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Anonymous
Dr. Anderson’s amendment did not pass. Kyle came in at the 11th hour with a less flexible version, which had a lot more support. |
Anonymous
+1 Democrats create a $hitshow, once again, but the PP blames Republicans for not being mind readers. Too funny. |
Anonymous
And this is what you got. Yay, you? DP |
Anonymous
+100 |
Anonymous
As is the case in CA and NY more and more intelligent people are leaving Fairfax County. Soon all that will be left are “dem voters” that think they are smarter than everyone else. Let the chaos begin. The “highly intelligent dem voters” got what they deserved. Only losers are the children. 
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Anonymous
Perhaps she misspoke? I think what will happen is elementary school boundaries change significantly and split feeders eliminated. Elementaries may change pyramids, but maybe not many of them. For example they redo the Forestville boundary and a slice of the western most part of Great Falls and houses on the south side of rte 7 are sent to one of the nearby elementary schools in Herndon, and those schools stay aligned to Herndon Middle and high. In all their reimagining, maybe the new Forestville goes to Herndon too, maybe not. With a blank slate the possibilities are endless. |
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Anonymous
| So what happened with grandfathering? I am really worried that this will happen my kid’s junior year. I will send my younger kid - who would start 9th at a new school - without drama, but I do not want my rising freshman to have to switch schools junior year. |
Anonymous
That was the second time she said it, so I don’t think it was that she misspoke. |
Anonymous
The elementary school attendance islands often still exist within the same high school pyramid, and can be corrected by adjusting the elementary school boundaries within the high school attendance footprint. Look at Ravensworth in Lake Braddock. The attendance block drives past Kings Glen to get to Ravensworth, but all of those students will eventually go off to Lake Braddock, so if the elementary schools boundaries are changed, the kids in secondary school won’t be impacted. Keene Mill is another example where the island can be absorbed by neighboring ES in the WSHS pyramid. The prime examples they were discussing were places like Fort Hunt, Groveton, and Halley where a very small number of students are being bused across the county. With the high school islands, I think only Timber Lane and Spring Hill are impacted for McLean, and both of those schools are split feeders already. Spring Hill could potentially stay a split feeder, as the portion assigned to McLean is closer to McLean than Langley. They can even connect the boundaries by having McLean pick up more of Westgate. There’s another island for Fairfax High School which will be harder to address, because those schools are all closer to Chantilly and Centerville, and there’s no room for them there. |
Anonymous
+me They basically said “trust us we will grandfather” but I don’t. If they had thought of kids this would have been in there a long time ago. It was written in the old policy so they had to have read it and then didn’t do anything about it until the day of the meeting/day before. |
Anonymous
| The impression I got was they are going to focus first on the bussing islands and less on entire schools. They also didn’t emphasize that much the high school situation and act like they was an attempt to fill up Lewis high school. I don’t even think they will look at moving elementary to other regions/pyramids if they aren’t bussing them now (ie West Springfield schools). |
Anonymous
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As for the phasing, I understand they can’t open it to all of these grades because they won’t solve the problems they are trying to fix. I do think phasing for 11/12 grade should be considered.
I want to believe the heavy community engagement they are offering but we have seen before how that goes. |
Anonymous
I think it will be only the oldest grade at each level will be grandfathered in with certainty and then perhaps some discretion for other students as needed. Dr. Anderson and Meren were really taken aback by how McDaniel snuck in his counter amendment at the last moment. I too have a rising freshman whom I imagine will have to move his junior year. I get that change and disruption will happen with any boundary adjustment, but let's just be honest about the juniors stuck in this situation- they are a sacrificial cohort for the greater good. I can't believe the Board won't allow students in their all-important junior year to remain at the same school in which they began. I hope they show the discretion they said would not be allowed in the Dr. Anderson amendment they rejected and give rising juniors the choice to stay or go. |
Anonymous
They aren’t listening to the community. They cherry pick one off conversations that they have within the echo chamber and pretend like that’s what the constituents want. The disdain for constituents was so apparent from Sandy Anderson’s intro speech yesterday, I urge you all to go watch it and see for yourself how much she hates the majority of her constituents. |