Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought there were supposed to be cracking down on transferring for sports.

You have to sit a year if you pupil place to a new school. If your family moves and your school changes you can play.

Really? I know someone who pupil placed their child at the school at which they work, and the child was allowed to be on a sports team their freshman year. Is that different from transferring/are the rules different for children of employees? They do live in the county and the placement was not to a "better" school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought there were supposed to be cracking down on transferring for sports.

You have to sit a year if you pupil place to a new school. If your family moves and your school changes you can play.

Really? I know someone who pupil placed their child at the school at which they work, and the child was allowed to be on a sports team their freshman year. Is that different from transferring/are the rules different for children of employees? They do live in the county and the placement was not to a "better" school.

How long ago? VHSL revised their rules recently in response to the Hayfield scandal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought there were supposed to be cracking down on transferring for sports.

You have to sit a year if you pupil place to a new school. If your family moves and your school changes you can play.

Really? I know someone who pupil placed their child at the school at which they work, and the child was allowed to be on a sports team their freshman year. Is that different from transferring/are the rules different for children of employees? They do live in the county and the placement was not to a "better" school.

I don't think it applies to freshmen who have not been in another school. But, I may be wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m halfway through the YouTube video of last night’s meeting.

I’m often critical of the school board on these forums, but, I’ll give praise where it is due - several board members now seem focused on increasing enrollment for under enrolled schools through programming decisions and transfers. That’s welcome news.

I personally would rather see them just address it with programming, but a look at transfers should come before further boundary changes, if programming decisions don’t fix the issue. Further boundary changes should be a last resort after these two approaches have been exhausted.

Anyway, hopefully this is a sea change in how they approach capacity issues in the future.

I have not listened yet. However, they need to be realistic in their programming.

For example, when they renamed Lee to Lewis and chose to put in a social justice program that was thinly veiled as a "leadership program" , did anyone consider that this was sending a "message" about the school?

Clearly MAGA.

Stating facts. It does not appear that the leadership program is working.

[Anonymous]

There is a new rule going into effect next year that says they have to have attended the zoned middle school.

I'm not sure how that would effect a situation where a teacher's child was pupil placed into the school. My guess is they would be allowed to play but VHSL might nbeed to give permission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m halfway through the YouTube video of last night’s meeting.

I’m often critical of the school board on these forums, but, I’ll give praise where it is due - several board members now seem focused on increasing enrollment for under enrolled schools through programming decisions and transfers. That’s welcome news.

I personally would rather see them just address it with programming, but a look at transfers should come before further boundary changes, if programming decisions don’t fix the issue. Further boundary changes should be a last resort after these two approaches have been exhausted.

Anyway, hopefully this is a sea change in how they approach capacity issues in the future.

I have not listened yet. However, they need to be realistic in their programming.

For example, when they renamed Lee to Lewis and chose to put in a social justice program that was thinly veiled as a "leadership program" , did anyone consider that this was sending a "message" about the school?

The message that it sent was this it was more important for the 2019-23 School Board to humor Karen Keys Gamarra, who wanted to burnish her civil rights credentials by having Lee renamed Lewis and starting a social justice program than to enhance the STEM and other academic offerings at Lewis.

If you go to Lewis and sign up for this program, you may get a free field trip to the Capitol, courtesy of FCPS taxpayers, but not a strong academic program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought there were supposed to be cracking down on transferring for sports.

You have to sit a year if you pupil place to a new school. If your family moves and your school changes you can play.

If you use an old address from when your kid was in kindergarten, that you never changed when you moved to a bigger house in a lower ranked pyramid, then your kids can just continue through to graduation, sports and all.

FCPS does not check residency after the first time you enroll your kid in the school system, whether it is kindergarten or high school. You can move to any school in FCPS or one of the surrounding counties, and as long as you don't change your address with the school system, FCPS doesn't care.

Dr. Reid and the school board are very open that they know about and don't care about this loophole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought there were supposed to be cracking down on transferring for sports.

You have to sit a year if you pupil place to a new school. If your family moves and your school changes you can play.

If you use an old address from when your kid was in kindergarten, that you never changed when you moved to a bigger house in a lower ranked pyramid, then your kids can just continue through to graduation, sports and all.

FCPS does not check residency after the first time you enroll your kid in the school system, whether it is kindergarten or high school. You can move to any school in FCPS or one of the surrounding counties, and as long as you don't change your address with the school system, FCPS doesn't care.

Dr. Reid and the school board are very open that they know about and don't care about this loophole.

Reid is the least competent superintendent we’ve ever had when it comes to taking care of the basics. She was hired because she was a smiley face who knew all the right equity buzzwords. She might be great in a classroom or as a coach. She’s not even remotely equipped to run this big school system.

The sad thing is they will blame the decline of UMC and MC families in FCPS on macro trends and never take a hard look in the mirror to acknowledge how many people are giving up on FCPS because it’s proven incapable of managing its resources efficiently and delivering a high quality service.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought there were supposed to be cracking down on transferring for sports.

You have to sit a year if you pupil place to a new school. If your family moves and your school changes you can play.

If you use an old address from when your kid was in kindergarten, that you never changed when you moved to a bigger house in a lower ranked pyramid, then your kids can just continue through to graduation, sports and all.

FCPS does not check residency after the first time you enroll your kid in the school system, whether it is kindergarten or high school. You can move to any school in FCPS or one of the surrounding counties, and as long as you don't change your address with the school system, FCPS doesn't care.

Dr. Reid and the school board are very open that they know about and don't care about this loophole.

Reid is the least competent superintendent we’ve ever had when it comes to taking care of the basics. She was hired because she was a smiley face who knew all the right equity buzzwords. She might be great in a classroom or as a coach. She’s not even remotely equipped to run this big school system.

The sad thing is they will blame the decline of UMC and MC families in FCPS on macro trends and never take a hard look in the mirror to acknowledge how many people are giving up on FCPS because it’s proven incapable of managing its resources efficiently and delivering a high quality service.

I found her to be quite reasonable and willing to listen to families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought there were supposed to be cracking down on transferring for sports.

You have to sit a year if you pupil place to a new school. If your family moves and your school changes you can play.

If you use an old address from when your kid was in kindergarten, that you never changed when you moved to a bigger house in a lower ranked pyramid, then your kids can just continue through to graduation, sports and all.

FCPS does not check residency after the first time you enroll your kid in the school system, whether it is kindergarten or high school. You can move to any school in FCPS or one of the surrounding counties, and as long as you don't change your address with the school system, FCPS doesn't care.

Dr. Reid and the school board are very open that they know about and don't care about this loophole.

Reid is the least competent superintendent we’ve ever had when it comes to taking care of the basics. She was hired because she was a smiley face who knew all the right equity buzzwords. She might be great in a classroom or as a coach. She’s not even remotely equipped to run this big school system.

The sad thing is they will blame the decline of UMC and MC families in FCPS on macro trends and never take a hard look in the mirror to acknowledge how many people are giving up on FCPS because it’s proven incapable of managing its resources efficiently and delivering a high quality service.

I found her to be quite reasonable and willing to listen to families.

Sure. She tells you what you want to hear and makes promises to lots of groups. That is not a sign of competency.

[Anonymous]

She’s definitely going to throw Thru under the bus. She refused to comment on them last night when Dunne asked her about them. Said it would be in their post boundary review.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a new rule going into effect next year that says they have to have attended the zoned middle school.

I'm not sure how that would affect a situation where a teacher's child was pupil placed into the school. My guess is they would be allowed to play but VHSL might nbeed to give permission.

What does this mean when no middle school directly corresponds to the boundaries of the high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought there were supposed to be cracking down on transferring for sports.

You have to sit a year if you pupil place to a new school. If your family moves and your school changes you can play.

Really? I know someone who pupil placed their child at the school at which they work, and the child was allowed to be on a sports team their freshman year. Is that different from transferring/are the rules different for children of employees? They do live in the county and the placement was not to a "better" school.

I don't think it applies to freshmen who have not been in another school. But, I may be wrong.

We were told if we pupil placed our child he would not be eligible for sports his freshman year, he is a current 8th grader. I believe this is the first year with this rule and it is because of the Hayfield mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She’s definitely going to throw Thru under the bus. She refused to comment on them last night when Dunne asked her about them. Said it would be in their post boundary review.

Dunne's already said repeatedly he thinks Thru was incompetent.

It's a no-win for Reid. If she says they were competent she's disagreeing with him, and he's got plenty of receipts. If she agrees they were incompetent she gets asked why she let them get hired to do the work.

Better to just fudge their extreme limitations in a written document.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought there were supposed to be cracking down on transferring for sports.

You have to sit a year if you pupil place to a new school. If your family moves and your school changes you can play.

If you use an old address from when your kid was in kindergarten, that you never changed when you moved to a bigger house in a lower ranked pyramid, then your kids can just continue through to graduation, sports and all.

FCPS does not check residency after the first time you enroll your kid in the school system, whether it is kindergarten or high school. You can move to any school in FCPS or one of the surrounding counties, and as long as you don't change your address with the school system, FCPS doesn't care.

Dr. Reid and the school board are very open that they know about and don't care about this loophole.

I received a letter verifying residency a couple of months back. First time we had ever gotten it. We aren’t new to the school or county, so not sure why the random check. ES in the Western part of the county.