FCPS HS Boundary

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that a Hunt Valley teacher testified in favor of the Policy 8130 revisions because she said it would call for boundary changes through an "equity lens."

Guess she wants to be in the Lewis pyramid!

Is she in union leadership? Pretty shocked that she merged discussing collective bargaining and 8130 in her speech. I’d be shocked if the union would have allowed that.

Also, I thought the SB said equity wasn’t a reason, though she, as a Fairfax employee, just tied the boundary review to equity.

Ugh. She is not a great teacher either so maybe she should try out a low income title 1 school.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids move in HS and they go onto college, many go on to excellent colleges. They can write their essay about the hardship of moving as a Junior and having to develop new relationships and how that helped them to grow as a person and a leader. It is great essay material for their applications.

Thanks Robyn. Let's make our kids' lives miserable so they have something good to use for their essays. Will be so unique if hundreds of kids write the same essay.

I would appreciate the grandfathering, but it still seems not enough. My rising 8th grader has been planning to go to high school at a certain school. He’s following older kids on his sport team. He already has friends. He been to high events and excited has and IEP and to drop a ball like this one him right before he starts high school. We moved here for this community and this school and to force us to switch is unforgivable.

My father told me this happened when I was growing up. You were grandfathered in as long as you weee attending school in the county - meaning. My 8th grader and younger elementary would have the same family traditions.

So kindergarteners were grandfathered in.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that a Hunt Valley teacher testified in favor of the Policy 8130 revisions because she said it would call for boundary changes through an "equity lens."

Guess she wants to be in the Lewis pyramid!

Is she in union leadership? Pretty shocked that she merged discussing collective bargaining and 8130 in her speech. I’d be shocked if the union would have allowed that.

Also, I thought the SB said equity wasn’t a reason, though she, as a Fairfax employee, just tied the boundary review to equity.

Ugh. She is not a great teacher either so maybe she should try out a low income title 1 school.

Move the kids, move the teachers.

[Anonymous]

Halfway through the school board members speaking, I am officially switching my party from Democrat to Republican. Smug Sandy Anderson was the final nail in the coffin, but to be fair, I was already heading that way after the board started down this path.

Let’s go vouchers!

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I’m new here and purchased in my community specifically because of the schools. This is the first board meeting I’ve listened to but, wow, these school board members are not smart. At least they’re transparent? Sandy Anderson is a huge disappointment as my SB representative. I feel fairly confident her “constituents” don’t want this. Who are they representing?

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Who was the Hunt Valley teacher? I have some guesses and am wondering if I'm right.

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Come on let’s get to the vote and get this train going!

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So they say they have no plans but then Ricardi Anderson is basically saying they have bunch of ideas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m new here and purchased in my community specifically because of the schools. This is the first board meeting I’ve listened to but, wow, these school board members are not smart. At least they’re transparent? Sandy Anderson is a huge disappointment as my SB representative. I feel fairly confident her “constituents” don’t want this. Who are they representing?

She was giving off some real Dwight Shrute vibes.

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Anonymous wrote:Who was the Hunt Valley teacher? I have some guesses and am wondering if I'm right.

Emily Vanderhoff

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Who was the Hunt Valley teacher? I have some guesses and am wondering if I'm right.

Emily Vanderhoff

Ok, not who I thought. She must've started after my children left HVES.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m new here and purchased in my community specifically because of the schools. This is the first board meeting I’ve listened to but, wow, these school board members are not smart. At least they’re transparent? Sandy Anderson is a huge disappointment as my SB representative. I feel fairly confident her “constituents” don’t want this. Who are they representing?

She was giving off some real Dwight Shrute vibes.

The data is 99.9% accurate!

Ok then, make the data transparent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Halfway through the school board members speaking, I am officially switching my party from Democrat to Republican. Smug Sandy Anderson was the final nail in the coffin, but to be fair, I was already heading that way after the board started down this path.

Let’s go vouchers!

Do you live in Virginia? We don’t “officially” register party affiliation here.

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Not ONE of the school board members have mentioned the KIDS who spoke and their concerns. Not ONE.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any parts of they are possibly throwing out and not including in the policy vote tonight? Or is this a done deal vote?

Might be a few who abstain or oppose but hard to see it not getting a majority of votes.

Anderson traded away her concerns for the Glasgow deal and there were no other comments or proposed changes. It's over.

Actually, just checked the agenda and it looks like Anderson and Meren are proposing amendments, including grandfathering in 10th-12th grade. That is a big change and this could get interesting.

You can’t grandfather that much and achieve the purpose of a 5 year cyclical review. And what about transportation? Makes no sense.

Right- so it was an opening bid. The will give lip service to grandfathering (what Mc Daniel and Sizemore just did) and then pass it.

It would be the ultimate bait-and-switch to pass an amendment that speaks to phasing in boundary changes "where feasible," and then declare later it's not feasible because the bus fleet can't handle it. They really need to be honest about how they see this being implemented in practice.

I think they already did the ultimate bait and switch: getting elected whilst staying quiet about boundaries and then going nuclear on the boundaries, so sadly, I see this is a possibility for this board.

They are just continuing the work of the last board and the board before that. Boundary policy is only one if the things they work on.

It’s your dumb asz fault for voting in Democrats when they have been on this since 2018.

The good news is, at least there are no more mean Republicans on the board.