Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The boundary changes didn’t do anything about the under enrolled schools because the School Board is petrified of the angry parents who would be moved to those schools. The school board will probably make those moves one at a time to decrease the likihood of them being voted out. Think of the redistricting to SLHS 20 years ago. It was a small area that was impacted, no one else.

Their mistake this time is that announced that they wanted to move kids to balance out schools and every parent group in the County was on guard. When plans were laid out, there were already organized protests and a lot of them. The loud complaining across the area scared the crap out of them.

To top it off, the Crossfield families who don’t want to move to Western are loudly complaiing and, according to one poster, meeting with Reid to explain why they should not be moved from Oakton. I would bet that Crossfield is not moved to Western, or at least not all of Crossfield.

The school board could make some smart changes, like place academies at Herndon and Lewis that people want to attend and require people pupil place into the programs. Or create Votech schools at those schools so that there is a reason for people to want to move to those schools and offering programs that might be a better fit for the population that is already there. And add full AP to all schools to stop the pupil placement. Keep IB at schools that have kids completing the IB diploma, so not Lewis and Mt. Vernon and Annandale.

Why is it the rich white ones who complain most?

Plenty of Asian parents complain if they are going to be moved to what they see as a weaker school. People who value education, and most people who have money value education, want their kids at strong schools. Threaten to move their kids from a top school, like Langley or Oakton, and the parents will be annoyed. They bought to be at those schools. And part of their house value is tied to what school they are zoned for.

People don’t want to move schools, they really don’t want to move from a higher ranked school to a lower ranked school. The schools that Are suffering from losing the most students, and are then under enrolled, are the schools people don’t want to move to.

[Anonymous]

So what is the vibe - will board approve these amended changes? Will we finally have a short break from this until they start this mess again…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what is the vibe - will board approve these amended changes? Will we finally have a short break from this until they start this mess again…

I’d be surprised if they don’t approve these changes without amendment.

I think we have until November 2027 for a little respite, except that there will be a bunch of agitating Melissas around. then the next board, who also will try to obscure the boundary changes agenda while running for the school board, will act like they have a mandate for the next round. They will forget all the community feedback from this go round.

[Anonymous]

Total number of students impacted is now down to a little under 1,700. Quite a comprehensive review!

Maybe they can consider offering transportation now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Total number of students impacted is now down to a little under 1,700. Quite a comprehensive review!

Maybe they can consider offering transportation now.

Where are you finding the new numbers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what is the vibe - will board approve these amended changes? Will we finally have a short break from this until they start this mess again…

It will pass.

Reid has described wanting to have BRAC meetings quarterly, so this will rear its head ever my few months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what is the vibe - will board approve these amended changes? Will we finally have a short break from this until they start this mess again…

It will pass.

Reid has described wanting to have BRAC meetings quarterly, so this will rear its head ever my few months.

Region 4 stood up and cheered at the first meeting when a parent said they needed to push this until after the next school board election, but here comes the feckless board trying to redo the boundaries “before Jan 2027.” At this point, I can only hope my 6th grader gets into 9th before King Sandy tears the community apart.

[Anonymous]

Lewis and WSHS are specifically called out now in the latest amendment. Going to be a wild ride.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The boundary changes didn’t do anything about the under enrolled schools because the School Board is petrified of the angry parents who would be moved to those schools. The school board will probably make those moves one at a time to decrease the likihood of them being voted out. Think of the redistricting to SLHS 20 years ago. It was a small area that was impacted, no one else.

Their mistake this time is that announced that they wanted to move kids to balance out schools and every parent group in the County was on guard. When plans were laid out, there were already organized protests and a lot of them. The loud complaining across the area scared the crap out of them.

To top it off, the Crossfield families who don’t want to move to Western are loudly complaiing and, according to one poster, meeting with Reid to explain why they should not be moved from Oakton. I would bet that Crossfield is not moved to Western, or at least not all of Crossfield.

The school board could make some smart changes, like place academies at Herndon and Lewis that people want to attend and require people pupil place into the programs. Or create Votech schools at those schools so that there is a reason for people to want to move to those schools and offering programs that might be a better fit for the population that is already there. And add full AP to all schools to stop the pupil placement. Keep IB at schools that have kids completing the IB diploma, so not Lewis and Mt. Vernon and Annandale.

Why is it the rich white ones who complain most?

Plenty of Asian parents complain if they are going to be moved to what they see as a weaker school. People who value education, and most people who have money value education, want their kids at strong schools. Threaten to move their kids from a top school, like Langley or Oakton, and the parents will be annoyed. They bought to be at those schools. And part of their house value is tied to what school they are zoned for.

People don’t want to move schools, they really don’t want to move from a higher ranked school to a lower ranked school. The schools that Are suffering from losing the most students, and are then under enrolled, are the schools people don’t want to move to.

They hold less bearing in the U.S. because they’re minorities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The boundary changes didn’t do anything about the under enrolled schools because the School Board is petrified of the angry parents who would be moved to those schools. The school board will probably make those moves one at a time to decrease the likihood of them being voted out. Think of the redistricting to SLHS 20 years ago. It was a small area that was impacted, no one else.

Their mistake this time is that announced that they wanted to move kids to balance out schools and every parent group in the County was on guard. When plans were laid out, there were already organized protests and a lot of them. The loud complaining across the area scared the crap out of them.

To top it off, the Crossfield families who don’t want to move to Western are loudly complaiing and, according to one poster, meeting with Reid to explain why they should not be moved from Oakton. I would bet that Crossfield is not moved to Western, or at least not all of Crossfield.

The school board could make some smart changes, like place academies at Herndon and Lewis that people want to attend and require people pupil place into the programs. Or create Votech schools at those schools so that there is a reason for people to want to move to those schools and offering programs that might be a better fit for the population that is already there. And add full AP to all schools to stop the pupil placement. Keep IB at schools that have kids completing the IB diploma, so not Lewis and Mt. Vernon and Annandale.

Why is it the rich white ones who complain most?

Plenty of Asian parents complain if they are going to be moved to what they see as a weaker school. People who value education, and most people who have money value education, want their kids at strong schools. Threaten to move their kids from a top school, like Langley or Oakton, and the parents will be annoyed. They bought to be at those schools. And part of their house value is tied to what school they are zoned for.

People don’t want to move schools, they really don’t want to move from a higher ranked school to a lower ranked school. The schools that Are suffering from losing the most students, and are then under enrolled, are the schools people don’t want to move to.

They hold less bearing in the U.S. because they’re minorities.

here is a little information: No one wants their kids to move to a lower rated school. That is not a racial characteristic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Total number of students impacted is now down to a little under 1,700. Quite a comprehensive review!

Maybe they can consider offering transportation now.

They should. I hate these people so much but this is the one thing they can do to mitigate their bottomless arrogance and stupidity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lewis and WSHS are specifically called out now in the latest amendment. Going to be a wild ride.

WSHS and any other school above 105 percent. But not till the next review. Which is in 5 years. There are a few West Springfield neighborhoods that will be under review in 2027. But not the whole pyramid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lewis and WSHS are specifically called out now in the latest amendment. Going to be a wild ride.

WSHS and any other school above 105 percent. But not till the next review. Which is in 5 years. There are a few West Springfield neighborhoods that will be under review in 2027. But not the whole pyramid.

Only 2 WSHS neighborhoods.

Rolling Valley SPA 8922 is a Lewis neighborhood, not a WSHS neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

In February the start on the boundary process for Western because that was too complicated to do at the same time as the comprehensive review. The only schools who should be affected by that are South Lakes, Chantilly, Centerville, Westfield, and Oakton. But they scrapped the four scenarios they had for Western and now there will be a lottery to choose students for the school if over 500 kids opt in.

Are we having fun yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Total number of students impacted is now down to a little under 1,700. Quite a comprehensive review!

Maybe they can consider offering transportation now.

Where are you finding the new numbers?

It is less than 1% of FCPS students.

Did they really need to create a 2 year half a million+ dollar debaucle to move less than 1700 students?

This could have been handled by the old policy 8130 that focused solely on capacity and emergency rezoning for things like flooded schools from pipes bursting and natural disasters.