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Anonymous
This is simply not true. If people knew this was what would happen they would not have voted for them. Just because it was on your to do list, Gatehouse, does not mean the people who voted (and pay your salary) knew that you planned to push this through. |
Anonymous
Why is your vote conditional on whether your house happens to make it out unscathed or not? They are already attempting this and it is going to happen to others if not you. |
Anonymous
Reid has stated as recently as this past wedk that the maps will be released this spring before the end of the school year. Implemention of rezoning has always been Fall 2026. Current freshmen, 8th and 7th graders will switch schools mid high school in fall of 2026 if their neighborhood is chosen for rezoning. |
Anonymous
Pay attention to this exchange. Consider how much of the push-back in the form of “you knew about this” and “you voted for this” and “this is fine” and “your snowflakes are not special” and “people want this boundary changes” actually comes from parents and neighbors vs. Gatehouse. It is almost always Gatehouse. They leaked the proposed changes. They are having a blast sticking their thumb in your eye. What good is being really powerful if you can’t gloat? |
Anonymous
I will not stop this fight until this “process” is not applied to anyone. I am united with all of Fairfax. Boundary changes are a necessary part of any large school system. But they must be conducted fairly, openly, and on a basis consented to by those whom it affects. No one ran on changes to 1830. This process is not transparent. This will not stand. |
Anonymous
Again, can you please link to that statement? Because officially summer starts June 20th and school ends June 18th. So if they release June 19th the day after kids get out it is still spring. And yes, I can see them doing this. |
Anonymous
Ooops wrong calendar  . It is even easier for FCPS. The kids get out June 11th so anytime between June 12-20, they can release the maps “in June in the spring” and school will be over for the year so there will be less immediate focus on it.
It is like everyone does bad things on Fridays to get out of the press cycle, but FCPS can have the entire summer instead of just a weekend. They will take it because they realize how unpopular this is. |
Anonymous
You should pay more attention. The policy change to emphasize equity/a "One Fairfax lens was in process by the previous 10-2 Democrat-Republican board in 2018/19. They backed off temporarily because they were deathly afraid of losing seats to Republicans. Instead, the public in 2019 kicked the last two Republicans off the board and gave the Democrats 100% control. They felt, and stated, that their equity goals were supported by the public. They were all over social media with "One Fairfax won!" And they were right. In 2020 they were busy during covid renaming schools, lowering standards at TJ to change demographics and keeping schools closed--partially because spread was higher in the lower-income pyramids and it wouldn't be "equitable" to allow kids in Springfield, Langley, McLean etc. to go to school and keep Lewis, Annandale, etc. closed. Later on they got back to boundary stuff. Some parents got together and tried recalling them, but that went nowhere for a few reasons (at least one of them, the official in charge refused to initiate because reasons). Again in 2023 the Democrats, endorsed by the previous boards and trusted to carry on their work, made a clean sweep of the school board. Just because their plans (for the boundaries at least) were temporarily paused doesn't mean they didn't still have plans. They never publicly renounced their plans to redraw the county, they never stated that they were canceling the boundary policy process that would give them cover for frequent boundary changes. They had to delete "race" as a consideration from their boundary policy because the lawyers told them they can't do that. The INTENT was there. Do you think the intent disappears or that they will simply do what they wanted to do and call it something else? No they didn't explicitly run on it, but no one who has lived here in the past 6 years can say they weren't warned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM4AfGQqTWE The democrats have done many things according to their vision of "Equity." If you vote for Democrats, you have to take the aspects you like and the aspects you don't. |
Anonymous
look everyone, it’s a school board shill. “You dumb dumbs should have known we were going to go after your kids because a differentschool board five years earlier sought to.” It’s a gross gaslight attempt. |
Anonymous
People would have voted for candidates who wanted to ban books if they knew the democrats were planning to overhaul the boundaries? |
Anonymous
You are truly delusional if you think people won’t vote based on this. I don’t know why you think calling people racists and “buffet Democrats” is going to work out well for you. Have you not learned anything from the last governor election in VA and the 2024 presidential election? Over and over people said they felt like Democrats were not listening to their concerns and that Democrats were speaking condescendingly to them and telling them what they should value and how they’re a bad person if they don’t vote blue. IT. DOESN’T. WORK. It’s so very frustrating to watch Democrats repeat the same mistakes that have handed them multiple losses. Get out of your bubble and realize you need more than the super lefty people to vote blue. Stop lecturing people on what their values should be and start LISTENING to what people are telling you. |
Anonymous
The same party. The new board endorsed by the old. No reversal on One Fairfax boundary policy revision or reversal on the plan to redraw the map from scratch, just a pause. Some of the same members that were on the board in 2018/19 when they were actively working on the policy. Some of the same members who were on the board in early 2020 when they continued working on it after election and pre-covid. If a commercial developer breaks ground on a new project but has to pause it for cash flow problems and some changes in management, do people who didn't want the project act shocked when they move forward just because "it's been a few years and there's a new CFO and when they did their PR release saying that the company was excited to go into the future they didn't SPECIFICALLY mention that among their projects they were still going to continue building this burger joint on the corner! No. The project was in the pipeline, and it gets worked on by the new people UNLESS it was specifically cancelled. It's not hard. |
Anonymous
Or the gun guy or some of the other unhinged maniacs. The problem is that the people yelling “you voted for this” supported all that nonsense and are butthurt that their lunatics lost, so they’re trying to radicalize parents with (in many cases) reasonable concerns and drown out actual productive discourse. |
Anonymous
+1000. This! Right here. Who is doing the lecturing? Is it the SB? I am beginning to wonder if all of this isn’t just being pushed by folks inside FCPS who spam multiple SBs. They were there to push through One Fairfax, and it is their personal career goal to see it implemented. The current SB should take notice. Whoever is pushing this either does not understand or DGAF about how state politics works. |
Anonymous
For what it’s worth, I can see the newly renovated WFES getting converted to a middle school if this 6th grade move is true. A new Annandale pyramid could be really nice with that as a feeder and surrounding elementary schools/neighborhoods boosting. |