FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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Sandy Anderson should literally be muzzled at this point. She is a walking legal liability for FCPS.

This is what happens when you elect really stupid, chatty idiots with no brains and even less filter to public office.

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In truth, it is much easier to post links to meetings through already existing email pathways and websites than it is to create those pathways in communities that have no HOA. In a non-HOA Community that would involve door knocking, social media posting across multiple sites, getting personal contact information etc just to get to the point where a community has an email list. I understand people’s defensiveness in me pointing that out, but it isn’t “rude” to say so. It is the truth. Saying things like “we encourage all communities to participate” when many can’t organize as easily as you do is disingenuous.

I've been watching this thread because I went through this with my kids. I do live in tract housing with an HOA. Our HOA was not involved at all. However, our PTA parents became seriously engaged and formed groups to fight a change.

However, at that time, they were not taking elementary neighborhoods and splitting them as they are now. That hits closer to home. Anyone who cannot see that either has an agenda or has never had children.
I don't blame anyone who wants to keep the status quo.

Anyone who does not want to keep the status quo is likely someone who has no attachment to their current community and school.

The status quo isn't really working for Lewis, boundaries or academics. Yet nothing is being done. People on here talk about community, but Lewis really has no strong community. I would wager the neighborhoods that feed it have some of the highest private, homeschool, or pupil placement rates. Not a lot of Lewis graduate signs up right now.

Sandy Anderson stated at 2 public meetings this past week that she intends to move Rolling Valley/Key/Lewis families out of Lewis/Key and into Irving/WSHS.

So Lewis will lose around a couple dozen students

* Thru has Rolling Valley/Key/Lewis neighborhoods staying put for middle and high school, moving their split feeder to Saratoga Elementary, which is exactly the same distance from that neighborhood as Rolling Valley, eliminating the Rolling Valley split feeder and keeping all those students together through high school.

Thru's map shows 106 RV zoned Lewis students, around 15-16 per grade, so not a small number of students. Over 4 grades, that is at least 60 students potentially moving to WSHS, more once the neighborhood becomes WSHS.

Sandy Anderson says it is only 10 students per grade, which doesn't match with Thru's numbers.

Something is wrong with their numbers.

wow, really interesting. I thought Anderson's whole goal was to move more families to Lewis, not move them out of Lewis into the already over-crowded (according to her) West Springfield. Sometime back around 2015, probably when Daventry got moved, those RV families really tried to get rezoned to Irving/WS and couldn't make it happen. Geographically, they are one of the few places where it does make sense to just switch the elementary and leave them at Key/Lewis. I don't get why Anderson would support them moving to WSHS.
Rolling Valley doesn't need to lose students, though. I think they'd be at about 76% capacity if those kids go to Saratoga. And the "program capacity", which looks on the high side for RVES, is because they have a large special ed and autism program and those kids utilize a lot of space. The general grade classrooms are really dwindling. Many of the grades only have two classrooms. Even losing 10-16 kids per grade would really reduced enrollment of the core classroom grades.

Her goal seems to be move HV out of WSHS. Not sure how seeing as that is too many kids for SC schools. And she indicated Lewis is just a rumor but do we trust any of them?

They can move kids out of HV to SC, but it would create a split feeder out of HV as SCMS/HS can’t accommodate an entire new feeder elementary. Especially not one as large as HV. Also the only way to do it that wouldn’t be a lopsided split feeder would be to send almost everyone south of the parkway to SC and that’s kind of a big ask.

Also Thru’s proposals no longer have the Hagel Circle attendance island at Hayfield, so although that area is higher on the elementary students than middle/high, it does keep more students at South County than the school board’s maps had in their presentations. Something to keep in mind unless the SB’s maps are adopted in the end.

Exactly. She said the maps were a mistake and HV is supposed to move as a school so where does she propose they all go if they don’t do a split feeder?

Lewis. It’s coming.

But it was never even put forth as a proposal in any of the maps. Not from the SB/BRAC in the meeting PDFs, not from Thru in their maps. It has just never materialized as a possibility. I mean … they could technically spring anything on us at any time, but some/all of HVES to Lewis at this point would be a massive change out of left field.

I agree, but something is supposed to happen to the Hunt Valley in its entirety.

When asked publicly about the proposed Hunt Valley split feeder this past week, both Dr. Reid and Sandy Anderson stated that the Hunt Valley split feeder was not supposed to happen, it was a mistake, and Hunt Valley is supposed to move together. I also heard the they said something similar to the BRAC committee, that there were mistakes in this latest map, proposing split feeders that were not supposed to be on it, of schools that were supposed to move together.

If the school board has no advance knowlege of any of the rezoning plans, then how can they publicly claim that a school, in this case Hunt Valley but perhaps others from different parts of the county, is a "mistake" and is supposed to move as one unit?

I don’t trust or believe anything that most of the SB members are saying about the process at this point. They seem completely uninterested in it almost? Like, to the point of not even knowing what has been proposed so far and being surprised that the community members are looking at things so closely. Only Dunne has seemed on top of things as far as the boundary changes go. Basically what I’m saying is Anderson sounds like she has zero clue what’s going on and is not a reliable source.

I recall seeing somewhere, maybe the Dunne Dispatch, that Mateo Dunne held meetings for the pyramids in his zone, before Thru started releasing proposals.

This would align with him being a lawyer who actually reads what he signs. Does anyone else recall Dunne holding the required meetings?

Yes, he went around to any school or community group/HOA that requested him in his pyramid and gave a presentation. This was back around the time of the initial feedback meetings - the small group ones where you wrote on a big piece of paper and they “collected your feedback.”

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In truth, it is much easier to post links to meetings through already existing email pathways and websites than it is to create those pathways in communities that have no HOA. In a non-HOA Community that would involve door knocking, social media posting across multiple sites, getting personal contact information etc just to get to the point where a community has an email list. I understand people’s defensiveness in me pointing that out, but it isn’t “rude” to say so. It is the truth. Saying things like “we encourage all communities to participate” when many can’t organize as easily as you do is disingenuous.

I've been watching this thread because I went through this with my kids. I do live in tract housing with an HOA. Our HOA was not involved at all. However, our PTA parents became seriously engaged and formed groups to fight a change.

However, at that time, they were not taking elementary neighborhoods and splitting them as they are now. That hits closer to home. Anyone who cannot see that either has an agenda or has never had children.
I don't blame anyone who wants to keep the status quo.

Anyone who does not want to keep the status quo is likely someone who has no attachment to their current community and school.

The status quo isn't really working for Lewis, boundaries or academics. Yet nothing is being done. People on here talk about community, but Lewis really has no strong community. I would wager the neighborhoods that feed it have some of the highest private, homeschool, or pupil placement rates. Not a lot of Lewis graduate signs up right now.

Sandy Anderson stated at 2 public meetings this past week that she intends to move Rolling Valley/Key/Lewis families out of Lewis/Key and into Irving/WSHS.

So Lewis will lose around a couple dozen students

* Thru has Rolling Valley/Key/Lewis neighborhoods staying put for middle and high school, moving their split feeder to Saratoga Elementary, which is exactly the same distance from that neighborhood as Rolling Valley, eliminating the Rolling Valley split feeder and keeping all those students together through high school.

Thru's map shows 106 RV zoned Lewis students, around 15-16 per grade, so not a small number of students. Over 4 grades, that is at least 60 students potentially moving to WSHS, more once the neighborhood becomes WSHS.

Sandy Anderson says it is only 10 students per grade, which doesn't match with Thru's numbers.

Something is wrong with their numbers.

wow, really interesting. I thought Anderson's whole goal was to move more families to Lewis, not move them out of Lewis into the already over-crowded (according to her) West Springfield. Sometime back around 2015, probably when Daventry got moved, those RV families really tried to get rezoned to Irving/WS and couldn't make it happen. Geographically, they are one of the few places where it does make sense to just switch the elementary and leave them at Key/Lewis. I don't get why Anderson would support them moving to WSHS.
Rolling Valley doesn't need to lose students, though. I think they'd be at about 76% capacity if those kids go to Saratoga. And the "program capacity", which looks on the high side for RVES, is because they have a large special ed and autism program and those kids utilize a lot of space. The general grade classrooms are really dwindling. Many of the grades only have two classrooms. Even losing 10-16 kids per grade would really reduced enrollment of the core classroom grades.

Her goal seems to be move HV out of WSHS. Not sure how seeing as that is too many kids for SC schools. And she indicated Lewis is just a rumor but do we trust any of them?

They can move kids out of HV to SC, but it would create a split feeder out of HV as SCMS/HS can’t accommodate an entire new feeder elementary. Especially not one as large as HV. Also the only way to do it that wouldn’t be a lopsided split feeder would be to send almost everyone south of the parkway to SC and that’s kind of a big ask.

Also Thru’s proposals no longer have the Hagel Circle attendance island at Hayfield, so although that area is higher on the elementary students than middle/high, it does keep more students at South County than the school board’s maps had in their presentations. Something to keep in mind unless the SB’s maps are adopted in the end.

Exactly. She said the maps were a mistake and HV is supposed to move as a school so where does she propose they all go if they don’t do a split feeder?

Lewis. It’s coming.

But it was never even put forth as a proposal in any of the maps. Not from the SB/BRAC in the meeting PDFs, not from Thru in their maps. It has just never materialized as a possibility. I mean … they could technically spring anything on us at any time, but some/all of HVES to Lewis at this point would be a massive change out of left field.

I agree, but something is supposed to happen to the Hunt Valley in its entirety.

When asked publicly about the proposed Hunt Valley split feeder this past week, both Dr. Reid and Sandy Anderson stated that the Hunt Valley split feeder was not supposed to happen, it was a mistake, and Hunt Valley is supposed to move together. I also heard the they said something similar to the BRAC committee, that there were mistakes in this latest map, proposing split feeders that were not supposed to be on it, of schools that were supposed to move together.

If the school board has no advance knowlege of any of the rezoning plans, then how can they publicly claim that a school, in this case Hunt Valley but perhaps others from different parts of the county, is a "mistake" and is supposed to move as one unit?

I don’t trust or believe anything that most of the SB members are saying about the process at this point. They seem completely uninterested in it almost? Like, to the point of not even knowing what has been proposed so far and being surprised that the community members are looking at things so closely. Only Dunne has seemed on top of things as far as the boundary changes go. Basically what I’m saying is Anderson sounds like she has zero clue what’s going on and is not a reliable source.

I recall seeing somewhere, maybe the Dunne Dispatch, that Mateo Dunne held meetings for the pyramids in his zone, before Thru started releasing proposals.

This would align with him being a lawyer who actually reads what he signs. Does anyone else recall Dunne holding the required meetings?

Yes, he went around to any school or community group/HOA that requested him in his pyramid and gave a presentation. This was back around the time of the initial feedback meetings - the small group ones where you wrote on a big piece of paper and they “collected your feedback.”

That is what I thought.

Does this mean that the only pyramids that met the public notice requirenents are Matteo Dunn'a pyramids, plus the ones that had Phase 1 & 2 meetings?

It appears over 1/3 of the pyramids violated policy 8130s first requirements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just wait for the new maps to come out in the fall moving Langley to Herndon. If you think this page is ugly now…

This is fear-mongering. Thru put out their initial scenario draft maps to the public. In the meantime, they were going through BRAC feedback and incorporate that into the new tool.

Does it suck that areas like Timberlane were completely blind-sided between the two exercises? Absolutely.

Now that they are getting community feedback (although via poor processing), nothing more “nuclear” will occur.

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Anonymous wrote:Just wait for the new maps to come out in the fall moving Langley to Herndon. If you think this page is ugly now…

This is fear-mongering. Thru put out their initial scenario draft maps to the public. In the meantime, they were going through BRAC feedback and incorporate that into the new tool.

Does it suck that areas like Timberlane were completely blind-sided between the two exercises? Absolutely.

Now that they are getting community feedback (although via poor processing), nothing more “nuclear” will occur.

What makes you think that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sandy Anderson should literally be muzzled at this point. She is a walking legal liability for FCPS.

This is what happens when you elect really stupid, chatty idiots with no brains and even less filter to public office.

We’re a Hunt Valley family and I at least appreciate that’s she’s given a glimpse of what we’re up against. She doesn’t appear to care much about some of her constituents that’s for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Sandy Anderson should literally be muzzled at this point. She is a walking legal liability for FCPS.

This is what happens when you elect really stupid, chatty idiots with no brains and even less filter to public office.

We’re a Hunt Valley family and I at least appreciate that’s she’s given a glimpse of what we’re up against. She doesn’t appear to care much about some of her constituents that’s for sure.

I'm sure it makes you feel better if your SB member is engaging with you.

But she isn't really callng the shots. She's creating legal risk for how FCPS is conducting this boundary review and, at the end of the day, she's such a babbing idiot that other School Board members may be disinclined to defer to her with respect to schools in her district.

The entire point of this review was supposedly to have indepedent third party experts making impartial recommendations and then refining them based on community feedback. And then chatty Sandy comes along and claims the consultant is getting things wrong and she'll get to personally dictate what happens.

What a fool.

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In truth, it is much easier to post links to meetings through already existing email pathways and websites than it is to create those pathways in communities that have no HOA. In a non-HOA Community that would involve door knocking, social media posting across multiple sites, getting personal contact information etc just to get to the point where a community has an email list. I understand people’s defensiveness in me pointing that out, but it isn’t “rude” to say so. It is the truth. Saying things like “we encourage all communities to participate” when many can’t organize as easily as you do is disingenuous.

I've been watching this thread because I went through this with my kids. I do live in tract housing with an HOA. Our HOA was not involved at all. However, our PTA parents became seriously engaged and formed groups to fight a change.

However, at that time, they were not taking elementary neighborhoods and splitting them as they are now. That hits closer to home. Anyone who cannot see that either has an agenda or has never had children.
I don't blame anyone who wants to keep the status quo.

Anyone who does not want to keep the status quo is likely someone who has no attachment to their current community and school.

The status quo isn't really working for Lewis, boundaries or academics. Yet nothing is being done. People on here talk about community, but Lewis really has no strong community. I would wager the neighborhoods that feed it have some of the highest private, homeschool, or pupil placement rates. Not a lot of Lewis graduate signs up right now.

Sandy Anderson stated at 2 public meetings this past week that she intends to move Rolling Valley/Key/Lewis families out of Lewis/Key and into Irving/WSHS.

So Lewis will lose around a couple dozen students

* Thru has Rolling Valley/Key/Lewis neighborhoods staying put for middle and high school, moving their split feeder to Saratoga Elementary, which is exactly the same distance from that neighborhood as Rolling Valley, eliminating the Rolling Valley split feeder and keeping all those students together through high school.

Thru's map shows 106 RV zoned Lewis students, around 15-16 per grade, so not a small number of students. Over 4 grades, that is at least 60 students potentially moving to WSHS, more once the neighborhood becomes WSHS.

Sandy Anderson says it is only 10 students per grade, which doesn't match with Thru's numbers.

Something is wrong with their numbers.

wow, really interesting. I thought Anderson's whole goal was to move more families to Lewis, not move them out of Lewis into the already over-crowded (according to her) West Springfield. Sometime back around 2015, probably when Daventry got moved, those RV families really tried to get rezoned to Irving/WS and couldn't make it happen. Geographically, they are one of the few places where it does make sense to just switch the elementary and leave them at Key/Lewis. I don't get why Anderson would support them moving to WSHS.
Rolling Valley doesn't need to lose students, though. I think they'd be at about 76% capacity if those kids go to Saratoga. And the "program capacity", which looks on the high side for RVES, is because they have a large special ed and autism program and those kids utilize a lot of space. The general grade classrooms are really dwindling. Many of the grades only have two classrooms. Even losing 10-16 kids per grade would really reduced enrollment of the core classroom grades.

Her goal seems to be move HV out of WSHS. Not sure how seeing as that is too many kids for SC schools. And she indicated Lewis is just a rumor but do we trust any of them?

They can move kids out of HV to SC, but it would create a split feeder out of HV as SCMS/HS can’t accommodate an entire new feeder elementary. Especially not one as large as HV. Also the only way to do it that wouldn’t be a lopsided split feeder would be to send almost everyone south of the parkway to SC and that’s kind of a big ask.

Also Thru’s proposals no longer have the Hagel Circle attendance island at Hayfield, so although that area is higher on the elementary students than middle/high, it does keep more students at South County than the school board’s maps had in their presentations. Something to keep in mind unless the SB’s maps are adopted in the end.

Exactly. She said the maps were a mistake and HV is supposed to move as a school so where does she propose they all go if they don’t do a split feeder?

Lewis. It’s coming.

But it was never even put forth as a proposal in any of the maps. Not from the SB/BRAC in the meeting PDFs, not from Thru in their maps. It has just never materialized as a possibility. I mean … they could technically spring anything on us at any time, but some/all of HVES to Lewis at this point would be a massive change out of left field.

I agree, but something is supposed to happen to the Hunt Valley in its entirety.

When asked publicly about the proposed Hunt Valley split feeder this past week, both Dr. Reid and Sandy Anderson stated that the Hunt Valley split feeder was not supposed to happen, it was a mistake, and Hunt Valley is supposed to move together. I also heard the they said something similar to the BRAC committee, that there were mistakes in this latest map, proposing split feeders that were not supposed to be on it, of schools that were supposed to move together.

If the school board has no advance knowlege of any of the rezoning plans, then how can they publicly claim that a school, in this case Hunt Valley but perhaps others from different parts of the county, is a "mistake" and is supposed to move as one unit?

I don’t trust or believe anything that most of the SB members are saying about the process at this point. They seem completely uninterested in it almost? Like, to the point of not even knowing what has been proposed so far and being surprised that the community members are looking at things so closely. Only Dunne has seemed on top of things as far as the boundary changes go. Basically what I’m saying is Anderson sounds like she has zero clue what’s going on and is not a reliable source.

The board members have had to deal with a lot of grief from this process and most are frankly sick of it. I’ve heard that Sandy Anderson has burned a lot of capital with her antics and the school board isn’t particularly inclined to go along with her future suggestions on any boundary moves beyond what is currently in the maps.

So she’s just talking out her ass about the RV split feeder staying at RV and then getting into Irving/WS? I thought the RV split staying as it is (RV, Key, Lewis) was on one of Thru’s scenario maps, but I don’t recall seeing RV/irving/WS no split feeder on any map … but she’s out here saying it … but are all the other SB members out there like “ok Sandy let’s get you to bed?” 🤔😂

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In truth, it is much easier to post links to meetings through already existing email pathways and websites than it is to create those pathways in communities that have no HOA. In a non-HOA Community that would involve door knocking, social media posting across multiple sites, getting personal contact information etc just to get to the point where a community has an email list. I understand people’s defensiveness in me pointing that out, but it isn’t “rude” to say so. It is the truth. Saying things like “we encourage all communities to participate” when many can’t organize as easily as you do is disingenuous.

I've been watching this thread because I went through this with my kids. I do live in tract housing with an HOA. Our HOA was not involved at all. However, our PTA parents became seriously engaged and formed groups to fight a change.

However, at that time, they were not taking elementary neighborhoods and splitting them as they are now. That hits closer to home. Anyone who cannot see that either has an agenda or has never had children.
I don't blame anyone who wants to keep the status quo.

Anyone who does not want to keep the status quo is likely someone who has no attachment to their current community and school.

The status quo isn't really working for Lewis, boundaries or academics. Yet nothing is being done. People on here talk about community, but Lewis really has no strong community. I would wager the neighborhoods that feed it have some of the highest private, homeschool, or pupil placement rates. Not a lot of Lewis graduate signs up right now.

Sandy Anderson stated at 2 public meetings this past week that she intends to move Rolling Valley/Key/Lewis families out of Lewis/Key and into Irving/WSHS.

So Lewis will lose around a couple dozen students

* Thru has Rolling Valley/Key/Lewis neighborhoods staying put for middle and high school, moving their split feeder to Saratoga Elementary, which is exactly the same distance from that neighborhood as Rolling Valley, eliminating the Rolling Valley split feeder and keeping all those students together through high school.

Thru's map shows 106 RV zoned Lewis students, around 15-16 per grade, so not a small number of students. Over 4 grades, that is at least 60 students potentially moving to WSHS, more once the neighborhood becomes WSHS.

Sandy Anderson says it is only 10 students per grade, which doesn't match with Thru's numbers.

Something is wrong with their numbers.

wow, really interesting. I thought Anderson's whole goal was to move more families to Lewis, not move them out of Lewis into the already over-crowded (according to her) West Springfield. Sometime back around 2015, probably when Daventry got moved, those RV families really tried to get rezoned to Irving/WS and couldn't make it happen. Geographically, they are one of the few places where it does make sense to just switch the elementary and leave them at Key/Lewis. I don't get why Anderson would support them moving to WSHS.
Rolling Valley doesn't need to lose students, though. I think they'd be at about 76% capacity if those kids go to Saratoga. And the "program capacity", which looks on the high side for RVES, is because they have a large special ed and autism program and those kids utilize a lot of space. The general grade classrooms are really dwindling. Many of the grades only have two classrooms. Even losing 10-16 kids per grade would really reduced enrollment of the core classroom grades.

Her goal seems to be move HV out of WSHS. Not sure how seeing as that is too many kids for SC schools. And she indicated Lewis is just a rumor but do we trust any of them?

She has told constituents that Lewis is just a rumor.

I wonder if what will happen in the end will be that entire neighborhood between Gambrill and Hooes that currently goes to Sangster on one side and Hunt Valley on the other, will be completely rezoned to Newington Forest/SoCo, all of Rolling Valley moved from Key and Lewis to Irving and West Springfield, and the rest of Hunt Valley including the other side of Gambrill, stays at Hunt Valley/Irving/WSHS. That would still be very unpopular, but I could see Anderson splitting the baby in half, so to speak.

From her public posts so far, she does not appesr to be very inclined to support the Hunt Valley community already at WSHS. They are a large voting constituency, but do not appear to be a priority at this point.

Does the Franconia rep for Lewis (Marcia St. John Cunning) know that her stupid colleague Sandy Anderson is out there telling people they are going to take even further steps to gut Lewis's enrollment?

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Anonymous wrote:Sandy Anderson should literally be muzzled at this point. She is a walking legal liability for FCPS.

This is what happens when you elect really stupid, chatty idiots with no brains and even less filter to public office.

This is not helpful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sandy Anderson should literally be muzzled at this point. She is a walking legal liability for FCPS.

This is what happens when you elect really stupid, chatty idiots with no brains and even less filter to public office.

This is not helpful.

It is, however, the reality.

This entire process was structured so that the School Board could try to get past the perception that individual School Board members were initiating decisions about boundaries or unilaterally making decisions about boundaries for schools within their district.

Instead, the idea was to have the Superintendent work with third-party consultants to develop recommendations and solicit community feedback before they were presented to the Board, at which time the Board could weigh in.

Meeting were closed, and information not made available, to the public based on the assertion that the consultant and the advisory commitee were advising Reid, not the School Board. Decisions were made that "proposals" could be released without prior meetings in the affected pyramids, as otherwise required under SB policy, because they were merely a consultant's proposals and not the Board's.

And then you have stupid, chatty Sandy Anderson coming along and acting as the consultant is not doing what SHE wants and that she's going to make sure they align with HER priorities. It's exactly what this process was NOT supposed to be about.

She needs to step back and shut up for a while, and the sooner somewhat tells her about the legal risk she is creating and the turmoil she is generating, the better.

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Anonymous wrote:Sandy Anderson should literally be muzzled at this point. She is a walking legal liability for FCPS.

This is what happens when you elect really stupid, chatty idiots with no brains and even less filter to public office.

This is not helpful.

It is, however, the reality.

This entire process was structured so that the School Board could try to get past the perception that individual School Board members were initiating decisions about boundaries or unilaterally making decisions about boundaries for schools within their district.

Instead, the idea was to have the Superintendent work with third-party consultants to develop recommendations and solicit community feedback before they were presented to the Board, at which time the Board could weigh in.

Meeting were closed, and information not made available, to the public based on the assertion that the consultant and the advisory commitee were advising Reid, not the School Board. Decisions were made that "proposals" could be released without prior meetings in the affected pyramids, as otherwise required under SB policy, because they were merely a consultant's proposals and not the Board's.

And then you have stupid, chatty Sandy Anderson coming along and acting as the consultant is not doing what SHE wants and that she's going to make sure they align with HER priorities. It's exactly what this process was NOT supposed to be about.

She needs to step back and shut up for a while, and the sooner somewhat tells her about the legal risk she is creating and the turmoil she is generating, the better.

I don't know anything about Anderson, but I have seen this School Board -and other FCPS School Boards in action. They will have the final decision and it will be what they want. Reid and Thru will give them an "out" if it suits their agenda. If not, they will do what they want and say that they are listening to community feedback--whether it is what the community wants or not. There may also be some backroom deals with other members when different SB districts are involved. This is far from over.

[Anonymous]

FCPS website said that they have incorporated Coates into the comprehensive review. But, it also says they are making adjustments for 25-26. Does anyone know what these adjustments are?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sandy Anderson should literally be muzzled at this point. She is a walking legal liability for FCPS.

This is what happens when you elect really stupid, chatty idiots with no brains and even less filter to public office.

This is not helpful.

It is, however, the reality.

This entire process was structured so that the School Board could try to get past the perception that individual School Board members were initiating decisions about boundaries or unilaterally making decisions about boundaries for schools within their district.

Instead, the idea was to have the Superintendent work with third-party consultants to develop recommendations and solicit community feedback before they were presented to the Board, at which time the Board could weigh in.

Meeting were closed, and information not made available, to the public based on the assertion that the consultant and the advisory commitee were advising Reid, not the School Board. Decisions were made that "proposals" could be released without prior meetings in the affected pyramids, as otherwise required under SB policy, because they were merely a consultant's proposals and not the Board's.

And then you have stupid, chatty Sandy Anderson coming along and acting as the consultant is not doing what SHE wants and that she's going to make sure they align with HER priorities. It's exactly what this process was NOT supposed to be about.

She needs to step back and shut up for a while, and the sooner somewhat tells her about the legal risk she is creating and the turmoil she is generating, the better.

I don't know anything about Anderson, but I have seen this School Board -and other FCPS School Boards in action. They will have the final decision and it will be what they want. Reid and Thru will give them an "out" if it suits their agenda. If not, they will do what they want and say that they are listening to community feedback--whether it is what the community wants or not. There may also be some backroom deals with other members when different SB districts are involved. This is far from over.

Of course, but for this process to have any integrity you can't have Anderson free-range blabbing right now. All she is doing is creating confusion and undermining Reid. They are losing some staff over this crap already and she's not helpful at all.

The members with some brains are trying to maintain some distance from Thru's proposals, not claiming they aren't consistent with what Thru was supposed to have done or what they personally want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS website said that they have incorporated Coates into the comprehensive review. But, it also says they are making adjustments for 25-26. Does anyone know what these adjustments are?

It's probably the ES equivalent of removing lockers from crowded MS/HS. Oh, and cleaning up some of the trailers. They aren't changing the boundaries for this fall.