Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

It makes no sense to give all these different proposals, put them out for response and then to present something different with no response.

They should have presented proposals and asked for response--and made decisions based on the validity of the justification of the responses. I do think it reasonable to give liberal pupil placement to siblings.
Complaining about the demographics of another school is not a good justification.

[Anonymous]

So scenario 4 is basically what we’re going with to try to get approved and finalized, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So scenario 4 is basically what we’re going with to try to get approved and finalized, right?

There are obviously revisions to Scenario 4. They are just keeping them under wraps so they can meet their timetable of a January 2026 board meeting to approve the final changes.

[Anonymous]

That’s the thing we will have 48 hours from map to public comment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate that they are bringing public into this. You are there to make the best decisions for the county schools; not listen to a bunch of self interest serving parents. Make the best choices and we will live with it.

Agreed. They should have drafted plans to explore as a school board based on a specific criteria and then made a decision. Very few people want to change schools, the vast majority of people are happy with their school. The ones who want to move are normally at high FARMs schools and would be happy to move to a less poor school or at an IB school and want an AP school.

The families that I know at impoverished schools seem to be happy there and are more miffed that people look down on their schools. They find it offensive that people are so loudly trying to avoid their kids school where their kids are having a great experience.

Making this process a public one was destined to lead to disaster. And guess what happened?

That said, some of the original goals of the redistricting needed to be changed. The focus should have been on relieving the over crowding at schools and ending split feeders where they could.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate that they are bringing public into this. You are there to make the best decisions for the county schools; not listen to a bunch of self interest serving parents. Make the best choices and we will live with it.

Agreed. They should have drafted plans to explore as a school board based on a specific criteria and then made a decision. Very few people want to change schools, the vast majority of people are happy with their school. The ones who want to move are normally at high FARMs schools and would be happy to move to a less poor school or at an IB school and want an AP school.

The families that I know at impoverished schools seem to be happy there and are more miffed that people look down on their schools. They find it offensive that people are so loudly trying to avoid their kids school where their kids are having a great experience.

Making this process a public one was destined to lead to disaster. And guess what happened?

That said, some of the original goals of the redistricting needed to be changed. The focus should have been on relieving the over crowding at schools and ending split feeders where they could.

It’s funny, in your first paragraph you admit that no one wants to be moved and that the public is against it, and then ignore that to discuss mediocre reasons to move kids.

Frankly, there is only one area that should be moved, and it should have happened at the start of this school year. That area is Coates. Nothing else rises to the level of urgent need that overcomes the immense damage that unnecessary moves does to kids.

They need to revert back to the old 8130 policy of moving kids when it needs to be done, rather than implement a catastrophic solution every five years searching for a real problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate that they are bringing public into this. You are there to make the best decisions for the county schools; not listen to a bunch of self interest serving parents. Make the best choices and we will live with it.

Agreed. They should have drafted plans to explore as a school board based on a specific criteria and then made a decision. Very few people want to change schools, the vast majority of people are happy with their school. The ones who want to move are normally at high FARMs schools and would be happy to move to a less poor school or at an IB school and want an AP school.

The families that I know at impoverished schools seem to be happy there and are more miffed that people look down on their schools. They find it offensive that people are so loudly trying to avoid their kids school where their kids are having a great experience.

Making this process a public one was destined to lead to disaster. And guess what happened?

That said, some of the original goals of the redistricting needed to be changed. The focus should have been on relieving the over crowding at schools and ending split feeders where they could.

Except split feeders were never an issue. The vast majority of families in split feeders want to stay as a split feeder. Split feeders can help achieve FCPS goals and geographically are necessary. Closing split feeders was listed at close to the bottom in the county wide survey.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone else think they're going to drop the map on Friday at 5pm?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate that they are bringing public into this. You are there to make the best decisions for the county schools; not listen to a bunch of self interest serving parents. Make the best choices and we will live with it.

Agreed. They should have drafted plans to explore as a school board based on a specific criteria and then made a decision. Very few people want to change schools, the vast majority of people are happy with their school. The ones who want to move are normally at high FARMs schools and would be happy to move to a less poor school or at an IB school and want an AP school.

The families that I know at impoverished schools seem to be happy there and are more miffed that people look down on their schools. They find it offensive that people are so loudly trying to avoid their kids school where their kids are having a great experience.

Making this process a public one was destined to lead to disaster. And guess what happened?

That said, some of the original goals of the redistricting needed to be changed. The focus should have been on relieving the over crowding at schools and ending split feeders where they could.

It’s funny, in your first paragraph you admit that no one wants to be moved and that the public is against it, and then ignore that to discuss mediocre reasons to move kids.

Frankly, there is only one area that should be moved, and it should have happened at the start of this school year. That area is Coates. Nothing else rises to the level of urgent need that overcomes the immense damage that unnecessary moves does to kids.

They need to revert back to the old 8130 policy of moving kids when it needs to be done, rather than implement a catastrophic solution every five years searching for a real problem.

Just because people don’t want them doesn’t mean they are not needed. Chantilly, Centerville, WSHS, Coates, Parklawn and other schools were overcrowded. That has to be addressed whether it upsets families or not.

People complain about overcrowding but don’t want to be the ones moved. The answer when there is space at nearby schools is to move kids even if it angers the families moving.