FCPS HS Boundary

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Anonymous wrote:They kept Marshall open years ago when its enrollment was around 1200 and now it’s around 2200. Had they closed it, who knows what they would have been forced to do to handle the later growth in and around Tysons.

I don’t see them closing Lewis even if its enrollment continues to decline as projected over the next 5 years. More likely they’ll move some kids there just like they did at South Lakes 15 years ago.

It isn’t isolated to Lewis, though. Between West Potomac, Mount Vernon, Lewis, South County, and Annandale there are over 1200 empty seats in that region. There aren’t enough West Springfield kids to put a bandaid on that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They kept Marshall open years ago when its enrollment was around 1200 and now it’s around 2200. Had they closed it, who knows what they would have been forced to do to handle the later growth in and around Tysons.

I don’t see them closing Lewis even if its enrollment continues to decline as projected over the next 5 years. More likely they’ll move some kids there just like they did at South Lakes 15 years ago.

It isn’t isolated to Lewis, though. Between West Potomac, Mount Vernon, Lewis, South County, and Annandale there are over 1200 empty seats in that region. There aren’t enough West Springfield kids to put a bandaid on that.

I don’t see how the ridiculous over-expansion of West Potomac engineered by Karen Corbett-Sanders would justify closing Lewis. They aren’t that close and there may also be future growth at Edison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They kept Marshall open years ago when its enrollment was around 1200 and now it’s around 2200. Had they closed it, who knows what they would have been forced to do to handle the later growth in and around Tysons.

I don’t see them closing Lewis even if its enrollment continues to decline as projected over the next 5 years. More likely they’ll move some kids there just like they did at South Lakes 15 years ago.

It isn’t isolated to Lewis, though. Between West Potomac, Mount Vernon, Lewis, South County, and Annandale there are over 1200 empty seats in that region. There aren’t enough West Springfield kids to put a bandaid on that.

Edison has no empty seats and a lot of development slated in its boundaries. But everyone just wants to talk about Lewis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the middle school AAP thing at all if there are honors classes. Seems repetitive and wasteful but my kids are still ES age so maybe I just haven’t experienced it myself yet.

The honors classes don't cover as much material. Today's honors classes are probably what was covered in the regular classes a generation ago. The regular classes go slower and have more support for those kids that need it. They try very hard not to label anything remedial or special ed anymore.

Anonymous wrote:...How the program is adminstered is not a part of the conversation except for the fact that the Center devotees swear that Center AAP is better then LLIV.

It's not Center > Local, it's Dedicated AAP classrooms >>> clustering. If LLIV is a full class moving at full AAP speed then it is fine.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have any background on Sandy Anderson's selection as vice chair this evening? The conspiracy theorist inside me believes this is nefarious by design in order to make her less parochial about Springfield district as the SB targets it for boundary changes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any background on Sandy Anderson's selection as vice chair this evening? The conspiracy theorist inside me believes this is nefarious by design in order to make her less parochial about Springfield district as the SB targets it for boundary changes.

Stop with the crazy conspiracy theories. Nothing about being vice chair vhs gets her status as the magisterial member.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any background on Sandy Anderson's selection as vice chair this evening? The conspiracy theorist inside me believes this is nefarious by design in order to make her less parochial about Springfield district as the SB targets it for boundary changes.

The Vice Chair of the School Board doesn't have any special power. Her election simply means she's a loyal Democratic foot solider. She's already signaled she's fully behind the county-wide boundary study.

[Anonymous]

350 pages and counting.

Can we make it to 400?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any background on Sandy Anderson's selection as vice chair this evening? The conspiracy theorist inside me believes this is nefarious by design in order to make her less parochial about Springfield district as the SB targets it for boundary changes.

How did Sandy Anderson get a leadership position???

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any background on Sandy Anderson's selection as vice chair this evening? The conspiracy theorist inside me believes this is nefarious by design in order to make her less parochial about Springfield district as the SB targets it for boundary changes.

How did Sandy Anderson get a leadership position???

She is the member spear heading the entire boundary change policy. She wants to reshuffle lots of boundaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A win for everyone is when kids are grouped with peers that can all move at the same speed. Every child's learning is maximized with more differentiation, not less. This no child left behind crap where they all move at the speed of the dumbest kid with the loudest parent might make that parent feel better, but sticking that kid in classes with all the advanced kids will just make them feel worse. The AAP kids have proven they're ready for math 1-2 years ahead of their peers. They're crushing the IAAT in 6th and taking Algebra in 7th. Yeah, it's the "same curriculum" the other kids take, but it's sped up by years, not weeks or months.

Anyway, to make your "everyone takes the same classes regardless of aptitude" dream come true you are going to need to redraw some boundaries. Can't get rid of centers without making room at the base schools. You ready for that?

No one is advocating the bolded - nice strawman. Grouping peers of similar abilities is simply flexible grouping - as has been discussed many times on this forum. There could still be an "advanced" group, as well as 2-3 other levels among all the teachers per grade. The difference is, kids could move up (or down) as needed. There is no need to divide all kids into two huge groups who are more similar than they are dissimilar. There's far too much overlap between Gen Ed and AAP. And your remark about "the dumbest kid" just says so much about you.

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Anonymous wrote:A win for everyone is when kids are grouped with peers that can all move at the same speed. Every child's learning is maximized with more differentiation, not less. This no child left behind crap where they all move at the speed of the dumbest kid with the loudest parent might make that parent feel better, but sticking that kid in classes with all the advanced kids will just make them feel worse. The AAP kids have proven they're ready for math 1-2 years ahead of their peers. They're crushing the IAAT in 6th and taking Algebra in 7th. Yeah, it's the "same curriculum" the other kids take, but it's sped up by years, not weeks or months.

Anyway, to make your "everyone takes the same classes regardless of aptitude" dream come true you are going to need to redraw some boundaries. Can't get rid of centers without making room at the base schools. You ready for that?

Getting rid of the overcrowding at Carson by making it a school that serves a local community rather than a bloated AAP center? Bring it on!

+10000
Same with Colvin Run, Forest Edge, etc. We need to go back to community schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have the stats for pupil placements? I can never find that in the FCPS website. I’m interested to see how many students follow their AAP pyramid and pupil place to that high school to stay with their cohorts. I still think a huge program reform would be to make sure there’s a dedicated AAP center in every high school pyramid, and to either put AAP into every middle school, or drop the program at that level. The AAP clusters bounce all over the place.

Why doesn’t Wolftrap go to Westbriar to follow cohorts to Kilmer? Why does Forestville go to Forest Edge instead of Colvin Run to tie into Cooper? Why does Wales Mill go to Hunters Woods instead of Navy to feed into Carson? And those are the easy ones…

AAP centers should be eliminated, period.

AAP centers should stay, period.

Nope. With LLIV in virtually all schools, centers are redundant - as is the extra busing required. They are also the epitome of inequity, since one group of kids gets to choose which school they attend while the other group does not. And we know this SB is all about *equity,* so it should be a no-brainer to get rid of centers.

It must be tough to accept your kid isn't advanced. Centers are staying.

You sound really mature. And we'll see about centers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any background on Sandy Anderson's selection as vice chair this evening? The conspiracy theorist inside me believes this is nefarious by design in order to make her less parochial about Springfield district as the SB targets it for boundary changes.

How did Sandy Anderson get a leadership position???

She is the member spear heading the entire boundary change policy. She wants to reshuffle lots of boundaries.

No, she’s not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any background on Sandy Anderson's selection as vice chair this evening? The conspiracy theorist inside me believes this is nefarious by design in order to make her less parochial about Springfield district as the SB targets it for boundary changes.

How did Sandy Anderson get a leadership position???

Agree but there’s a real lack of others. Vice chair isn’t anything special though. Just more administrative work.