Boundary Review Meetings

[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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

No. Coates was already a split feeder between Herndon and Westfield. These students were already assigned to Herndon.

[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.

It makes sense, and they are in all the Options, but they do not have to opt in to Western yet.

[Anonymous]

I think you're all forgetting that Western Fairfax county was largely ignored here because there will be major changes announced in June. I don't think those changes will be just high school boundaries either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Those kids already go to Herndon HS.

[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.

If you'd been paying attention to the western boundary discussion you'd see that they are also moving Chantilly kids to Centreville.