School Board Forum on "Boundary and Capacity"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is so incredibly fascinating to me, is that none of the current school board members’ campaign webpages mentioned redistricting as an issue. It’s almost like they know how immensely unpopular those efforts are going to be.

If they can’t even work up the nerve to publicly state the intent while running for the board, what business do they have trying to ram it through once elected?

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After the nutty poster insisted that the SB was going to be redistricting ANY DAY NOW, I looked them all up. There is nothing at all about it, and certainly nothing about the schools being mentioned here. I wonder why that is! Could it be that there is no issue with these particular schools and that psycho poster thinks if she talks about often enough, it will suddenly become an issue?

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Anonymous wrote:Send all the Tysons spill over from McLean to Langley and put them in their own special but official region so we can be done with them. Problem solved.

Sorry, I’m not ready to turn away from your prior racist comments about people who don’t speak English good enough. We haven’t talked that through yet, especially given your stance as a SJW.

Sorry, I’m not the person you’ve been spitting at.

I think it is important to call out racists when they post, especially when they masquerade as being an ally to the downtrodden by advocating for redistricting. We can’t let racism slide in our society. I won’t tolerate it.

How is suggesting separating Langley from the Dranesville District an issue? I’m exhausted by the entitlement of some of those parents. I resent the fact that they think going to HHS will be a detriment to their children. What a load of crock. I want Langley out of our region, so that we can focus on education and not property values.
—HHS parent

DP. I highly, highly doubt you are a HHS parent. But nice trolling.

You would be VERY wrong.

Ok. Assuming you actually are an HHS parent, please explain exactly why you want Forestville students to be redistricted to Herndon.

I don’t and never said I did. If a boundary study says it makes sense fine, but really I hope they don’t get added because I don’t want to put up with their incessant whining about how the school is harming their children (as they (you??) cited as a reason upthread). As if HHS is any worse than any other school in FCPS for their children. In fact their children would likely thrive at HHS but that won’t ever resonate with them for … reasons.

I never made that assertion. My beef is solely with the poster whose kids are obviously not even involved, who thinks she can arrogantly tell other families where their kids need to go to school.

[Anonymous]

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After the nutty poster insisted that the SB was going to be redistricting ANY DAY NOW, I looked them all up. There is nothing at all about it, and certainly nothing about the schools being mentioned here. I wonder why that is! Could it be that there is no issue with these particular schools and that psycho poster thinks if she talks about often enough, it will suddenly become an issue?

The school board has already had one non-recorded, non-streamed meeting to discuss it. They're going to kick it off to some contractor to tell them what to do, and they will select a contractor who will tell them to do exactly what they wanted to do anyway. They will keep it as quiet as possible, and then claim that they're just doing what their hand-selected experts recommend. It's no surprise that this is coming so soon after the new board was elected, because they know they're untouchable for 4 years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is so incredibly fascinating to me, is that none of the current school board members’ campaign webpages mentioned redistricting as an issue. It’s almost like they know how immensely unpopular those efforts are going to be.

If they can’t even work up the nerve to publicly state the intent while running for the board, what business do they have trying to ram it through once elected?

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After the nutty poster insisted that the SB was going to be redistricting ANY DAY NOW, I looked them all up. There is nothing at all about it, and certainly nothing about the schools being mentioned here. I wonder why that is! Could it be that there is no issue with these particular schools and that psycho poster thinks if she talks about often enough, it will suddenly become an issue?

Literally no one has said the SB will be redistricting any day now.

However, as PP noted they have decided to update the boundary policy and some School Board members have said this is a prelude to a county-wide boundary study.

A county-wide study would not change all the boundaries; rather, it would adjust those boundaries throughout the county that are found to warrant adjustment at the same time.

The usual suspects get all worked up that it's a plot to kick them out of their precious Langley, and try to derail any such efforts before they are even undertaken, to the detriment of everyone else.

[Anonymous]

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No mixed messages. I’ll be clear. If redistricting happened I would do everything I could legally do within my power to destroy the school boards’ political careers. And there are many well-resourced great falls residents who would likely do the same.

See, I’m a grown up!

Are you one of these people?

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2019/jun/25/great-falls-residents-fired-school-issues/

Not very nice.

[Anonymous]

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No mixed messages. I’ll be clear. If redistricting happened I would do everything I could legally do within my power to destroy the school boards’ political careers. And there are many well-resourced great falls residents who would likely do the same.

See, I’m a grown up!

Are you one of these people?

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2019/jun/25/great-falls-residents-fired-school-issues/

Not very nice.

I am not, but I admire them standing up for their kids.

Are you the racist redistricting advocate who mocks non native English speakers?

Not very unracist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Langley can keep its boundaries. Get them out of FCPS Region / District 1, and give them their own FCPS district/region to recognize how special the kids there truly are. Let them build a wall if necessary. It would be better for their snowflakes and everyone else’s kids.

Let’s put the focus back on education and stop giving Langley parents the vapors. 😢 FCPS has enough seats for EVERYONE without sending them to that northern school.

—HHS parent again

I mean, I’d be ecstatic if that were to happen, but it never will because we all know Fairfax needs those tax dollars.

And just to be clear, as much as you hate, with a capital H, great falls residents, I have no animosity toward you or your school, and I really hope everyone thrives there.

The racist SJW however, she’s a different story. I hope her kids get redistricted all the way to Alabama.

It sounds like you do not know that FCPS has several regions/districts. Moving them into a special snowflake zone would not remove them from FCPS, but if they wanted to leave the county and create their own school system, good riddance.

Unlikely to happen but would be awesome.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
After the nutty poster insisted that the SB was going to be redistricting ANY DAY NOW, I looked them all up. There is nothing at all about it, and certainly nothing about the schools being mentioned here. I wonder why that is! Could it be that there is no issue with these particular schools and that psycho poster thinks if she talks about often enough, it will suddenly become an issue?

The school board has already had one non-recorded, non-streamed meeting to discuss it. They're going to kick it off to some contractor to tell them what to do, and they will select a contractor who will tell them to do exactly what they wanted to do anyway. They will keep it as quiet as possible, and then claim that they're just doing what their hand-selected experts recommend. It's no surprise that this is coming so soon after the new board was elected, because they know they're untouchable for 4 years.

Not surprising. The board in 2019 discussed and were decided on altering boundary policy to prioritize demographics. The conversations and plans were in recorded work sessions and they were set to vote on it.
It was an election year so they went scurrying away when the public understood what they were doing.

It was so funny to see them panicking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
No mixed messages. I’ll be clear. If redistricting happened I would do everything I could legally do within my power to destroy the school boards’ political careers. And there are many well-resourced great falls residents who would likely do the same.

See, I’m a grown up!

Are you one of these people?

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2019/jun/25/great-falls-residents-fired-school-issues/

Not very nice.

“Busing is not a consideration.” You gotta love the chutzpah. They absolutely were considering it and the proof is in the work sessions, which were recorded.

[Anonymous]

I’m no fan of the SB, but I wonder, is there any scenario in which you would ever accept boundary changes for your schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m no fan of the SB, but I wonder, is there any scenario in which you would ever accept boundary changes for your schools?

Didn’t think so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m no fan of the SB, but I wonder, is there any scenario in which you would ever accept boundary changes for your schools?

Didn’t think so.

She asks an inane question to no one in particular, and then sock puppets herself when she realizes no one cares about her opinion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
No mixed messages. I’ll be clear. If redistricting happened I would do everything I could legally do within my power to destroy the school boards’ political careers. And there are many well-resourced great falls residents who would likely do the same.

See, I’m a grown up!

Are you one of these people?

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2019/jun/25/great-falls-residents-fired-school-issues/

Not very nice.

“Busing is not a consideration.” You gotta love the chutzpah. They absolutely were considering it and the proof is in the work sessions, which were recorded.

None of the following would be considered "bussing":

Sending Great Falls kids to Herndon

Sending some West Potomac kids to Mt. Vernon

Sending some West Springfield kids to Lewis

These are all schools that have adjoining boundaries. The last two should have been done on enrollment and capacity alone.

Has or is the School Board proposing to bus kids past multiple other schools just to achieve some desired demographic breakdown? That would be "bussing".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
No mixed messages. I’ll be clear. If redistricting happened I would do everything I could legally do within my power to destroy the school boards’ political careers. And there are many well-resourced great falls residents who would likely do the same.

See, I’m a grown up!

Are you one of these people?

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2019/jun/25/great-falls-residents-fired-school-issues/

Not very nice.

“Busing is not a consideration.” You gotta love the chutzpah. They absolutely were considering it and the proof is in the work sessions, which were recorded.

None of the following would be considered "bussing":

Sending Great Falls kids to Herndon

Sending some West Potomac kids to Mt. Vernon

Sending some West Springfield kids to Lewis

These are all schools that have adjoining boundaries. The last two should have been done on enrollment and capacity alone.

Has or is the School Board proposing to bus kids past multiple other schools just to achieve some desired demographic breakdown? That would be "bussing".

And here she goes off the deep end. Pretty soon she’s going to start railing against non native speakers again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
No mixed messages. I’ll be clear. If redistricting happened I would do everything I could legally do within my power to destroy the school boards’ political careers. And there are many well-resourced great falls residents who would likely do the same.

See, I’m a grown up!

Are you one of these people?

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2019/jun/25/great-falls-residents-fired-school-issues/

Not very nice.

“Busing is not a consideration.” You gotta love the chutzpah. They absolutely were considering it and the proof is in the work sessions, which were recorded.

None of the following would be considered "bussing":

Sending Great Falls kids to Herndon

Sending some West Potomac kids to Mt. Vernon

Sending some West Springfield kids to Lewis

These are all schools that have adjoining boundaries. The last two should have been done on enrollment and capacity alone.

Has or is the School Board proposing to bus kids past multiple other schools just to achieve some desired demographic breakdown? That would be "bussing".

And here she goes off the deep end. Pretty soon she’s going to start railing against non native speakers again.

NP. Going off the deep end? I don't think so. West Springfield runs right up against Lewis. Just like part of Lake Braddock's boundary runs right up against Annandale. Just like Robinson runs right up against Woodson.