Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

This is such a mess. Meren tries to pay more attention than most, and she can't keep up and ends up confusing people. Most of the rest of them have no clue. They just want to give Reid a blank check and Reid doesn't have the slightest idea what she's doing when it comes to boundaries.

[Anonymous]

At least Meren tries. Sandy Anderson is actively trolling her constituents. From tonight’s newsletter:

“ Finally, the Superintendent’s recommendations for the Comprehensive School Boundary Review will be presented to the Board at the January 8 Regular Meeting, followed by a public hearing on Saturday, January 10, 2026. I encourage you to visit the FCPS website for details on how to sign up to speak and to review the information that has already been shared about the boundary review process.”

The link she shared provided no info on how to sign up to speak at that meeting.

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Anonymous wrote:West Springfield parents have claimed for years that the enrollment would decline significantly the next year and it didn’t happen. It’s a classic case of crying wolf. You could even be right this time but you’ve been wrong so many times that your credibility is shot.

Fun fact, that's because the number of transfers into the school, which has been closed to transfers for years, continues to rise. Last year it was like 60 kids. And no one at Gatehouse can explain why. WSHS families have asked. But gotten nowhere on this.

Exactly this.

They did say some were for German immersion, which violates FCPS own policy on language transfers.

If a school is closed to transfers like WSHS for over a decade, then the kids requesting language transfers are supposed to attend the next closest school offering the language, with parents providing their own transportation, or take the language online.

I don't know what other high schools offer German, but zero students should be approved for transferring into WSHS for German, based on FCPS own long standing language transfer policiy.

And to the parent saying WSHS parents are "crying wolf" what they have been saying for years is that once class on 2026 graduates, WSHS enrollment will drop steadily, since class of 2026 is around 130 students larger than the replacement class of 8th graders, class of 2027 is much larger than the replacement 7th grade class, and 2028/2029 much larger than the current 5th and 6th grade classes.

Both Irving and WSHS will see drops in the next 1-4 years that will put WSHS just slightly over full capacity, with zero need for rezoning.

If WSHS sends most of the 50-60 transfer students back to their neighborhood high schools, and starts to enforce the closed to transfers rule as written by FCPS, then WSHS would not need any rezoning as there are more transfers into WSHS than Sangster kids who are part of the neighborhood, getting kicked out by FCPS.

They could get it slightly wrong and WSHS would still have a huge enrollment. This school is regularly given preferential treatment and treated with kid gloves.

Oh please. It's a middle class school. We aren't talking about Langley or McLean here.

Renovation of WSHS was moved up in the queue as part of the brokered deal to close Clifton ES.

Renovation and expansion was bigger than other schools built in the mid-60s (Facilities head at the time was a WSHS graduate). If WA had only been expanded to the size of an Edison or Marshall kids would already have been moved out of WSHS.

There’s never been a proposal to move WSHS kids to adjacent Lewis, despite the obvious imbalance in enrollments.

It’s more favorable treatment than Langley gets and far more favorable treatment than McLean gets.

That's absolutely untrue. Kids have moved from WSHS to Lewis (or then Lee HS) over the years. Despite what the school board says, there have been boundary changes throughout the last 40 years. And maybe WSHS moved up in the queue, but the school's condition had deteriorated to the point where you could see the first floor from the second floor in some of the classrooms. There are plenty of complaints that can be made about how they manage the renovation list.

You’re not really denying the favorable treatment that West Springfield has received from FCPS, only rationalizing it.

And do let us know the last time anyone was moved from West Springfield to Lee/Lewis. We’ll wait.

The CIP proposes capacity enhancements to Langley,
Herndon, Oakton and West Springfield High Schools as
part of their renovations and additions at Westbriar
Elementary and South Lakes High Schools to expand
the schools’ capacities.

So 5 high schools were approved in the same CIP, but one of them got special treatment? That isn’t what special treatment means.

https://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/9RS2U3647CAD/$file/Proposed%20CIP%202016-20_Final_Web.pdf

This doesn't mean what you seem to think it means. WS got a larger expansion than Langley even though it sits next to an under-enrolled school and Langley sits next to an overcrowded one. And it's renovation was accelerated in exchange for closing Clifton ES permanently.

Anyway, still waiting for that data on the last time anyone from West Springfield got moved to Lee/Lewis.

Sure it does.

Lee High School has lost enrollment slowly over a period of time. WSHS renovations were approved in 2009. When we looked for a house in the area 2008, Lee was not under enrolled.

Of course WHSH got a larger expansion, it was a bigger school. Langley is only 2000 kids.

Lee had under 1800 kids at the time. Under-enrolled then and even more under-enrolled now.

In any event, leaving WS with over 2800 kids and Lewis with only slightly over 1500 now underscores what a farce this current boundary review has been.

Lewis would have around 1800 students if FCPS ditched IB and made it an AP school, and put AAP at Key, so Lewis wasn't losing 300 students per year for pupil placement.

For the size of the Lewis building,1800 students wouldbe a fairly full school.

Lewis design capacity over 2100.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least Meren tries. Sandy Anderson is actively trolling her constituents. From tonight’s newsletter:

“ Finally, the Superintendent’s recommendations for the Comprehensive School Boundary Review will be presented to the Board at the January 8 Regular Meeting, followed by a public hearing on Saturday, January 10, 2026. I encourage you to visit the FCPS website for details on how to sign up to speak and to review the information that has already been shared about the boundary review process.”

The link she shared provided no info on how to sign up to speak at that meeting.

+1M. She also gaslighted her constituents in that newsletter by saying the no transportation is all Reid's idea (when Sandy has been pushing it from day one). Then last night, when she realized she would not have enough votes to pass the no transportation motion (especially since Rachna can't vote anymore), she passed around a note and told her SB supporters to just abstain from the vote so they can pass it when Dixit comes back. I'm honestly not sure who the students and families she claims to care about Actually are, because she seems to actually dislike her constituents. I'm not even in a neighborhood that was ever proposed to move, yet I've been following closely and upset by her incompetence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is such a mess. Meren tries to pay more attention than most, and she can't keep up and ends up confusing people. Most of the rest of them have no clue. They just want to give Reid a blank check and Reid doesn't have the slightest idea what she's doing when it comes to boundaries.

Does Michelle have any idea what she’s doing when it comes to anything?

The school board dances around them with their manipulative and grifter ways that nothing gets done.

Unless Michelle is the master manipulator and gets her way in getting a security detail or a fat salary.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At least Meren tries. Sandy Anderson is actively trolling her constituents. From tonight’s newsletter:

“ Finally, the Superintendent’s recommendations for the Comprehensive School Boundary Review will be presented to the Board at the January 8 Regular Meeting, followed by a public hearing on Saturday, January 10, 2026. I encourage you to visit the FCPS website for details on how to sign up to speak and to review the information that has already been shared about the boundary review process.”

The link she shared provided no info on how to sign up to speak at that meeting.

+1M. She also gaslighted her constituents in that newsletter by saying the no transportation is all Reid's idea (when Sandy has been pushing it from day one). Then last night, when she realized she would not have enough votes to pass the no transportation motion (especially since Rachna can't vote anymore), she passed around a note and told her SB supporters to just abstain from the vote so they can pass it when Dixit comes back. I'm honestly not sure who the students and families she claims to care about Actually are, because she seems to actually dislike her constituents. I'm not even in a neighborhood that was ever proposed to move, yet I've been following closely and upset by her incompetence.

The school board manipulated our children by waving their new high school in everyone’s faces and is now playing keep away with the new high school and walking back the comments they’ve made to boost enthusiasm about it.

Meren’s not alone in this cycle of psychological abuse, but played a big part in it with her email.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meren just walked back her remarks in a Facebook post.

All it means is that she won’t push for it now but it is her plan if Fox Mill stays at SLHS. Any Fox Mill ES family that doesn’t want to move to Hughes will need to decide if they want to stay at Carson and push for Western HS or end up at Hughes and SLHS. They are not going to keep Fox Mill at Carson is Fox Mill is not at Western. They will get rid of part of the split feeder at Carson.

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Anonymous wrote:At least Meren tries. Sandy Anderson is actively trolling her constituents. From tonight’s newsletter:

“ Finally, the Superintendent’s recommendations for the Comprehensive School Boundary Review will be presented to the Board at the January 8 Regular Meeting, followed by a public hearing on Saturday, January 10, 2026. I encourage you to visit the FCPS website for details on how to sign up to speak and to review the information that has already been shared about the boundary review process.”

The link she shared provided no info on how to sign up to speak at that meeting.

+1M. She also gaslighted her constituents in that newsletter by saying the no transportation is all Reid's idea (when Sandy has been pushing it from day one). Then last night, when she realized she would not have enough votes to pass the no transportation motion (especially since Rachna can't vote anymore), she passed around a note and told her SB supporters to just abstain from the vote so they can pass it when Dixit comes back. I'm honestly not sure who the students and families she claims to care about Actually are, because she seems to actually dislike her constituents. I'm not even in a neighborhood that was ever proposed to move, yet I've been following closely and upset by her incompetence.

You're talking about Sandy Anderson, not Meren, right?

From what I can tell, she's not very bright but super petty and very big on throwing her limited political weight around. She definitely gets off on inflicting hardship on others. Basically she's Exhibit A for why we'd be better off if this county were split into multiple jurisdictions and people who don't live in her area didn't have to be affected in any way by her existence.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Meren just walked back her remarks in a Facebook post.

All it means is that she won’t push for it now but it is her plan if Fox Mill stays at SLHS. Any Fox Mill ES family that doesn’t want to move to Hughes will need to decide if they want to stay at Carson and push for Western HS or end up at Hughes and SLHS. They are not going to keep Fox Mill at Carson is Fox Mill is not at Western. They will get rid of part of the split feeder at Carson.

At some point FCPS is going to make it their and probably find a way to squeeze in capacity, at 340,000+ sqft, it has enough room to hold more students if they fill in the pool and get rid of one of the gyms, cafeterias, and add interior infills where the space is open to add classrooms.