Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

How can you prepare to comment on something you have not seen??

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Anonymous wrote:The new email tonight says they’ve released the Superintendent’s boundary adjustments but when I looked at board docs it wasn’t there. Anyone find it?

I don’t think they’ve released anything yet - I just see an “Attachment will be provided prior to the meeting.”

The email provides links to “view” the boundary recommendations and the 27-31 CIP. Neither links include drafts for review. I don’t understand why they bother sending links in the emails when the information isn’t available yet.

Because they are incompetent, and they are never held accountable and thus have no incentive to improve.

Kind of like delaying months to decide boundary for a new school, but going ahead with boundary adjustments for the whole county?

[Anonymous]

Just saw the email. Cannot believe (or maybe I should have expected) that they put in a link to the "recommended boundary adjustments" with no document.

It's time for Reid to go.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The new email tonight says they’ve released the Superintendent’s boundary adjustments but when I looked at board docs it wasn’t there. Anyone find it?

I don’t think they’ve released anything yet - I just see an “Attachment will be provided prior to the meeting.”

The email provides links to “view” the boundary recommendations and the 27-31 CIP. Neither links include drafts for review. I don’t understand why they bother sending links in the emails when the information isn’t available yet.

Because they are incompetent, and they are never held accountable and thus have no incentive to improve.

Kind of like delaying months to decide boundary for a new school, but going ahead with boundary adjustments for the whole county?

Well, yes, or expecting families to "opt in" to attend the new school without knowing what the actual boundaries will be for that school.

It's just one incident of glaring stupidity after another. Michelle Reid has no business running a school system this large.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can you prepare to comment on something you have not seen??

This is an excellent way to ensure that any boundary changes get thrown out by a court, if someone decided to sue. The opportunity for public comment will close before the public can see the proposed changes. No court would find that acceptable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How can you prepare to comment on something you have not seen??

This is an excellent way to ensure that any boundary changes get thrown out by a court, if someone decided to sue. The opportunity for public comment will close before the public can see the proposed changes. No court would find that acceptable.

No, that's not how it's going to work. They will drop the proposals into the agenda at some point over the coming week, in advance of the public hearing and Reid's presentation to the board on January 8th, but their communications are still incredibly sloppy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How can you prepare to comment on something you have not seen??

This is an excellent way to ensure that any boundary changes get thrown out by a court, if someone decided to sue. The opportunity for public comment will close before the public can see the proposed changes. No court would find that acceptable.

No, that's not how it's going to work. They will drop the proposals into the agenda at some point over the coming week, in advance of the public hearing and Reid's presentation to the board on January 8th, but their communications are still incredibly sloppy.

Virginia has public notice requirements.

I think this backwards public comment will violate state law if the changes aren't released first.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How can you prepare to comment on something you have not seen??

This is an excellent way to ensure that any boundary changes get thrown out by a court, if someone decided to sue. The opportunity for public comment will close before the public can see the proposed changes. No court would find that acceptable.

No, that's not how it's going to work. They will drop the proposals into the agenda at some point over the coming week, in advance of the public hearing and Reid's presentation to the board on January 8th, but their communications are still incredibly sloppy.

Virginia has public notice requirements.

I think this backwards public comment will violate state law if the changes aren't released first.

Reid’s proposals will be released before the public hearing and any School Board vote. What’s stupid is they sent out an email today suggesting people can now access her proposals when they haven’t yet been posted. It doesn’t violate the law; it just makes them look disorganized and incompetent yet again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They'll need at least 3 new or expanded middle schools if they ever expect to move to 6-8 county wide to align with most of the rest of the country.

No one here wants that so no worries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can you prepare to comment on something you have not seen??

It won’t matter, public comments are not wanted. The Queen and her court have decided for you.

[Anonymous]

Exactly I wouldn’t waste my time commenting at a meeting. It will not change their positions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Exactly I wouldn’t waste my time commenting at a meeting. It will not change their positions.

Maybe not, but don't we have to hold a mirror to our elected officials to try to hold them accountable? I hope the meeting is filled with rational, everyday parents, who share what a crock this whole process has been and how disappointed we are in the board, the consultants, and the administration?

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Anonymous wrote:Exactly I wouldn’t waste my time commenting at a meeting. It will not change their positions.

Maybe not, but don't we have to hold a mirror to our elected officials to try to hold them accountable? I hope the meeting is filled with rational, everyday parents, who share what a crock this whole process has been and how disappointed we are in the board, the consultants, and the administration?

Agree and hope that rational parents show up and point how how bad the process was, but the only way to hold the board accountable is thru recalls and election of a new board that will get rid of Reid, scrap the boundary study and get back to effectively teaching core subjects.

[Anonymous]

Everything about this boundary process has been a disgrace, culminating in the delayed release of the final proposals and the scant time families will have to review them before the public hearing.

Reid should have been fired by now. The idiots on this School Board need to be replaced as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everything about this boundary process has been a disgrace, culminating in the delayed release of the final proposals and the scant time families will have to review them before the public hearing.

Reid should have been fired by now. The idiots on this School Board need to be replaced as well.

What really bothers me are the wasted resources that FCPS has put into the boundary review. How many additional teachers could’ve been hired for the same amount of staff and consulting resources that have been used for a comprehensive boundary review that very few people want and most ardently oppose.

Just such a rank waste.