 12, then 4 other classes at 25 kids get bumped up to 30, so it’s hard to justify less than 20. That means a lot of stuff just isn’t offered.

It seems reasonable to me that any kid in Fairfax county should have an opportunity to play a VHSL sport, play in a jazz band, have multiple choices for foreign languages, and take a full repertoire of college level classes without having to go to another campus.

—teacher at one of the underperforming middle schools (whose elective offerings have been shrinking year over year as population dwindles)

There it is. Finally admitting you are using other people’s kids as a resource. Really gross.

Instead, do your job better.

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And what is reverse. Club Sport my child plays is not offered at new school. You think that team will be up and running in time for him. Nope.

That's funny you know more than everyone on here because nothing has been proposed yet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t public schools strive to educate ALL students by offering as many courses and athletic options as possible?

If you think your kid might be a “pawn” in this possible plan, private school might be an option or a home closer to your desired school.

Your LCD vision of public schools will drive UMC/MC families away.

I wouldn’t be too quick to drive those families out of the school district, because from what I hear the Fcps schools are cash strapped, and man are those state wide vouchers going to cut deep in Fcps.

All you equity warriors may want to stop and think for a moment before you screw up the entire county.

+1
Some of us have roots on both coasts and are ready to move in the blink of an eye. Say goodbye to our taxes.

Don’t wait, leave now!

Your home will be repurchased quickly, so no worries about the taxes.

FCPS would be better off without parents like you.

DP. All we hear from the equity pushers is that you desperately need our kids. Make up your minds already.
🙄

You need to get your hearing checked then. That’s not what has been written except by the anti-change contingent.

You can’t possibly be serious. Literally two pages back when asked how would moving more middle and upper middle class kids to a school actually help that school:

“It would allow the underperforming schools to offer programs and clubs and teams that currently don’t exist.” “ Repeat for foreign languages (some only offer Spanish/one other), electives, advanced classes. If there isn’t a critical mass of kids, those classes get dropped from the master schedule out of necessity.”

And honestly - I could see how a teacher could think this way. Hey, more options for me to teach the advanced classes! More course offerings, more opportunities for teachers! It’s a good thing! But it doesn’t help the kids who are currently at the school and struggling with things like learning English, adjusting to school in the US, poverty at home, pressure to drop out and start working, pregnancy, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t public schools strive to educate ALL students by offering as many courses and athletic options as possible?

If you think your kid might be a “pawn” in this possible plan, private school might be an option or a home closer to your desired school.

Your LCD vision of public schools will drive UMC/MC families away.

I wouldn’t be too quick to drive those families out of the school district, because from what I hear the Fcps schools are cash strapped, and man are those state wide vouchers going to cut deep in Fcps.

All you equity warriors may want to stop and think for a moment before you screw up the entire county.

+1
Some of us have roots on both coasts and are ready to move in the blink of an eye. Say goodbye to our taxes.

Don’t wait, leave now!

Your home will be repurchased quickly, so no worries about the taxes.

FCPS would be better off without parents like you.

DP. All we hear from the equity pushers is that you desperately need our kids. Make up your minds already.
🙄

You need to get your hearing checked then. That’s not what has been written except by the anti-change contingent.

You can’t possibly be serious. Literally two pages back when asked how would moving more middle and upper middle class kids to a school actually help that school:

“It would allow the underperforming schools to offer programs and clubs and teams that currently don’t exist.” “ Repeat for foreign languages (some only offer Spanish/one other), electives, advanced classes. If there isn’t a critical mass of kids, those classes get dropped from the master schedule out of necessity.”

And honestly - I could see how a teacher could think this way. Hey, more options for me to teach the advanced classes! More course offerings, more opportunities for teachers! It’s a good thing! But it doesn’t help the kids who are currently at the school and struggling with things like learning English, adjusting to school in the US, poverty at home, pressure to drop out and start working, pregnancy, etc.

DP. Let’s not pretend you care about these other kids. You clearly do not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t public schools strive to educate ALL students by offering as many courses and athletic options as possible?

If you think your kid might be a “pawn” in this possible plan, private school might be an option or a home closer to your desired school.

Your LCD vision of public schools will drive UMC/MC families away.

I wouldn’t be too quick to drive those families out of the school district, because from what I hear the Fcps schools are cash strapped, and man are those state wide vouchers going to cut deep in Fcps.

All you equity warriors may want to stop and think for a moment before you screw up the entire county.

+1
Some of us have roots on both coasts and are ready to move in the blink of an eye. Say goodbye to our taxes.

Don’t wait, leave now!

Your home will be repurchased quickly, so no worries about the taxes.

FCPS would be better off without parents like you.

DP. All we hear from the equity pushers is that you desperately need our kids. Make up your minds already.
🙄

You need to get your hearing checked then. That’s not what has been written except by the anti-change contingent.

You can’t possibly be serious. Literally two pages back when asked how would moving more middle and upper middle class kids to a school actually help that school:

“It would allow the underperforming schools to offer programs and clubs and teams that currently don’t exist.” “ Repeat for foreign languages (some only offer Spanish/one other), electives, advanced classes. If there isn’t a critical mass of kids, those classes get dropped from the master schedule out of necessity.”

And honestly - I could see how a teacher could think this way. Hey, more options for me to teach the advanced classes! More course offerings, more opportunities for teachers! It’s a good thing! But it doesn’t help the kids who are currently at the school and struggling with things like learning English, adjusting to school in the US, poverty at home, pressure to drop out and start working, pregnancy, etc.

DP. Let’s not pretend you care about these other kids. You clearly do not.

I have enough awareness of the issues to know that putting ~100 high SES students into a struggling HS isn’t going to do jack all for any student on any end of the income spectrum. It’s pretty obvious and yet here we are …

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t public schools strive to educate ALL students by offering as many courses and athletic options as possible?

If you think your kid might be a “pawn” in this possible plan, private school might be an option or a home closer to your desired school.

Your LCD vision of public schools will drive UMC/MC families away.

I wouldn’t be too quick to drive those families out of the school district, because from what I hear the Fcps schools are cash strapped, and man are those state wide vouchers going to cut deep in Fcps.

All you equity warriors may want to stop and think for a moment before you screw up the entire county.

+1
Some of us have roots on both coasts and are ready to move in the blink of an eye. Say goodbye to our taxes.

Don’t wait, leave now!

Your home will be repurchased quickly, so no worries about the taxes.

FCPS would be better off without parents like you.

DP. All we hear from the equity pushers is that you desperately need our kids. Make up your minds already.
🙄

You need to get your hearing checked then. That’s not what has been written except by the anti-change contingent.

You can’t possibly be serious. Literally two pages back when asked how would moving more middle and upper middle class kids to a school actually help that school:

“It would allow the underperforming schools to offer programs and clubs and teams that currently don’t exist.” “ Repeat for foreign languages (some only offer Spanish/one other), electives, advanced classes. If there isn’t a critical mass of kids, those classes get dropped from the master schedule out of necessity.”

And honestly - I could see how a teacher could think this way. Hey, more options for me to teach the advanced classes! More course offerings, more opportunities for teachers! It’s a good thing! But it doesn’t help the kids who are currently at the school and struggling with things like learning English, adjusting to school in the US, poverty at home, pressure to drop out and start working, pregnancy, etc.

DP. Let’s not pretend you care about these other kids. You clearly do not.

I have enough awareness of the issues to know that putting ~100 high SES students into a struggling HS isn’t going to do jack all for any student on any end of the income spectrum. It’s pretty obvious and yet here we are …

It might be more than ~100 and then you’ll whine even harder.

[Anonymous]

I don't want my kid interacting with poor people

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't want my kid interacting with poor people

Private, homeschool, move or stfu

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want my kid interacting with poor people

Private, homeschool, move or stfu

Not sure it will even impact us due to AAP. You're so rude, by the way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want my kid interacting with poor people

Private, homeschool, move or stfu

Not sure it will even impact us due to AAP. You're so rude, by the way.

Shockingly there are poor people that qualify for AAP. You may want to consider all your options.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It would be enlighteninng to see which neighborhoods/elementary schools are represented on the committee. If there are six or seven elementary schools in a pyramid, then all neighborhoods are not represented. This is particularly important if neighborhoods are going to be removed from a pyramid. It does not take a rocket scientist to know that a neighborhood rep is going to look out for their own family. Someone mentioned already that one of the THREE reps from Woodson has already spoken out to keep her neighborhood at Woodson. And why does Woodson get three reps?

With the three Woodson reps that would be interesting if both Wakefield Chapel and Mantua remain at Woodson.

You can narrow down the schools that are possibly represented by checking out the asterisks by the reps names and then looking at the boundary maps. Both of the non-Mantua reps have 3 asterisks by their names so they don’t represent Wakefield Forest or Canterbury Woods. One of them is likely from Oak View. The other possible schools are Olde Creek and Little Run. Fairfax Villa doesn’t look like a split feeder but the maps are admittedly hard to read.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t public schools strive to educate ALL students by offering as many courses and athletic options as possible?

If you think your kid might be a “pawn” in this possible plan, private school might be an option or a home closer to your desired school.

Your LCD vision of public schools will drive UMC/MC families away.

I wouldn’t be too quick to drive those families out of the school district, because from what I hear the Fcps schools are cash strapped, and man are those state wide vouchers going to cut deep in Fcps.

All you equity warriors may want to stop and think for a moment before you screw up the entire county.

+1
Some of us have roots on both coasts and are ready to move in the blink of an eye. Say goodbye to our taxes.

Don’t wait, leave now!

Your home will be repurchased quickly, so no worries about the taxes.

FCPS would be better off without parents like you.

DP. All we hear from the equity pushers is that you desperately need our kids. Make up your minds already.
🙄

You need to get your hearing checked then. That’s not what has been written except by the anti-change contingent.

You can’t possibly be serious. Literally two pages back when asked how would moving more middle and upper middle class kids to a school actually help that school:

“It would allow the underperforming schools to offer programs and clubs and teams that currently don’t exist.” “ Repeat for foreign languages (some only offer Spanish/one other), electives, advanced classes. If there isn’t a critical mass of kids, those classes get dropped from the master schedule out of necessity.”

And honestly - I could see how a teacher could think this way. Hey, more options for me to teach the advanced classes! More course offerings, more opportunities for teachers! It’s a good thing! But it doesn’t help the kids who are currently at the school and struggling with things like learning English, adjusting to school in the US, poverty at home, pressure to drop out and start working, pregnancy, etc.

DP. Let’s not pretend you care about these other kids. You clearly do not.

I have enough awareness of the issues to know that putting ~100 high SES students into a struggling HS isn’t going to do jack all for any student on any end of the income spectrum. It’s pretty obvious and yet here we are …

It might be more than ~100 and then you’ll whine even harder.

It won’t matter if it’s 100 or 1000. Look at ACHS. They can offer every class ever with their massive enrollment. But it still isnt exactly “desirable.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want my kid interacting with poor people

Private, homeschool, move or stfu

Not sure it will even impact us due to AAP. You're so rude, by the way.

Shockingly there are poor people that qualify for AAP. You may want to consider all your options.

Doubt it. Have you ever spoken with one of them?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want my kid interacting with poor people

Private, homeschool, move or stfu

Yep. Actual real solutions for the troll.