School Board Forum on "Boundary and Capacity"

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No mixed messages. I’ll be clear. If redistricting happened I would do everything I could legally do within my power to destroy the school boards’ political careers. And there are many well-resourced great falls residents who would likely do the same.

See, I’m a grown up!

Are you one of these people?

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2019/jun/25/great-falls-residents-fired-school-issues/

Not very nice.

“Busing is not a consideration.” You gotta love the chutzpah. They absolutely were considering it and the proof is in the work sessions, which were recorded.

None of the following would be considered "bussing":

Sending Great Falls kids to Herndon

Sending some West Potomac kids to Mt. Vernon

Sending some West Springfield kids to Lewis

These are all schools that have adjoining boundaries. The last two should have been done on enrollment and capacity alone.

Has or is the School Board proposing to bus kids past multiple other schools just to achieve some desired demographic breakdown? That would be "bussing".

+1. And going by FCPS projections sending Great Falls kids to Herndon in the not-too-distant future also should be done based on enrollment and capacity alone.

What school do your kids go to? I'd like to let you know where they should be going instead.

That redistricting advocate is responsible for a couple hundred of the posts on this thread. She just repeats the same talking points over and over again, using almost the exact same language. I think she just wants to give the impression that there are a lot of people who support her views, when, in reality, she’s in the distinct minority in her quest to equalize the schools, no matter the cost.

Her world is one where individuals are measured by skin color and pocketbook, nothing else.

You're kind of a tool, and you repeat yourself more consistently than anyone else who has been posting.

When the argument is unassailable, attack the person, right?

Everything I posted is accurate. Your views are wildly unpopular, and you only care about skin color and how much money someone has, not the content of her character.

Own it. This is your worldview.

Yours is honestly a ridiculous argument that stems primarily from a desire to avoid being zoned for a school with more poor and Hispanic kids than your own. Trying to flip the script is kind of a classic move, but in your case it’s entirely unconvincing.

Flip the script, how? You care about moving Forestville to Herndon high for skin color and net worth reasons. You’ve argued it time and time again. Just own it. Own your theories. Don’t pretend that they aren’t yours. Don’t shy away from your most fervent, utmost beliefs. You believe it so much that you want to redistrict thousands of kids based on a 2029 projection line item on page 156 of a 400 page document that probably gets proofread once, and literally change these kids’ lives so that a FARM number can be a little different and the Herndon skin color average can be a little lighter.

I care about my kids and their future. That’s it. Full stop. I don’t believe random message board lady should have any say in how I raise my kids, especially because I don’t subscribe to a world view where we measure kids by how “Hispanic” or “poor” they are (literally quoting you above). You obviously do, I get that about you, but I don’t.

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