Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This move 128 high students represents almost 22 percent of all the moves impacting high school students (589). Such a unnecessary move with not well thought out impacts.

Looks like the driver was the middle school more than the high school - Kilmer was at 118% with modulars. In fixing that they moved 172 middle schoolers from Kilmer to Thoreau, which is in the Madison pyramid. Makes sense.


I wouldn't trust the numbers and once on all middle schools have AAP they will be over capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

This move 128 high students represents almost 22 percent of all the moves impacting high school students (589). Such a unnecessary move with not well thought out impacts.

Looks like the driver was the middle school more than the high school - Kilmer was at 118% with modulars. In fixing that they moved 172 middle schoolers from Kilmer to Thoreau, which is in the Madison pyramid. Makes sense.

But they left Madison students at Kilmer. The first step should have been to get all Madison students out of Kilmer. It doesn’t make sense to send all of Westbriar to Kilmer and then send 2 SPAs worth of kids to Madison. I get ToV wanted to stay at Madison, but rip the bandaid off and fix the split at MS. They would have gotten Kilmer to 105% if they had only removed Madison students and left Wolftrap/Marshall and Westbriar/Marshall students at Kilmer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Underwhelming list is ok by me because so many of the earlier proposed moves did not solve anything and often times created new problems. Now just hope SB makes minor to no changes and we get this behind us (until next time…)

F their next time. Haven’t we been through enough these last couple of years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was this change between Langley and McLean known? I'm on the other side of the county and wasn't focused on this but I thought those areas wouldn't be impacted by this.

Yes, moving the Spring Hill island from McLean to Langley has been in every proposal and people assumed it was a done deal.

It was other stuff (Langley to Herndon, McLean to Falls Church, McLean to Marshall, Marshall to McLean) that either never got proposed or got proposed and then dropped.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was this change between Langley and McLean known? I'm on the other side of the county and wasn't focused on this but I thought those areas wouldn't be impacted by this.

Yes, moving the Spring Hill island from McLean to Langley has been in every proposal and people assumed it was a done deal.

It was other stuff (Langley to Herndon, McLean to Falls Church, McLean to Marshall, Marshall to McLean) that either never got proposed or got proposed and then dropped.

Got it, thanks for the explanation. I wasn't focused on that part of the county and had wondered. Appreciate it!

I wish they'd release the CIP. There's a lot of unanswered questions in this proposal.

[Anonymous]

Wow, all this angst and time/money/effort spent. All this time spent hyping up the “transformational” changes. All the $$$ paid to contractors and all the people organizing against changes … only to come up with a few edge case changes that no one asked for. LOL. Well, see you back here in 5 years I guess!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
But they left Madison students at Kilmer. The first step should have been to get all Madison students out of Kilmer. It doesn’t make sense to send all of Westbriar to Kilmer and then send 2 SPAs worth of kids to Madison. I get ToV wanted to stay at Madison, but rip the bandaid off and fix the split at MS. They would have gotten Kilmer to 105% if they had only removed Madison students and left Wolftrap/Marshall and Westbriar/Marshall students at Kilmer.

I guess you are right about that, but then you get into the split feeders. Having only 2 SPAs as split feeders, when those two ToV SPAs advocated very aggressively to remain at Madison, is still a lot better than the number of SPAs that were split up previously in this area. I think the lack of clarity on what took precedence - overcapacity vs split feeders vs making loud voices happy - made it very difficult for either scenario we are discussing, or even to leave it all as it was prior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, all this angst and time/money/effort spent. All this time spent hyping up the “transformational” changes. All the $$$ paid to contractors and all the people organizing against changes … only to come up with a few edge case changes that no one asked for. LOL. Well, see you back here in 5 years I guess!

Way better than screwing over tens of thousands of kids, but man, I feel so bad for those few thousand kids being moved just so the school board can say they moved kids.

Comprehensive boundary change is an incredible waste of resources.

[Anonymous]

From start to the finish this process has been a disaster. Some of it was the Board's doing but a lot of it was the consulting company. Thru consulting is a joke and in the end they stole money from FCPS and delivered a crap product.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So can someone with a better understanding help me with the timeline of what comes next --

These are Reids Recs?

Then people can sign up to talk about them at the public meeting with the hope of changing someone's mind?

and then who would make changes? Does the SB and Sandy Anderson just universally listen to everyone and say yes or no or can there still be changes?

Yes, you can speak at the public hearing about what’s either included or excluded from Reid’s proposals.

Then, on January 22, the board will vote. The starting point will be Reid’s recommendations but members can propose to amend them. The School Board would vote on any specific amendments offered by members, and then they’ll be a vote on the entire package, including any amendments.

[Anonymous]

Looking at the maps.

They are moving people to Chantilly from Fairfax HS? Really?

Coates is addressed.

I am surprised by the number of schools below capacity across the County.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looking at the maps.

They are moving people to Chantilly from Fairfax HS? Really?

Coates is addressed.

I am surprised by the number of schools below capacity across the County.

They must assume that Western will get a good number of Chantilly kids. If not, Chantilly is likely to hit 3100.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking at the maps.

They are moving people to Chantilly from Fairfax HS? Really?

Coates is addressed.

I am surprised by the number of schools below capacity across the County.

They must assume that Western will get a good number of Chantilly kids. If not, Chantilly is likely to hit 3100.

Oak Hill is slated to move but I thought that was it out of Chantilly. I could be wrong and there could be more.

[Anonymous]

The Coates realignment is interesting. 190 students move to Herndon ES, which would diminish the number of kids head to Western by 190 and increase Herndon HS by 190 kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking at the maps.

They are moving people to Chantilly from Fairfax HS? Really?

Coates is addressed.

I am surprised by the number of schools below capacity across the County.

They must assume that Western will get a good number of Chantilly kids. If not, Chantilly is likely to hit 3100.

Oak Hill is slated to move but I thought that was it out of Chantilly. I could be wrong and there could be more.

I think all the scenarios have part of Brooksfield and the rest of Cub Run going to Westfield.