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FCPS Boundary Review Updates
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Anonymous
As someone who experienced a FCPS boundary change years ago, I don’t think there was any major damage to my mental health. Freshman year at a high school I hadn’t planned or wanted to attend sucked. Most of the kids knew each other from middle school but I only knew kids from my elementary school, and some of them had attended a different middle school. I felt like an outsider crashing a party without an invitation. But things did improve the next year. Getting involved in some activities was key. Not saying they should change boundaries without a compelling reason, just that the rhetoric is overblown. A boundary change is inconvenient and disruptive, and parents can have some unhappy kids on their hands for a while, but it’s not going to send them off to a psych ward. |
Anonymous
Nah, they’ll end up tinkering at the edges and leave almost everyone alone. |
Anonymous
Well, by all means let’s extrapolate your rose-colored experience from years ago and jump to conclusions about how boundary changes would affect any kid in the county. |
Anonymous
But you got to do all 4 years at the new HS. People are concerned that their kids may have to move DURING HS. Maybe even having to move from a HS with AP classes to a HS without them, or that doesn’t have as many or the ones they wanted to take. They need to address the issue of letting kids finish out HS at the same school. What if you had to start over during your important sophomore or junior year of HS, and get to know new teachers and counselors within a matter of months in order to get recommendations that would have been easy to get at your old school? Thats the kind of thing people are concerned about. Also the age range of students who would be affected by a boundary change are also kids who had over a whole year of schooling disrupted due to Covid closures. |
Anonymous
I didn’t think this was a rose-colored version of events. Although I did fine academically, socially I felt adrift for my entire freshman year and I think some others in my situation felt similarly. I think you’re confirming, though that a boundary change might be more earth-shattering for some parents whose ideas of status are wrapped up with their kids attending a particular school than it ultimately would be for the kids. |
Anonymous
College application now are SO different than 20-30 years ago when you were a teenager. Moving kids during high school is unconscionable, especially when no one at the bigger schools are asking to be rezoned. |
Anonymous
Yes, totally fair points. Moving kids after they’ve already started HS would be considerably more disruptive. Sometimes it happens when a new school opens, but that’s a different situation because everyone is new to the school. |
Anonymous
That is not an objective measure. Give me a specific example. Something we can say “that was not previously proposed, and it is beyond the expected scope.” Keeping in mind the 60%-105% is an expectation that was previously set. |
Anonymous
Sorry, but you don't know any parents of teens if you think that the push back against rezoning is because parents are "wrapped up in status." What a rude post. Parents, nearly all of them, want what is best for their kids, period, and don't want their kids used as political pawns based on their grades, race and ethnic background, One Fairfax "equity", and their parents' jobs. |
Anonymous
I am in a group of women where we are all ages (20-90’s). We started talking about moving high school mid stream and about a quarter of the women experienced this. I thought that was a high number, but moving kids around during high school has been happening since the inception of high schools and it happened much more frequently than here. Some moved because of growth, some moved because schools were closing due to dropping enrollment, some moved because of parents moving, some moved because of boundary changes. It is just something that happens. I think people are blowing things out of proportion here. Yes, it will take some adjustment, but it hardly the doom and gloom that several posters are predicting. Life happens. This area is already fairly transient and the schools know how to help new students adapt and thrive in their new school. If this is the worst thing that could happen to your child, that is fantastic because it means they have had an extremely unscathed life and are one of the most luck people on the planet. |
Anonymous
Unless you were st some military brats reunion, there is no way that what you are saying is accurate. The vast majority of high school srudents have never experienced a rezoning, unless it was to back fill a brand new high school, which is not even remotely close to whst the school board is doing. |
Anonymous
Maybe I am wrong, but don’t students usually ask teachers that taught them their junior year for recs? Also, not all students plan on going to college. Would it be correct for fcps to cater mostly to college bound students and families? |
Anonymous
| The last few posts sound like the school board rep who argued that FCPS should not grandfather high school students because they need to be taught "resiliancy" |
Anonymous
Too many “lawnmower” parents here. Some here argue they will move their kids to private if rezoned. Will their kids be ok? They will be torn from their communities. They will have to create new relationships with teachers. They will have longer commutes. That seems quite disruptive, along with the $30K plus tuition. |
Anonymous
I stand by my comments. Your overblown rhetoric speaks for itself. |