Boundary Review Meetings
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Anonymous
That is not the message I want to send, no vote for Saundra, sorry. She should run as independent if she wants. People would consider it then maybe. |
Anonymous
It is clear you didn’t listen to the NYT podcast because the take away is that white privileged families meddle in poor schools under the guise of helping those kids but end up doing harm. |
Anonymous
Is anyone familiar with her origin story? I’m genuinely curious why she’s so singularly focused on WSHS. How does someone wake up one day and decide that rezoning this one school becomes their life’s mission? |
Anonymous
Some people just think they know best. They claim to "care more" than you do. "Savior" mentality. |
Anonymous
DP. The CIP identifies WSHS as the most overcrowded HS in the county. Doesn’t it undermine all the other boundary changes they are making when they leave WSHS untouched? I’d be pretty pissed if I was getting booted out of other schools while they do nothing about the school they label the most crowded. Maybe that’s why Anderson keeps coming back to WS. |
Anonymous
I genuinely think that she thought people would cheer if she closed all splits and attendance islands, and cheer again because she would 'save' people from WSHS overcrowding. She severely underestimated her constituents, did not use real data to make her decisions, treated neighborhoods like chess pieces, and then treated those who advocated with complete disdain and contempt. Her amendment will be to specifically call out the WSHS pyramid for review before the next comprehensive review. This will mean multiple neighborhoods would be on the potential chopping block as early as next year. This is her #1 goal and priority. She has made that clear. She will not need the BRAC, Reid, or public opinion to make any changes she wants over the next two years. People can't vote against it, and will only get the required public notice period. She will still think she is 'saving' WSHS. She doesn't live the WSHS pyramid, nor does she understand it's neighborhood nuances. She doesn't like to be confronted and I think she has a small circle of confidants that tell her she is doing an awesome job. She is waiting this year out (for when the smoke clears) to make her changes with zero consequences. She is a horrible representative for the people of West Springfield. |
Anonymous
Except the feeder schools into WSHS are all steadily decreasing enrollment, many significantly. All of the replacement classes are smaller than the high school classes. Even if every last AAP kid returns to WSHS from LB, the replacement classes are still smaller. The current 8th grade class at Irving is 150 fewer students than the current graduating seniors, class of 2026. There are approximately 50 Irving AAP students per grade attending LB based on the transfer dashboard. Even if every last AAP kid returns to WSHS, next year should be around 100 fewer students than the current year. There are NOT 100 military kids and Catholic school kids transferring into WSHS each year. Next year WSHS should be smaller, but the CIP predicts growth. Every class going forward is smaller, yet the CIP shows growth. The current 6th grade class and 5th grade class much, much smaller than the current WSHS sophomores and freshmen. 5th and 6th grade are so small that several of the elementary feeders had to cut teaching positions this year. They are smaller than the current WSHS classes they are replacing, even accounting for all the AAP kids attending WSHS, quite a bit smaller, yet The CIP show growth. Where are all these students coming from? FCPS allows 50-60 out of bound students to transfer into WSHS each year, in spite of WSHS being closed to transfers, over capacity, and targeted for rezoning. So we know at least 50 of the excess students are transfers approved by FCPS. Either the school is sooooo overcrowded that kids must be rezoned, or it has space for 50+ transfers into the school. Both things cannot be true at the same time. Since FCPS is allowing so many transfers into WSHS, then WSHS cannot possibly be overcrowded. We know that some of the overcrowding is approved transfers. Where the heck is that CIP predicted growth coming from? It is not coming from the in bound students. The replacement classes are all smaller than the current high school classes. It is not coming from the Catholic schools. There are not hundreds of Catholic school kids transferring into WSHS each year. That number is actually quite small. My kid's was friends with a lot of Catholic school kids in middle school. Freshman year, the largest school in the area, Saint Bernadette, sent around 10 kids to WSHS. Nativity sent a handful. The Catholic schools are not sending dozens of kids to WSHS. Before rezoning, FCPS needs to verify residency at WSHS, because their CIP projections do not match reality. |
Anonymous
Really think this will happen? I mean I think she has the votes on the School Board now that Dannan will be elected but it seems inconsistent with the idea of five-year reviews. |
Anonymous
Yes, I really think she will write an amendment to flag the whole WSHS pyramid for further review. She will keep it vague and not call out specific neighborhoods. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Yes. She said she intends to do this. |
Anonymous
Busing out of community does not work. |
Anonymous
She’s have to be a very evil or a very stupid person to re-introduce this much uncertainty after people have already put up with 18 months of their dithering. It feels like a recipe to get challenged and unseated. |
Anonymous
But they are doing something. They’re looking at stopping transfers out by adding programming. That’s what Reid said. |
Anonymous
And it looks like they are going to add Bren Mar Park elementary before the 5 year review. Which also helps relieve capacity issues at Edison so is a good change. I have no idea why we’re suddenly bringing up a NYT podcast from an entirely different cultural era … definitely not a relevant piece of media in these extremely different times. |