redistricting is NEVER popular, but my view is more popular than you think. |
Surely you have this all figured out. I bestow on you the title of FCPS emperor to do your will over the objection of any and all FCPS parents and constituents. You sound exactly like McAuliffe. |
One might say redistricting isn't needed, but I assume those against redistricting are in turn fully supportive of expansions and renovations for select pyramids. Especially their own. Assessing boundaries and facilities are two sides of the same coin. It's normal to want what is for one's personal circumstances, but all too often some pyramids in FCPS only want to take and never give. And let's not even say a word about how much property tax someone pays because we all pay the same rate. |
Sure. That’s why no board ever campaigns on redistricting and would lose if they did. You’re being VERY inconsistent here. |
The same rate does not equal the same absolute amount. You understand that, right? |
According to the policy, in case of emergencies the Superintendent (and I’m assuming his staff) can make boundary changes without school board consult or approval, as long as no more than 15% of a school’s population would be affected. What would constitute an emergency? |
It's just simple logic and fiscal responsibility. Would you have a cap on how big WS could become? |
An "overall comprehensive change" would take into account enrollments, program differences (AAP, AP, IB, Academies, foreign language and other electives), and differences in facilities for which FCPS needs an updated renovation queue. It's nuts that they have put different programs in place at different schools, and have renovated and built additions at some schools while neglecting other schools, and then want people to pretend everything will be hunky-dory if they just start changing boundaries, as if that is the solution to every challenge facing FCPS. The protests will be loud, and fully deserved, if that's the path they go down. |
Fire. Earthquake. Tornado damage. You know, emergencies |
So do new HS boundaries take into account the new western HS that FCPS has been pretending for 15+ years it will build?
Or might the fact that FCPS has punted about this school for so long possibly raise some questions as to whether FCPS could ever pull off county-wide changes successfully? I say they stop creating fear and uncertainty in our communities by focusing on additions where they are most needed and putting a lid on their bogus rhetoric about a “holistic” review. |
Absolutely not. Some of us taxpayers are done with voting yes to paying hundreds of millions to benefit only certain other pyramids on the timescale of decades. Invest those hundreds of millions in educating the child and use space where it is available - because there is actually quite a bit of available space according to the CIP. |
Taxpayers regularly approve school bonds, and by large margins. You're just a cheapskate who has no real handle on FCPS's past and current expenditures and simply wants to shortchange certain pyramids in the future because you resent them. |
They also don’t seem to have a grasp on how bond funding can and cannot be spent. |
Historically, yes. But the budget is shrinking relatively speaking and teacher pay still isn't where it needs to be for this area. Smart voters will question the benefits of approving another luxurious expansion way over there when one fourth of the schools over here are aging and set to be ignored for another decade. |
Schools are built to the same standards across northern Virginia. If you want to lower your standards, perhaps move to some county down state that is still using a school house last renovated in 1965. |