FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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Anonymous wrote:Between sending out maps that are impossible to read, to scheduling the feedback meetings at schools not affected by rezoning, and refusing to answer specific questions the BRAC committee members have repeatedly asked about specific issues with rezoning, it is clear that FCPS school board and Thru actually do not want feedback from the communities affected by rezoning.

The committee was just for show, which is a terrible disservice to the peope who devoted all their time to help make this process as painless as possible for their neighbors and students across FCPS.

The maps are designed to hide and confuse familes as to what is actually happening with rezoning and who will be affected.

The meetings are scheduled at locations to make it difficult for the affected families to give meaningful feedback. If they cared about getting feedback, FCPS would have scheduled the meetings near the schools being rezoned.

Not even bothering to hold a meeting at West Springfield is such an insult when they are proposing to move so many kids out of the school.

Reid should be fired immediately and this process halted in its tracks.

Is there something preventing you from driving to Lewis for the meeting? The Lewis community will be impacted too. Why not have it there?

Yes, traffic and the insane mixing bowl prevents me from driving to Lewis. I will attend the Robinson meeting.

Good grief. West Springfield to Lewis is either straight down Old Keene Mill to a left on Frontier or the Parkway to a left on Frontier. Traffic actually flows pretty well. Especially for an evening meeting going east.

Hah- I assume you are joking as that is not how any of those intersections work.

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Anonymous wrote: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 ?

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.

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.

What she says isn’t the law. Rising seniors will be grandfathered at the very least. A lot can change in a year.

And there aren’t a huge number of regions moving to a different high school. There are several members of the school board who support grandfathering for high school, and even boundary adjustments made under the current school board have had liberal grandfathering.

More kids would be moving at one time than has been the case for decades. Do we have enough buses to grandfather kids for even one year?

And the current School Board has not changed any boundaries. Some boundary changes still being phased in were adopted by the prior School Board.

There needs to be liberal grandfathering. Anyone in a high school needs to be able to stay there.

I don’t have kids in that situation, but it’s only fair. These changes do diddly squat to fix any actual problems.

Decades ago, when they did county-wide changes, they planned in advance to limit the volume of changes at any one time to ensure they could grandfather.

No such commitment to grandfather was agreed upon here - Rachna Sizemore-Heizer refused to agree to this limitation in her role as Governance chair when Policy 8130 was updated. If you read the language carefully they don’t even guarantee that rising seniors will be grandfathered. It is at the school board’s discretion and transportation may not even be provided.

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Anonymous wrote:Between sending out maps that are impossible to read, to scheduling the feedback meetings at schools not affected by rezoning, and refusing to answer specific questions the BRAC committee members have repeatedly asked about specific issues with rezoning, it is clear that FCPS school board and Thru actually do not want feedback from the communities affected by rezoning.

The committee was just for show, which is a terrible disservice to the peope who devoted all their time to help make this process as painless as possible for their neighbors and students across FCPS.

The maps are designed to hide and confuse familes as to what is actually happening with rezoning and who will be affected.

The meetings are scheduled at locations to make it difficult for the affected families to give meaningful feedback. If they cared about getting feedback, FCPS would have scheduled the meetings near the schools being rezoned.

Not even bothering to hold a meeting at West Springfield is such an insult when they are proposing to move so many kids out of the school.

Reid should be fired immediately and this process halted in its tracks.

Is there something preventing you from driving to Lewis for the meeting? The Lewis community will be impacted too. Why not have it there?

Yes, traffic and the insane mixing bowl prevents me from driving to Lewis. I will attend the Robinson meeting.

Good grief. West Springfield to Lewis is either straight down Old Keene Mill to a left on Frontier or the Parkway to a left on Frontier. Traffic actually flows pretty well. Especially for an evening meeting going east.

Hah- I assume you are joking as that is not how any of those intersections work.

There are lights and you have to exit the parkway to Frontier, but those are literally the two paths you can use to get from West Springfield to Lewis. You could also turn on Commerce and go in the back way. Going down Old Keene Mill to Frontier involves zero turns, goes over southbound 95 and under northbound 95 and becomes Franconia Road without making a turn. Very direct and not some complicated endeavor. A fourth way involves using the elevated road past Lewis and the going in another back way by Springfield Estates.

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Anonymous wrote: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 ?

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.

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.

What she says isn’t the law. Rising seniors will be grandfathered at the very least. A lot can change in a year.

And there aren’t a huge number of regions moving to a different high school. There are several members of the school board who support grandfathering for high school, and even boundary adjustments made under the current school board have had liberal grandfathering.

More kids would be moving at one time than has been the case for decades. Do we have enough buses to grandfather kids for even one year?

And the current School Board has not changed any boundaries. Some boundary changes still being phased in were adopted by the prior School Board.

There needs to be liberal grandfathering. Anyone in a high school needs to be able to stay there.

I don’t have kids in that situation, but it’s only fair. These changes do diddly squat to fix any actual problems.

Decades ago, when they did county-wide changes, they planned in advance to limit the volume of changes at any one time to ensure they could grandfather.

No such commitment to grandfather was agreed upon here - Rachna Sizemore-Heizer refused to agree to this limitation in her role as Governance chair when Policy 8130 was updated. If you read the language carefully they don’t even guarantee that rising seniors will be grandfathered. It is at the school board’s discretion and transportation may not even be provided.

The school board is split on this issue. There are several members who are passionately opposed to not grandfathering the upper grades. There is no scenario I see existing where there is NO grandfathering. They’d have to give Ricardy Anderson an expansion and boundary adjustment at Glasgow to even get her to come to the table on that issue.

Elementary aged children are SOL on staying at their current school. High school, there are members of the school board will fight for them.

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Anonymous wrote: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 ?

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.

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.

What she says isn’t the law. Rising seniors will be grandfathered at the very least. A lot can change in a year.

And there aren’t a huge number of regions moving to a different high school. There are several members of the school board who support grandfathering for high school, and even boundary adjustments made under the current school board have had liberal grandfathering.

More kids would be moving at one time than has been the case for decades. Do we have enough buses to grandfather kids for even one year?

And the current School Board has not changed any boundaries. Some boundary changes still being phased in were adopted by the prior School Board.

Unless we disallow parent provided transportation for pupil placements for AP/IB and languages, we should not cite lack of transportation as a reason to not allow grandfathering. Either we allow parents to transport students to schools or we don't in the name of "equity." To say grandfathering is contingent on transportation is disingenuous.

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Anonymous wrote:Between sending out maps that are impossible to read, to scheduling the feedback meetings at schools not affected by rezoning, and refusing to answer specific questions the BRAC committee members have repeatedly asked about specific issues with rezoning, it is clear that FCPS school board and Thru actually do not want feedback from the communities affected by rezoning.

The committee was just for show, which is a terrible disservice to the peope who devoted all their time to help make this process as painless as possible for their neighbors and students across FCPS.

The maps are designed to hide and confuse familes as to what is actually happening with rezoning and who will be affected.

The meetings are scheduled at locations to make it difficult for the affected families to give meaningful feedback. If they cared about getting feedback, FCPS would have scheduled the meetings near the schools being rezoned.

Not even bothering to hold a meeting at West Springfield is such an insult when they are proposing to move so many kids out of the school.

Reid should be fired immediately and this process halted in its tracks.

Is there something preventing you from driving to Lewis for the meeting? The Lewis community will be impacted too. Why not have it there?

Yes, traffic and the insane mixing bowl prevents me from driving to Lewis. I will attend the Robinson meeting.

Good grief. West Springfield to Lewis is either straight down Old Keene Mill to a left on Frontier or the Parkway to a left on Frontier. Traffic actually flows pretty well. Especially for an evening meeting going east.

Hah- I assume you are joking as that is not how any of those intersections work.

There are lights and you have to exit the parkway to Frontier, but those are literally the two paths you can use to get from West Springfield to Lewis. You could also turn on Commerce and go in the back way. Going down Old Keene Mill to Frontier involves zero turns, goes over southbound 95 and under northbound 95 and becomes Franconia Road without making a turn. Very direct and not some complicated endeavor. A fourth way involves using the elevated road past Lewis and the going in another back way by Springfield Estates.

Good that it is easy for you! I find after commuting on 395 to OKM everyday post RTO the last thing I want to do on a Friday night is go through that interchange again. People going to mall from 395/95 are nutty and often clueless about which lane to go in.
I had a van slam into me (completely their fault) on that interchange and see accidents regularly. I will choose to go to the region 4 meeting where I am more likely to see my school board rep.

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Anonymous wrote: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 ?

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.

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.

What she says isn’t the law. Rising seniors will be grandfathered at the very least. A lot can change in a year.

And there aren’t a huge number of regions moving to a different high school. There are several members of the school board who support grandfathering for high school, and even boundary adjustments made under the current school board have had liberal grandfathering.

More kids would be moving at one time than has been the case for decades. Do we have enough buses to grandfather kids for even one year?

And the current School Board has not changed any boundaries. Some boundary changes still being phased in were adopted by the prior School Board.

There needs to be liberal grandfathering. Anyone in a high school needs to be able to stay there.

I don’t have kids in that situation, but it’s only fair. These changes do diddly squat to fix any actual problems.

Decades ago, when they did county-wide changes, they planned in advance to limit the volume of changes at any one time to ensure they could grandfather.

No such commitment to grandfather was agreed upon here - Rachna Sizemore-Heizer refused to agree to this limitation in her role as Governance chair when Policy 8130 was updated. If you read the language carefully they don’t even guarantee that rising seniors will be grandfathered. It is at the school board’s discretion and transportation may not even be provided.

High school seniors should be grandfathered but I agree that they should find their own transportation if they choose that option.

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Anonymous wrote:Between sending out maps that are impossible to read, to scheduling the feedback meetings at schools not affected by rezoning, and refusing to answer specific questions the BRAC committee members have repeatedly asked about specific issues with rezoning, it is clear that FCPS school board and Thru actually do not want feedback from the communities affected by rezoning.

The committee was just for show, which is a terrible disservice to the peope who devoted all their time to help make this process as painless as possible for their neighbors and students across FCPS.

The maps are designed to hide and confuse familes as to what is actually happening with rezoning and who will be affected.

The meetings are scheduled at locations to make it difficult for the affected families to give meaningful feedback. If they cared about getting feedback, FCPS would have scheduled the meetings near the schools being rezoned.

Not even bothering to hold a meeting at West Springfield is such an insult when they are proposing to move so many kids out of the school.

Reid should be fired immediately and this process halted in its tracks.

Is there something preventing you from driving to Lewis for the meeting? The Lewis community will be impacted too. Why not have it there?

Yes, traffic and the insane mixing bowl prevents me from driving to Lewis. I will attend the Robinson meeting.

Good grief. West Springfield to Lewis is either straight down Old Keene Mill to a left on Frontier or the Parkway to a left on Frontier. Traffic actually flows pretty well. Especially for an evening meeting going east.

Hah- I assume you are joking as that is not how any of those intersections work.

There are lights and you have to exit the parkway to Frontier, but those are literally the two paths you can use to get from West Springfield to Lewis. You could also turn on Commerce and go in the back way. Going down Old Keene Mill to Frontier involves zero turns, goes over southbound 95 and under northbound 95 and becomes Franconia Road without making a turn. Very direct and not some complicated endeavor. A fourth way involves using the elevated road past Lewis and the going in another back way by Springfield Estates.

Good that it is easy for you! I find after commuting on 395 to OKM everyday post RTO the last thing I want to do on a Friday night is go through that interchange again. People going to mall from 395/95 are nutty and often clueless about which lane to go in.
I had a van slam into me (completely their fault) on that interchange and see accidents regularly. I will choose to go to the region 4 meeting where I am more likely to see my school board rep.

Why did RTO become such a hardship when everyone with a brain anticipated its return post-COVI and any prolonged delay was a temporary perk. People are making it into a bigger issue than it ought to be, especially if you have kids in HS. Traffic is a pain, but people choose to live in this area and traffic comes with it.

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Anonymous wrote: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 ?

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.

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.

What she says isn’t the law. Rising seniors will be grandfathered at the very least. A lot can change in a year.

And there aren’t a huge number of regions moving to a different high school. There are several members of the school board who support grandfathering for high school, and even boundary adjustments made under the current school board have had liberal grandfathering.

More kids would be moving at one time than has been the case for decades. Do we have enough buses to grandfather kids for even one year?

And the current School Board has not changed any boundaries. Some boundary changes still being phased in were adopted by the prior School Board.

There needs to be liberal grandfathering. Anyone in a high school needs to be able to stay there.

I don’t have kids in that situation, but it’s only fair. These changes do diddly squat to fix any actual problems.

Decades ago, when they did county-wide changes, they planned in advance to limit the volume of changes at any one time to ensure they could grandfather.

No such commitment to grandfather was agreed upon here - Rachna Sizemore-Heizer refused to agree to this limitation in her role as Governance chair when Policy 8130 was updated. If you read the language carefully they don’t even guarantee that rising seniors will be grandfathered. It is at the school board’s discretion and transportation may not even be provided.

High school seniors should be grandfathered but I agree that they should find their own transportation if they choose that option.

All high school kids should be grandfathered. Sandy sucks for not supporting this.

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Anonymous wrote: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 ?

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.

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.

What she says isn’t the law. Rising seniors will be grandfathered at the very least. A lot can change in a year.

And there aren’t a huge number of regions moving to a different high school. There are several members of the school board who support grandfathering for high school, and even boundary adjustments made under the current school board have had liberal grandfathering.

More kids would be moving at one time than has been the case for decades. Do we have enough buses to grandfather kids for even one year?

And the current School Board has not changed any boundaries. Some boundary changes still being phased in were adopted by the prior School Board.

There needs to be liberal grandfathering. Anyone in a high school needs to be able to stay there.

I don’t have kids in that situation, but it’s only fair. These changes do diddly squat to fix any actual problems.

Decades ago, when they did county-wide changes, they planned in advance to limit the volume of changes at any one time to ensure they could grandfather.

No such commitment to grandfather was agreed upon here - Rachna Sizemore-Heizer refused to agree to this limitation in her role as Governance chair when Policy 8130 was updated. If you read the language carefully they don’t even guarantee that rising seniors will be grandfathered. It is at the school board’s discretion and transportation may not even be provided.

High school seniors should be grandfathered but I agree that they should find their own transportation if they choose that option.

All high school kids should be grandfathered. Sandy sucks for not supporting this.

I have a 6,8,10 grader now. I assumed 8th would be grandfathered but I guess if not I will have a kid move after 9th and one move to a new middle after 7th. Sucks.

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Anonymous wrote:Between sending out maps that are impossible to read, to scheduling the feedback meetings at schools not affected by rezoning, and refusing to answer specific questions the BRAC committee members have repeatedly asked about specific issues with rezoning, it is clear that FCPS school board and Thru actually do not want feedback from the communities affected by rezoning.

The committee was just for show, which is a terrible disservice to the peope who devoted all their time to help make this process as painless as possible for their neighbors and students across FCPS.

The maps are designed to hide and confuse familes as to what is actually happening with rezoning and who will be affected.

The meetings are scheduled at locations to make it difficult for the affected families to give meaningful feedback. If they cared about getting feedback, FCPS would have scheduled the meetings near the schools being rezoned.

Not even bothering to hold a meeting at West Springfield is such an insult when they are proposing to move so many kids out of the school.

Reid should be fired immediately and this process halted in its tracks.

Is there something preventing you from driving to Lewis for the meeting? The Lewis community will be impacted too. Why not have it there?

Yes, traffic and the insane mixing bowl prevents me from driving to Lewis. I will attend the Robinson meeting.

Good grief. West Springfield to Lewis is either straight down Old Keene Mill to a left on Frontier or the Parkway to a left on Frontier. Traffic actually flows pretty well. Especially for an evening meeting going east.

Hah- I assume you are joking as that is not how any of those intersections work.

There are lights and you have to exit the parkway to Frontier, but those are literally the two paths you can use to get from West Springfield to Lewis. You could also turn on Commerce and go in the back way. Going down Old Keene Mill to Frontier involves zero turns, goes over southbound 95 and under northbound 95 and becomes Franconia Road without making a turn. Very direct and not some complicated endeavor. A fourth way involves using the elevated road past Lewis and the going in another back way by Springfield Estates.

Good that it is easy for you! I find after commuting on 395 to OKM everyday post RTO the last thing I want to do on a Friday night is go through that interchange again. People going to mall from 395/95 are nutty and often clueless about which lane to go in.
I had a van slam into me (completely their fault) on that interchange and see accidents regularly. I will choose to go to the region 4 meeting where I am more likely to see my school board rep.

Why did RTO become such a hardship when everyone with a brain anticipated its return post-COVI and any prolonged delay was a temporary perk. People are making it into a bigger issue than it ought to be, especially if you have kids in HS. Traffic is a pain, but people choose to live in this area and traffic comes with it.

Dp. This is in no way related to the thread.

Also, you are a tool.

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Anonymous wrote: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 ?

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.

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.

What she says isn’t the law. Rising seniors will be grandfathered at the very least. A lot can change in a year.

And there aren’t a huge number of regions moving to a different high school. There are several members of the school board who support grandfathering for high school, and even boundary adjustments made under the current school board have had liberal grandfathering.

More kids would be moving at one time than has been the case for decades. Do we have enough buses to grandfather kids for even one year?

And the current School Board has not changed any boundaries. Some boundary changes still being phased in were adopted by the prior School Board.

There needs to be liberal grandfathering. Anyone in a high school needs to be able to stay there.

I don’t have kids in that situation, but it’s only fair. These changes do diddly squat to fix any actual problems.

Decades ago, when they did county-wide changes, they planned in advance to limit the volume of changes at any one time to ensure they could grandfather.

No such commitment to grandfather was agreed upon here - Rachna Sizemore-Heizer refused to agree to this limitation in her role as Governance chair when Policy 8130 was updated. If you read the language carefully they don’t even guarantee that rising seniors will be grandfathered. It is at the school board’s discretion and transportation may not even be provided.

High school seniors should be grandfathered but I agree that they should find their own transportation if they choose that option.

All high school kids should be grandfathered. Sandy sucks for not supporting this.

If all high schoolers are grandfathered, it's not much of a boundary change now is it? Only seniors should be grandfathered

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Anonymous wrote: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 ?

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.

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.

What she says isn’t the law. Rising seniors will be grandfathered at the very least. A lot can change in a year.

And there aren’t a huge number of regions moving to a different high school. There are several members of the school board who support grandfathering for high school, and even boundary adjustments made under the current school board have had liberal grandfathering.

More kids would be moving at one time than has been the case for decades. Do we have enough buses to grandfather kids for even one year?

And the current School Board has not changed any boundaries. Some boundary changes still being phased in were adopted by the prior School Board.

There needs to be liberal grandfathering. Anyone in a high school needs to be able to stay there.

I don’t have kids in that situation, but it’s only fair. These changes do diddly squat to fix any actual problems.

Decades ago, when they did county-wide changes, they planned in advance to limit the volume of changes at any one time to ensure they could grandfather.

No such commitment to grandfather was agreed upon here - Rachna Sizemore-Heizer refused to agree to this limitation in her role as Governance chair when Policy 8130 was updated. If you read the language carefully they don’t even guarantee that rising seniors will be grandfathered. It is at the school board’s discretion and transportation may not even be provided.

High school seniors should be grandfathered but I agree that they should find their own transportation if they choose that option.

All high school kids should be grandfathered. Sandy sucks for not supporting this.

If all high schoolers are grandfathered, it's not much of a boundary change now is it? Only seniors should be grandfathered

There’s no need for most of these changes and you’re a horrible person to be so indifferent to forcing kids already in middle or high school to move.

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Anonymous wrote: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 ?

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.

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.

What she says isn’t the law. Rising seniors will be grandfathered at the very least. A lot can change in a year.

And there aren’t a huge number of regions moving to a different high school. There are several members of the school board who support grandfathering for high school, and even boundary adjustments made under the current school board have had liberal grandfathering.

More kids would be moving at one time than has been the case for decades. Do we have enough buses to grandfather kids for even one year?

And the current School Board has not changed any boundaries. Some boundary changes still being phased in were adopted by the prior School Board.

There needs to be liberal grandfathering. Anyone in a high school needs to be able to stay there.

I don’t have kids in that situation, but it’s only fair. These changes do diddly squat to fix any actual problems.

Decades ago, when they did county-wide changes, they planned in advance to limit the volume of changes at any one time to ensure they could grandfather.

No such commitment to grandfather was agreed upon here - Rachna Sizemore-Heizer refused to agree to this limitation in her role as Governance chair when Policy 8130 was updated. If you read the language carefully they don’t even guarantee that rising seniors will be grandfathered. It is at the school board’s discretion and transportation may not even be provided.

High school seniors should be grandfathered but I agree that they should find their own transportation if they choose that option.

All high school kids should be grandfathered. Sandy sucks for not supporting this.

If all high schoolers are grandfathered, it's not much of a boundary change now is it? Only seniors should be grandfathered

Not according to research that tracked children who moved in high school. It is detrimental academically, socially and for mental health.
A good school system is able to take care of maps and redistricting while ensuring a good, stable education for the children and families it is serving. Otherwise, the school system loses value.

A boundary change shouldn’t take precedence over the needs of kids.

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Anonymous wrote: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 ?

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.

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.

What she says isn’t the law. Rising seniors will be grandfathered at the very least. A lot can change in a year.

And there aren’t a huge number of regions moving to a different high school. There are several members of the school board who support grandfathering for high school, and even boundary adjustments made under the current school board have had liberal grandfathering.

More kids would be moving at one time than has been the case for decades. Do we have enough buses to grandfather kids for even one year?

And the current School Board has not changed any boundaries. Some boundary changes still being phased in were adopted by the prior School Board.

There needs to be liberal grandfathering. Anyone in a high school needs to be able to stay there.

I don’t have kids in that situation, but it’s only fair. These changes do diddly squat to fix any actual problems.

Decades ago, when they did county-wide changes, they planned in advance to limit the volume of changes at any one time to ensure they could grandfather.

No such commitment to grandfather was agreed upon here - Rachna Sizemore-Heizer refused to agree to this limitation in her role as Governance chair when Policy 8130 was updated. If you read the language carefully they don’t even guarantee that rising seniors will be grandfathered. It is at the school board’s discretion and transportation may not even be provided.

High school seniors should be grandfathered but I agree that they should find their own transportation if they choose that option.

All high school kids should be grandfathered. Sandy sucks for not supporting this.

If all high schoolers are grandfathered, it's not much of a boundary change now is it? Only seniors should be grandfathered

There’s no need for most of these changes and you’re a horrible person to be so indifferent to forcing kids already in middle or high school to move.

Your opinion isn't fact. And now we're trying to the grandfathering down to middle school? That is ridiculous.