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Anonymous
https://www.fcps.edu/academics/academic-overview/advanced-academic-programs-aap/fcps-va-local-plan-gifted Go read that linked to pdf |
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Anonymous
VA requires them to identify and provide for GT, that PDF explains how they do exactly that. I'd prefer an actual GT for the top 5% or so rather than mild acceleration for 20-30%,but thats how FCPS handles it. |
Anonymous
These things aren't mutually exclusive. Something could be speculative now. And something could be revealed later as a "proposal" that ends up difficult to derail or challenge. What seems to be happening on this thread, though, is people intentionally putting out false information to try and build opposition now to something that may never be proposed. |
Anonymous
| Public education has gone from the race to no where to the race to mediocrity. That is all the school board will achieve with boundary changes. |
Anonymous
Do you have specific, inside information as to which information that has been posted is “false information”? Are you part of every internal, informal discussion that will inform the proposal? Please, do tell. You could set many minds at ease. Sure, there are no “maps”, no “formal proposals”, but does that mean the shifts referenced in these “maps” have not, and will not be discussed at Gatehouse? For example, please feel free to state, unequivocally “There is no consideration, whatsoever, that Forestville will shift to Herndon High. It is off the table.” And then tell us all how you could possibly know this. As long as all the options remain on the table, the tone and tenor coming out of FCPS (“Shut up and take it, you entitled snowflakes!”) will get people very concerned. |
Anonymous
I guess, but isn't it better to shape an outcome rather than fight something already decided? The goal should be to proactively shape policy instead of just reacting. |
Anonymous
I’m more curious about how many times some of these rabid anti boundary change folks have posted. I suspect it’s fewer than ten great falls people who have contributed paged and pages. |
Anonymous
| I’m just glad this isn’t going to be pushed through to start next year. |
Anonymous
And those few posters cloned themselves and came out in force at each of the region meetings to overwhelmingly oppose boundary changes, amiright? That’s why thousands showed up at those meetings. But we’ll trust you, it’s just a few great falls folks. Your echo chamber lives on. Don’t be dense. |
Anonymous
I completely agree. That discussion a few pages ago about Ft. Belvoir and military families was definitely Great Falls trolls. All that talk about West Springfield and Lewis sounds very Great Falls, too. 
I’m sure you’re right. This is just super rich, spoiled people in Great Falls complaining.
Do realize what a bad name this attitude gives public servants? Coming off as all-powerful and using a public position to pit yourself against the “entitled rich” using the people’s money? You’re a bully. I’m not rich. I care about my kids. You aren’t fighting for me or my family with this boundary change. You are just drunk on power and spending everyone else’s money. |
Anonymous
No, of course not. But we saw a poster claiming to have information from "leaked maps," only for FCPS to specifically deny the existence of any such maps. And some of the purported boundary changes "leaked" did not bear any scrutiny, such as the assertion that FCPS would move three new elementary schools into the Lewis pyramid without moving anyone out of Lewis, which the school clearly doesn't have the capacity to accommodate. I don't know who might be looking to move Forestville to Herndon. There are people posting here who clearly would or would not like that to happen, but they don't speak for FCPS, nor do I. I know some Great Falls folks grilled Robyn Lady about it at length last year, and she got pulled into hypothetical discussions, but does that mean they will actually propose that and just leave Langley with four ES feeders (Churchill Road, Spring Hill, Colvin Run, and Great Falls)? That would seem odd to me, but I don't really know. I also don't know the basis for your assertion that "the tone and tenor coming out of FCPS" is "Shut up and take it, you entitled snowflakes." They spend a lot of time emphasizing that they don't have specific proposals yet, and that there will be plenty of opportunity for feedback later. Those of us who have dealt with FCPS on other issues know that the feedback is often ignored but the tone isn't as demeaning as you suggest. |
Anonymous
Absolutely, but if your vehicle to do that is to put out false information to stir up people you lose credibilty when the false information gets debunked. On the other hand, if your approach is to say, for example, "We don't know whether FCPS plans to propose moving Forestville to Herndon, but here are X reasons why we believe such a move, if proposed, would be unwise," you would have more credibility, even if the decision-makers ultimately disagreed with you. |
Anonymous
The SB member posted that the information is inaccurate--that there had been no "formal" plans. Noted on here earlier, that is not a denial. |
Anonymous
The original post with supposed map info clearly said that the information was from a different source and that it should be taken with a grain of salt. Fcps can shout to the hills that there aren’t maps yet, but id be willing to bet a large sum of money that the conversations about what schools to move have taken place and are taking place at gatehouse, even as they have BRAC members, toiling away. |