Boundary Review Meetings

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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.

Actually, Lewis has fantastic teachers and a strong academic environment, and it has given our child numerous opportunities that weren't available when our child attended a more prestigious school in FCPS. This is coming from an UMC family with two adults, both with post-graduate degrees, and we care deeply about education.

It's fine if you feel like Lewis is not the school for you. But kindly refrain from making false statements about schools you know nothing about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

Actually, Lewis has fantastic teachers and a strong academic environment, and it has given our child numerous opportunities that weren't available when our child attended a more prestigious school in FCPS. This is coming from an UMC family with two adults, both with post-graduate degrees, and we care deeply about education.

It's fine if you feel like Lewis is not the school for you. But kindly refrain from making false statements about schools you know nothing about.

There was a student representative on the School Board from Lewis a few years ago, and she often used her allotted time to complain about the limited academic offerings at Lewis compared to other area schools.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Interesting.

[Anonymous]

Lots of students with high absentee counts are kids who are fraudulently attending a school. Lucky for them, no one is looking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

Actually, Lewis has fantastic teachers and a strong academic environment, and it has given our child numerous opportunities that weren't available when our child attended a more prestigious school in FCPS. This is coming from an UMC family with two adults, both with post-graduate degrees, and we care deeply about education.

It's fine if you feel like Lewis is not the school for you. But kindly refrain from making false statements about schools you know nothing about.

There was a student representative on the School Board from Lewis a few years ago, and she often used her allotted time to complain about the limited academic offerings at Lewis compared to other area schools.

I am a parent of a Lewis student now (as opposed to a few years ago), and my experience has been the education has been excellent. The teachers are passionate and dedicated to their job. The school had a great community, and it’s probably as close as you can come to a small-town-school feel in FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

Actually, Lewis has fantastic teachers and a strong academic environment, and it has given our child numerous opportunities that weren't available when our child attended a more prestigious school in FCPS. This is coming from an UMC family with two adults, both with post-graduate degrees, and we care deeply about education.

It's fine if you feel like Lewis is not the school for you. But kindly refrain from making false statements about schools you know nothing about.

There was a student representative on the School Board from Lewis a few years ago, and she often used her allotted time to complain about the limited academic offerings at Lewis compared to other area schools.

I am a parent of a Lewis student now (as opposed to a few years ago), and my experience has been the education has been excellent. The teachers are passionate and dedicated to their job. The school had a great community, and it’s probably as close as you can come to a small-town-school feel in FCPS.

I'm sure nothing makes for a small-town feel quite like being the high school that serves the areas closest to the intersection of the Capital Beltway and the biggest highway on the entire East Coast, but please go on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

Actually, Lewis has fantastic teachers and a strong academic environment, and it has given our child numerous opportunities that weren't available when our child attended a more prestigious school in FCPS. This is coming from an UMC family with two adults, both with post-graduate degrees, and we care deeply about education.

It's fine if you feel like Lewis is not the school for you. But kindly refrain from making false statements about schools you know nothing about.

There was a student representative on the School Board from Lewis a few years ago, and she often used her allotted time to complain about the limited academic offerings at Lewis compared to other area schools.

I am a parent of a Lewis student now (as opposed to a few years ago), and my experience has been the education has been excellent. The teachers are passionate and dedicated to their job. The school had a great community, and it’s probably as close as you can come to a small-town-school feel in FCPS.

I'm sure nothing makes for a small-town feel quite like being the high school that serves the areas closest to the intersection of the Capital Beltway and the biggest highway on the entire East Coast, but please go on.

Quite, quite. If a community has a road with too many lanes or speeds over 50, it is automatically unable to have caring citizens. So says King PP and so it must be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

Actually, Lewis has fantastic teachers and a strong academic environment, and it has given our child numerous opportunities that weren't available when our child attended a more prestigious school in FCPS. This is coming from an UMC family with two adults, both with post-graduate degrees, and we care deeply about education.

It's fine if you feel like Lewis is not the school for you. But kindly refrain from making false statements about schools you know nothing about.

There was a student representative on the School Board from Lewis a few years ago, and she often used her allotted time to complain about the limited academic offerings at Lewis compared to other area schools.

I am a parent of a Lewis student now (as opposed to a few years ago), and my experience has been the education has been excellent. The teachers are passionate and dedicated to their job. The school had a great community, and it’s probably as close as you can come to a small-town-school feel in FCPS.

I'm sure nothing makes for a small-town feel quite like being the high school that serves the areas closest to the intersection of the Capital Beltway and the biggest highway on the entire East Coast, but please go on.

Quite, quite. If a community has a road with too many lanes or speeds over 50, it is automatically unable to have caring citizens. So says King PP and so it must be.

+1000

And all the public intoxication charges; indecent exposure charges; domestic violence calls; kidnappings; human, drug and weapons trafficking; rapes; manslaughters; and murders that happen in an area with that type of population.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

Actually, Lewis has fantastic teachers and a strong academic environment, and it has given our child numerous opportunities that weren't available when our child attended a more prestigious school in FCPS. This is coming from an UMC family with two adults, both with post-graduate degrees, and we care deeply about education.

It's fine if you feel like Lewis is not the school for you. But kindly refrain from making false statements about schools you know nothing about.

There was a student representative on the School Board from Lewis a few years ago, and she often used her allotted time to complain about the limited academic offerings at Lewis compared to other area schools.

I am a parent of a Lewis student now (as opposed to a few years ago), and my experience has been the education has been excellent. The teachers are passionate and dedicated to their job. The school had a great community, and it’s probably as close as you can come to a small-town-school feel in FCPS.

I'm sure nothing makes for a small-town feel quite like being the high school that serves the areas closest to the intersection of the Capital Beltway and the biggest highway on the entire East Coast, but please go on.

Im sure half of them don’t know what the small town feel is when they live in the ghetto and may be swept up by ICE!

When you look in the mirror in the morning, just know you’re staring at a vile human being.

I think that poster knows.

[Anonymous]

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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.

What did the letter say? Last I heard FCPS doesn't even require proof but you have to sign an attestation about where you live. Did you have to provide a deed or lease or anything? Otherwise, what's stopping people from just forwarding their mail to their new address or paying a friend a couple bucks to use their address?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

Actually, Lewis has fantastic teachers and a strong academic environment, and it has given our child numerous opportunities that weren't available when our child attended a more prestigious school in FCPS. This is coming from an UMC family with two adults, both with post-graduate degrees, and we care deeply about education.

It's fine if you feel like Lewis is not the school for you. But kindly refrain from making false statements about schools you know nothing about.

There was a student representative on the School Board from Lewis a few years ago, and she often used her allotted time to complain about the limited academic offerings at Lewis compared to other area schools.

I am a parent of a Lewis student now (as opposed to a few years ago), and my experience has been the education has been excellent. The teachers are passionate and dedicated to their job. The school had a great community, and it’s probably as close as you can come to a small-town-school feel in FCPS.

I'm sure nothing makes for a small-town feel quite like being the high school that serves the areas closest to the intersection of the Capital Beltway and the biggest highway on the entire East Coast, but please go on.

Quite, quite. If a community has a road with too many lanes or speeds over 50, it is automatically unable to have caring citizens. So says King PP and so it must be.

+1000

And all the public intoxication charges; indecent exposure charges; domestic violence calls; kidnappings; human, drug and weapons trafficking; rapes; manslaughters; and murders that happen in an area with that type of population.

Oh FFS. It’s Springfield. We don’t have tons of manslaughters and murders. There’s petty crime and garden variety stuff most of the time. Cut it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

Actually, Lewis has fantastic teachers and a strong academic environment, and it has given our child numerous opportunities that weren't available when our child attended a more prestigious school in FCPS. This is coming from an UMC family with two adults, both with post-graduate degrees, and we care deeply about education.

It's fine if you feel like Lewis is not the school for you. But kindly refrain from making false statements about schools you know nothing about.

There was a student representative on the School Board from Lewis a few years ago, and she often used her allotted time to complain about the limited academic offerings at Lewis compared to other area schools.

I am a parent of a Lewis student now (as opposed to a few years ago), and my experience has been the education has been excellent. The teachers are passionate and dedicated to their job. The school had a great community, and it’s probably as close as you can come to a small-town-school feel in FCPS.

I'm sure nothing makes for a small-town feel quite like being the high school that serves the areas closest to the intersection of the Capital Beltway and the biggest highway on the entire East Coast, but please go on.

Don't be a dork.

Try being nice or not saying anything at all.

[Anonymous]

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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.

So even when they do a random residency check they do it backwards. They need to do the residency checks for the high schools. Many people start out in elementary in a pyramid they want, but then never update the record when they move to a different house with a less favorable middle or high school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

Actually, Lewis has fantastic teachers and a strong academic environment, and it has given our child numerous opportunities that weren't available when our child attended a more prestigious school in FCPS. This is coming from an UMC family with two adults, both with post-graduate degrees, and we care deeply about education.

It's fine if you feel like Lewis is not the school for you. But kindly refrain from making false statements about schools you know nothing about.

There was a student representative on the School Board from Lewis a few years ago, and she often used her allotted time to complain about the limited academic offerings at Lewis compared to other area schools.

I am a parent of a Lewis student now (as opposed to a few years ago), and my experience has been the education has been excellent. The teachers are passionate and dedicated to their job. The school had a great community, and it’s probably as close as you can come to a small-town-school feel in FCPS.

I'm sure nothing makes for a small-town feel quite like being the high school that serves the areas closest to the intersection of the Capital Beltway and the biggest highway on the entire East Coast, but please go on.

Quite, quite. If a community has a road with too many lanes or speeds over 50, it is automatically unable to have caring citizens. So says King PP and so it must be.

+1000

And all the public intoxication charges; indecent exposure charges; domestic violence calls; kidnappings; human, drug and weapons trafficking; rapes; manslaughters; and murders that happen in an area with that type of population.

Oh FFS. It’s Springfield. We don’t have tons of manslaughters and murders. There’s petty crime and garden variety stuff most of the time. Cut it out.

I’m looking at it this way. That poster said +1,000 when I called him King PP. He isn’t all there.

[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.

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.

What did the letter say? Last I heard FCPS doesn't even require proof but you have to sign an attestation about where you live. Did you have to provide a deed or lease or anything? Otherwise, what's stopping people from just forwarding their mail to their new address or paying a friend a couple bucks to use their address?

Paraphrasing, essentially said they were able to verify our home address and would not require additional details or documentation from us. Haven’t provided anything since my last kid enrolled a few years ago, so not sure how they “verifed” again.