Anonymous wrote:Can we assume that the teacher-school assignments will be reviewed as well?
Based on the changes to enrollment associated with moving students, there should be a comprehensive teacher-school assignment review conducted every five years.
No school should have a greater proportion of highly qualified/performing teachers (however that might be assessed) than any another school.
You’re obviously trolling. Teachers’ jobs aren’t tethered to where they work and they are not offered bus service. I could never afford a house in either of the pyramids I worked in. As a renter, my commute changed often. The country had the right to destaff me. They did not have the right to dictate a commute that they were not going to facilitate.
Why should students and their families bear all the weight of fixing the challenges FCPS faces? If capacity changes happen, teachers will have to move anyway. This seems like a more equitable approach. You can't advocate for moving students and not teachers. Moving students already means there's no community entitlement to a given school.
Teachers could decide for themselves of the commute is worth it, but if moves to teachers are done similar to students than we're not talking about opposite ends of the county.
It will be disruptive enough to teachers as currently envisioned, as school enrollments will go up and down (requiring more hiring and destaffing) and they’ll be dealing with sullen kids unhappy at being reassigned to schools they hadn’t expected to attend. No need to orchestrate even more turmoil.
I appreciate all the responses. I think the school board should be thinking about all the options that relate to boundary changes. I also feel that those teachers could help families navigate the differences having taught at the prior schools. A lot of families, especially with multiple kids, get to know the teachers at their school.
Anonymous wrote:Interesting that a Hunt Valley teacher testified in favor of the Policy 8130 revisions because she said it would call for boundary changes through an "equity lens."
Guess she wants to be in the Lewis pyramid!
I think I know which teacher you are talking about without seeing her. The have one far left social justice warrior that fell off the wagon in 2016.
Anonymous wrote:Halfway through the school board members speaking, I am officially switching my party from Democrat to Republican. Smug Sandy Anderson was the final nail in the coffin, but to be fair, I was already heading that way after the board started down this path.
Let’s go vouchers!
Tim Kaine just sent a big email about fentanyl and illegal immigration today, after the RNC. It is his first email on real issues in around forever.
Virginia turning red in the polls has Kaine turning into a pretend republican. I guess the school board did not get the memo.
Anonymous wrote:The best nugget of info out of this meeting (because boundary adjustments are a foregone conclusion) is from Dr. Reid's response to Mateo Dunne's question about boundary changes: she stated that HS boundaries will not change much at all, and most of the boundary changes will be at the ES level.
That’s interesting, I wonder why they decided to do that. Most kids attend the closest ES unless they’re at a split feeder or in an attendance island. The kids who have a long ES bus ride would have one regardless because they live in a far-flung area like Clifton or Great Falls. Or they’re getting bussed to the AAP center …
This is false. Anyone with eyes can look at a map of the school boundaries to see lots of elementary schools completely disconnected from their communities.
Such as??
Westbriar, Keene Mill, Flint Hill, Sangster, etc.
The one no-brainer move coming from a savant who spends too much time on Zillow and has no dog in the fight, the Groveland/Green Garland drive area zoned for Sangster will move to Newington Forest and will become part of the South County pyramid.
I can see that happening, although that’s a really small neighborhood that probably won’t make too much of a difference either way.
As a Lorton resident I wonder if the infamous Hagel Circle will continue to get bussed past 95 to Halley or if they will get sent to the much closer Gunston. That’s a hot potato.
I was shocked to learn that Hagel Ct students didn’t go to Lorton Station ES. It’s only a mile away!
That’s one of the equity bussing situations. Sending those kids to the comparatively rich Halley makes Halley and Gunston both around 40% FARMS, and Lorton Station around 55%. Otherwise Halley would have demographics similar to Silverbrook which has single digit FARMS, and Gunston or Lorton Station would be much higher needs.
I imagine if they changed it it would be to send those kids to Gunston so they can stay at South County, as opposed to Lorton Station/Hayfield. But also, without that big neighborhood Halley’s population would drop quite a bit and there’s really nowhere for them to pick up kids from since that is not a growth area of the county.
This may have been their intention when they assigned these attendance islands, but they’re seeing the negative impacts. If kids miss the bus, they’re likely missing school that day, when in some cases, there’s another elementary school within walking distance.
Very true and I’m sure there is a lot of absenteeism coming from that area. A lot of families don’t have cars. If the kid misses the school bus there’s no way to get them to school.
+ 1 never thought of this but I’m positive this is happening.
These are the types of nuances that people who support “keeping things the same” don’t think about. I’m glad that the school board is taking a look at this in a holistic way. Issues like chronic absenteeism only put kids in that community further and further behind, which leads to more stress on the educators and other school resources.
You don’t know what nuance I think about. You’re just throwing crap at the wall to see what sticks.
I don’t have to throw anything, the motion passed so it’s “up and it’s stuck” already! That reference will likely over your head, it just means your whining is pointless at this point. You should focus that energy on opening up your mind to the possibilities now, since this is no longer a question of IF but WHEN and HOW.
Gloat as much as you want. They’re well on their way to destroying the county schools. Those of us with money will leave, those of us like you will just be stuck with lower SES schools and will never stop your pathetic whining.
That’s the nuance that YOU and your SJW friends don’t think about. Oops.
Oh we did and…WE DO NOT CARE. You think you’re the only one in the county with money? ALL of the houses in FFX cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It’s just empty threats until/unless it happens and even then, things will be fine. Your house will be snapped up quickly and life will go on.
I have to agree. Houses will still be bought for location, etc. Some of the new buyers will simply expect to go private from the get go unlike whose who had the rug pulled out from under them.
Others will embrace the chance to let their child see how the other half lives so they don’t have to hear them whining about having Izumi for dinner AGAIN.
What I would implore any SJW, economically challenged ideologues on this board to do, is looking at property sales over the next few years in the jurisdictions that are at high risk of getting redistricted. You’ll of course try to spin the ensuing drop as something else, but we all know that the number one reason that people buy their houses is for the schools.
I know you don’t care, but each drop represents a loss for the county, both directly and indirectly.
Ok, hypothetically:
Boundary changes happen and now more poor and diverse kids go to your pyramid. GreatSchools score takes a hit on Zillow. The ultra-wealthy from California and Seattle now refuse to pay 300k over the assessment for homes in your neighborhood. This leaves room for younger mid-grade federal employees and other public servants, from teachers to custodians, to buy and live and work in Fairfax County, just like they used to in the 90s.
How has your own child's education specifically been negatively impacted?
DP and this is exactly what happened to some neighborhoods 15 years ago. The GS scores took a hit, the FRM rate increased sharply, and a bunch of families fought like hell to get their children into AAP or sent them to private schools after second grade when it became apparent that 20-30% of the class was two or three grade levels behind. I live in one of these neighborhoods and roughly 1/3 of the elementary kids are not at the neighborhood school. Most younger families didn't move at the time because they would've been upside down on their mortgages. The neighborhood has turned over more slowly than surrounding neighborhoods that didn't get redistricted.
The kids who are on grade level or above but not far enough to make AAP get ignored because everyone is in triage mode trying to keep the wheels from falling off. There are fewer after school clubs, fewer academic enrichment opportunities, and the classes are taught to the bottom. These kids aren't going to fail out of school because their parents will cover the slack in most cases but they're in no way getting the same education as a kid who goes to a school where most of the class is on grade level. The School Board knows it too.
This is going to play out again in the WSHS pyramid. Group 1 bought before 2018, most likely to have high schoolers, and many will be willing to sell and relocate even after the boundary hit reduces their equity in the home. Group 2 bought 2020-2022 with a 2.75 interest rate, may not have a lot of equity and will weigh their golden handcuffs against eating private school tuition or cashing out what they can to move. Group 3 is the youngest families, bought in the past 2 years at a 5-7% rate and will be upside down after the boundary equity hit and forced to stay in place and hope for the best.
Anonymous wrote:People never want to send their kids to poor schools. This isn’t a surprise and it’s not an attitude that will change. The scores, graduation rates, the absenteeism. the disciplanary numbers are all public are not great.
Many people live in the suburbs vs the city to escape these kinds of schools and sacrifice the commute in return. Fairfax is just like any other suburb in that regard. If the schools all turn into schools like the city, many may rethink that decision and or move again.
Why not help “poor schools”?
Moving kids from higher performing schools as pawns shouldn’t be the plan go fix under performing schools. FCPS should work to fix drop out rates, chronic absenteeism, disciplinary actions. Not just move good students to skew numbers. The school board acknowledged that kids might not have access to programming, clubs, sports, equipment, etc when they first move. For a junior in high school this is unacceptable. Honestly who would want to move here with this going on
What are you doing to help? What will your contribution to the new school be?
Many will contribute quite a bit to their new school when they switch from FCPS to private school after they are rezoned
You’re unwilling to contribute to those less fortunate? You might not want to mention that when applying to private.
To be fair no one at a private school is sacrificing their kid's education for the betterment of poor kids either
Anonymous wrote:Halfway through the school board members speaking, I am officially switching my party from Democrat to Republican. Smug Sandy Anderson was the final nail in the coffin, but to be fair, I was already heading that way after the board started down this path.
Let’s go vouchers!
Tim Kaine just sent a big email about fentanyl and illegal immigration today, after the RNC. It is his first email on real issues in around forever.
Virginia turning red in the polls has Kaine turning into a pretend republican. I guess the school board did not get the memo.
Wow. They must've seen polling to have one of our senators actually speak on the immigration issue. I never thought I'd see the day.
Anonymous wrote: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).
Wishful thinking. Anderson must have mentioned at least three times that Glasgow MS has more kids than Lewis HS, and St. John-Cunning talked about how Lewis kids were just as proud as Langley kids. The low enrollment at Lewis is very much on their minds.
Yes but Reid emphasized keeping community together. And bussing HV or another school to Key and Lewis goes against that and can’t be the only solution to fix the Lewis under enrollment. I don’t think she’s interested in redoing pyramids and regions.
Moving one part of Springfield to a school in another part of Springfield?
If you allow “community” to be defined by current school assignment you could never make any changes without “breaking up a community.”
Still Springfield but two different regions. And again, bussing kids past closer schools to further schools.
Hunt Valley wouldn't pass a closer school. The parkway goes straight to Lewis. You don't even need to jump on Old Keene Mill or Rolling Rd.
That route takes HV kids past 2 elementary schools, Rolling Valley and West Springfield Elementary
Both of thos school zones run along the parkway, between HV and the Lewis border.
Anonymous wrote: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).
Wishful thinking. Anderson must have mentioned at least three times that Glasgow MS has more kids than Lewis HS, and St. John-Cunning talked about how Lewis kids were just as proud as Langley kids. The low enrollment at Lewis is very much on their minds.
Yes but Reid emphasized keeping community together. And bussing HV or another school to Key and Lewis goes against that and can’t be the only solution to fix the Lewis under enrollment. I don’t think she’s interested in redoing pyramids and regions.
I don't know. They are very open to shifting elementary kids. I can see them redoing the HV boundary to put more kids into Saratoga.
The edge of HV border bumps up against Newington Forest and Sangster. Saratoga makes no sense.
It’s probably closer, or at least the same distance, for the southern part of HV (south of the parkway) to go to South County via Newington Forest. That would free up some space at HV to allow for some adjustments with Orange Hunt and/or Sangster. OH in particular is very large and over-enrolled. I’m not sure how many students that would affect however and I’m not sure if Newington Forest could absorb them all since it is a pretty small school.
I don’t know what they are going to do with Sangster. The problem is the AAP center stuff. OH and HV are some of the only schools in the county with no LLIV. They have L3 only. Keene Mill is obviously the main center for the WS pyramid, but HV and OH kids go to the center at Sangster and then LB for MS AAP, and then WSHS. I don’t know that KM could absorb all of HV and OH’s AAP kids at this point if Sangster was completely made into a LB feeder.
Most of the HV and OH kids go to Irving now for AAP.
Anonymous wrote: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).
Wishful thinking. Anderson must have mentioned at least three times that Glasgow MS has more kids than Lewis HS, and St. John-Cunning talked about how Lewis kids were just as proud as Langley kids. The low enrollment at Lewis is very much on their minds.
Yes but Reid emphasized keeping community together. And bussing HV or another school to Key and Lewis goes against that and can’t be the only solution to fix the Lewis under enrollment. I don’t think she’s interested in redoing pyramids and regions.
I don't know. They are very open to shifting elementary kids. I can see them redoing the HV boundary to put more kids into Saratoga.
The edge of HV border bumps up against Newington Forest and Sangster. Saratoga makes no sense.
It’s probably closer, or at least the same distance, for the southern part of HV (south of the parkway) to go to South County via Newington Forest. That would free up some space at HV to allow for some adjustments with Orange Hunt and/or Sangster. OH in particular is very large and over-enrolled. I’m not sure how many students that would affect however and I’m not sure if Newington Forest could absorb them all since it is a pretty small school.
I don’t know what they are going to do with Sangster. The problem is the AAP center stuff. OH and HV are some of the only schools in the county with no LLIV. They have L3 only. Keene Mill is obviously the main center for the WS pyramid, but HV and OH kids go to the center at Sangster and then LB for MS AAP, and then WSHS. I don’t know that KM could absorb all of HV and OH’s AAP kids at this point if Sangster was completely made into a LB feeder.
Most of the HV and OH kids go to Irving now for AAP.
Very few go to LB
There were 108 transfers from Irving to Lake Braddock last year.
Anonymous wrote: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).
Wishful thinking. Anderson must have mentioned at least three times that Glasgow MS has more kids than Lewis HS, and St. John-Cunning talked about how Lewis kids were just as proud as Langley kids. The low enrollment at Lewis is very much on their minds.
Yes but Reid emphasized keeping community together. And bussing HV or another school to Key and Lewis goes against that and can’t be the only solution to fix the Lewis under enrollment. I don’t think she’s interested in redoing pyramids and regions.
I don't know. They are very open to shifting elementary kids. I can see them redoing the HV boundary to put more kids into Saratoga.
Pohick Creek will continue to serve as the western barrier for Saratoga, but they may extend the Saratoga border north to take on some of the Rolling Valley split feeder population that can access Saratoga via Rolling Rd.
The Lewis/WSHS equity/capacity rebalance cannot be done without redrawing the existing HS boundaries. WSES, which is already adjacent to Crestwood and Garfield, is part of the Franconia magesterial district under St John-Cunning, is closest in terms of geography and travel time, and is closest in terms of community, will go to Lewis. Look at the Lewis boundary on a map and ask yourself "if this is a puzzle, what piece is missing to complete it?"
Anonymous wrote: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).
Wishful thinking. Anderson must have mentioned at least three times that Glasgow MS has more kids than Lewis HS, and St. John-Cunning talked about how Lewis kids were just as proud as Langley kids. The low enrollment at Lewis is very much on their minds.
Yes but Reid emphasized keeping community together. And bussing HV or another school to Key and Lewis goes against that and can’t be the only solution to fix the Lewis under enrollment. I don’t think she’s interested in redoing pyramids and regions.
Moving one part of Springfield to a school in another part of Springfield?
If you allow “community” to be defined by current school assignment you could never make any changes without “breaking up a community.”
Still Springfield but two different regions. And again, bussing kids past closer schools to further schools.
Hunt Valley wouldn't pass a closer school. The parkway goes straight to Lewis. You don't even need to jump on Old Keene Mill or Rolling Rd.
That route takes HV kids past 2 elementary schools, Rolling Valley and West Springfield Elementary
Both of thos school zones run along the parkway, between HV and the Lewis border.
You can ignore the PP who thinks the parkway goes straight from HV to Lewis. There is no scenario in which the 6 mi, 10-22 minute drive from HV to Lewis makes more sense than the 4 mile, 6-14 minute drive from WSES.
Anonymous wrote:The best nugget of info out of this meeting (because boundary adjustments are a foregone conclusion) is from Dr. Reid's response to Mateo Dunne's question about boundary changes: she stated that HS boundaries will not change much at all, and most of the boundary changes will be at the ES level.
That’s interesting, I wonder why they decided to do that. Most kids attend the closest ES unless they’re at a split feeder or in an attendance island. The kids who have a long ES bus ride would have one regardless because they live in a far-flung area like Clifton or Great Falls. Or they’re getting bussed to the AAP center …
This is false. Anyone with eyes can look at a map of the school boundaries to see lots of elementary schools completely disconnected from their communities.
Such as??
Westbriar, Keene Mill, Flint Hill, Sangster, etc.
The one no-brainer move coming from a savant who spends too much time on Zillow and has no dog in the fight, the Groveland/Green Garland drive area zoned for Sangster will move to Newington Forest and will become part of the South County pyramid.
I can see that happening, although that’s a really small neighborhood that probably won’t make too much of a difference either way.
As a Lorton resident I wonder if the infamous Hagel Circle will continue to get bussed past 95 to Halley or if they will get sent to the much closer Gunston. That’s a hot potato.
I was shocked to learn that Hagel Ct students didn’t go to Lorton Station ES. It’s only a mile away!
That’s one of the equity bussing situations. Sending those kids to the comparatively rich Halley makes Halley and Gunston both around 40% FARMS, and Lorton Station around 55%. Otherwise Halley would have demographics similar to Silverbrook which has single digit FARMS, and Gunston or Lorton Station would be much higher needs.
I imagine if they changed it it would be to send those kids to Gunston so they can stay at South County, as opposed to Lorton Station/Hayfield. But also, without that big neighborhood Halley’s population would drop quite a bit and there’s really nowhere for them to pick up kids from since that is not a growth area of the county.
This may have been their intention when they assigned these attendance islands, but they’re seeing the negative impacts. If kids miss the bus, they’re likely missing school that day, when in some cases, there’s another elementary school within walking distance.
Very true and I’m sure there is a lot of absenteeism coming from that area. A lot of families don’t have cars. If the kid misses the school bus there’s no way to get them to school.
+ 1 never thought of this but I’m positive this is happening.
These are the types of nuances that people who support “keeping things the same” don’t think about. I’m glad that the school board is taking a look at this in a holistic way. Issues like chronic absenteeism only put kids in that community further and further behind, which leads to more stress on the educators and other school resources.
You don’t know what nuance I think about. You’re just throwing crap at the wall to see what sticks.
I don’t have to throw anything, the motion passed so it’s “up and it’s stuck” already! That reference will likely over your head, it just means your whining is pointless at this point. You should focus that energy on opening up your mind to the possibilities now, since this is no longer a question of IF but WHEN and HOW.
Gloat as much as you want. They’re well on their way to destroying the county schools. Those of us with money will leave, those of us like you will just be stuck with lower SES schools and will never stop your pathetic whining.
That’s the nuance that YOU and your SJW friends don’t think about. Oops.
Oh we did and…WE DO NOT CARE. You think you’re the only one in the county with money? ALL of the houses in FFX cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It’s just empty threats until/unless it happens and even then, things will be fine. Your house will be snapped up quickly and life will go on.
I have to agree. Houses will still be bought for location, etc. Some of the new buyers will simply expect to go private from the get go unlike whose who had the rug pulled out from under them.
Others will embrace the chance to let their child see how the other half lives so they don’t have to hear them whining about having Izumi for dinner AGAIN.
What I would implore any SJW, economically challenged ideologues on this board to do, is looking at property sales over the next few years in the jurisdictions that are at high risk of getting redistricted. You’ll of course try to spin the ensuing drop as something else, but we all know that the number one reason that people buy their houses is for the schools.
I know you don’t care, but each drop represents a loss for the county, both directly and indirectly.
Ok, hypothetically:
Boundary changes happen and now more poor and diverse kids go to your pyramid. GreatSchools score takes a hit on Zillow. The ultra-wealthy from California and Seattle now refuse to pay 300k over the assessment for homes in your neighborhood. This leaves room for younger mid-grade federal employees and other public servants, from teachers to custodians, to buy and live and work in Fairfax County, just like they used to in the 90s.
How has your own child's education specifically been negatively impacted?
DP and this is exactly what happened to some neighborhoods 15 years ago. The GS scores took a hit, the FRM rate increased sharply, and a bunch of families fought like hell to get their children into AAP or sent them to private schools after second grade when it became apparent that 20-30% of the class was two or three grade levels behind. I live in one of these neighborhoods and roughly 1/3 of the elementary kids are not at the neighborhood school. Most younger families didn't move at the time because they would've been upside down on their mortgages. The neighborhood has turned over more slowly than surrounding neighborhoods that didn't get redistricted.
The kids who are on grade level or above but not far enough to make AAP get ignored because everyone is in triage mode trying to keep the wheels from falling off. There are fewer after school clubs, fewer academic enrichment opportunities, and the classes are taught to the bottom. These kids aren't going to fail out of school because their parents will cover the slack in most cases but they're in no way getting the same education as a kid who goes to a school where most of the class is on grade level. The School Board knows it too.
This is going to play out again in the WSHS pyramid. Group 1 bought before 2018, most likely to have high schoolers, and many will be willing to sell and relocate even after the boundary hit reduces their equity in the home. Group 2 bought 2020-2022 with a 2.75 interest rate, may not have a lot of equity and will weigh their golden handcuffs against eating private school tuition or cashing out what they can to move. Group 3 is the youngest families, bought in the past 2 years at a 5-7% rate and will be upside down after the boundary equity hit and forced to stay in place and hope for the best.
I assume you’re referring to the presumed “boundary equity hit” in whatever area might get moved to Lewis. The rest of the WSHS pyramid would be fine or arguably becomes more desirable, no?
Anonymous wrote: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).
Wishful thinking. Anderson must have mentioned at least three times that Glasgow MS has more kids than Lewis HS, and St. John-Cunning talked about how Lewis kids were just as proud as Langley kids. The low enrollment at Lewis is very much on their minds.
Yes but Reid emphasized keeping community together. And bussing HV or another school to Key and Lewis goes against that and can’t be the only solution to fix the Lewis under enrollment. I don’t think she’s interested in redoing pyramids and regions.
I don't know. They are very open to shifting elementary kids. I can see them redoing the HV boundary to put more kids into Saratoga.
The edge of HV border bumps up against Newington Forest and Sangster. Saratoga makes no sense.
It’s probably closer, or at least the same distance, for the southern part of HV (south of the parkway) to go to South County via Newington Forest. That would free up some space at HV to allow for some adjustments with Orange Hunt and/or Sangster. OH in particular is very large and over-enrolled. I’m not sure how many students that would affect however and I’m not sure if Newington Forest could absorb them all since it is a pretty small school.
I don’t know what they are going to do with Sangster. The problem is the AAP center stuff. OH and HV are some of the only schools in the county with no LLIV. They have L3 only. Keene Mill is obviously the main center for the WS pyramid, but HV and OH kids go to the center at Sangster and then LB for MS AAP, and then WSHS. I don’t know that KM could absorb all of HV and OH’s AAP kids at this point if Sangster was completely made into a LB feeder.
Most of the HV and OH kids go to Irving now for AAP.
Very few go to LB
There were 108 transfers from Irving to Lake Braddock last year.
That comes to roughly 50 kids per grade, not even 2 full classes of AAP kids.
Irving has 3 full AAP classes per grade, roughly 90 students per grade, so close to double.
Divide the 50 kids per grade going to LB AAP by the 6.5 WSHS elementary feeders, 0.5 being the Sangster island, then you are looking at roughly 8 to 10 kids per grade from HV and OH that go to LB for AAP each year.
Anonymous wrote:They may not move all of Hunt Valley, but they will move a huge part of it to Saratoga. South of the parkway.
Same goes for anyone sent to Sangster who lives south of the parkway. They will send those kids to Newington Forest.
All of Rolling Valley will attend WSHS.
This provides relief to Orange Hunt and eliminates split feeders as much as possible (not considering AAP).
Why to Saratoga? I just checked Google and at 12:35 p.m. our Gambrill Road neighborhood is a 4 minute drive to Newington Forrest ES (compared to 4 minute drive to Hunt Valley). Saratoga is 9 minutes away.
Saratoga Mim is obsessed with punishing Hunt Valley for the rezoning that occurred decades ago when South County was built. Obsessed. There are years of posts from her trying to find ways to rezone Hunt Valley to Lewis.
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