Boundary Review Meetings
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Anonymous
I would be upset with that last minute change to increase capacity. They do have all the reasons to be frustrated. That being said, many of their grievances spiraled into things that appear to be school admin specific decisions. |
Anonymous
Yes. 100% agree. The issues they were describing are admin and procedural based. Not capacity. Those parents 100% have a right to be upset about that. AND they have every right to be upset about how this was all switched last minute. But they are two different issues at play there. In addition, having lived here for 40 years I have never EVER heard of CFES being called the scum of west springfield. I was completely taken aback by that comment. That is appalling |
Anonymous
Meren is very much on board with making all things equitable, she isn’t happy with the new school because it is new and nice and shiny and other schools are not. She has complained that the boundary review did nothing for equity and complained about the different language programs that are not equally available. She didn’t mention the IB/AP inequity, which is used to move out of poorer schools to better off schools. |
Anonymous
Sandy has been saying the Daventry thing to parents for 18 months. Then, when she says that she wants to move RV SPA 8922 into WSHS from Lewis, claiming it is only 20 students, and parents point out that Daventry was "only" a dozen students and now many times more than that, she turns around and tells us that we can't use Daventry to estimate the number of kids who will actually end up attending WSHS ffom RV SPA 8922. It is infuriating. |
Anonymous
There is plenty of video footage from school board meetings and work sessions pre November 2024 with members and Dr. Reid openly stating that every bit of rezoning would be centered on One Fairfax and "equity" And fyi, bussing like that is illegal. |
Anonymous
Oh, please. If Meren was in favor of making all things equitable, she would be objecting to making Thoreau and Madison wealthier at the expense of Kilmer and Marshall. Maybe I’m wrong, but it seemed like she is a cheerleader for the wealthy parents wanting to bail on Kilmer and Marshall. Meren speaks equity and practices self-interest. You think she’s an equity warrior because she wants to protect South Lakes, but that doesn’t mean she cares about equity across the board. |
Anonymous
It is not illegal unless someone can prove it was done based on race rather than economics. They clearly aren’t doing that, but it’s because they are politicians acutely aware of who has the loudest voices and the most money, not because it’s illegal. |
Anonymous
The Cardinal Forest rezoning happened at the last minute because Reid was trying to pull back the map 4 recommendations that moved and fixed that ridiculous Keene Mill island, Shannon Station, to the school they should be attending, White Oaks. The only way she could avoid rezoning Shannon Station to White Oaks/Lake Braddock was to create a convoluted rezoning of them to Cardinal Forest, which then snowballed into the ridiculous rezoning of walkable Cardinal Forest neighborhoods to Keene Mill. Shannon Station should have been rezoned to White Oaks and Lake Braddock. Why Dr. Reid did not adopt that specific part of Map 4 sending Shannon Station to White Oaks and Lake Braddock is a complete mystery to everyone at WSHS. |
Anonymous
Well, I guess they can fight it out starting next January. Nothing will be last minute and maybe Cardinal Forest families can figure out what they’re asking for. Because it wasn’t at all clear last night. At one point it sounded like they were asking to be removed from the WSHS pyramid because they don’t get enough money and support. |
Anonymous
Someone said that? No one says that. |
Anonymous
One fairfax is explicity about things like race and ethnicity. It is a fairly low hanging fruit to prove since the School Board and Reid have mentioned One Fairfax as the driver for rezoning repeatedly. |
Anonymous
A plaintiff would need to prove a lot more than that there were references to One Fairfax. Y’all pretend that any boundary change that might reduce rather than aggravate economic disparities between neighboring schools would be illegal. That’s not the case at all. But in any event it’s amusing you’re still so worked up when it’s clear this School Board is a bunch of bumblers who talk equity and back down as soon as someone says “boo.” I get that you’re annoyed that they still plan to look at more boundaries over the next few years when it was held out as five-year reviews, but the result will likely be the same. |
Anonymous
I generally agree with this, with the following caveat: Using the 1 mile walk standard for elementary school, there actually are a number of homes along Carrleigh that could be walkers to either CFES or KMES (a lot of the parts in SPA 7917 west of Greeley, including Carrleigh, most of Langbrook, and parts of Dabney). In my opinion, the Cardinal Forest HOA and Charleston HOA homes on Carrleigh Forrester-to-Greeley are within 1 mile (and fairly equidistant to) both CFES and KMES, so it could make sense to move them to either school. It certainly did not make sense to split up 7917 while sending CFES to 108 percent and KMES to 88 percent. Under all of the boundary proposals to change KMES, the vast majority of the students could be walkers to KMES, to the point where they could probably use a single bus for their local non-walker students. Rectifying a weird split-feeder attendance island to save money on transportation seems like a lost opportunity for FCPS and the school board to have an easy "win" in the boundary review process (which seem few and far between). I have no idea what FCPS and the Board is going to do to "study" this change for a year. |
Anonymous
I agree. Cardinal Forest has had trouble getting kids through the lunch line during lunch for years even when it wasn't overcrowded. While overcrowding certainly doesn't help, the fact that a 102% CFES can't provide lunches during lunch while a 107% KMES can suggests that Cardinal Forest is perhaps not run well. Which was reinforced by the discussion about the Cardinal Forest principal stating that they could not hire a permanent 5th grade teacher due to a hiring freeze, which Dr. Reid said was not actually true. The whole description of the boundary review process is just frustrating. 18 months of community input and BRAC leads to a series of proposals that eliminate a split-feeder attendance island while evening out attendance for three elementaries, which Dr. Reid then alters at the last minute to drastically increase Cardinal Forest students and drastically decrease Keene Mill students. A BRAC rep last night stated that she had no input in and was surprised by Dr. Reid's change, and Dr. Reid didn't seem to know why she made that change, other than some Cardinal Forest walkers were displaced (who might well have also been Keene Mill walkers). As a result, FCPS and the Board is just going to study the issue for a year, which is likely going to result in Cardinal Forest suffering the exact same problems for another year. And if Dr. Reid is just going to change recommendations at the last minute on a whim, what even is the point of BRAC or community involvement? It just seems like FCPS is doing whatever it feels like under the veneer of community involvement, while also annoying its families by creating an extended time period of uncertainty. |
Anonymous
DP. Isn’t One Fairfax official policy still? I’m not sure you’d need much else. |