King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?

[Anonymous]

This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up.

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice.

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up.

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice.

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text

Haha and schools will be free to reject you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up.

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice.

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text

Haha and schools will be free to reject you.

DP, sure the schools can reject whoever they want, but the flip side is that they can accept whoever they want, and they don’t need to justify anything to you.

Again for those in the back, at some point FCPS has to decide if it wants UMC kids in the school system or not. If they do, they’re going to have to change the way they disregard these families.

[Anonymous]

There would be good schools where kids could attend. No one will account to reject kids for no reason. If one school doesn’t meet your requirements then you can spend your allocated money to whatever system you prefer. School choice is great to keep the educational system competitive and desirable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up.

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice.

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text

Haha and schools will be free to reject you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up.

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice.

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text

Haha and schools will be free to reject you.

DP, sure the schools can reject whoever they want, but the flip side is that they can accept whoever they want, and they don’t need to justify anything to you.

Again for those in the back, at some point FCPS has to decide if it wants UMC kids in the school system or not. If they do, they’re going to have to change the way they disregard these families.

The consistent problem is poor facilities planning and random decisions that come out of the blue with inadequate notice.

You get an addition, someone else gets told there's no money. You get told to expect boundary changes after boundary changes, someone else gets a new school that no one was expecting. You could be an UMC family that benefits or an UMC family that gets screwed.

But there's no real transparency or consistency, and all their BS about doing a "holistic" review isn't changing any of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up.

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice.

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text

Haha and schools will be free to reject you.

DP, sure the schools can reject whoever they want, but the flip side is that they can accept whoever they want, and they don’t need to justify anything to you.

Again for those in the back, at some point FCPS has to decide if it wants UMC kids in the school system or not. If they do, they’re going to have to change the way they disregard these families.

The consistent problem is poor facilities planning and random decisions that come out of the blue with inadequate notice.

You get an addition, someone else gets told there's no money. You get told to expect boundary changes after boundary changes, someone else gets a new school that no one was expecting. You could be an UMC family that benefits or an UMC family that gets screwed.

But there's no real transparency or consistency, and all their BS about doing a "holistic" review isn't changing any of that.

UMC families can typically afford private, so FCPS is competing against those schools for these UMC students. I have consistently heard stability and predictability in school pyramids matter to this cohort, but the threat of boundary changes has the effect of doing the opposite.

Long term, UMC families will continue to migrate to private schools (we’re talking about potentially making the move for our kids). I know others who have already made the switch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up.

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice.

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text

Please stop posting here. Move to the private school forum. It’s so obvious you are posting over and over again because you have a weird style of writing new text before the quoted post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There would be good schools where kids could attend. No one will account to reject kids for no reason. If one school doesn’t meet your requirements then you can spend your allocated money to whatever system you prefer. School choice is great to keep the educational system competitive and desirable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up.

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice.

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text

Haha and schools will be free to reject you.

Again you think the school you "choose" is going to accept your child, you are living in a fantasy land. All you will do is take resources away from schools that are required to teach EVERYONE. And then your precious snowflake that couldn't even be accepted into AAP will get a worse education because the "better" schools get to be selective and the public schools have even less resources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There would be good schools where kids could attend. No one will account to reject kids for no reason. If one school doesn’t meet your requirements then you can spend your allocated money to whatever system you prefer. School choice is great to keep the educational system competitive and desirable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up.

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice.

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text

Haha and schools will be free to reject you.

Again you think the school you "choose" is going to accept your child, you are living in a fantasy land. All you will do is take resources away from schools that are required to teach EVERYONE. And then your precious snowflake that couldn't even be accepted into AAP will get a worse education because the "better" schools get to be selective and the public schools have even less resources.

DP. Is that what this is about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up.

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice.

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text

Haha and schools will be free to reject you.

DP, sure the schools can reject whoever they want, but the flip side is that they can accept whoever they want, and they don’t need to justify anything to you.

Again for those in the back, at some point FCPS has to decide if it wants UMC kids in the school system or not. If they do, they’re going to have to change the way they disregard these families.

The consistent problem is poor facilities planning and random decisions that come out of the blue with inadequate notice.

You get an addition, someone else gets told there's no money. You get told to expect boundary changes after boundary changes, someone else gets a new school that no one was expecting. You could be an UMC family that benefits or an UMC family that gets screwed.

But there's no real transparency or consistency, and all their BS about doing a "holistic" review isn't changing any of that.

UMC families can typically afford private, so FCPS is competing against those schools for these UMC students. I have consistently heard stability and predictability in school pyramids matter to this cohort, but the threat of boundary changes has the effect of doing the opposite.

Long term, UMC families will continue to migrate to private schools (we’re talking about potentially making the move for our kids). I know others who have already made the switch.

Agree. We've got Sandy Anderson at the work session today urging Dr. Reid to discount the views of parents who actually organize to make their voices heard. The hostility is very real, and it's not lost on people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up.

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice.

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text

Haha and schools will be free to reject you.

DP, sure the schools can reject whoever they want, but the flip side is that they can accept whoever they want, and they don’t need to justify anything to you.

Again for those in the back, at some point FCPS has to decide if it wants UMC kids in the school system or not. If they do, they’re going to have to change the way they disregard these families.

The consistent problem is poor facilities planning and random decisions that come out of the blue with inadequate notice.

You get an addition, someone else gets told there's no money. You get told to expect boundary changes after boundary changes, someone else gets a new school that no one was expecting. You could be an UMC family that benefits or an UMC family that gets screwed.

But there's no real transparency or consistency, and all their BS about doing a "holistic" review isn't changing any of that.

UMC families can typically afford private, so FCPS is competing against those schools for these UMC students. I have consistently heard stability and predictability in school pyramids matter to this cohort, but the threat of boundary changes has the effect of doing the opposite.

Long term, UMC families will continue to migrate to private schools (we’re talking about potentially making the move for our kids). I know others who have already made the switch.

Agree. We've got Sandy Anderson at the work session today urging Dr. Reid to discount the views of parents who actually organize to make their voices heard. The hostility is very real, and it's not lost on people.

Are the work sessions available to watch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up.

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice.

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text

Haha and schools will be free to reject you.

DP, sure the schools can reject whoever they want, but the flip side is that they can accept whoever they want, and they don’t need to justify anything to you.

Again for those in the back, at some point FCPS has to decide if it wants UMC kids in the school system or not. If they do, they’re going to have to change the way they disregard these families.

The consistent problem is poor facilities planning and random decisions that come out of the blue with inadequate notice.

You get an addition, someone else gets told there's no money. You get told to expect boundary changes after boundary changes, someone else gets a new school that no one was expecting. You could be an UMC family that benefits or an UMC family that gets screwed.

But there's no real transparency or consistency, and all their BS about doing a "holistic" review isn't changing any of that.

UMC families can typically afford private, so FCPS is competing against those schools for these UMC students. I have consistently heard stability and predictability in school pyramids matter to this cohort, but the threat of boundary changes has the effect of doing the opposite.

Long term, UMC families will continue to migrate to private schools (we’re talking about potentially making the move for our kids). I know others who have already made the switch.

Agree. We've got Sandy Anderson at the work session today urging Dr. Reid to discount the views of parents who actually organize to make their voices heard. The hostility is very real, and it's not lost on people.

Are the work sessions available to watch?

Yes, today's work session just concluded, but it will be archived. Usually they post the archived version on You Tube, etc., within a day or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There would be good schools where kids could attend. No one will account to reject kids for no reason. If one school doesn’t meet your requirements then you can spend your allocated money to whatever system you prefer. School choice is great to keep the educational system competitive and desirable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up.

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice.

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text

Haha and schools will be free to reject you.

Again you think the school you "choose" is going to accept your child, you are living in a fantasy land. All you will do is take resources away from schools that are required to teach EVERYONE. And then your precious snowflake that couldn't even be accepted into AAP will get a worse education because the "better" schools get to be selective and the public schools have even less resources.

Yes! Thank you. All school choice does is divert resources and money away from public schools and into private schools who get to reject anyone they want, teach anything they want and use the money on anything they want. Everybody loses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There would be good schools where kids could attend. No one will account to reject kids for no reason. If one school doesn’t meet your requirements then you can spend your allocated money to whatever system you prefer. School choice is great to keep the educational system competitive and desirable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up.

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice.

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text

Haha and schools will be free to reject you.

Again you think the school you "choose" is going to accept your child, you are living in a fantasy land. All you will do is take resources away from schools that are required to teach EVERYONE. And then your precious snowflake that couldn't even be accepted into AAP will get a worse education because the "better" schools get to be selective and the public schools have even less resources.

Yes! Thank you. All school choice does is divert resources and money away from public schools and into private schools who get to reject anyone they want, teach anything they want and use the money on anything they want. Everybody loses.

Not everybody loses. If the SB continues its poor treatment of UMC families, then we gain with school choice by sending our kids to an engaging environment without the threat of our kids being viewed as a resource to prop up poorer performing schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up.

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice.

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text

Haha and schools will be free to reject you.

DP, sure the schools can reject whoever they want, but the flip side is that they can accept whoever they want, and they don’t need to justify anything to you.

Again for those in the back, at some point FCPS has to decide if it wants UMC kids in the school system or not. If they do, they’re going to have to change the way they disregard these families.

The consistent problem is poor facilities planning and random decisions that come out of the blue with inadequate notice.

You get an addition, someone else gets told there's no money. You get told to expect boundary changes after boundary changes, someone else gets a new school that no one was expecting. You could be an UMC family that benefits or an UMC family that gets screwed.

But there's no real transparency or consistency, and all their BS about doing a "holistic" review isn't changing any of that.

UMC families can typically afford private, so FCPS is competing against those schools for these UMC students. I have consistently heard stability and predictability in school pyramids matter to this cohort, but the threat of boundary changes has the effect of doing the opposite.

Long term, UMC families will continue to migrate to private schools (we’re talking about potentially making the move for our kids). I know others who have already made the switch.

Agree. We've got Sandy Anderson at the work session today urging Dr. Reid to discount the views of parents who actually organize to make their voices heard. The hostility is very real, and it's not lost on people.

Are the work sessions available to watch?

Yes, today's work session just concluded, but it will be archived. Usually they post the archived version on You Tube, etc., within a day or so.

Is this it? 5 hours?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CzzCW2t-k-g&pp=0gcJCdQJAYcqIYzv