FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we assuming Hunt Valley will be a split feeder? They could reshuffle the other ES’s feeding into SCMS. Duds like Saratoga could take more kids. Newington is packed but they could reshuffle the south side of that zone.

Yep. Saratoga currently at 75% can take whatever excess from the neighboring newington. Easy peasy.

But Saratoga is already taking that RV split feeder, which surprisingly had over 100 students in it. I hadnt realized that area was so large. That puts Saratoga at 91% per their calculations. They could take a few more students, but not enough to put all or most of HV south of the Parkway at Newington Forest. Especially with NFES projected at 101% after they get ~40 from the Sangster island.

Halley has capacity after dumping their island to Lorton Station/Hayfield - but it’s quite a bit further away.

All of you HV to Newington people are not recognizing that Hunt Valley's enrollment is going to drop dramatically over the next couple of years, just like every other school in FCPS.

The subsequent classes after 6th grade are 20-30 students fewer than the 6th grade class.

The kindergarten class is 50 students fewer than the 6th grade class.

Rezoning Hunt Valley to SoCo is a long term disruption to a problem that needs a very short term fix.

FCPS should just add a modular class building to WSHS to bridge the gap instead of rezoning.

The capacity problem fixes itself in a couple years, without rezoning.

Yeah let’s spend more money on facilities and Modulars on a school that just had a renovation/expansion… lol

Rezonung hundreds if kids for a short term issue that will self correct in just a few years is irresponsible and wasteful.

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Anonymous wrote:Can they point to anything they’ve proposed that would actually help ensure equitable access to programs or minimize travel time for students?

All they’ve really done is punch down and propose to make some random changes to replace one ugly map with another ugly map. I mean, look at the proposed new Chantilly boundaries - they look absurd.

They clearly don’t have the courage to do what they originally set out to do and should just call the whole thing off.

It’s clear that they’ve considered those factors. There is a difference between having considered those factors vs. having considered them with the lens that you want to apply them.

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Only one lens matters here:

Equity.

Everything else discussed will be ignored; the meetings and discussions are merely to provide a fig-leaf covering what the SB and Reid ordered Thru to come up with originally: equity, diversity, and inclusion.

But that’s not what these maps are doing. It’s a bunch of tinkering around the edges for little benefit in most cases. I can imagine what a full “equity” nuke of the maps would look like (to an extent - there’s not much you can do with how the poverty areas are concentrated in our county) and it doesn’t look like what they came up with.

We’ll never know if a full “equity” redrawing of the boundaries really was on the table. Was it planned and then scrapped due to public outcry, or due to the changing of presidential administrations putting a lot of diversity-related programs under a microscope? I personally think there was probably some advocates for a “nuclear option” on boundaries, but overall that wasn’t supported by the school board and important stakeholders in transportation and facilities who advocated for smaller changes due to logistical reasons. Sizemore and Anderson seemed asleep at the wheel at the WS PTSA virtual meeting and not even aware of the maps that were already released to the public.

Hunt Valley parents are completely disappointed with Anderson after her lackluster, disinterested performance at the WSHS PTA meeting last night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do we find out when/where the community meetings will be held?

They will post it eventually on the dedicated web page:

https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/maps/2024-2026-boundary-review

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Anonymous wrote:There was no equity agenda to this redistricting. Maybe that was in play years ago? This one is clearly about finding efficiencies, handling capacity unevenness and transportation. It’s all in the policy.

Yes there was.

Watch the meetings last spring though October.

Look at the original committee assignments.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we assuming Hunt Valley will be a split feeder? They could reshuffle the other ES’s feeding into SCMS. Duds like Saratoga could take more kids. Newington is packed but they could reshuffle the south side of that zone.

Yep. Saratoga currently at 75% can take whatever excess from the neighboring newington. Easy peasy.

But Saratoga is already taking that RV split feeder, which surprisingly had over 100 students in it. I hadnt realized that area was so large. That puts Saratoga at 91% per their calculations. They could take a few more students, but not enough to put all or most of HV south of the Parkway at Newington Forest. Especially with NFES projected at 101% after they get ~40 from the Sangster island.

Halley has capacity after dumping their island to Lorton Station/Hayfield - but it’s quite a bit further away.

All of you HV to Newington people are not recognizing that Hunt Valley's enrollment is going to drop dramatically over the next couple of years, just like every other school in FCPS.

The subsequent classes after 6th grade are 20-30 students fewer than the 6th grade class.

The kindergarten class is 50 students fewer than the 6th grade class.

Rezoning Hunt Valley to SoCo is a long term disruption to a problem that needs a very short term fix.

FCPS should just add a modular class building to WSHS to bridge the gap instead of rezoning.

The capacity problem fixes itself in a couple years, without rezoning.

I realize this is a newbie question, forgive me; but why are class sizes dropping across the board? Is that just the broader declining birth rate or something else I’m not aware of?

Declining birth rate, plus housing is too expensive and taxes way too high for young families to move to most areas of Fairfax County.

Military families, for example, are almost priced out of West Springfield and Burke, unless they are an 05 or higher. Enlisted are definitely priced out of Fairfax County, except maybe the farthest fringes.

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Anonymous wrote:Can they point to anything they’ve proposed that would actually help ensure equitable access to programs or minimize travel time for students?

All they’ve really done is punch down and propose to make some random changes to replace one ugly map with another ugly map. I mean, look at the proposed new Chantilly boundaries - they look absurd.

They clearly don’t have the courage to do what they originally set out to do and should just call the whole thing off.

It’s clear that they’ve considered those factors. There is a difference between having considered those factors vs. having considered them with the lens that you want to apply them.

NP.


Only one lens matters here:

Equity.

Everything else discussed will be ignored; the meetings and discussions are merely to provide a fig-leaf covering what the SB and Reid ordered Thru to come up with originally: equity, diversity, and inclusion.

But that’s not what these maps are doing. It’s a bunch of tinkering around the edges for little benefit in most cases. I can imagine what a full “equity” nuke of the maps would look like (to an extent - there’s not much you can do with how the poverty areas are concentrated in our county) and it doesn’t look like what they came up with.

We’ll never know if a full “equity” redrawing of the boundaries really was on the table. Was it planned and then scrapped due to public outcry, or due to the changing of presidential administrations putting a lot of diversity-related programs under a microscope? I personally think there was probably some advocates for a “nuclear option” on boundaries, but overall that wasn’t supported by the school board and important stakeholders in transportation and facilities who advocated for smaller changes due to logistical reasons. Sizemore and Anderson seemed asleep at the wheel at the WS PTSA virtual meeting and not even aware of the maps that were already released to the public.

Hunt Valley parents are completely disappointed with Anderson after her lackluster, disinterested performance at the WSHS PTA meeting last night.

I think it’s part of their act to appear ignorant right now. That way they can take credit if they “find out along with everyone else” what Thru has proposed and blame Thru and Reid if people object strongly.

But it also sounds like Anderson made some comments about Rolling Valley that were affirmatively misleading - that they’d rezone the Lewis part of RV to West Springfield HS rather than rezone it to Saratoga and keep it at Lewis. There’s no excuse for that.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we assuming Hunt Valley will be a split feeder? They could reshuffle the other ES’s feeding into SCMS. Duds like Saratoga could take more kids. Newington is packed but they could reshuffle the south side of that zone.

Yep. Saratoga currently at 75% can take whatever excess from the neighboring newington. Easy peasy.

But Saratoga is already taking that RV split feeder, which surprisingly had over 100 students in it. I hadnt realized that area was so large. That puts Saratoga at 91% per their calculations. They could take a few more students, but not enough to put all or most of HV south of the Parkway at Newington Forest. Especially with NFES projected at 101% after they get ~40 from the Sangster island.

Halley has capacity after dumping their island to Lorton Station/Hayfield - but it’s quite a bit further away.

All of you HV to Newington people are not recognizing that Hunt Valley's enrollment is going to drop dramatically over the next couple of years, just like every other school in FCPS.

The subsequent classes after 6th grade are 20-30 students fewer than the 6th grade class.

The kindergarten class is 50 students fewer than the 6th grade class.

Rezoning Hunt Valley to SoCo is a long term disruption to a problem that needs a very short term fix.

FCPS should just add a modular class building to WSHS to bridge the gap instead of rezoning.

The capacity problem fixes itself in a couple years, without rezoning.

I realize this is a newbie question, forgive me; but why are class sizes dropping across the board? Is that just the broader declining birth rate or something else I’m not aware of?

General drop off in birth rate nation-wide.

Economic factors driving people out of Fairfax County.

Big drop in FCPS enrollment since Covid with uneven recovery in enrollments since then (although HVES is one of the schools whose enrollment is back to pre-Covid levels and WSHS enrollment hit an all-time high this year).

All of the West Springfield pyramid elementary enrollment starts to drop after the current 6th graders, and significantly drops with the early grades.

The numbers are all there in the individual school dashboards.

This is a very short term issue for WSHS.

It starts to resolve itself when the first rezoned class (current 6th graders) are the first WSHS freshmen attending SoCo.

This rezoning of Hunt Valley should not happen. Enrollment numbers long term do not support rezoning.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we assuming Hunt Valley will be a split feeder? They could reshuffle the other ES’s feeding into SCMS. Duds like Saratoga could take more kids. Newington is packed but they could reshuffle the south side of that zone.

Yep. Saratoga currently at 75% can take whatever excess from the neighboring newington. Easy peasy.

But Saratoga is already taking that RV split feeder, which surprisingly had over 100 students in it. I hadnt realized that area was so large. That puts Saratoga at 91% per their calculations. They could take a few more students, but not enough to put all or most of HV south of the Parkway at Newington Forest. Especially with NFES projected at 101% after they get ~40 from the Sangster island.

Halley has capacity after dumping their island to Lorton Station/Hayfield - but it’s quite a bit further away.

All of you HV to Newington people are not recognizing that Hunt Valley's enrollment is going to drop dramatically over the next couple of years, just like every other school in FCPS.

The subsequent classes after 6th grade are 20-30 students fewer than the 6th grade class.

The kindergarten class is 50 students fewer than the 6th grade class.

Rezoning Hunt Valley to SoCo is a long term disruption to a problem that needs a very short term fix.

FCPS should just add a modular class building to WSHS to bridge the gap instead of rezoning.

The capacity problem fixes itself in a couple years, without rezoning.

I realize this is a newbie question, forgive me; but why are class sizes dropping across the board? Is that just the broader declining birth rate or something else I’m not aware of?

General drop off in birth rate nation-wide.

Economic factors driving people out of Fairfax County.

Big drop in FCPS enrollment since Covid with uneven recovery in enrollments since then (although HVES is one of the schools whose enrollment is back to pre-Covid levels and WSHS enrollment hit an all-time high this year).

Add to these historical trends:

- RIF/VERA/Fork,

- ripple-effect from those in the private sector,

- contract and research cancellations by trump administration,

- small number of ICE raids but massive number of FCPS parents either self-deporting or moving to states they consider “safer” from ICE,

- fewer families crossing the southern border and heading right to FFX county.

The committee is working with historical projections which are largely meaningless now.

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Anonymous wrote:Are these actually the proposed changes or just some draft to further show how the tool works?

This is just showing over capacity. Last time it was split feeders and next it’s supposed to be another factor. I believe they are supposed to merge the 3 into a reasonable solution.

I’m pretty certain these are the merged maps. This is what they are soliciting feedback on

I think these are the merged maps.

The Sangster island moved to Newington and SoCo is shown on this map.

This map does not have the little Navy island that they shift to Oak Hill/Chantilly. I guess that's another part of Oak Hill that will go to Oakton?

It always went to Oakton. Not sure where it will be going to middle school. Franklin Farm currently on that side of the parkway goes to Carson, but Oak Hill goes to Franklin along with Navy, Waples Mill, and Lee's Corner.
The map shows them going to Oakton. Still doesn't make sense that they didn't send them to Crossfield unless this was a play to make it easier to send a portion of Oak Hill to Oakton.

For those who don't know, there will be houses with adjoining yards going to different schools from Chantilly Highlands. It violates #3 about keeping neighborhoods together and increases the commute four fold to high school. If Thru was not working with real maps, they may not have realized that there are limited outlets. It makes no sense at all--for 34 students, according to the chart.

That section-- the section off Nestlewood-- of Franklin Farm currently goes to Franklin, not Carson.

In the "attendance island" proposal, they moved them to Oak Hill/Franklin/Chantilly, I think. But now it looks like they will go to Oakton. I don't think yesterday's maps showed their elementary school, so not sure if they'll now just send them to Crossfield with everyone else on that side of the parkway.

The three sets of maps we have seen are meant to layer on top of one another. In the first round, they moved that island from Navy to Oak Hill for elementary. In the second map, they showed this change along with confirming that the island would continue to go to Franklin for middle as they always have. In the third round, they showed that the island would stay at Oakton and that the Oakton map would slightly expand by moving a couple of streets zone for Oak Hill and Franklin to Oakton. Instead of Chantilly. They’re not changing the Navy island to Crossfield or Carson just because they are remaining at Oakton. If you look at all three maps together, which is how they’re meant to be looked at, that island is Oak Hill/Franklin/Oakton.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we assuming Hunt Valley will be a split feeder? They could reshuffle the other ES’s feeding into SCMS. Duds like Saratoga could take more kids. Newington is packed but they could reshuffle the south side of that zone.

Yep. Saratoga currently at 75% can take whatever excess from the neighboring newington. Easy peasy.

But Saratoga is already taking that RV split feeder, which surprisingly had over 100 students in it. I hadnt realized that area was so large. That puts Saratoga at 91% per their calculations. They could take a few more students, but not enough to put all or most of HV south of the Parkway at Newington Forest. Especially with NFES projected at 101% after they get ~40 from the Sangster island.

Halley has capacity after dumping their island to Lorton Station/Hayfield - but it’s quite a bit further away.

All of you HV to Newington people are not recognizing that Hunt Valley's enrollment is going to drop dramatically over the next couple of years, just like every other school in FCPS.

The subsequent classes after 6th grade are 20-30 students fewer than the 6th grade class.

The kindergarten class is 50 students fewer than the 6th grade class.

Rezoning Hunt Valley to SoCo is a long term disruption to a problem that needs a very short term fix.

FCPS should just add a modular class building to WSHS to bridge the gap instead of rezoning.

The capacity problem fixes itself in a couple years, without rezoning.

I realize this is a newbie question, forgive me; but why are class sizes dropping across the board? Is that just the broader declining birth rate or something else I’m not aware of?

General drop off in birth rate nation-wide.

Economic factors driving people out of Fairfax County.

Big drop in FCPS enrollment since Covid with uneven recovery in enrollments since then (although HVES is one of the schools whose enrollment is back to pre-Covid levels and WSHS enrollment hit an all-time high this year).

All of the West Springfield pyramid elementary enrollment starts to drop after the current 6th graders, and significantly drops with the early grades.

The numbers are all there in the individual school dashboards.

This is a very short term issue for WSHS.

It starts to resolve itself when the first rezoned class (current 6th graders) are the first WSHS freshmen attending SoCo.

This rezoning of Hunt Valley should not happen. Enrollment numbers long term do not support rezoning.

With WSHS you can’t really go by grade to grade trends. You have to look at year over year, and if you ignore the COVID blip, enrollment at Hunt Valley is consistently around 735 since the 2019 school year. As others have described, WSHS is a military heavy school and a lot of families buy into the pyramid for high school. There was an argument that the 2025-26 graduating class was abnormally big and the end of a trend, but it’s been followed by 700+ class sizes that have increased from the middle school numbers by about 100 students.

I’m not saying they should make changes, that’s for the WS community to have an opinion on, but there isn’t any indication that enrollment is declining for that pyramid.

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Anonymous wrote:The poster complaining that they aren’t doing enough when these changes are causing massive disruption across the county is delusional.

There is an all Dem school board that picked Reid and thru - all on her side. And she is still complaining about it because they didn’t F over a particular zip code. Truly petty stuff.

And we know this poster because she’s been going at it for years, obsessively trying to will her agenda to happen.

It is time for her to touch grass.

It's not massive disruption, PP. It may be hard for you and your family to adjust, but you will as will everyone else. These are actually relatively minor changes compared to what people were expecting. I'm sorry your child will have to move schools, I know that's really hard, but s/he'll survive, kids (even high schoolers) are so adaptive especially when they have loving and supportive parents, I hope you are one of those.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we assuming Hunt Valley will be a split feeder? They could reshuffle the other ES’s feeding into SCMS. Duds like Saratoga could take more kids. Newington is packed but they could reshuffle the south side of that zone.

Yep. Saratoga currently at 75% can take whatever excess from the neighboring newington. Easy peasy.

But Saratoga is already taking that RV split feeder, which surprisingly had over 100 students in it. I hadnt realized that area was so large. That puts Saratoga at 91% per their calculations. They could take a few more students, but not enough to put all or most of HV south of the Parkway at Newington Forest. Especially with NFES projected at 101% after they get ~40 from the Sangster island.

Halley has capacity after dumping their island to Lorton Station/Hayfield - but it’s quite a bit further away.

All of you HV to Newington people are not recognizing that Hunt Valley's enrollment is going to drop dramatically over the next couple of years, just like every other school in FCPS.

The subsequent classes after 6th grade are 20-30 students fewer than the 6th grade class.

The kindergarten class is 50 students fewer than the 6th grade class.

Rezoning Hunt Valley to SoCo is a long term disruption to a problem that needs a very short term fix.

FCPS should just add a modular class building to WSHS to bridge the gap instead of rezoning.

The capacity problem fixes itself in a couple years, without rezoning.

I realize this is a newbie question, forgive me; but why are class sizes dropping across the board? Is that just the broader declining birth rate or something else I’m not aware of?

General drop off in birth rate nation-wide.

Economic factors driving people out of Fairfax County.

Big drop in FCPS enrollment since Covid with uneven recovery in enrollments since then (although HVES is one of the schools whose enrollment is back to pre-Covid levels and WSHS enrollment hit an all-time high this year).

All of the West Springfield pyramid elementary enrollment starts to drop after the current 6th graders, and significantly drops with the early grades.

The numbers are all there in the individual school dashboards.

This is a very short term issue for WSHS.

It starts to resolve itself when the first rezoned class (current 6th graders) are the first WSHS freshmen attending SoCo.

This rezoning of Hunt Valley should not happen. Enrollment numbers long term do not support rezoning.

With WSHS you can’t really go by grade to grade trends. You have to look at year over year, and if you ignore the COVID blip, enrollment at Hunt Valley is consistently around 735 since the 2019 school year. As others have described, WSHS is a military heavy school and a lot of families buy into the pyramid for high school. There was an argument that the 2025-26 graduating class was abnormally big and the end of a trend, but it’s been followed by 700+ class sizes that have increased from the middle school numbers by about 100 students.

I’m not saying they should make changes, that’s for the WS community to have an opinion on, but there isn’t any indication that enrollment is declining for that pyramid.

Nope.

Hunt Vslley will drop yo the low 600s in a couple of years

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we assuming Hunt Valley will be a split feeder? They could reshuffle the other ES’s feeding into SCMS. Duds like Saratoga could take more kids. Newington is packed but they could reshuffle the south side of that zone.

Yep. Saratoga currently at 75% can take whatever excess from the neighboring newington. Easy peasy.

But Saratoga is already taking that RV split feeder, which surprisingly had over 100 students in it. I hadnt realized that area was so large. That puts Saratoga at 91% per their calculations. They could take a few more students, but not enough to put all or most of HV south of the Parkway at Newington Forest. Especially with NFES projected at 101% after they get ~40 from the Sangster island.

Halley has capacity after dumping their island to Lorton Station/Hayfield - but it’s quite a bit further away.

All of you HV to Newington people are not recognizing that Hunt Valley's enrollment is going to drop dramatically over the next couple of years, just like every other school in FCPS.

The subsequent classes after 6th grade are 20-30 students fewer than the 6th grade class.

The kindergarten class is 50 students fewer than the 6th grade class.

Rezoning Hunt Valley to SoCo is a long term disruption to a problem that needs a very short term fix.

FCPS should just add a modular class building to WSHS to bridge the gap instead of rezoning.

The capacity problem fixes itself in a couple years, without rezoning.

I realize this is a newbie question, forgive me; but why are class sizes dropping across the board? Is that just the broader declining birth rate or something else I’m not aware of?

General drop off in birth rate nation-wide.

Economic factors driving people out of Fairfax County.

Big drop in FCPS enrollment since Covid with uneven recovery in enrollments since then (although HVES is one of the schools whose enrollment is back to pre-Covid levels and WSHS enrollment hit an all-time high this year).

All of the West Springfield pyramid elementary enrollment starts to drop after the current 6th graders, and significantly drops with the early grades.

The numbers are all there in the individual school dashboards.

This is a very short term issue for WSHS.

It starts to resolve itself when the first rezoned class (current 6th graders) are the first WSHS freshmen attending SoCo.

This rezoning of Hunt Valley should not happen. Enrollment numbers long term do not support rezoning.

With WSHS you can’t really go by grade to grade trends. You have to look at year over year, and if you ignore the COVID blip, enrollment at Hunt Valley is consistently around 735 since the 2019 school year. As others have described, WSHS is a military heavy school and a lot of families buy into the pyramid for high school. There was an argument that the 2025-26 graduating class was abnormally big and the end of a trend, but it’s been followed by 700+ class sizes that have increased from the middle school numbers by about 100 students.

I’m not saying they should make changes, that’s for the WS community to have an opinion on, but there isn’t any indication that enrollment is declining for that pyramid.

None of the other WSHS are larger than class of 2026.

All of the classes after class of 2026 are below 700 students and steadily drop each year going forward.

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Anonymous wrote:Can they point to anything they’ve proposed that would actually help ensure equitable access to programs or minimize travel time for students?

All they’ve really done is punch down and propose to make some random changes to replace one ugly map with another ugly map. I mean, look at the proposed new Chantilly boundaries - they look absurd.

They clearly don’t have the courage to do what they originally set out to do and should just call the whole thing off.

It’s clear that they’ve considered those factors. There is a difference between having considered those factors vs. having considered them with the lens that you want to apply them.

NP.


Only one lens matters here:

Equity.

Everything else discussed will be ignored; the meetings and discussions are merely to provide a fig-leaf covering what the SB and Reid ordered Thru to come up with originally: equity, diversity, and inclusion.

But that’s not what these maps are doing. It’s a bunch of tinkering around the edges for little benefit in most cases. I can imagine what a full “equity” nuke of the maps would look like (to an extent - there’s not much you can do with how the poverty areas are concentrated in our county) and it doesn’t look like what they came up with.

We’ll never know if a full “equity” redrawing of the boundaries really was on the table. Was it planned and then scrapped due to public outcry, or due to the changing of presidential administrations putting a lot of diversity-related programs under a microscope? I personally think there was probably some advocates for a “nuclear option” on boundaries, but overall that wasn’t supported by the school board and important stakeholders in transportation and facilities who advocated for smaller changes due to logistical reasons. Sizemore and Anderson seemed asleep at the wheel at the WS PTSA virtual meeting and not even aware of the maps that were already released to the public.

Hunt Valley parents are completely disappointed with Anderson after her lackluster, disinterested performance at the WSHS PTA meeting last night.

I think it’s part of their act to appear ignorant right now. That way they can take credit if they “find out along with everyone else” what Thru has proposed and blame Thru and Reid if people object strongly.

But it also sounds like Anderson made some comments about Rolling Valley that were affirmatively misleading - that they’d rezone the Lewis part of RV to West Springfield HS rather than rezone it to Saratoga and keep it at Lewis. There’s no excuse for that.

She said what about Rolling Valley? Was that something she was going to suggest/fight for or was she just misunderstanding the map. I thought it was pretty clear. She's the one who keeps insisting some neighborhoods are going to have to leave WSHS to address capacity - why would she say they were going to add some, and from Lewis of all places??

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Anonymous wrote:The poster complaining that they aren’t doing enough when these changes are causing massive disruption across the county is delusional.

There is an all Dem school board that picked Reid and thru - all on her side. And she is still complaining about it because they didn’t F over a particular zip code. Truly petty stuff.

And we know this poster because she’s been going at it for years, obsessively trying to will her agenda to happen.

It is time for her to touch grass.

It's not massive disruption, PP. It may be hard for you and your family to adjust, but you will as will everyone else. These are actually relatively minor changes compared to what people were expecting. I'm sorry your child will have to move schools, I know that's really hard, but s/he'll survive, kids (even high schoolers) are so adaptive especially when they have loving and supportive parents, I hope you are one of those.

To what end? Our family will be disrupted so can lower WSHS enrollment by 5 percent or so? When it's not clear their CIP projections are real? They certainly haven't been particularly accurate in the past. There are some maps they released yesterday where as few as 7 kids will be moved at some schools. Why on earth would you move just 7 kids? Unless the point is to be cruel.