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Anonymous
Sandy Anderson is going to a Rolling Valley PTA meeting next week. |
Anonymous
So far, she has completely ignored Hunt Valley families. They have been asking her to meet with them since the summer. And she only sends cut and paste generic responses to emails. She is not a very good school board rep. |
Anonymous
It will be infuriating if Anderson kicks her Hunt Valley families out of WSHS to mive the Lewis zoned Rolling Valley families into their spots. |
Anonymous
The three way split feeder at Thoureau already existed. The kids moved from Kilmer to Thoureau were the ones already zoned for Kilmer/Madison (Westbriar and Wolftrap are now split feeders between Kilmer/Thoureau when they were previously only fed into Kilmer and then split between Marshall/Madison) What they didn’t fix was that small area around Thoreau that picks up part of Stenwood which eventually feeds back into Marshall, and that’s because Thoreau is physically within Marshall’s boundaries, and therefore exempt from being addressed. They could have easily assigned all of Cunningham Park to Madison so Thoreau was in bounds for the Madison pyramid, and then sent all of Stenwood to Kilmer, but they were only allowed to make rash decisions like that if the school was physically outside the high school boundary footprint (see Westgate and Timber Lane recommendations) |
Anonymous
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My question:
Will School Board jump in with their marking pen and make dramatic changes after paying a contractor for what two or three already paid could have figured out on their own? Some of it made sense, I guess, but much of it does not. No sense of neighborhoods where I live. |
Anonymous
It’s bizarre that they aren’t doing anything to address existing three-way split feeders like Carson and Thoreau because it would apparently be too disruptive, yet are prepared to redistrict elsewhere to “fix” other, lesser problems. It’s no less disruptive to those affected; it just shows how they propose to treat others as low-hanging fruit who can be redistricted to justify their $500K contract. |
Anonymous
I approve of this decision. Sorry HVES, you are going to South County. Fixing a wrong from decades ago. Be happy you aren’t getting Saratoga and Lewis. |
Anonymous
The Gambrill Road neighborhoods have been districted to WSHS since they were built in the 80s. Other than for a few years when they were made into a split feeder and sent to Lee HS. And that got fixed 20 years ago when South County opened. I don't see how creating a new split feeder at Hunt Valley for 93 kids meets the criteria laid out by the school board for this exercise. |
Anonymous
But I see how it meets the criteria. |
Anonymous
If what Sandy Anderson stated at the WSHS PTA meeting is true, that she won't support grandfathering WSHS students from the Hunt Valley neighborhood, because FCPS intends to fill those spots with Rolling Valley Key/Lewis students, then FCPS is disrupting all those Hunt Valley families for a change of only 70 spots. 178 WSHS students are set to rezone to South County, with NO GRANDFATHERING according to Sandy Anderson at the WSHS PTA meeting on 5/7 so that 106 Lewis students from Rolling Valley can take their spots 178 WSHS students Replaced by: 106 Lewis Students Means a drop in WSHS enrollment by only 72 students and NO GRANDFATHERING for WSHS students If Sandy Anderson misspoke, she needs to schedule a meeting at Hunt Valley next week, to clear this up for the WSHS families pegged for rezoning. |
Anonymous
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Rolling Valley families zoned to Lewis tried very hard about a decade ago to get rezoned into WSHS after Daventry did, and they were not successful. I don't see why they would get that now when it really does make sense for them to just move elementary schools and start building community with the Key/Lewis families they are already zoned to go to school with.
Why would the school board move anyone from Lewis to WSHS? What's in it for Sandy Anderson? That Rolling Valley area is full of great families who probably bring a lot to Lewis. |
Anonymous
| I'm confused on the discussion of 106 students from Rolling Valley/Lewis going to WSHS - the released maps show that area of Rolling Valley south of 286 becoming part of Saratoga and the other part south of 286 for Hunt Valley going to South County. Am I missing other info/maps ? |
Anonymous
That is exactly what the maps show, but Sandy Anderson apparently said differently at the the PTSA meeting at WSHS last week. Unclear whether she just didn't understand the maps or if she if going to push for a change to the released maps. She has been a nightmare to try to communicate with through this whole process. |
Anonymous
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Is there any discussion or acknowledgment about student transfers for language and IB?
Will students currently at Langley for Russian be allowed to continue? |
Anonymous
To refuse to grandfather high school students in their neighborhood high school so she can orchestrate a back door dral moving other students into those spots, leaving WSHS just as overcapacity as it was before rezoning is a really awful thing to do. I really wish she would proactively meet with Hunt Valley families. They have certainly requested that she meets with them, with no luck. However, she is meeting with Rolling Valley families Something is not right with this whole scenario. If Sandy Anderson misspoke at the WSHS PTSA meeting, she needs to send out an email to all WSHS, Hunt Valley and Rolling Valley families explaining her error. If she doesn't correct herself, in writing to her constituents, then it is safe to assume that she accidentally slipped up and shared what she is working on behind the scenes. |