FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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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.

DP. Is it ridiculous, or is an unnecessary comprehensive boundary review for no urgent reason ridiculous?

I vote for the latter.

Well I vote for the former.

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Anonymous wrote:I think sophomores, juniors, seniors should be grandfathered but should have to provide their own transportation. I think middle school is ok without grandfathering. I think 6th graders should be grandfathered as well. I think parents should have to provide transportation.

Just my opinion.

So wealthier kids who either have a car or a parent to drive them can remain at their current schools, but poorer kids without access to a car or driver have to switch?

Sounds very equitable to me.

That is how transferring for AP/IB or languages works

Any student who can arrange their own transportation should be grandfathered.

Any rising 8th grader or any current high schooler should be grandfathered with transportation provided, or not grandfathered at all.

Then the same should go for AP/IB and languages if we’re going to focus on equity. Either parents can provide transportation for pupil placements or they can’t. If county provided transportation for grandfathering is going to be the sticking point, get rid of pupil placements all together since only families with means can take advantage of those as well.

Fine, then don't grandfather and just continue to allow for pupil placements. Because grandfathering without transportion is the least equitable of the scenarios.

Nope. Try again. If parent transportation is inequitable for grandfathering it is also inequitable for pupil placements since both are contingent on parents having the means to facilitate 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.

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.

DP. Is it ridiculous, or is an unnecessary comprehensive boundary review for no urgent reason ridiculous?

I vote for the latter.

Ding ding ding. We have a winner (the latter).

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Anonymous wrote:I think sophomores, juniors, seniors should be grandfathered but should have to provide their own transportation. I think middle school is ok without grandfathering. I think 6th graders should be grandfathered as well. I think parents should have to provide transportation.

Just my opinion.

So wealthier kids who either have a car or a parent to drive them can remain at their current schools, but poorer kids without access to a car or driver have to switch?

Sounds very equitable to me.

That is how transferring for AP/IB or languages works

Any student who can arrange their own transportation should be grandfathered.

Any rising 8th grader or any current high schooler should be grandfathered with transportation provided, or not grandfathered at all.

Then the same should go for AP/IB and languages if we’re going to focus on equity. Either parents can provide transportation for pupil placements or they can’t. If county provided transportation for grandfathering is going to be the sticking point, get rid of pupil placements all together since only families with means can take advantage of those as well.

Fine, then don't grandfather and just continue to allow for pupil placements. Because grandfathering without transportion is the least equitable of the scenarios.

Nope. Try again. If parent transportation is inequitable for grandfathering it is also inequitable for pupil placements since both are contingent on parents having the means to facilitate it.

There is some inequity in both, but the disparate impact is greater in a situation when kids are being involuntarily redistricted as opposed to voluntarily pupil placing. We have never grandfathered in FCPS without providing transportation, for good reason. If we start now, simply because the likes of Rachna Sizemore-Heizer failed to plan ahead, the School Board should be recalled en masse for its incompetence and hypocrisy.

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Anonymous wrote:I think sophomores, juniors, seniors should be grandfathered but should have to provide their own transportation. I think middle school is ok without grandfathering. I think 6th graders should be grandfathered as well. I think parents should have to provide transportation.

Just my opinion.

So wealthier kids who either have a car or a parent to drive them can remain at their current schools, but poorer kids without access to a car or driver have to switch?

Sounds very equitable to me.

That is how transferring for AP/IB or languages works

Any student who can arrange their own transportation should be grandfathered.

Any rising 8th grader or any current high schooler should be grandfathered with transportation provided, or not grandfathered at all.

Then the same should go for AP/IB and languages if we’re going to focus on equity. Either parents can provide transportation for pupil placements or they can’t. If county provided transportation for grandfathering is going to be the sticking point, get rid of pupil placements all together since only families with means can take advantage of those as well.

Fine, then don't grandfather and just continue to allow for pupil placements. Because grandfathering without transportion is the least equitable of the scenarios.

Nope. Try again. If parent transportation is inequitable for grandfathering it is also inequitable for pupil placements since both are contingent on parents having the means to facilitate it.

There is some inequity in both, but the disparate impact is greater in a situation when kids are being involuntarily redistricted as opposed to voluntarily pupil placing. We have never grandfathered in FCPS without providing transportation, for good reason. If we start now, simply because the likes of Rachna Sizemore-Heizer failed to plan ahead, the School Board should be recalled en masse for its incompetence and hypocrisy.

Ahh. I think we may be on the same side of this. I'm saying that it is a hypocritical argument for the SB to deny grandfathering on the grounds of transportation when pupil placements are allowed w/ parent transportation. While I agree county provided transportation is better, I think do not think a lack of transportation should prevent grandfathering.

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I think it is pretty repugnant to achieve equity by denying people opportunity.

Btw, this is also why the dems are losing a lot of elections.

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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

Hard disagree. Rising sophomores, juniors and seniors should be grandfathered.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it is pretty repugnant to achieve equity by denying people opportunity.

Btw, this is also why the dems are losing a lot of elections.

Well, you know, they could pare back and just change the boundaries in the few instances where it's really needed. That would be smarter than making unnecessary changes and then giving wealthier people a back-door out.

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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.

My Virginia high school was massively rezoned when I was in school. Only seniors stayed because it was too cumbersome with college admissions. They’ve done this to help with bus situations - I wouldn’t be surprised if they only kept seniors, and lucky if that.

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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

Yes it is. All future high schoolers will go to the new rezoned schools. It will obviously take more time but so what. These kids have been through a lot. Let them finish high where they started and further let the middles schoolers go to where they are currently zoned.

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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

Yes it is. All future high schoolers will go to the new rezoned schools. It will obviously take more time but so what. These kids have been through a lot. Let them finish high where they started and further let the middles schoolers go to where they are currently zoned.

The problem with this is the new 8130 says they have to do a boundary review every 5 years. If they let all kids stay through high school no one has moved and then it’s already time for another review. I don’t agree with any of this but i foresee them limiting grandfathering based on how they approved the new 8130.

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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

Yes it is. All future high schoolers will go to the new rezoned schools. It will obviously take more time but so what. These kids have been through a lot. Let them finish high where they started and further let the middles schoolers go to where they are currently zoned.

The problem with this is the new 8130 says they have to do a boundary review every 5 years. If they let all kids stay through high school no one has moved and then it’s already time for another review. I don’t agree with any of this but i foresee them limiting grandfathering based on how they approved the new 8130.

First, they don’t have to change boundaries every five years. They have to review them. Second, grandfathering doesn’t mean no one has moved. If they grandfather currently enrolled high school students, the year it goes into effect grades 10-12 are grandfathered and rising 9th graders are the first class to shift. At the start of year 4, the changes have been fully implemented right in time for the next boundary evaluation to kick off.

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Anonymous wrote:I think sophomores, juniors, seniors should be grandfathered but should have to provide their own transportation. I think middle school is ok without grandfathering. I think 6th graders should be grandfathered as well. I think parents should have to provide transportation.

Just my opinion.

So wealthier kids who either have a car or a parent to drive them can remain at their current schools, but poorer kids without access to a car or driver have to switch?

Sounds very equitable to me.

That is how transferring for AP/IB or languages works

Any student who can arrange their own transportation should be grandfathered.

Any rising 8th grader or any current high schooler should be grandfathered with transportation provided, or not grandfathered at all.

Nope.

IB to AP transfers provide their own transportation.

All high schoolers able to provide their own transportation should be allowed to grandfather.

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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

Yes it is. All future high schoolers will go to the new rezoned schools. It will obviously take more time but so what. These kids have been through a lot. Let them finish high where they started and further let the middles schoolers go to where they are currently zoned.

The problem with this is the new 8130 says they have to do a boundary review every 5 years. If they let all kids stay through high school no one has moved and then it’s already time for another review. I don’t agree with any of this but i foresee them limiting grandfathering based on how they approved the new 8130.

8130 should be revoked and reverted to the original policy

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Anonymous wrote:I think sophomores, juniors, seniors should be grandfathered but should have to provide their own transportation. I think middle school is ok without grandfathering. I think 6th graders should be grandfathered as well. I think parents should have to provide transportation.

Just my opinion.

So wealthier kids who either have a car or a parent to drive them can remain at their current schools, but poorer kids without access to a car or driver have to switch?

Sounds very equitable to me.

That is how transferring for AP/IB or languages works

Any student who can arrange their own transportation should be grandfathered.

Any rising 8th grader or any current high schooler should be grandfathered with transportation provided, or not grandfathered at all.

Nope.

IB to AP transfers provide their own transportation.

All high schoolers able to provide their own transportation should be allowed to grandfather.

Grandfather with transportation or don’t grandfather at all.