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Anonymous wrote:I haven’t been following this issue closely but listed to the meeting from yesterday just out of curiosity and I wanted to see if anyone was still upset in the wolftrap/vienna area.

I had no idea what was going on at Glasgow! Wow that’s not ok! I feel terrible for those families.

What is going on at Glasgow?

Glasgow is the biggest middle school in the county. It’s bigger than Lewis, and it has a reputation for having a lot of out-of-control kids.

People begged Ricardy Anderson to do something about it to reduce the enrollment. They pointed out that the other two 6-8 middle schools in the area (Poe and Holmes) were under capacity. But every time Anderson tried to get FCPS to do a boundary study, she got rebuffed and told they could take it up as part of the county-wide review.

Then, when Thru presented its scenarios 1-4, none of them addressed Glasgow. It’s not above 105% when you include its modular capacity, so it was ignored. The one thing that did happen was FCPS separately agreed, again at Anderson’s urging, to create a new AAP center at Poe, and that will pull some AAP kids out of Glasgow.

Finally, in December, they released additional scenarios to pull move kids out of Glasgow. Some kids at Mason Crest and Beech Tree would move to Poe and Falls Church, and some kids at Belvedere would move to Holmes and Annandale.

The Mason Crest families seem to support the move since most of that school already feeds to Poe and Falls Church. The Belvedere families didn’t really say much. But the Beech Tree families were vocal in their opposition, because most of Beech Tree would still feed to Justice (not Poe) and most of Poe would still feed to Annandale (not Falls Church). They didn’t acknowledge that more of Poe would feed to Falls Church if the rest of Mason Crest also moved there. They just complained about the “double split feeder.” They also pointed out that the new AAP center at Poe will bring down Glasgow’s enrollment without other boundary changes.

But more than anything else, they complained about the process, since they had so little notice about this potential move. It was not part of Scenarios 1-4 and they had no opportunity to comment on it in the Boundary Explorer tool. So they showed up in droves at the boundary hearing last week to criticize Reed for including it in her recommendations to the board. Several pointed out that the lack of notice did not appear to comply with Policy 8130 and implicitly threatened litigation if the SB votes to move them.

It was probably eye-opening to School Board members who are used to thinking that parents in some pyramids will just take whatever FCPS gives them. The Justice pyramid sent a very different message last weekend.

This goes to show how ineffective Ricardy Anderson actually is. 6 years on the school board and she can’t anything done with Glasgow overcrowding? Sad.

It is not really Dr. Andersen's fault though

Nothing gets done because the far left majority is in lockstep.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven’t been following this issue closely but listed to the meeting from yesterday just out of curiosity and I wanted to see if anyone was still upset in the wolftrap/vienna area.

I had no idea what was going on at Glasgow! Wow that’s not ok! I feel terrible for those families.

What is going on at Glasgow?

Glasgow is the biggest middle school in the county. It’s bigger than Lewis, and it has a reputation for having a lot of out-of-control kids.

People begged Ricardy Anderson to do something about it to reduce the enrollment. They pointed out that the other two 6-8 middle schools in the area (Poe and Holmes) were under capacity. But every time Anderson tried to get FCPS to do a boundary study, she got rebuffed and told they could take it up as part of the county-wide review.

Then, when Thru presented its scenarios 1-4, none of them addressed Glasgow. It’s not above 105% when you include its modular capacity, so it was ignored. The one thing that did happen was FCPS separately agreed, again at Anderson’s urging, to create a new AAP center at Poe, and that will pull some AAP kids out of Glasgow.

Finally, in December, they released additional scenarios to pull move kids out of Glasgow. Some kids at Mason Crest and Beech Tree would move to Poe and Falls Church, and some kids at Belvedere would move to Holmes and Annandale.

The Mason Crest families seem to support the move since most of that school already feeds to Poe and Falls Church. The Belvedere families didn’t really say much. But the Beech Tree families were vocal in their opposition, because most of Beech Tree would still feed to Justice (not Poe) and most of Poe would still feed to Annandale (not Falls Church). They didn’t acknowledge that more of Poe would feed to Falls Church if the rest of Mason Crest also moved there. They just complained about the “double split feeder.” They also pointed out that the new AAP center at Poe will bring down Glasgow’s enrollment without other boundary changes.

But more than anything else, they complained about the process, since they had so little notice about this potential move. It was not part of Scenarios 1-4 and they had no opportunity to comment on it in the Boundary Explorer tool. So they showed up in droves at the boundary hearing last week to criticize Reed for including it in her recommendations to the board. Several pointed out that the lack of notice did not appear to comply with Policy 8130 and implicitly threatened litigation if the SB votes to move them.

It was probably eye-opening to School Board members who are used to thinking that parents in some pyramids will just take whatever FCPS gives them. The Justice pyramid sent a very different message last weekend.

It’s possible the Belvedere families didn’t realize they were being moved. The slides from the December meeting discuss Beech Tree becoming a split feeder, but turning Belvedere into a split feeder is not stated (though can be inferred.) The December presentation also has Belvedere fully remain at Justice. The recommendation to send them to Annandale was introduced with the January 8 recommendation. Beech Tree has slightly more notice to mobilize.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven’t been following this issue closely but listed to the meeting from yesterday just out of curiosity and I wanted to see if anyone was still upset in the wolftrap/vienna area.

I had no idea what was going on at Glasgow! Wow that’s not ok! I feel terrible for those families.

What is going on at Glasgow?

Glasgow is the biggest middle school in the county. It’s bigger than Lewis, and it has a reputation for having a lot of out-of-control kids.

People begged Ricardy Anderson to do something about it to reduce the enrollment. They pointed out that the other two 6-8 middle schools in the area (Poe and Holmes) were under capacity. But every time Anderson tried to get FCPS to do a boundary study, she got rebuffed and told they could take it up as part of the county-wide review.

Then, when Thru presented its scenarios 1-4, none of them addressed Glasgow. It’s not above 105% when you include its modular capacity, so it was ignored. The one thing that did happen was FCPS separately agreed, again at Anderson’s urging, to create a new AAP center at Poe, and that will pull some AAP kids out of Glasgow.

Finally, in December, they released additional scenarios to pull move kids out of Glasgow. Some kids at Mason Crest and Beech Tree would move to Poe and Falls Church, and some kids at Belvedere would move to Holmes and Annandale.

The Mason Crest families seem to support the move since most of that school already feeds to Poe and Falls Church. The Belvedere families didn’t really say much. But the Beech Tree families were vocal in their opposition, because most of Beech Tree would still feed to Justice (not Poe) and most of Poe would still feed to Annandale (not Falls Church). They didn’t acknowledge that more of Poe would feed to Falls Church if the rest of Mason Crest also moved there. They just complained about the “double split feeder.” They also pointed out that the new AAP center at Poe will bring down Glasgow’s enrollment without other boundary changes.

But more than anything else, they complained about the process, since they had so little notice about this potential move. It was not part of Scenarios 1-4 and they had no opportunity to comment on it in the Boundary Explorer tool. So they showed up in droves at the boundary hearing last week to criticize Reed for including it in her recommendations to the board. Several pointed out that the lack of notice did not appear to comply with Policy 8130 and implicitly threatened litigation if the SB votes to move them.

It was probably eye-opening to School Board members who are used to thinking that parents in some pyramids will just take whatever FCPS gives them. The Justice pyramid sent a very different message last weekend.

This goes to show how ineffective Ricardy Anderson actually is. 6 years on the school board and she can’t anything done with Glasgow overcrowding? Sad.

She persevered for years and, at a minimum, Glasgow will get some relief when the Poe AAP center opens. You haven’t a clue.

Ummm. You do realize she loudly and proudly voted against the boundary policy change that is now resulting in Glasgow getting relief right?

You are a special kind of clueless if you think she deserves any credit for that. Ricardy is a classic example of the politician who votes against a building project but shows up at the ribbon cutting to take credit.

My understanding is she voted against the boundary policy change because it failed to address grandfathering. And that was prescient, because they ended up coming back later and amending the policy to do just that.

I don’t know what your beef is with her, but she works harder than any other SB member.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven’t been following this issue closely but listed to the meeting from yesterday just out of curiosity and I wanted to see if anyone was still upset in the wolftrap/vienna area.

I had no idea what was going on at Glasgow! Wow that’s not ok! I feel terrible for those families.

What is going on at Glasgow?

Glasgow is the biggest middle school in the county. It’s bigger than Lewis, and it has a reputation for having a lot of out-of-control kids.

People begged Ricardy Anderson to do something about it to reduce the enrollment. They pointed out that the other two 6-8 middle schools in the area (Poe and Holmes) were under capacity. But every time Anderson tried to get FCPS to do a boundary study, she got rebuffed and told they could take it up as part of the county-wide review.

Then, when Thru presented its scenarios 1-4, none of them addressed Glasgow. It’s not above 105% when you include its modular capacity, so it was ignored. The one thing that did happen was FCPS separately agreed, again at Anderson’s urging, to create a new AAP center at Poe, and that will pull some AAP kids out of Glasgow.

Finally, in December, they released additional scenarios to pull move kids out of Glasgow. Some kids at Mason Crest and Beech Tree would move to Poe and Falls Church, and some kids at Belvedere would move to Holmes and Annandale.

The Mason Crest families seem to support the move since most of that school already feeds to Poe and Falls Church. The Belvedere families didn’t really say much. But the Beech Tree families were vocal in their opposition, because most of Beech Tree would still feed to Justice (not Poe) and most of Poe would still feed to Annandale (not Falls Church). They didn’t acknowledge that more of Poe would feed to Falls Church if the rest of Mason Crest also moved there. They just complained about the “double split feeder.” They also pointed out that the new AAP center at Poe will bring down Glasgow’s enrollment without other boundary changes.

But more than anything else, they complained about the process, since they had so little notice about this potential move. It was not part of Scenarios 1-4 and they had no opportunity to comment on it in the Boundary Explorer tool. So they showed up in droves at the boundary hearing last week to criticize Reed for including it in her recommendations to the board. Several pointed out that the lack of notice did not appear to comply with Policy 8130 and implicitly threatened litigation if the SB votes to move them.

It was probably eye-opening to School Board members who are used to thinking that parents in some pyramids will just take whatever FCPS gives them. The Justice pyramid sent a very different message last weekend.

It’s possible the Belvedere families didn’t realize they were being moved. The slides from the December meeting discuss Beech Tree becoming a split feeder, but turning Belvedere into a split feeder is not stated (though can be inferred.) The December presentation also has Belvedere fully remain at Justice. The recommendation to send them to Annandale was introduced with the January 8 recommendation. Beech Tree has slightly more notice to mobilize.

Maybe they pull Belvedere out, too, and just move the Mason Crest kids to eliminate that split feeder. If they move the Belvedere kids to Holmes, they’re better off feeding to Annandale than Justice.

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Anonymous wrote:The school board has given us our own version of The Hunger Games every five years. Instead of focusing on schools that actually needed boundary changes, they’ve decided to pit neighborhood against neighborhood.

Shame on this school board for causing such harm to FCPS students and squandering the goodwill of the electorate.

And I’ll be over here, with my college aged kids, eating popcorn when they address the Langley/Herndon issue.

It’s typical to see some older parents who benefit from the system push for changes once their kids are safe.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven’t been following this issue closely but listed to the meeting from yesterday just out of curiosity and I wanted to see if anyone was still upset in the wolftrap/vienna area.

I had no idea what was going on at Glasgow! Wow that’s not ok! I feel terrible for those families.

What is going on at Glasgow?

Glasgow is the biggest middle school in the county. It’s bigger than Lewis, and it has a reputation for having a lot of out-of-control kids.

People begged Ricardy Anderson to do something about it to reduce the enrollment. They pointed out that the other two 6-8 middle schools in the area (Poe and Holmes) were under capacity. But every time Anderson tried to get FCPS to do a boundary study, she got rebuffed and told they could take it up as part of the county-wide review.

Then, when Thru presented its scenarios 1-4, none of them addressed Glasgow. It’s not above 105% when you include its modular capacity, so it was ignored. The one thing that did happen was FCPS separately agreed, again at Anderson’s urging, to create a new AAP center at Poe, and that will pull some AAP kids out of Glasgow.

Finally, in December, they released additional scenarios to pull move kids out of Glasgow. Some kids at Mason Crest and Beech Tree would move to Poe and Falls Church, and some kids at Belvedere would move to Holmes and Annandale.

The Mason Crest families seem to support the move since most of that school already feeds to Poe and Falls Church. The Belvedere families didn’t really say much. But the Beech Tree families were vocal in their opposition, because most of Beech Tree would still feed to Justice (not Poe) and most of Poe would still feed to Annandale (not Falls Church). They didn’t acknowledge that more of Poe would feed to Falls Church if the rest of Mason Crest also moved there. They just complained about the “double split feeder.” They also pointed out that the new AAP center at Poe will bring down Glasgow’s enrollment without other boundary changes.

But more than anything else, they complained about the process, since they had so little notice about this potential move. It was not part of Scenarios 1-4 and they had no opportunity to comment on it in the Boundary Explorer tool. So they showed up in droves at the boundary hearing last week to criticize Reed for including it in her recommendations to the board. Several pointed out that the lack of notice did not appear to comply with Policy 8130 and implicitly threatened litigation if the SB votes to move them.

It was probably eye-opening to School Board members who are used to thinking that parents in some pyramids will just take whatever FCPS gives them. The Justice pyramid sent a very different message last weekend.

This goes to show how ineffective Ricardy Anderson actually is. 6 years on the school board and she can’t anything done with Glasgow overcrowding? Sad.

It is not really Dr. Andersen's fault though

Nothing gets done because the far left majority is in lockstep.

The far-left majority doesn’t get anything done. They just insist that members put lipstick on their pig to protect their party brand.

If you don’t do that, then you get ostracized by the majority and the larger FCDC leadership. It’s turned into a very corrupt system.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think school board will amend with new changes from Reid’s proposal or just remove some of her changes? I hope nothing new - maybe just add to list of things to look at in future?

They might put some of the Map 4 changes back into play (WSHS comes to mind)

There are some very upset Cardinal Forest families at Reid's last minute changes that switched that Keene Mill island down near White Oaks, Shannon Station, from getting rezoned to White Oaks elementary and Lake Braddock in Map 4, to Reid rezoning them to Cardinal Forest, putting Cardinal Forest well over capacity, and also rezoning walkable Cardinal Forest neighborhoods from Cardinal Forest to farther away Keene Mill elementary.

Moving Shannon Station to White Oaks in Map 4 eliminated an attendance island and decreased West Springfield High School by around 100 students. It also lowered transportation costs by sending them to a closer school, and sent Shannon Station to equivalent schools with the same programs. The Shannon Station move was low hanging fruit and met every last one of the four rezoning mandates given to the BRAC committee by the school board.

Reid's map keeps everyone at WSHS. Reid keeps the recommendation from Map 4 to move two SPAs from Rolling Valley to Saratoga, but leaves one Rolling Valley SPA from the Parkway area at status quo (Rolling Valley > Key > Lewis), which means that instead of being a roughly 60/40 split feeder between WSHS and Lewis, Rolling Valley is now less than 10% split going to Lewis.

What Reid did to the WSHS maps by keeping Emerald Chase at WSHS and rezoning Rolling Valley the way that she did, puts a huge target on WSHS for mid cycle rezoning in the next year or two.

Sandy Anderson openly stated this at the school board meeting last week. Anderson's term goes through 2028. Rezoning WSHS has been her consistent, stated goal since soon after she was sworn in. If she can find a way to rezone neighborhoods out of WSHS in an off cycle rezoning before her term ends, and move RV into WSHS, then she will definitely try.

If you know the history and follow the process, it is clear that Reid's map, trying to keep everyone happy, is the worst case scenario for WSHS as it means continuous, mid cycle rezoning.

I sincerely hope that the school board adopts Map 4 for WSHS, for at least Shannon Station. Or, if they leave Shannon Station at WSHS, then I hope they rezone SPA 8922 along the Parkway to Saratoga, along with the rest of the Rolling Valley Lewis schools.

In my opinion, that is the best way to protect WSHS from mid cycle rezoning.

One correction to my post.

School board elections are odd years in FairfaxCounty, 2019, 2023, 2027...

The term ends in January 2028, while the election is November 2027, roughly 22 months from now.

This school board has roughly 2 years to continue to make their mark on our kids' education. I think they are counting on voters completely forgetting about this rezoning mess by the next election.

Hard to do that when Sandy Anderson promised that this is just the start and they’re planning to continue looking at a variety of schools starting in January from the superintendent’s list.

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?

Some people just think they know best. They claim to "care more" than you do. "Savior" mentality.

A white suburban woman knows what is good for poor black, Latino and Asian children than their own parents. These women are the real racists.

Correct.

Those two white women who argued for more boundary changes are just trying to get more kids like theirs in their classrooms. I question their motives. The only one who seemed to be truly crunchy was the elderly woman with short hair who clearly doesn’t have kids in the school district, but even her children probably benefited from the system she is now trying to change.

So some FCPS schools are designated for black, Latino, and Asian students? That is what you can read from your statement.

Lewis is closing in on only 1500 students this year and will almost certainly start next year around 1450 if nothing is done. It is not like the other FCPS schools simply in the NUMBER of students, be they white, black, Latino, Asian, or other.

But they are doing something. They’re looking at stopping transfers out by adding programming. That’s what Reid said.

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.

It’s not clear it’s a good change. It quickly got tabled for this cycle whereas they went ahead with the other last-minute changes to move kids out of Glasgow/Justice to Poe/Falls Church and Holmes/Annandale. They ended up getting a lot of push back from the Beech Tree families, but they hadn’t tabled those changes like they had with Bren Mar Park.

It isn’t a change that is being proposed to add kids to Lewis - rather, it is to take kids out of Edison. Edison needs to get rid of some students in order to accommodate growth in the region - they’ve already broken ground on a large neighborhood in Kingstowne where the old Top Golf used to be and that area will for sure be zoned for Edison. Never mind when the Franconia government center gets redeveloped in a few years. I know BMP would like to end up back at Annandale but Annandale also can’t accommodate more students at this point.

All of Bren Mar Park went to Annandale before 2011. Bren Mar Park ES used to be two different schools - Edsall Park ES covered the area north of the Beltway and west of 395, and Bren Mar Park ES the area north of the Beltway an east of 395. One area is Springfield and the other Alexandria. They closed Edsall Park decades ago. To get to Edison now, the Edsall Park area has to cross both 395 and the Beltway. The Bren Mar area just has to cross the Beltway.

Annandale has capacity to take back the Edsall Park area, and that area would no longer have to cross either the Beltway or 395. The Bren Mar area is better served by Edison. None of these folks want to go to Lewis, and they should not be moved there just to give West Springfield families comfort that someone else is getting moved instead.

So you propose making a split feeder out of BMP and sending some to Annandale and keeping some at Edison? It’s not a bad idea on paper and does get some kids out of Edison - but not sure if it’s enough kids to accommodate the new neighborhoods. And then you run into the K-5/K-6 school problems as BMP is currently a K-5 school whereas the rest of Edison and all of Lewis have K-6 elementaries.

And again - this is not about adding kids to Lewis to prop it up, it’s about reducing enrollment at Edison. I would agree if Annandale could pick up all of BMP, that is where they should go. But they can’t at this point without worsening the crowding there and then creating a spillover effect into Justice, Falls Church, Woodson etc. From a purely logistical standpoint and affecting the smallest number of schools, BMP to Lewis makes sense right now.

The CIP now has West Springfield at 114% this fall and Edison at 103%. Any future adjustments should be based on updated numbers.

Annandale could probably pick up all of BMP if needed but it’s those from west of 395 who would be most receptive to that move.

Their starting point with Lewis needs to be replacing IB with AP, which would curtail transfers. As for Edison, they can monitor enrollments to see if the projected increase in students materializes. They have Edison at 109% in 2030, but that still well below West Springfield’s current and projected capacity utilization.

Some of the elementary feeders into WSHS are heading down to below 90% capacity. All of the feeders are smaller than the classes they are replacing, some significantly like class of 2030 being 150 fewer students than graduating class of 2026.

Yet FCPS continues to show growth at WSHS in spite of the WSHS feeder schools steadily losing enrollment each year.

Either the CIP math ain't mathing at WSHS, or there is something really fishy happening with transfers into WSHS, and possible widespread residency fraud.

WSHS needs a residency check and transfer into the school frozen.

What West Springfield needs is for the parents who are so insecure about being redistricted some day to stop pitching alternative scenarios that move around other people’s kids at other schools instead. It only serves to call renewed attention to which high school FCPS currently considers and projects to be the most overcrowded in the county: WSHS.

How about you mind your business and just give those WSHS parents credit. I didn't hear them advocating for kicking or moving anyone out. They did their freaking homework, they understood the assignment, and they pushed back hard. Do the residency checks, keep limiting transfers, keep watching the declining numbers. Improving programing before you start playing ping-ponging kids around.

Some of them are pushing for Bren Mar Park to get moved to Lewis. Try to keep up.

“Them” Oh you mean the BRAC and Thru who proposed the move and then quickly took it back … I’m sure WS parents wish they were that powerful though, LOL.

The Springfield BRAC members did not have anything to do with this Bren Mar situation.

Not to be snide, but no one in the WSHS pyramid has ever heard of the school and could not locate on a map.

It's ridiculous to suggest you can speak for everyone in the WSHS pyramid.

From reading the thread today, it seemed fairly clear that someone at WS was pushing to move Bren Mar Park kids to Lewis. It's not hard to figure out the motivation: fill Lewis with kids from another pyramid, not West Springfield.

Yes, that mystery person was Thru and the BRAC as a whole. LOL. This isn’t a suggestion that has come out of nowhere. It has been tabled for now, likely due to the middle school mismatch issue. But it and Hagel Circle are already scheduled to be addressed off cycle if you read the final report ( https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DQ55830EF08B/$file/Comprehensive%20Boundary%20Review%20Presentation%2001-08-2026%20FINAL%20for%20posting.pdf on PDF page 37.) This isn’t something that some nefarious person in West Springfield is bringing up out of the clear blue. It’s clearly on the radar of the superintendent.

Oh, I never suggested that the idea originated with West Springfield. At some point they realized that Thru had failed to do anything about the under-enrollment at Lewis or Ricardy Anderson's years-long quest to get kids moved out of Parklawn and Glasgow. And they were still messing around with Hagel Circle.

So in December they came up with incremental proposals that hadn't been part of Scenarios 1, 2, 3 or 4. One of them involved moving Bren Mar Park from Holmes/Edison to Key/Lee, whereas Scenario 4 had it staying at Holmes but moving to Annandale. Reid didn't want to say that Thru had dropped the ball, so she said the new proposal was responsive to people at BMP claiming Annandale was too far away. But it turned out people at BMP didn't want to move to Lewis, and felt blindsided, and it got tabled. Note that the off-cycle reference just refers to BMP middle and high school feeders. So that could mean lots of things.

But today, amidst all the complaints about Sandy Anderson still wanting to mess with WSHS, it was pretty clear that one or more WSHS posters was pushing to move BMP to Lewis again. It actually isn't that big a deal, because it's not like they'll have that much influence. But it was awfully silly when claims were made that no one at WSHS had ever heard of BMP before. Some of you have spent the better part of the last 18 months pushing to move kids from Edison rather than WSHS into Lewis.

Actually, Dr. Reid came up with that idea in response to her Brac meeting with the Lewis parents who

1) begged her to find students to move into Lewis, any students

2) expressed anger at FCPS for moving Rolling Valley out of Lewis to WSHS. The Lewis parents arguements at that meeting actually killed Anderson's plan to move those townhouses into WSHS. They were prepared and convincing. Reid basically stated this outright at the following meeting for Region 4

3) told Reid that they wanted families that were happy to join their school, not parents who had been fighting it for 2 years

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4) Brought information about all the development in the Edison zone around Kingstowne, that will push Edison over capacity. The Lewis parents suggested that FCPS rezone neighborhoods to Lewis from Edison.

If you were paying attention and following all the meetings, you would know all this.

The Lewis parents at that meeting were prepared and effective. This rezoning from Edison instead of WSHS was their baby. They might have expected a different, closer Edison feeder, but they requested Edison kids over WSHS kids. Reid and company picked Bren Mar, the wrong school. It should have been a closer elementary school and not a K-5 school.

And unfortunately, the closest Edison elementary school to Lewis’s attendance area is Franconia. There are absolutely neighborhoods that go to Franconia-Twain-Edison where the kids walk to Edison HS. If they wanted “a closer feeder” they’d be taking kids out of walking distance of a closer school.

I was almost about to repeat what you said.

I mean, Lewis and Edison are like 2 miles apart. Both are near the edge of their boundary.

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Superintendent announced she is going to introduce a couple of amendments to her boundary proposal based on feedback on Saturday at the end of the CIP working session - oh the suspense.

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Anonymous wrote:Superintendent announced she is going to introduce a couple of amendments to her boundary proposal based on feedback on Saturday at the end of the CIP working session - oh the suspense.

You mean this afternoon?

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Anonymous wrote:Superintendent announced she is going to introduce a couple of amendments to her boundary proposal based on feedback on Saturday at the end of the CIP working session - oh the suspense.

You mean this afternoon?

Yes - going through 2 rounds (currently in round one) of border questions on the CIP and then she'll speak.

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Anonymous wrote:Superintendent announced she is going to introduce a couple of amendments to her boundary proposal based on feedback on Saturday at the end of the CIP working session - oh the suspense.

You mean this afternoon?

Yes - going through 2 rounds (currently in round one) of border questions on the CIP and then she'll speak.

Sorry meant 2 rounds of CIP board questions.

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Anonymous wrote:Superintendent announced she is going to introduce a couple of amendments to her boundary proposal based on feedback on Saturday at the end of the CIP working session - oh the suspense.

Where was this announced ?

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Anonymous wrote:Superintendent announced she is going to introduce a couple of amendments to her boundary proposal based on feedback on Saturday at the end of the CIP working session - oh the suspense.

Where was this announced ?

They're at the point in the meeting now we're there about to get to it. They're taking a 5 minute break.

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This is what Reid said she will likely put forth as amendments to her original plan. She said she'll release Thursday. (This is my AI overview of her remarks):

- Proceed now with moving Walney Oaks (SPA 4420) from Franklin MS to Rocky Run MS.
- Defer decisions on Rolling Valley ES split feeder to a new review, with potential relief recommendations due January 2027.
- Defer Beech Tree ES moves tied to Glasgow MS relief; first implement the new Poe AAP center, then report back in January 2027 on Glasgow enrollment and demographics.
- Set January 2027 reviews for:
- Rolling Valley ES
- Beech Tree ES
- Lorton Station / Gunston / Halley / Laurel Hill area
- Graham Greenway / Jefferson Village / Kingsley Commons area
- Crossfield-to-Lee’s Corner 12-student move and related SPAs north of 395 aligned to Edison HS.
- Cardinal Forest / Keene Mill boundary question remains under staff review and may or may not be amended depending on new analysis and further input.

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It’s all one big admission that they bit off more than they could chew. The elephants in the room went totally unaddressed and they walked back a lot of the smaller changes they did propose.

This is the nonsense you get when you leave it up to a bunch of left-wing activists to set boundary policy - chaos and incompetence in equal measure.