FCPS comprehensive boundary review

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do we have the latest projection as to what boundary changes will occur (especially within the Langley pyramid) and when it will be effective?

They seem to still be pushing for the boundary changes to go through at the start of the 2026-2027 school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do we have the latest projection as to what boundary changes will occur (especially within the Langley pyramid) and when it will be effective?

No. For the last time, no one knows anything yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do we have the latest projection as to what boundary changes will occur (especially within the Langley pyramid) and when it will be effective?

No. For the last time, no one knows anything yet.

Actually, everything the school board has put out in writing regarding schedules says the maps will be released this spring before the end of the school year, and the kids will attend their new schools starting Fall of 2026.

Look for the maps between March and June 2025.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do we have the latest projection as to what boundary changes will occur (especially within the Langley pyramid) and when it will be effective?

Langley pyramid are the ones whining every single time….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the Va Governor’s thread:

“It's not the responsibility of the Fairfax Democrats to cower in fear of the consequences of acting on THE BELIEFS AND PRINCIPLES THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER IN THE FIRST PLACE. The consequences of acting on principles of fairness, diversity and acceptance are BETTER SCHOOLS and a BETTER SOCIETY. Fairfax is firmly BLUE. No matter what happens in Richmond, Fairfax should act like it, or else people may as well move to a Republican county.”

So, this teeing up to be quite the issue in the fall. Apparently this rezoning is for BETTER SCHOOLS and a BETTER SOCIETY.

People love it when you tell them what you are entitled to do with their children to make society better. That is a real winning formula.

The pride cometh before the fall. Seems that the school board believes it can act with impunity. Looking forward to working to prove them wrong.

Why should Democrats expect to "fall" for acting like Democrats in a majority Democratic county? That's stupid.

Stupid is forgetting the lessons from Terry mcauliffe’s loss just three short years ago. You may wish the boundary agenda was popular, but it isn’t popular even in deep blue Fairfax. Frankly, it’s this boundary crap that threatens reversion back to purple and red. Anyone who ignores that reveals herself to be a stooopid 🤡.

McAuliffe won Fairfax County. Is the lesson we are supposed to take away that Boutetort should have voted for him in 2021?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do we have the latest projection as to what boundary changes will occur (especially within the Langley pyramid) and when it will be effective?

No. For the last time, no one knows anything yet.

Actually, everything the school board has put out in writing regarding schedules says the maps will be released this spring before the end of the school year, and the kids will attend their new schools starting Fall of 2026.

Look for the maps between March and June 2025.

Can you show where it says “before the end of the school year?” My rep said in her newsletter they are due “In June” meaning they aren’t going to release them any time soon.

If they do release them “before the end of the year” this board is attempting to sneak all this stuff in. They passed the boundary policy in the summer and will attempt to release these maps when people are heading out for vacation. They don’t want blow back and the KNOW this is unpopular. Deny, delay, defend! Is a way of life here in the USA now.

First, deny that they are going to redistrict by saying they are “only looking at the policy not the boundaries right now”

This leads to delay:we don’t have the maps yet, there aren’t any, they are making them and we will release them may -June. I mean by June ish.

Then defend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the Va Governor’s thread:

“It's not the responsibility of the Fairfax Democrats to cower in fear of the consequences of acting on THE BELIEFS AND PRINCIPLES THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER IN THE FIRST PLACE. The consequences of acting on principles of fairness, diversity and acceptance are BETTER SCHOOLS and a BETTER SOCIETY. Fairfax is firmly BLUE. No matter what happens in Richmond, Fairfax should act like it, or else people may as well move to a Republican county.”

So, this teeing up to be quite the issue in the fall. Apparently this rezoning is for BETTER SCHOOLS and a BETTER SOCIETY.

People love it when you tell them what you are entitled to do with their children to make society better. That is a real winning formula.

The pride cometh before the fall. Seems that the school board believes it can act with impunity. Looking forward to working to prove them wrong.

Why should Democrats expect to "fall" for acting like Democrats in a majority Democratic county? That's stupid.

Stupid is forgetting the lessons from Terry mcauliffe’s loss just three short years ago. You may wish the boundary agenda was popular, but it isn’t popular even in deep blue Fairfax. Frankly, it’s this boundary crap that threatens reversion back to purple and red. Anyone who ignores that reveals herself to be a stooopid 🤡.

McAuliffe won Fairfax County. Is the lesson we are supposed to take away that Boutetort should have voted for him in 2021?

Look, we all understand that the extreme left really wants this nuclear reset of boundaries. But when you pretend that everything will be fine for the Dems just because Fairfax went for mcauliffe even though he LOST the election just makes you a fool who is focused on the battle instead of the war.

But hey, keep your head firmly in the sand, might as well join the local dems (Bos and sb) in that practice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do we have the latest projection as to what boundary changes will occur (especially within the Langley pyramid) and when it will be effective?

No. For the last time, no one knows anything yet.

Actually, everything the school board has put out in writing regarding schedules says the maps will be released this spring before the end of the school year, and the kids will attend their new schools starting Fall of 2026.

Look for the maps between March and June 2025.

Can you show where it says “before the end of the school year?” My rep said in her newsletter they are due “In June” meaning they aren’t going to release them any time soon.

If they do release them “before the end of the year” this board is attempting to sneak all this stuff in. They passed the boundary policy in the summer and will attempt to release these maps when people are heading out for vacation. They don’t want blow back and the KNOW this is unpopular. Deny, delay, defend! Is a way of life here in the USA now.

First, deny that they are going to redistrict by saying they are “only looking at the policy not the boundaries right now”

This leads to delay:we don’t have the maps yet, there aren’t any, they are making them and we will release them may -June. I mean by June ish.

Then defend.

You are free to stay in town. Nobody is making you go on vacation. If you value your kids’ education, I would expect you to stay home and start the legal fight against these boundary changes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the Va Governor’s thread:

“It's not the responsibility of the Fairfax Democrats to cower in fear of the consequences of acting on THE BELIEFS AND PRINCIPLES THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER IN THE FIRST PLACE. The consequences of acting on principles of fairness, diversity and acceptance are BETTER SCHOOLS and a BETTER SOCIETY. Fairfax is firmly BLUE. No matter what happens in Richmond, Fairfax should act like it, or else people may as well move to a Republican county.”

So, this teeing up to be quite the issue in the fall. Apparently this rezoning is for BETTER SCHOOLS and a BETTER SOCIETY.

People love it when you tell them what you are entitled to do with their children to make society better. That is a real winning formula.

The pride cometh before the fall. Seems that the school board believes it can act with impunity. Looking forward to working to prove them wrong.

Why should Democrats expect to "fall" for acting like Democrats in a majority Democratic county? That's stupid.

Stupid is forgetting the lessons from Terry mcauliffe’s loss just three short years ago. You may wish the boundary agenda was popular, but it isn’t popular even in deep blue Fairfax. Frankly, it’s this boundary crap that threatens reversion back to purple and red. Anyone who ignores that reveals herself to be a stooopid 🤡.

McAuliffe won Fairfax County. Is the lesson we are supposed to take away that Boutetort should have voted for him in 2021?

I think you’re missing the point. That’s not how votes are counted. It’s not the electoral college, by county.

Fairfax will remain blue, no matter what. The dispositive question in a governors race is just blue Fairfax goes. This boundary review will make Fairfax less blue, just enough for a republican governor to win.

It’s really simple. Pump the brakes on the boundary review, then the issues become just Trump & Musk.

All politics are local. Issues that hit home matter. People invest in their neighborhoods based on the schools. They can’t move now because of interest rates. They are trapped. Changing the boundaries now amid all the chaos, while people feel trapped, has a distinct feel of the school board taking advantage of people who are under duress with no options.

In November, people will send a message. They will tell local politicians, who are only on the school board to climb the political ladder that their local actions to mess with their kids’ schools are a bad move. They will do it in the governor’s race. That’s how Youngkin won.

The FCPS SB has a choice:

1) Put their own, personal, political goals first. Recall that NONE of the school board ran for election on boundary changes, universal pre-k, or the changing middle school to 6-8 to justify the boundary changes and facilitate universal pre-k. People did not vote for them on this basis. The people did NOT ask for this. The current SB would NOT have gotten elected if they stated these as interrelated goals, if elected. These things are being pushed through to give a certain politician who has lost a race at the next level a big badge of honor (“I got UPK”). This path will get a republican elected governor in Virginia in November.

2) Listen to your constituents. Pump the brakes. Stop antagonizing the voters whom you serve during a time of chaos.

Stop taking the “you are so beat down by someone else it doesn’t matter what I do to you, you will hate them more” attitude. Right now, the school board is acting like a friend who witnesses you getting assaulted, runs over to show concern, then steals your wallet as you lie in the street. “Hey, I’m not the one that assaulted you. Between me and them, who do you hate more?” That is not a winning strategy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the Va Governor’s thread:

“It's not the responsibility of the Fairfax Democrats to cower in fear of the consequences of acting on THE BELIEFS AND PRINCIPLES THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER IN THE FIRST PLACE. The consequences of acting on principles of fairness, diversity and acceptance are BETTER SCHOOLS and a BETTER SOCIETY. Fairfax is firmly BLUE. No matter what happens in Richmond, Fairfax should act like it, or else people may as well move to a Republican county.”

So, this teeing up to be quite the issue in the fall. Apparently this rezoning is for BETTER SCHOOLS and a BETTER SOCIETY.

People love it when you tell them what you are entitled to do with their children to make society better. That is a real winning formula.

The pride cometh before the fall. Seems that the school board believes it can act with impunity. Looking forward to working to prove them wrong.

Why should Democrats expect to "fall" for acting like Democrats in a majority Democratic county? That's stupid.

Stupid is forgetting the lessons from Terry mcauliffe’s loss just three short years ago. You may wish the boundary agenda was popular, but it isn’t popular even in deep blue Fairfax. Frankly, it’s this boundary crap that threatens reversion back to purple and red. Anyone who ignores that reveals herself to be a stooopid 🤡.

McAuliffe won Fairfax County. Is the lesson we are supposed to take away that Boutetort should have voted for him in 2021?

I think you’re missing the point. That’s not how votes are counted. It’s not the electoral college, by county.

Fairfax will remain blue, no matter what. The dispositive question in a governors race is just blue Fairfax goes. This boundary review will make Fairfax less blue, just enough for a republican governor to win.

It’s really simple. Pump the brakes on the boundary review, then the issues become just Trump & Musk.

All politics are local. Issues that hit home matter. People invest in their neighborhoods based on the schools. They can’t move now because of interest rates. They are trapped. Changing the boundaries now amid all the chaos, while people feel trapped, has a distinct feel of the school board taking advantage of people who are under duress with no options.

In November, people will send a message. They will tell local politicians, who are only on the school board to climb the political ladder that their local actions to mess with their kids’ schools are a bad move. They will do it in the governor’s race. That’s how Youngkin won.

The FCPS SB has a choice:

1) Put their own, personal, political goals first. Recall that NONE of the school board ran for election on boundary changes, universal pre-k, or the changing middle school to 6-8 to justify the boundary changes and facilitate universal pre-k. People did not vote for them on this basis. The people did NOT ask for this. The current SB would NOT have gotten elected if they stated these as interrelated goals, if elected. These things are being pushed through to give a certain politician who has lost a race at the next level a big badge of honor (“I got UPK”). This path will get a republican elected governor in Virginia in November.

2) Listen to your constituents. Pump the brakes. Stop antagonizing the voters whom you serve during a time of chaos.

Stop taking the “you are so beat down by someone else it doesn’t matter what I do to you, you will hate them more” attitude. Right now, the school board is acting like a friend who witnesses you getting assaulted, runs over to show concern, then steals your wallet as you lie in the street. “Hey, I’m not the one that assaulted you. Between me and them, who do you hate more?” That is not a winning strategy.

Absolutely. Right now my animosity is aimed equally at musk and the school board.

The school board is really doing itself zero favors contributing to the uncertainty. Losing a lot of allies that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do we have the latest projection as to what boundary changes will occur (especially within the Langley pyramid) and when it will be effective?

No. For the last time, no one knows anything yet.

Actually, everything the school board has put out in writing regarding schedules says the maps will be released this spring before the end of the school year, and the kids will attend their new schools starting Fall of 2026.

Look for the maps between March and June 2025.

Can you show where it says “before the end of the school year?” My rep said in her newsletter they are due “In June” meaning they aren’t going to release them any time soon.

If they do release them “before the end of the year” this board is attempting to sneak all this stuff in. They passed the boundary policy in the summer and will attempt to release these maps when people are heading out for vacation. They don’t want blow back and the KNOW this is unpopular. Deny, delay, defend! Is a way of life here in the USA now.

First, deny that they are going to redistrict by saying they are “only looking at the policy not the boundaries right now”

This leads to delay:we don’t have the maps yet, there aren’t any, they are making them and we will release them may -June. I mean by June ish.

Then defend.

You are free to stay in town. Nobody is making you go on vacation. If you value your kids’ education, I would expect you to stay home and start the legal fight against these boundary changes.

Silly comment -“People are heading out for vacation”. Doesn’t mean I am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the Va Governor’s thread:

“It's not the responsibility of the Fairfax Democrats to cower in fear of the consequences of acting on THE BELIEFS AND PRINCIPLES THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER IN THE FIRST PLACE. The consequences of acting on principles of fairness, diversity and acceptance are BETTER SCHOOLS and a BETTER SOCIETY. Fairfax is firmly BLUE. No matter what happens in Richmond, Fairfax should act like it, or else people may as well move to a Republican county.”

So, this teeing up to be quite the issue in the fall. Apparently this rezoning is for BETTER SCHOOLS and a BETTER SOCIETY.

People love it when you tell them what you are entitled to do with their children to make society better. That is a real winning formula.

I just saw that - doubling down on the idiocy, I see! WOW.

Not necessarily a post to take at face value as it could be satire from a right-wing poster.

I doubt it.

Our neighborhood moms FB page exploded into that kind of crazy, far left rants, from friends and neighbors posting with their names attached. It resulted in 4 spin off pages: a no politics page, a resistance political page, a pro DEI page, and a "welcoming and inclusive" page for only people with left wing beliefs created by the person who unilaterally decided to make the page political, then got upset when a half a dozen people called her out (among hundreds of left wing posts like the one above, the dozen or so posts asking people to be kind were virulently attacked.)

I always thought that kind of crazy left wing stuff was libs of tiktok trolling to stir up people, until I saw it on our large community moms page from hundreds of people in our community posting similar posts or worse from their identifiable facebook profiles, while talking simultaneously about how kind and inclusive they are compared to everyone else.

Based on the implosion of our community moms page, I suspect that post is NOT right wing satire.

+100
May I ask what city/town/community you live in?

I'm not the PP, but I recognize this description as being the West Springfield Moms group. If that's not correct, please say!

[Anonymous]

I am hearing a lot of “this is a democratic school board doing what they were elected to do in a democratic county.”

Did I miss something when the SB was up for election?

Did ANY of the current SB members say run on rewriting the boundary policy 8130?

Did ANY of the current SB members run on the biggest boundary redraw in 40 years, affecting every HS pyramid?

Did ANY of the current SB members run on a boundary review based on capacity, no wait: equity, no wait: middles school 6-8 to make room for universal pre-k?

Did ANY of the current SB members even mention any of this during their campaigns?

Stop saying that the SB is doing what it was elected to do because Fairfax is blue. None of these SB members would be in office if they ran on what they are currently doing.

But, maybe I missed something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am hearing a lot of “this is a democratic school board doing what they were elected to do in a democratic county.”

Did I miss something when the SB was up for election?

Did ANY of the current SB members say run on rewriting the boundary policy 8130?

Did ANY of the current SB members run on the biggest boundary redraw in 40 years, affecting every HS pyramid?

Did ANY of the current SB members run on a boundary review based on capacity, no wait: equity, no wait: middles school 6-8 to make room for universal pre-k?

Did ANY of the current SB members even mention any of this during their campaigns?

Stop saying that the SB is doing what it was elected to do because Fairfax is blue. None of these SB members would be in office if they ran on what they are currently doing.

But, maybe I missed something.

They didn’t run on this. Nor did they discuss the movement of 6th grade to middle school in any of the open community feedback sessions and now sneaking that in. This factor will impact every pyramid redraw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the Va Governor’s thread:

“It's not the responsibility of the Fairfax Democrats to cower in fear of the consequences of acting on THE BELIEFS AND PRINCIPLES THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER IN THE FIRST PLACE. The consequences of acting on principles of fairness, diversity and acceptance are BETTER SCHOOLS and a BETTER SOCIETY. Fairfax is firmly BLUE. No matter what happens in Richmond, Fairfax should act like it, or else people may as well move to a Republican county.”

So, this teeing up to be quite the issue in the fall. Apparently this rezoning is for BETTER SCHOOLS and a BETTER SOCIETY.

People love it when you tell them what you are entitled to do with their children to make society better. That is a real winning formula.

The pride cometh before the fall. Seems that the school board believes it can act with impunity. Looking forward to working to prove them wrong.

Why should Democrats expect to "fall" for acting like Democrats in a majority Democratic county? That's stupid.

Stupid is forgetting the lessons from Terry mcauliffe’s loss just three short years ago. You may wish the boundary agenda was popular, but it isn’t popular even in deep blue Fairfax. Frankly, it’s this boundary crap that threatens reversion back to purple and red. Anyone who ignores that reveals herself to be a stooopid 🤡.

McAuliffe won Fairfax County. Is the lesson we are supposed to take away that Boutetort should have voted for him in 2021?

I think you’re missing the point. That’s not how votes are counted. It’s not the electoral college, by county.

Fairfax will remain blue, no matter what. The dispositive question in a governors race is just blue Fairfax goes. This boundary review will make Fairfax less blue, just enough for a republican governor to win.

It’s really simple. Pump the brakes on the boundary review, then the issues become just Trump & Musk.

All politics are local. Issues that hit home matter. People invest in their neighborhoods based on the schools. They can’t move now because of interest rates. They are trapped. Changing the boundaries now amid all the chaos, while people feel trapped, has a distinct feel of the school board taking advantage of people who are under duress with no options.

In November, people will send a message. They will tell local politicians, who are only on the school board to climb the political ladder that their local actions to mess with their kids’ schools are a bad move. They will do it in the governor’s race. That’s how Youngkin won.

The FCPS SB has a choice:

1) Put their own, personal, political goals first. Recall that NONE of the school board ran for election on boundary changes, universal pre-k, or the changing middle school to 6-8 to justify the boundary changes and facilitate universal pre-k. People did not vote for them on this basis. The people did NOT ask for this. The current SB would NOT have gotten elected if they stated these as interrelated goals, if elected. These things are being pushed through to give a certain politician who has lost a race at the next level a big badge of honor (“I got UPK”). This path will get a republican elected governor in Virginia in November.

2) Listen to your constituents. Pump the brakes. Stop antagonizing the voters whom you serve during a time of chaos.

Stop taking the “you are so beat down by someone else it doesn’t matter what I do to you, you will hate them more” attitude. Right now, the school board is acting like a friend who witnesses you getting assaulted, runs over to show concern, then steals your wallet as you lie in the street. “Hey, I’m not the one that assaulted you. Between me and them, who do you hate more?” That is not a winning strategy.

Absolutely. Right now my animosity is aimed equally at musk and the school board.

The school board is really doing itself zero favors contributing to the uncertainty. Losing a lot of allies that way.

Completely agree. We just bought a house in Woodson/Frost/Wakefield pyramid (2.2 miles from it) and are part of federal workforce. Now we are stuck between Doge and FCPS (both claiming they know what is good for everyone). If they move us to Annandale High, our vote will reflect this decision by FCPS.