FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole feedback process seems terrible. How do you verify that people providing input online actually live on the affected area or even on the county? Anyone could have sent the registration link to whoever.

Exactly who does Emerald Chase want to kick out of Franklin to make room for themselves? This is really ticking me off the more I think about it.

Emerald Chase parent here. We don't want to kick anyone out of Franklin -- right now Franklin has more capacity than Carson, which is where we're currently zoned, and it's expected to drop significantly in capacity in the next few years while Carson is just going to get more and more crowded. What we ultimately really want to avoid is the worst-case scenario where we would be rezoned for elementary school and high school now and five years down the road would be rezoned AGAIN for middle school and thus possibly even for high school. These proposed maps are not considering projected capacity at ANY of the schools, and it's incredibly frustrating, especially when my neighborhood has been rezoned multiple times over the past several years. We're asking for Oak Hill - Franklin - Chantilly because both Franklin and Chantilly are expected to have decreasing capacity over the next few years and thus it seems the most stable to us -- and also because we love Oak Hill and the students that go there and we don't want to be split off from them, we want our kids to stay with their friends, and almost all of Oak Hill goes to Franklin and Chantilly.

I'm sorry that we drowned out people on Pigeonhole tonight. That wasn't our intention, we're frustrated that we don't even have a meeting scheduled at any of our own pyramids when we're looking at so many changes! I'm in touch with my neighbors, and I will ask everyone to not flood the upvotes at the coming meetings.

Your tone is much different than your neighborhood's earlier ambassadors, that basically told everyone else to suck it.

Your neighborhood does not have a meeting.

But neither do the Gambrill neighborhoods, the Silverbrook neighborhood, the Sangster island, or any of the other South County, WSHS or Lake Braddock neighborhoods getting rezoned. This Robinson meeting was their opportunity to be heard. Flooding the region 4 meeting took away those neighborhoods chance to be heard. If you sort by highest responses, the first region 4 comment does not occur until post #20.

Some of those Region 4 neighborhoods, specifically the Sangster Island and the Silverbrook neighborhood, are quite small, with just a half dozen kids per grade getting rezoned by switching those 2 neighborhoods to schools farther away.

I hope that Thru sees the pattern at this meeting, and moves those inflated comments over to your pyramids feedback meeting so everyone can try to have their say in the process.

[Anonymous]

To level the playing field (because all the question data is compromised at this point) - you can literally just keep opening the pigeonhole site in an incognito window and voting for whatever you want as many times as you want. Fight fire with fire I guess - those of you with time and inclination. Or just upvote one of the Emerald Chase ones like 10000 times to show how the system is being gamed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To level the playing field (because all the question data is compromised at this point) - you can literally just keep opening the pigeonhole site in an incognito window and voting for whatever you want as many times as you want. Fight fire with fire I guess - those of you with time and inclination. Or just upvote one of the Emerald Chase ones like 10000 times to show how the system is being gamed.

Wow. That works. I just upvoted the top HVE post three times to see for myself. Anyone with time on their hands can skew the upvotes. This is not a good way to gather feedback.

Being heard by your local government officials on issues that directly impact your kids has devolved into bot-spamming a website like we are scalpers scooping up Taylor Swift tickets. Nice job, FCPS.

There are 12 FCPS SB members. 3 of them are at-large members. My ES is divided up between 3 SB members. We are pissed off. Our ES alone could field candidates for half the SB seats next cycle.

We are not political, we are simply anti-current FCPS leadership. The SB should not be party-based. Our candidates will run as independents and not seek or accept endorsements from FCDC or Fairfax GOP. Both of those organizations lack credibility with the candidates they have backed in recent years.

Will we replace all 6? Probably not. But I bet there are other areas in the county that are motivated to field candidates and we could replace the at-large seats with a coordinated effort.

This round of boundary review is just the beginning. This nonsense will happen every five years under the current policy. How do you think this process will look next time around, when “access to programming” comes back in vogue as the pendulum inevitably swings back.

We need to replace the current leadership. That is the only way to solve this problem.

[Anonymous]

I’m glad Thru is using the same methodology that brought us Boaty McBoatFace to guide this boundary study.

[Anonymous]

Oh look, the Emerald Chase marketing team checked in the morning and figured out they goofed. Now the top comment is related to Hunt Valley.

Why did Thru leave the voting open? It didn’t for the first meeting. The data was already skewed and now they somehow made it even worse.

This is not the way to run a boundary review process.

[Anonymous]

I don’t have a dog in the emerald fight, and my house isn’t in the school board’s crosshairs at the moment. I think the anger should be directed at the people looking to move these kids, rather than at families trying to prevent it.

I think most of us agree that these proposed changes create a ton of issues and aren’t any better than the status quo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a dog in the emerald fight, and my house isn’t in the school board’s crosshairs at the moment. I think the anger should be directed at the people looking to move these kids, rather than at families trying to prevent it.

I think most of us agree that these proposed changes create a ton of issues and aren’t any better than the status quo.

Yes, let's start at the top with Reid for this colossal waste of money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a dog in the emerald fight, and my house isn’t in the school board’s crosshairs at the moment. I think the anger should be directed at the people looking to move these kids, rather than at families trying to prevent it.

I think most of us agree that these proposed changes create a ton of issues and aren’t any better than the status quo

1,000%

Let’s not turn on each other. We’re all just trying to protect our kids and do what’s best for them.

[Anonymous]

The Emerald Chase people weren’t the only ones manipulating upvotes in Pigeonhole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Emerald Chase people weren’t the only ones manipulating upvotes in Pigeonhole.

Well, maybe the school board should’ve listened to the community before getting to this point. We don’t want unnecessary boundary changes.

I keep hearing the pathetic talking point that there hasn’t been a comprehensive boundary change in 40 years. But they lie by omitting that the boundaries have changed, when necessary, many many times over that time.

Sandy Anderson and Kyle McDaniel and their misguided crusade need to be stopped before they do real damage to families in the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a dog in the emerald fight, and my house isn’t in the school board’s crosshairs at the moment. I think the anger should be directed at the people looking to move these kids, rather than at families trying to prevent it.

I think most of us agree that these proposed changes create a ton of issues and aren’t any better than the status quo

1,000%

Let’s not turn on each other. We’re all just trying to protect our kids and do what’s best for them.

So were all WSHS and SCHS parents who went to the meeting last night because our kids are about to lose their friends and get moved for no good reason. And got drowned out by a bunch of EC parents at home on the sofa voting up dozens of their own posts so they can try to squeeze into a different HS.

We can be upset at both them and the SB members who are screwing over their constituents for no obvious reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a dog in the emerald fight, and my house isn’t in the school board’s crosshairs at the moment. I think the anger should be directed at the people looking to move these kids, rather than at families trying to prevent it.

I think most of us agree that these proposed changes create a ton of issues and aren’t any better than the status quo

1,000%

Let’s not turn on each other. We’re all just trying to protect our kids and do what’s best for them.

So were all WSHS and SCHS parents who went to the meeting last night because our kids are about to lose their friends and get moved for no good reason. And got drowned out by a bunch of EC parents at home on the sofa voting up dozens of their own posts so they can try to squeeze into a different HS.

We can be upset at both them and the SB members who are screwing over their constituents for no obvious reason.

Sure get hella mad at other families while the school board moves your kids.

Make it make sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a dog in the emerald fight, and my house isn’t in the school board’s crosshairs at the moment. I think the anger should be directed at the people looking to move these kids, rather than at families trying to prevent it.

I think most of us agree that these proposed changes create a ton of issues and aren’t any better than the status quo

1,000%

Let’s not turn on each other. We’re all just trying to protect our kids and do what’s best for them.

So were all WSHS and SCHS parents who went to the meeting last night because our kids are about to lose their friends and get moved for no good reason. And got drowned out by a bunch of EC parents at home on the sofa voting up dozens of their own posts so they can try to squeeze into a different HS.

We can be upset at both them and the SB members who are screwing over their constituents for no obvious reason.

Sure get hella mad at other families while the school board moves your kids.

Make it make sense.

The PP said they were made at both. Unless I’m missing something.

Are people okay this morning?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a dog in the emerald fight, and my house isn’t in the school board’s crosshairs at the moment. I think the anger should be directed at the people looking to move these kids, rather than at families trying to prevent it.

I think most of us agree that these proposed changes create a ton of issues and aren’t any better than the status quo

1,000%

Let’s not turn on each other. We’re all just trying to protect our kids and do what’s best for them.

So were all WSHS and SCHS parents who went to the meeting last night because our kids are about to lose their friends and get moved for no good reason. And got drowned out by a bunch of EC parents at home on the sofa voting up dozens of their own posts so they can try to squeeze into a different HS.

We can be upset at both them and the SB members who are screwing over their constituents for no obvious reason.

Sure get hella mad at other families while the school board moves your kids.

Make it make sense.

That’s a bit simplistic, isn’t it? Emerald Chase flooded a community feedback session in another region in hopes of getting an upgrade. It is wrong the way FCPS is doing all of this. It is also wrong for Emerald Chase to drown out HVE families in a meeting in another region in hopes that Emerald Chase can take advantage of the situation for an “upgrade.”

Your post comes off like “hey it’s bad they came to your house and seized all your stuff for no reason, but I am here at the subsequent auction to get good deals, so don’t blame me.”

[Anonymous]

Emerald Chase has branded itself as the FCPS Boundary review vultures. Or maybe hyenas.