FCPS comprehensive boundary review

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS news you choose highlighted WSHS cheer/football teams reading to cardinal forest elementary kids. The kind of community building activity that is great for all involved. And yet, the board wants to tear this apart and redo strict a bunch of kids. Hypocrites all of them.

Cardinal forest is safe though.

FCPS believes that if they post enough cute reels, no one will notice the negative press they keep getting.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, it would leapfrog from Langley to South Lakes / Herndon, and then from McLean or Marshall to Langley.
McLean is overcrowded
Langley is underused
Oakton is at capacity
FCHS is gaining seats, it is having an addition built
Where is it gaining seats from? Open question.
What other schools are underused? Where will they gain students from? OPen question.
You have to look at who needs to have more students, and how needs to lose students.

The problem is that Falls Church homes that kids attend McLean HS will fight tooth and nail against going to FCHS. Doing so will lower the value of their Falls Church homes.

The only area in Falls Church zoned to McLean that might make sense to move to Falls Church is the Timber Lane island and the relevant considerations were discussed earlier in the thread.

Exactly - postal addresses Falls Church from the Timberlane sending area that is an island for Mclean HS. Considering Mclean attendance area has borders with other school divisions there are limited options for what gets changed other than to Langley or Marshall or Falls Church.

The new Graham Road site is in the L shaped Timberlane attendance area-middle of the lines. Old walkable site became a community center. I expect the consultants to notice that one. https://annandaletoday.com/options-considered-for-graham-road/

Mateo Dunne's newsletter pointed out that Whitman is in the Sandburg attendance area.

Mclean has 2 islands and the Shouse change to Langley will be fully implemented in SY2025-26. Haycock and Longfellow's postal address is Falls Church VA.

Post Office addresses can be confusing here. There are houses in Arlington that have McLean addresses and houses in McLean that have Arlington addresses too.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, it would leapfrog from Langley to South Lakes / Herndon, and then from McLean or Marshall to Langley.
McLean is overcrowded
Langley is underused
Oakton is at capacity
FCHS is gaining seats, it is having an addition built
Where is it gaining seats from? Open question.
What other schools are underused? Where will they gain students from? OPen question.
You have to look at who needs to have more students, and how needs to lose students.

The problem is that Falls Church homes that kids attend McLean HS will fight tooth and nail against going to FCHS. Doing so will lower the value of their Falls Church homes.

The only area in Falls Church zoned to McLean that might make sense to move to Falls Church is the Timber Lane island and the relevant considerations were discussed earlier in the thread.

Exactly - postal addresses Falls Church from the Timberlane sending area that is an island for Mclean HS. Considering Mclean attendance area has borders with other school divisions there are limited options for what gets changed other than to Langley or Marshall or Falls Church.

The new Graham Road site is in the L shaped Timberlane attendance area-middle of the lines. Old walkable site became a community center. I expect the consultants to notice that one. https://annandaletoday.com/options-considered-for-graham-road/

Mateo Dunne's newsletter pointed out that Whitman is in the Sandburg attendance area.

Mclean has 2 islands and the Shouse change to Langley will be fully implemented in SY2025-26. Haycock and Longfellow's postal address is Falls Church VA.

Post Office addresses can be confusing here. There are houses in Arlington that have McLean addresses and houses in McLean that have Arlington addresses too.

Exactly. Many of the feature news stories on McLean’s posh real estate and fancy, high-brow culture often use photos taken from Chain Bridge, which actually shows the mansions in the Arlington County portion of McLean’s 22101 zip code. That’s just the most obvious example, but there are many others.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, it would leapfrog from Langley to South Lakes / Herndon, and then from McLean or Marshall to Langley.
McLean is overcrowded
Langley is underused
Oakton is at capacity
FCHS is gaining seats, it is having an addition built
Where is it gaining seats from? Open question.
What other schools are underused? Where will they gain students from? OPen question.
You have to look at who needs to have more students, and how needs to lose students.

The problem is that Falls Church homes that kids attend McLean HS will fight tooth and nail against going to FCHS. Doing so will lower the value of their Falls Church homes.

The only area in Falls Church zoned to McLean that might make sense to move to Falls Church is the Timber Lane island and the relevant considerations were discussed earlier in the thread.

Exactly - postal addresses Falls Church from the Timberlane sending area that is an island for Mclean HS. Considering Mclean attendance area has borders with other school divisions there are limited options for what gets changed other than to Langley or Marshall or Falls Church.

The new Graham Road site is in the L shaped Timberlane attendance area-middle of the lines. Old walkable site became a community center. I expect the consultants to notice that one. https://annandaletoday.com/options-considered-for-graham-road/

Mateo Dunne's newsletter pointed out that Whitman is in the Sandburg attendance area.

Mclean has 2 islands and the Shouse change to Langley will be fully implemented in SY2025-26. Haycock and Longfellow's postal address is Falls Church VA.

Post Office addresses can be confusing here. There are houses in Arlington that have McLean addresses and houses in McLean that have Arlington addresses too.

Any houses in Arlington with a McLean address already go Yorktown and any houses in McLean with an Arlington address already go to McLean. It’s not something that has to be fixed now.

But maybe your point was just that kids don’t always attend schools that seem to correspond to their mailing addresses?

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS news you choose highlighted WSHS cheer/football teams reading to cardinal forest elementary kids. The kind of community building activity that is great for all involved. And yet, the board wants to tear this apart and redo strict a bunch of kids. Hypocrites all of them.

Cardinal forest is safe though.

The school board will tear a community apart to slightly raise test score averages at a different school. It’s vile.

I would hope that parents would vote with their feet (somehow). If boundaries change from HVES-WSHS to Lewis, they’ll refuse to send their DC there and instead go private or flood Gatehouse with demands for pupil placements.

I’d refuse to send my DC to Lewis. My parents did their research and scrimped, saved and relocated so that we could go to the best possible HS pyramid they could afford - and that was:

HVES/Irving/WSHS.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS news you choose highlighted WSHS cheer/football teams reading to cardinal forest elementary kids. The kind of community building activity that is great for all involved. And yet, the board wants to tear this apart and redo strict a bunch of kids. Hypocrites all of them.

Cardinal forest is safe though.

The school board will tear a community apart to slightly raise test score averages at a different school. It’s vile.

I would hope that parents would vote with their feet (somehow). If boundaries change from HVES-WSHS to Lewis, they’ll refuse to send their DC there and instead go private or flood Gatehouse with demands for pupil placements.

I’d refuse to send my DC to Lewis. My parents did their research and scrimped, saved and relocated so that we could go to the best possible HS pyramid they could afford - and that was:

HVES/Irving/WSHS.

Not criticizing your parents here, but that's not how K-12 education is meant to be. Your parents should not have had to sacrifice their quality of life for some real estate investor's profit or seller's retirement fund, just to get you into a decent situation.

Good homes in good schools should not be held hostage by existing homeowners. Ideally FCPS can make every school acceptable so that the next generations are not in the same situation.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS news you choose highlighted WSHS cheer/football teams reading to cardinal forest elementary kids. The kind of community building activity that is great for all involved. And yet, the board wants to tear this apart and redo strict a bunch of kids. Hypocrites all of them.

Cardinal forest is safe though.

The school board will tear a community apart to slightly raise test score averages at a different school. It’s vile.

I would hope that parents would vote with their feet (somehow). If boundaries change from HVES-WSHS to Lewis, they’ll refuse to send their DC there and instead go private or flood Gatehouse with demands for pupil placements.

I’d refuse to send my DC to Lewis. My parents did their research and scrimped, saved and relocated so that we could go to the best possible HS pyramid they could afford - and that was:

HVES/Irving/WSHS.

Not criticizing your parents here, but that's not how K-12 education is meant to be. Your parents should not have had to sacrifice their quality of life for some real estate investor's profit or seller's retirement fund, just to get you into a decent situation.

Good homes in good schools should not be held hostage by existing homeowners. Ideally FCPS can make every school acceptable so that the next generations are not in the same situation.

Kids are not political pawns to move around snd disrupt so the school board can declare a One Fairfax equity victory.

-- The school board openly said at the daytime meeting 2 wwwks ago that One Fairfax is their primary goal for rezoning (not attendance islands, academic improvement, students, community or families) The also said that the chief equity officer will be placed on all committees to insure that One Fairfax controls the process.

This rezoning is not about academic excellence, lower commutes, improving outcomes or student well being. It is 100% about One Fairfax. Go watch the entire meeting online.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS news you choose highlighted WSHS cheer/football teams reading to cardinal forest elementary kids. The kind of community building activity that is great for all involved. And yet, the board wants to tear this apart and redo strict a bunch of kids. Hypocrites all of them.

Cardinal forest is safe though.

The school board will tear a community apart to slightly raise test score averages at a different school. It’s vile.

I would hope that parents would vote with their feet (somehow). If boundaries change from HVES-WSHS to Lewis, they’ll refuse to send their DC there and instead go private or flood Gatehouse with demands for pupil placements.

I’d refuse to send my DC to Lewis. My parents did their research and scrimped, saved and relocated so that we could go to the best possible HS pyramid they could afford - and that was:

HVES/Irving/WSHS.

Not criticizing your parents here, but that's not how K-12 education is meant to be. Your parents should not have had to sacrifice their quality of life for some real estate investor's profit or seller's retirement fund, just to get you into a decent situation.

Good homes in good schools should not be held hostage by existing homeowners. Ideally FCPS can make every school acceptable so that the next generations are not in the same situation.

Kids are not political pawns to move around snd disrupt so the school board can declare a One Fairfax equity victory.

-- The school board openly said at the daytime meeting 2 wwwks ago that One Fairfax is their primary goal for rezoning (not attendance islands, academic improvement, students, community or families) The also said that the chief equity officer will be placed on all committees to insure that One Fairfax controls the process.

This rezoning is not about academic excellence, lower commutes, improving outcomes or student well being. It is 100% about One Fairfax. Go watch the entire meeting online.

For how long will the One Fairfax initiative last? That was all the talk back in 2018.

Also, if the One Fairfax criteria is the driving force for the boundary change, it should be included in the contract with the consultant.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, it would leapfrog from Langley to South Lakes / Herndon, and then from McLean or Marshall to Langley.
McLean is overcrowded
Langley is underused
Oakton is at capacity
FCHS is gaining seats, it is having an addition built
Where is it gaining seats from? Open question.
What other schools are underused? Where will they gain students from? OPen question.
You have to look at who needs to have more students, and how needs to lose students.

The problem is that Falls Church homes that kids attend McLean HS will fight tooth and nail against going to FCHS. Doing so will lower the value of their Falls Church homes.

The only area in Falls Church zoned to McLean that might make sense to move to Falls Church is the Timber Lane island and the relevant considerations were discussed earlier in the thread.

Exactly - postal addresses Falls Church from the Timberlane sending area that is an island for Mclean HS. Considering Mclean attendance area has borders with other school divisions there are limited options for what gets changed other than to Langley or Marshall or Falls Church.

The new Graham Road site is in the L shaped Timberlane attendance area-middle of the lines. Old walkable site became a community center. I expect the consultants to notice that one. https://annandaletoday.com/options-considered-for-graham-road/

Mateo Dunne's newsletter pointed out that Whitman is in the Sandburg attendance area.

Mclean has 2 islands and the Shouse change to Langley will be fully implemented in SY2025-26. Haycock and Longfellow's postal address is Falls Church VA.

Post Office addresses can be confusing here. There are houses in Arlington that have McLean addresses and houses in McLean that have Arlington addresses too.

Any houses in Arlington with a McLean address already go Yorktown and any houses in McLean with an Arlington address already go to McLean. It’s not something that has to be fixed now.

But maybe your point was just that kids don’t always attend schools that seem to correspond to their mailing addresses?

DP. The families whose house straddle the county border typically have a choice of school district.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS news you choose highlighted WSHS cheer/football teams reading to cardinal forest elementary kids. The kind of community building activity that is great for all involved. And yet, the board wants to tear this apart and redo strict a bunch of kids. Hypocrites all of them.

Cardinal forest is safe though.

The school board will tear a community apart to slightly raise test score averages at a different school. It’s vile.

I would hope that parents would vote with their feet (somehow). If boundaries change from HVES-WSHS to Lewis, they’ll refuse to send their DC there and instead go private or flood Gatehouse with demands for pupil placements.

I’d refuse to send my DC to Lewis. My parents did their research and scrimped, saved and relocated so that we could go to the best possible HS pyramid they could afford - and that was:

HVES/Irving/WSHS.

Not criticizing your parents here, but that's not how K-12 education is meant to be. Your parents should not have had to sacrifice their quality of life for some real estate investor's profit or seller's retirement fund, just to get you into a decent situation.

Good homes in good schools should not be held hostage by existing homeowners. Ideally FCPS can make every school acceptable so that the next generations are not in the same situation.

Kids are not political pawns to move around snd disrupt so the school board can declare a One Fairfax equity victory.

-- The school board openly said at the daytime meeting 2 wwwks ago that One Fairfax is their primary goal for rezoning (not attendance islands, academic improvement, students, community or families) The also said that the chief equity officer will be placed on all committees to insure that One Fairfax controls the process.

This rezoning is not about academic excellence, lower commutes, improving outcomes or student well being. It is 100% about One Fairfax. Go watch the entire meeting online.

For how long will the One Fairfax initiative last? That was all the talk back in 2018.

Also, if the One Fairfax criteria is the driving force for the boundary change, it should be included in the contract with the consultant.

Boundaries based on socioeconomic characteristics or school population was explicitly removed from the policy. Access to programming, capacity, proximity, and transportation are the top criteria. Even the secondary criteria has nothing to do with One Fairfax. Any models that are generated using One Fairfax criteria will be heavily massaged to fall inline with the actual policy. I foresee parents with stop watches measuring their school commute down to the mm to defend their school assignments.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS news you choose highlighted WSHS cheer/football teams reading to cardinal forest elementary kids. The kind of community building activity that is great for all involved. And yet, the board wants to tear this apart and redo strict a bunch of kids. Hypocrites all of them.

Cardinal forest is safe though.

The school board will tear a community apart to slightly raise test score averages at a different school. It’s vile.

I would hope that parents would vote with their feet (somehow). If boundaries change from HVES-WSHS to Lewis, they’ll refuse to send their DC there and instead go private or flood Gatehouse with demands for pupil placements.

I’d refuse to send my DC to Lewis. My parents did their research and scrimped, saved and relocated so that we could go to the best possible HS pyramid they could afford - and that was:

HVES/Irving/WSHS.

Not criticizing your parents here, but that's not how K-12 education is meant to be. Your parents should not have had to sacrifice their quality of life for some real estate investor's profit or seller's retirement fund, just to get you into a decent situation.

Good homes in good schools should not be held hostage by existing homeowners. Ideally FCPS can make every school acceptable so that the next generations are not in the same situation.

Kids are not political pawns to move around snd disrupt so the school board can declare a One Fairfax equity victory.

-- The school board openly said at the daytime meeting 2 wwwks ago that One Fairfax is their primary goal for rezoning (not attendance islands, academic improvement, students, community or families) The also said that the chief equity officer will be placed on all committees to insure that One Fairfax controls the process.

This rezoning is not about academic excellence, lower commutes, improving outcomes or student well being. It is 100% about One Fairfax. Go watch the entire meeting online.

For how long will the One Fairfax initiative last? That was all the talk back in 2018.

Also, if the One Fairfax criteria is the driving force for the boundary change, it should be included in the contract with the consultant.

Boundaries based on socioeconomic characteristics or school population was explicitly removed from the policy. Access to programming, capacity, proximity, and transportation are the top criteria. Even the secondary criteria has nothing to do with One Fairfax. Any models that are generated using One Fairfax criteria will be heavily massaged to fall inline with the actual policy. I foresee parents with stop watches measuring their school commute down to the mm to defend their school assignments.

I would be happy for them to apply One Fairfax if it meant our school had equitable facilities on par with other schools, or that they at least had a plan to make that happen eventually. That part usually gets ignored in their zeal to redistrict our kids.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS news you choose highlighted WSHS cheer/football teams reading to cardinal forest elementary kids. The kind of community building activity that is great for all involved. And yet, the board wants to tear this apart and redo strict a bunch of kids. Hypocrites all of them.

Cardinal forest is safe though.

The school board will tear a community apart to slightly raise test score averages at a different school. It’s vile.

I would hope that parents would vote with their feet (somehow). If boundaries change from HVES-WSHS to Lewis, they’ll refuse to send their DC there and instead go private or flood Gatehouse with demands for pupil placements.

I’d refuse to send my DC to Lewis. My parents did their research and scrimped, saved and relocated so that we could go to the best possible HS pyramid they could afford - and that was:

HVES/Irving/WSHS.

Not criticizing your parents here, but that's not how K-12 education is meant to be. Your parents should not have had to sacrifice their quality of life for some real estate investor's profit or seller's retirement fund, just to get you into a decent situation.

Good homes in good schools should not be held hostage by existing homeowners. Ideally FCPS can make every school acceptable so that the next generations are not in the same situation.

Kids are not political pawns to move around snd disrupt so the school board can declare a One Fairfax equity victory.

-- The school board openly said at the daytime meeting 2 wwwks ago that One Fairfax is their primary goal for rezoning (not attendance islands, academic improvement, students, community or families) The also said that the chief equity officer will be placed on all committees to insure that One Fairfax controls the process.

This rezoning is not about academic excellence, lower commutes, improving outcomes or student well being. It is 100% about One Fairfax. Go watch the entire meeting online.

For how long will the One Fairfax initiative last? That was all the talk back in 2018.

Also, if the One Fairfax criteria is the driving force for the boundary change, it should be included in the contract with the consultant.

Boundaries based on socioeconomic characteristics or school population was explicitly removed from the policy. Access to programming, capacity, proximity, and transportation are the top criteria. Even the secondary criteria has nothing to do with One Fairfax. Any models that are generated using One Fairfax criteria will be heavily massaged to fall inline with the actual policy. I foresee parents with stop watches measuring their school commute down to the mm to defend their school assignments.

I would be happy for them to apply One Fairfax if it meant our school had equitable facilities on par with other schools, or that they at least had a plan to make that happen eventually. That part usually gets ignored in their zeal to redistrict our kids.

Yeah, that is not what One Fairfax is about.

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Anonymous wrote:If they do not take steps to bolster Lewis’s enrollment this entire boundary exercise will have been a fiasco.

Perhaps they could actually fix whatever underlying issues exist at the school to make it undesirable for many families, rather than use FCPS kids as pawns in their equity game.

Come on, everyone knows the issue at Lewis is the overwhelming number of poor, ESL students. That is why people avoid it. Not some terrible teaching, administration, or facilities. Elephant in the room.

Well, yes - of course. I think the PP was pointing out that until those issues are fixed - the ones that dare not be spoken about - nothing is going to change.
DP

That level of concentrated poverty would primarily be fixed through large-scale, long-term changes (to things like zoning, economic development, placing AH in wealthier areas, etc.) that FCPS has no real power or influence over anyway. The only thing they can control are the school boundaries, to react to the realities on the ground, and create the best possible situation for the largest number of county residents as possible given the circumstances. The "they" the PP referred to as needing to fix underlying issues is an entirely different "they" that FCPS can't afford to wait for.

Aww look at you standing up for the school board. Funny thing is that administraton berates and bullies teachers when these kids don’t perform up to standard. Yet, when it is the school board, all of a sudden it is out of their hands.
The school board needs to stand up for these kids too. The same way they expect teachers to.

Huh? I said nothing of the school board. I pointed out that concentrated poverty arises as a result of housing/zoning/economic development/etc. policy, and if we have a desire to address concentrated poverty, we should direct our efforts to affect change in those domains. The only ways I can conceive of that FCPS (or the school board) could significantly reduce concentrated poverty in some schools is through large-scale redistricting with an emphasis on bussing, and/or shifting from neighborhood schools entirely to program-based schools, or some other major reprogramming effort, and I don't think >99% of us see those kinds of options as desirable. Do you?

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS news you choose highlighted WSHS cheer/football teams reading to cardinal forest elementary kids. The kind of community building activity that is great for all involved. And yet, the board wants to tear this apart and redo strict a bunch of kids. Hypocrites all of them.

Cardinal forest is safe though.

The school board will tear a community apart to slightly raise test score averages at a different school. It’s vile.

I would hope that parents would vote with their feet (somehow). If boundaries change from HVES-WSHS to Lewis, they’ll refuse to send their DC there and instead go private or flood Gatehouse with demands for pupil placements.

I’d refuse to send my DC to Lewis. My parents did their research and scrimped, saved and relocated so that we could go to the best possible HS pyramid they could afford - and that was:

HVES/Irving/WSHS.

Not criticizing your parents here, but that's not how K-12 education is meant to be. Your parents should not have had to sacrifice their quality of life for some real estate investor's profit or seller's retirement fund, just to get you into a decent situation.

Good homes in good schools should not be held hostage by existing homeowners. Ideally FCPS can make every school acceptable so that the next generations are not in the same situation.

Kids are not political pawns to move around snd disrupt so the school board can declare a One Fairfax equity victory.

-- The school board openly said at the daytime meeting 2 wwwks ago that One Fairfax is their primary goal for rezoning (not attendance islands, academic improvement, students, community or families) The also said that the chief equity officer will be placed on all committees to insure that One Fairfax controls the process.

This rezoning is not about academic excellence, lower commutes, improving outcomes or student well being. It is 100% about One Fairfax. Go watch the entire meeting online.

For how long will the One Fairfax initiative last? That was all the talk back in 2018.

Also, if the One Fairfax criteria is the driving force for the boundary change, it should be included in the contract with the consultant.

Boundaries based on socioeconomic characteristics or school population was explicitly removed from the policy. Access to programming, capacity, proximity, and transportation are the top criteria. Even the secondary criteria has nothing to do with One Fairfax. Any models that are generated using One Fairfax criteria will be heavily massaged to fall inline with the actual policy. I foresee parents with stop watches measuring their school commute down to the mm to defend their school assignments.

I would be happy for them to apply One Fairfax if it meant our school had equitable facilities on par with other schools, or that they at least had a plan to make that happen eventually. That part usually gets ignored in their zeal to redistrict our kids.

Yeah, that is not what One Fairfax is about.

Maybe it should be, since it’s actually something they could accomplish if they focused on things within their control as opposed to lofty aspirations.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS news you choose highlighted WSHS cheer/football teams reading to cardinal forest elementary kids. The kind of community building activity that is great for all involved. And yet, the board wants to tear this apart and redo strict a bunch of kids. Hypocrites all of them.

Cardinal forest is safe though.

The school board will tear a community apart to slightly raise test score averages at a different school. It’s vile.

I would hope that parents would vote with their feet (somehow). If boundaries change from HVES-WSHS to Lewis, they’ll refuse to send their DC there and instead go private or flood Gatehouse with demands for pupil placements.

I’d refuse to send my DC to Lewis. My parents did their research and scrimped, saved and relocated so that we could go to the best possible HS pyramid they could afford - and that was:

HVES/Irving/WSHS.

Not criticizing your parents here, but that's not how K-12 education is meant to be. Your parents should not have had to sacrifice their quality of life for some real estate investor's profit or seller's retirement fund, just to get you into a decent situation.

Good homes in good schools should not be held hostage by existing homeowners. Ideally FCPS can make every school acceptable so that the next generations are not in the same situation.

Kids are not political pawns to move around snd disrupt so the school board can declare a One Fairfax equity victory.

-- The school board openly said at the daytime meeting 2 wwwks ago that One Fairfax is their primary goal for rezoning (not attendance islands, academic improvement, students, community or families) The also said that the chief equity officer will be placed on all committees to insure that One Fairfax controls the process.

This rezoning is not about academic excellence, lower commutes, improving outcomes or student well being. It is 100% about One Fairfax. Go watch the entire meeting online.

For how long will the One Fairfax initiative last? That was all the talk back in 2018.

Also, if the One Fairfax criteria is the driving force for the boundary change, it should be included in the contract with the consultant.

It is.

Watch the meeting in full

They talk about One Fairfax near the end.