Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sizemore-Heizer will be off the School Board soon. There’s an opportunity to replace her with someone who calls the School Board and Reid out on their BS.

As a resident of the Braddock District, I hope Balbuena defeats her and her political career stalls. She's awful.

But given the way our district just rubber stamps the blue sample ballot, I doubt that will happen.

[Anonymous]

These boundary scenarios prepared for MCPS seem far easier to explore and understand than any of the crap Thru Consulting has done for FCPS.

https://sites.google.com/mcpsmd.net/woodward-boundary-options/home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sizemore-Heizer will be off the School Board soon. There’s an opportunity to replace her with someone who calls the School Board and Reid out on their BS.

As a resident of the Braddock District, I hope Balbuena defeats her and her political career stalls. She's awful.

But given the way our district just rubber stamps the blue sample ballot, I doubt that will happen.

It’s always funny when the local republicans blame everyone but themselves for their terrible Election Day performance.

“They just vote blue and don’t research.”

Actually they do research and they’re not liking what you’re selling.

Rachna will easily take 70% of the vote. Balbuena doesn’t stand a prayer. But, sure, he’s a nice guy.

[Anonymous]

BRAC supposed to see updated maps today and community Friday if schedule online is right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BRAC supposed to see updated maps today and community Friday if schedule online is right.

yup they will post friday at 5pm right before a 3 day weekend. either hoping people won’t notice changes and if they do no one at fcps will be reachable to hear complaints

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BRAC supposed to see updated maps today and community Friday if schedule online is right.

yup they will post friday at 5pm right before a 3 day weekend. either hoping people won’t notice changes and if they do no one at fcps will be reachable to hear complaints

They do that all the time and it never works. It's not like Gatehouse answers any questions about the boundary study anyway. Emails go into a black hole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BRAC supposed to see updated maps today and community Friday if schedule online is right.

yup they will post friday at 5pm right before a 3 day weekend. either hoping people won’t notice changes and if they do no one at fcps will be reachable to hear complaints

They do that all the time and it never works. It's not like Gatehouse answers any questions about the boundary study anyway. Emails go into a black hole.

Dunne is out with another email this am:

First, I need your help! The revised maps (scenarios) will be published here on Friday, October 10. When the maps are published, please look at the boundaries for your home, your neighborhood, and your community.

Please contact my office if you identify any potential errors. I want to be proactive in identifying any errors that need to be corrected.

Please also contact my office if you want to propose particular changes.

If your school is under capacity, you could organize your community to request a boundary change to increase enrollment.
If your school is near capacity and you want to avoid any modulars or trailers at your school, you could organize your community to propose a boundary change to reduce enrollment.
If your school is over capacity and you want to reduce or eliminate existing modulars and trailers at your school, you could organize your community to propose a boundary change to reduce enrollment.

The current boundaries have existed for 40 years. While the new policy calls for comprehensive boundary reviews every 5 years, you should assume the new boundaries will be in effect indefinitely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BRAC supposed to see updated maps today and community Friday if schedule online is right.

yup they will post friday at 5pm right before a 3 day weekend. either hoping people won’t notice changes and if they do no one at fcps will be reachable to hear complaints

They do that all the time and it never works. It's not like Gatehouse answers any questions about the boundary study anyway. Emails go into a black hole.

Dunne is out with another email this am:

First, I need your help! The revised maps (scenarios) will be published here on Friday, October 10. When the maps are published, please look at the boundaries for your home, your neighborhood, and your community.

Please contact my office if you identify any potential errors. I want to be proactive in identifying any errors that need to be corrected.

Please also contact my office if you want to propose particular changes.

If your school is under capacity, you could organize your community to request a boundary change to increase enrollment.
If your school is near capacity and you want to avoid any modulars or trailers at your school, you could organize your community to propose a boundary change to reduce enrollment.
If your school is over capacity and you want to reduce or eliminate existing modulars and trailers at your school, you could organize your community to propose a boundary change to reduce enrollment.

The current boundaries have existed for 40 years. While the new policy calls for comprehensive boundary reviews every 5 years, you should assume the new boundaries will be in effect indefinitely.

It's a little late for Dunne to be encouraging groups to propose changes that haven't been proposed or vetted so far. He's just as big of a dope as the rest of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BRAC supposed to see updated maps today and community Friday if schedule online is right.

yup they will post friday at 5pm right before a 3 day weekend. either hoping people won’t notice changes and if they do no one at fcps will be reachable to hear complaints

They do that all the time and it never works. It's not like Gatehouse answers any questions about the boundary study anyway. Emails go into a black hole.

Dunne is out with another email this am:

First, I need your help! The revised maps (scenarios) will be published here on Friday, October 10. When the maps are published, please look at the boundaries for your home, your neighborhood, and your community.

Please contact my office if you identify any potential errors. I want to be proactive in identifying any errors that need to be corrected.

Please also contact my office if you want to propose particular changes.

If your school is under capacity, you could organize your community to request a boundary change to increase enrollment.
If your school is near capacity and you want to avoid any modulars or trailers at your school, you could organize your community to propose a boundary change to reduce enrollment.
If your school is over capacity and you want to reduce or eliminate existing modulars and trailers at your school, you could organize your community to propose a boundary change to reduce enrollment.

The current boundaries have existed for 40 years. While the new policy calls for comprehensive boundary reviews every 5 years, you should assume the new boundaries will be in effect indefinitely.

Well, the bolded part is completely inaccurate.

Much of that part of the county was conpletely rezoned when South County opened around 20 years ago.

The boundaries along that Fort Belvoir corridor have not been in place for 40 plus years.

[Anonymous]

Dunne’s big shtick originally was that he wanted to eliminate all trailers and modulars, and move kids into under-enrolled schools in southeastern Fairfax, but he doesn’t understand that many people prefer them to getting redistricted. In any event, the Thru proposals took modular seats into account in calculating capacity, so they aren’t intended to get kids out of modulars.

Now Dunne is encouraging the people who don’t want their kids in schools with modulars to turn on their neighbors and propose brand-new boundary changes that Thru and the BRAC haven’t proposed. If that happens, it will be chaos and this sordid process will drag out even longer.

All they really should be focusing on now are Coates and boundaries for the new western high school, but they are too befuddled to figure that out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dunne’s big shtick originally was that he wanted to eliminate all trailers and modulars, and move kids into under-enrolled schools in southeastern Fairfax, but he doesn’t understand that many people prefer them to getting redistricted. In any event, the Thru proposals took modular seats into account in calculating capacity, so they aren’t intended to get kids out of modulars.

Now Dunne is encouraging the people who don’t want their kids in schools with modulars to turn on their neighbors and propose brand-new boundary changes that Thru and the BRAC haven’t proposed. If that happens, it will be chaos and this sordid process will drag out even longer.

All they really should be focusing on now are Coates and boundaries for the new western high school, but they are too befuddled to figure that out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dunne’s big shtick originally was that he wanted to eliminate all trailers and modulars, and move kids into under-enrolled schools in southeastern Fairfax, but he doesn’t understand that many people prefer them to getting redistricted. In any event, the Thru proposals took modular seats into account in calculating capacity, so they aren’t intended to get kids out of modulars.

Now Dunne is encouraging the people who don’t want their kids in schools with modulars to turn on their neighbors and propose brand-new boundary changes that Thru and the BRAC haven’t proposed. If that happens, it will be chaos and this sordid process will drag out even longer.

All they really should be focusing on now are Coates and boundaries for the new western high school, but they are too befuddled to figure that out.

DP. I agree with this. There's too much uncertainty right now in N Virginia with federal worker cuts, deportations etc. We don't know what the size of the population will be here next year. Fix the immediate problems and leave the rest until we figure out what's an actual problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dunne’s big shtick originally was that he wanted to eliminate all trailers and modulars, and move kids into under-enrolled schools in southeastern Fairfax, but he doesn’t understand that many people prefer them to getting redistricted. In any event, the Thru proposals took modular seats into account in calculating capacity, so they aren’t intended to get kids out of modulars.

Now Dunne is encouraging the people who don’t want their kids in schools with modulars to turn on their neighbors and propose brand-new boundary changes that Thru and the BRAC haven’t proposed. If that happens, it will be chaos and this sordid process will drag out even longer.

All they really should be focusing on now are Coates and boundaries for the new western high school, but they are too befuddled to figure that out.

DP. I agree with this. There's too much uncertainty right now in N Virginia with federal worker cuts, deportations etc. We don't know what the size of the population will be here next year. Fix the immediate problems and leave the rest until we figure out what's an actual problem.

I and other people have brought this up at boundary meetings and one of Dunne’s town halls, and it is always just brushed off. A lot of “we don’t think this is happening” denialism. Well, the official numbers will speak for themselves in a few years - maybe even by the end of this school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dunne’s big shtick originally was that he wanted to eliminate all trailers and modulars, and move kids into under-enrolled schools in southeastern Fairfax, but he doesn’t understand that many people prefer them to getting redistricted. In any event, the Thru proposals took modular seats into account in calculating capacity, so they aren’t intended to get kids out of modulars.

Now Dunne is encouraging the people who don’t want their kids in schools with modulars to turn on their neighbors and propose brand-new boundary changes that Thru and the BRAC haven’t proposed. If that happens, it will be chaos and this sordid process will drag out even longer.

All they really should be focusing on now are Coates and boundaries for the new western high school, but they are too befuddled to figure that out.

DP. I agree with this. There's too much uncertainty right now in N Virginia with federal worker cuts, deportations etc. We don't know what the size of the population will be here next year. Fix the immediate problems and leave the rest until we figure out what's an actual problem.

I and other people have brought this up at boundary meetings and one of Dunne’s town halls, and it is always just brushed off. A lot of “we don’t think this is happening” denialism. Well, the official numbers will speak for themselves in a few years - maybe even by the end of this school year.

They make constant excuses for their own inability to approach a boundary review in anything remotely approaching a logical manner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dunne’s big shtick originally was that he wanted to eliminate all trailers and modulars, and move kids into under-enrolled schools in southeastern Fairfax, but he doesn’t understand that many people prefer them to getting redistricted. In any event, the Thru proposals took modular seats into account in calculating capacity, so they aren’t intended to get kids out of modulars.

Now Dunne is encouraging the people who don’t want their kids in schools with modulars to turn on their neighbors and propose brand-new boundary changes that Thru and the BRAC haven’t proposed. If that happens, it will be chaos and this sordid process will drag out even longer.

All they really should be focusing on now are Coates and boundaries for the new western high school, but they are too befuddled to figure that out.

DP. I agree with this. There's too much uncertainty right now in N Virginia with federal worker cuts, deportations etc. We don't know what the size of the population will be here next year. Fix the immediate problems and leave the rest until we figure out what's an actual problem.

I and other people have brought this up at boundary meetings and one of Dunne’s town halls, and it is always just brushed off. A lot of “we don’t think this is happening” denialism. Well, the official numbers will speak for themselves in a few years - maybe even by the end of this school year.

enrollment is already down 4000+ kids from last year. Reid is blaming fear of ICE raids as the reason.