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Anonymous
Half my federal taxes do not go to California, like more than half my property taxes and some of my state taxes go to FCPS. I have much more invested in the local school system. |
Anonymous
The mental gymnastics that you do to justify meddling in kids’ schools is mind boggling. |
Anonymous
It’s not mental gymnastics. You just can’t see beyond your limited perspective. |
Anonymous
Non current parents on BRAC can feel strongly about boundary changes. FPAC https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/D65RXW6F30ED/$file/FPAC%20SY%202023-2024%20Annual%20Report.pdf That is FPAC which has taken up the MS 6-8 quest. Those members need to run some spreadsheets- All to 7 and 8 should have been done... Do any FPAC reports request information on sites and academies? The CIP does provide gross and net building square footage for some sites. Example Kilmer [core instruction including ESL, AAP a a center , gen ed, sped] and Kilmer Center. No info on transfer data available. Impact of low load classes on site? Attrition in FLI? Low numbers of IB diploma candidates so a class might be run for less than 20? Hunters Woods 50% removed from inventory due to magnet with additional funding per pupil? Kent Gardens cap removed from inventory for out of boundary out of pyramid? Now what' going on with Dunne and his montesorri? That thing will be the only single pyramid access special program. Hunters Woods is South Lakes pyramid and Hunter Mill Magisterial District. Should Meren cut off the numerous other pyramids? |
Anonymous
Exactly. I believed the rumors that plans were already drawn up at central office. |
Anonymous
Lots of conspiracy theorists on here. |
Anonymous
You aren’t too bright. If you read what FCPS has posted about the potential benefits of boundary changes it sounds like they started out with boundary changes they wanted to make and then came up with rather contrived rationales to justify them. One example is the notion that moving kids out of schools that aren’t even overcrowded would make it easier for other kids to pupil place into those schools. |
Anonymous
Of course, that won't include those who were moved out. So, no grandfathering of younger kids, but they will let some pupil place? This is flat out crazy. I recall during 2008 redistricting that there was a parent of a child with some kind of special need who wanted to pupil place her daughter in the former assigned high school with most of her friends from elementary school (The elementary school had all been assigned to one high school and, as a result of the boundary change, almost all of the elementary continued at that school, but a small portion of the elementary was switched to the new one.) School Board --with Stu Gibson's "guidance" refused the request. After reading about how the SB handled the Hayfield fiasco, it is clear they do what they want. |
Anonymous
+1 2 or 3 seats out of 50 would be the right amount of voice. The vast majority should have been parents. |
Anonymous
According to the census, there are 412,663 households in Fairfax County. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/fairfaxcountyvirginia/HSD410223#HSD410223 According to FCPS, there are almost 183,000 students in FCPS. Some households have more than one adult and some households have more than one child in the public schools. So, any guesses for what percentage of adults in the county have no children currently in the schools? My guess is between 60-70%. You seem to be saying that the very large majority of households with no children currently enrolled in the public schools only deserve 4-6% representation. I am not suggesting that it should be commensurate with the population or even close to it, but it should be more than 4-6%. Perhaps, 2-3 seats for those with under 5 year olds, 2-3 seats for those whose children are within 5 years of their high school graduation and 2-3 for the others. |
Anonymous
DP. My biggest issue with the whole process is that the school board has intentionally marginalized the very families who will be most affected by the changes. That’s of course intentional but it’s just so richly ironic that the left now seeks to silence its victims. |
Anonymous
It's ironic that all your assumptions are based on conspiracy. |
Anonymous
DP. It all starts with the fact that no one associated with FCPS has remotely made a compelling case for boundary adjustments at a time when enrollment is flat and birth rates are declining. Add to that the fact that, as discussed earlier, the purported benefits described by FCPS seem contrived. All told, it feels like we’re being asked to go along with some Orwellian farce, where anything can be done to advance an “equity” agenda, so long as that word is replaced with “efficiency” as often as possible. Maybe the concerns expressed by posters here will turn out to be unfounded, and the scale of the changes will be more modest and aligned with what the affected communities actually want. If so, that will be despite the lack of candor on the part of Reid and the School Board, and largely due to people finding other avenues to express their concerns even when Reid and the School Board tried their hardest to orchestrate a process where those concerns would be ignored. |
Anonymous
I used to be a single person living in Fairfax, and now I'm a married parent of two living in Fairfax. I used to think along the lines of this comment and even a few pages back on this thread thought it was a bit odd that there were non-parents on this thread. However, I will say that when I was single and living in Fairfax, I did note that many of my taxes were going into the school system......so to say that those people should be less represented isn't really fair. |
Anonymous
If you’ve been following the news, you know that Fairfax County has an estimated $300M budget deficit for FY26 that will balloon to $500M or more in FY28. Meanwhile, the FCPS teachers union has voted itself an additional $150M in salary increases to bring FCPS teacher salaries in line with salaries in neighboring counties (not reflected in the budget figures). Meanwhile, WMATA continues to seeks additional funding to maintain metro operations in Fairfax County. The County Board of Supervisors has stated publicly that there will be belt tightening across the board, given taxpayers will not tolerate the property tax increase necessary to make up the funding shortfall, and specifically that FCPS should not expect the funding increases it has regularly received in recent years. Maintaining the status quo in FCPS with a flat budget isn’t feasible given annual inflation—with flat budget, FCPS will face a 2-3% funding shortfall in FY26 and a 5-8% funding shortfall in FY28 assuming it ignores the teachers union’s demands for salary parity with neighboring counties (which could lead to teacher walkouts — albeit not strikes). Making up any significant funding shortfall in one year is very difficult when 95% of the FCPS budget is spent on salaries and transportation. |