FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:any updates to Woodson pyramid?

That looks intact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:any updates to Woodson pyramid?

That looks intact.

Well, of course it does......

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:any updates to Woodson pyramid?

That looks intact.

Unless you attend Fairfax Villa or Willow Springs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:any updates to Woodson pyramid?

That looks intact.

Unless you attend Fairfax Villa or Willow Springs.

They have that Willow Springs attendance island now split between Fairfax Villa and Eagle View but staying at Fairfax and another part of Fairfax Villa moving from Woodson to Fairfax, I think.

[Anonymous]

I'd hoped the interactive tool would allow you to see the SPAs, which is what Thru is treating itself as contrained by. In some cases, you can tell that their working with SPAs produces some funky results, but you're limited in your ability to propose an alternative because you can't work with the SPAs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The capacity projections since significantly different from what were in the slides, I'm guessing from compounding impacts of different scenarios but it sounds like there are some changes that are being proposed that was not previewed during the scenarios?

Yes.

For example, they are rezoning a Sangster/Lake Braddock neighborhood to Newington Forest and South County (just a handful of students, around a dozen for middle school and 20-something for high school) and replacing them by rezoning a small Silverbrook/SoCo neighborhood to Sangster/LB.

The Silverbrook neighborhood was not included in the original rezoning maps, so those folks are in for a surprise.

In both cases it is just one small neighborhood of a few streets, so FCPS is going to disrupt a couple dozen kids by taking them away from all their friends, to essentially just flip them to schools that are not really closer than their original schools.

It is pretty $hitty to disrupt families like this, if you ask me, especially when there is zero benefit, not even an overcrowding issue at any of the schools involved, and no measurable transportation savings as both neighborhoods are bus neighborhoods at about the same distance.

[Anonymous]

The interactive map looks like they just added a bunch of changes to justify charging FCPS a half million dollars

[Anonymous]

The proposals in the interactive map are quite different from the earlier slides for some pyramids and about the same for others. It tells me everything is going to continue to be in play for months.

[Anonymous]

Tonight’s meeting was an absolute farce. They had Dr Reid say about 5 minutes of remarks and then the guy from Thru pretty much regurgitated the slides that were already posted. Seemed like he had hadn’t prepped at all, fumbled through his slides and then the demo of the interactive map.

They then had the in person and virtual groups split into breakout groups to discuss how they felt about the proposals for 45 mins. There was no one from the BRAC or FCPS in any of the groups to facilitate the conversation. My virtual group didn’t talk at all.

Then for the final 15 mins they brought everyone back together and you were able to submit questions via an app that others could vote up. None of the questions were answered by Dr Reid or Thru.

This clearly feels like an effort for Dr Reid to claim she solicited received community feedback but didn’t actually listen to it. As alumni of FCPS schools, I am very disappointed with the state of affairs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tonight’s meeting was an absolute farce. They had Dr Reid say about 5 minutes of remarks and then the guy from Thru pretty much regurgitated the slides that were already posted. Seemed like he had hadn’t prepped at all, fumbled through his slides and then the demo of the interactive map.

They then had the in person and virtual groups split into breakout groups to discuss how they felt about the proposals for 45 mins. There was no one from the BRAC or FCPS in any of the groups to facilitate the conversation. My virtual group didn’t talk at all.

Then for the final 15 mins they brought everyone back together and you were able to submit questions via an app that others could vote up. None of the questions were answered by Dr Reid or Thru.

This clearly feels like an effort for Dr Reid to claim she solicited received community feedback but didn’t actually listen to it. As alumni of FCPS schools, I am very disappointed with the state of affairs.

Thanks for the report? A couple of questions:

Was Thru soliciting comments on the proposals in the slides or the proposals in the interactive maps? They are not the same.

Do you think there was any advantage to attending a session in person as opposed to virtually, or vice versa?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tonight’s meeting was an absolute farce. They had Dr Reid say about 5 minutes of remarks and then the guy from Thru pretty much regurgitated the slides that were already posted. Seemed like he had hadn’t prepped at all, fumbled through his slides and then the demo of the interactive map.

They then had the in person and virtual groups split into breakout groups to discuss how they felt about the proposals for 45 mins. There was no one from the BRAC or FCPS in any of the groups to facilitate the conversation. My virtual group didn’t talk at all.

Then for the final 15 mins they brought everyone back together and you were able to submit questions via an app that others could vote up. None of the questions were answered by Dr Reid or Thru.

This clearly feels like an effort for Dr Reid to claim she solicited received community feedback but didn’t actually listen to it. As alumni of FCPS schools, I am very disappointed with the state of affairs.

Thanks for the report? A couple of questions:

Was Thru soliciting comments on the proposals in the slides or the proposals in the interactive maps? They are not the same.

Do you think there was any advantage to attending a session in person as opposed to virtually, or vice versa?

It was free form questions that you could type in, so you could ask about what was proposed or the interactive maps. The interactive maps didn’t really show anything different than what was shared in the BRAC slides.

I attended virtually and my wife attended in person. It didn’t really seem to make a difference how you attended. Honestly all you really need to do is show up for the last 15 minutes to submit questions and vote up the ones you care about. They kept the voting open for an hour after the meeting ended (9PM)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tonight’s meeting was an absolute farce. They had Dr Reid say about 5 minutes of remarks and then the guy from Thru pretty much regurgitated the slides that were already posted. Seemed like he had hadn’t prepped at all, fumbled through his slides and then the demo of the interactive map.

They then had the in person and virtual groups split into breakout groups to discuss how they felt about the proposals for 45 mins. There was no one from the BRAC or FCPS in any of the groups to facilitate the conversation. My virtual group didn’t talk at all.

Then for the final 15 mins they brought everyone back together and you were able to submit questions via an app that others could vote up. None of the questions were answered by Dr Reid or Thru.

This clearly feels like an effort for Dr Reid to claim she solicited received community feedback but didn’t actually listen to it. As alumni of FCPS schools, I am very disappointed with the state of affairs.

Thanks for the report? A couple of questions:

Was Thru soliciting comments on the proposals in the slides or the proposals in the interactive maps? They are not the same.

Do you think there was any advantage to attending a session in person as opposed to virtually, or vice versa?

It was free form questions that you could type in, so you could ask about what was proposed or the interactive maps. The interactive maps didn’t really show anything different than what was shared in the BRAC slides.

I attended virtually and my wife attended in person. It didn’t really seem to make a difference how you attended. Honestly all you really need to do is show up for the last 15 minutes to submit questions and vote up the ones you care about. They kept the voting open for an hour after the meeting ended (9PM)

Thanks for responding.

The proposals in the interactive maps are different from the BRAC slides for some pyramids, including Marshall, McLean, Madison, and Falls Church. But maybe you’re in a different pyramid so that didn’t jump out to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tonight’s meeting was an absolute farce. They had Dr Reid say about 5 minutes of remarks and then the guy from Thru pretty much regurgitated the slides that were already posted. Seemed like he had hadn’t prepped at all, fumbled through his slides and then the demo of the interactive map.

They then had the in person and virtual groups split into breakout groups to discuss how they felt about the proposals for 45 mins. There was no one from the BRAC or FCPS in any of the groups to facilitate the conversation. My virtual group didn’t talk at all.

Then for the final 15 mins they brought everyone back together and you were able to submit questions via an app that others could vote up. None of the questions were answered by Dr Reid or Thru.

This clearly feels like an effort for Dr Reid to claim she solicited received community feedback but didn’t actually listen to it. As alumni of FCPS schools, I am very disappointed with the state of affairs.

Thanks for the report? A couple of questions:

Was Thru soliciting comments on the proposals in the slides or the proposals in the interactive maps? They are not the same.

Do you think there was any advantage to attending a session in person as opposed to virtually, or vice versa?

It was free form questions that you could type in, so you could ask about what was proposed or the interactive maps. The interactive maps didn’t really show anything different than what was shared in the BRAC slides.

I attended virtually and my wife attended in person. It didn’t really seem to make a difference how you attended. Honestly all you really need to do is show up for the last 15 minutes to submit questions and vote up the ones you care about. They kept the voting open for an hour after the meeting ended (9PM)

Thanks for responding.

The proposals in the interactive maps are different from the BRAC slides for some pyramids, including Marshall, McLean, Madison, and Falls Church. But maybe you’re in a different pyramid so that didn’t jump out to you?

Add South County and Lake Braddock feeders to that list

[Anonymous]

Has there been any explanation at all for the changes between the earlier, slide-based scenarios, and the scenarios on the interactive map? Are the original proposals now out of contention?

[Anonymous]

I'm surprised (but not really) that they didn't do anything with Greenbriar East. Dr. Reid specifically mentioned that school in regards to why we're even doing this whole exercise at one of the very first board meetings on the topic last year.