FCPS comprehensive boundary review

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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.

This was their plan before Covid. I tended a virtual boundary meeting during Covid where parents were given a survey full of confusing questions.

I don’t know why people refuse to remember this. It was not a secret. They didn’t have to say it on the campaigns because they all knew that was on their open to do list.

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.

You are not educated.

Educate yourself.

Rezoning absolutely was the school boards focus during covid.

They hid it during election year, knowing all the people who don't pay attention would vote blue, not knowing the plans that were already in progress.

The omission was intentional, to get elected.

Um, the Republicans were running on “grooming” and 2020 school closures and attacking trans kids, not on opposing rezoning. If it were intentional, the Republicans would have been making noise about it.

DP. Just so you are aware, lots of democrats and former democrats, while generally supportive of trans kids, don’t elevate that issue over their kids being used as pawns by the school board.

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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.

This was their plan before Covid. I tended a virtual boundary meeting during Covid where parents were given a survey full of confusing questions.

I don’t know why people refuse to remember this. It was not a secret. They didn’t have to say it on the campaigns because they all knew that was on their open to do list.

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.

You are not educated.

Educate yourself.

Rezoning absolutely was the school boards focus during covid.

They hid it during election year, knowing all the people who don't pay attention would vote blue, not knowing the plans that were already in progress.

The omission was intentional, to get elected.

Um, the Republicans were running on “grooming” and 2020 school closures and attacking trans kids, not on opposing rezoning. If it were intentional, the Republicans would have been making noise about it.

The "loony" Republicans were right about the school board's plans for "equity" and "nuclear" rezoning, although they were actively smeared as racists and called crazy by democrat activists and Dem party candidates. People who dug down and read the documents found that they "loonies" were telling the truth.

The "loony" Republicans protested certain books being put in school libraries, saying they were targeted at young children, exposing them to sexual themes which are inappropriate. Democrat activists and Dem party candidates accuse them of being "anti gay" and lying.

Maybe parents want to actually take a look at the books that the school board insists must be available in the schools. Find out if the "loony" Republicans turn out to be right about that too.

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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.

How far are you from Annandale? I mean, silly to think boundaries won’t change. And shame on your realtor for not sharing the possible changes and boasting “great school
Pyramid”.

We are 2.1 miles from Woodson and 4.1 miles from Annandale. 2.2 miles from Frost and 5 miles to Poe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This was their plan before Covid. I tended a virtual boundary meeting during Covid where parents were given a survey full of confusing questions.

Interesting. In the meetings I’ve attended for this iteration, it has not been evident at all. Nor can you find it in any of their publicly posted documents.

It is all online.

They started in 2018 and pushed through a survey and virtual meetings during covid.

The response was overwhelmingly against rezoning.

The school board openly blamed right wing trumpers of manipulating the survey responses, then tabled the very unpopular rezoning in 2021 so it would not be an issue in the 2023 election, with the hopes that people were not paying attention the first time.

Here is the FCPS version of events.

https://www.fcps.edu/facilities-planning-future/school-boundary-adjustments/boundary-policy

Click on all the embedded links to get a fuller picture of how this started.

The school board still openly holds the belief that opposition to county wide rezoning was just conservatives and #openfcps types infiltrating the survey to fake widespread opposition to county wide rezoning.

As recently as the October 8, 2024 work session on rezoning linked earlier, the school board discusses and asks Thru how they can prevent people (ie conservatives and those against rezoning) from skewing the results of feedback.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i04W3vvtV4w

I am paraphrasing, of course, but it is all there online in Board Docs and videos for anyone who cares enough about their kids and local governance to pay attention and educate themselves.

For those of you who keep saying rezoning is not about "equity" it is right there on the FCPS historicl timeline of rezoning linked above:

"...The One Fairfax policy, adopted in 2017, commits the county and schools to intentionally consider equity when delivering policies, programs, and services. ..."


We shouldn't have to pay this much attention to our schools which should be focused solely on literacy, writing and math skills, sciences, trades education, citizenship, and literacy recovery for the poor 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th graders who did their formative early education during covid "school" and who now are dreadfully behind and in the case of many, functionally illiterate.

We shouldn't have to become political activists spending hours each week connecting the dots of this school board, just to make sure our kids aren't being used as political pawns for someone else's social justice experiment or another adult from across town's property values.

We deserve school leadership that has laser focus on academics, literacy remediation, and trades/college preparation, managing our 4 billion dollar budget correctly, and a non political school system that keeps to the middle avoids unpopular and radical curriculum and pet projects like equity rezoning and county wide rezoning so they can move 6th to middle school.

But here we are and this is the path our blue no matter who friends neighbors have picked for all of us.

Go down the rabbit hole of FCPS and educate yourself for your kids.

Watch the school boatd meetings and work sessions.

Pressure through emails and phone calls Dunne, McElvan, and Moon. They are all very liberal but the closest to the center that we have. Dunne and McElevan are both very smart and savvy with future political aspirations. Moon is old school Fairfax left of center moderate like we had a decade ago before all the crazy activists took over Fairfax politics. Those 3 are the most likely to break from the blind herd and start standing up for parents... if only because they are the only school board members smart enough to see the risks to their future political aspirations.

The rest are a dangerous combination of ideologues who only talk to other ideologues. They will tell you whatever they need to shut you up, then go forward with their plans with no variance.

If you care about rezoning, educate yourself, starting with those two links above.

Research the crazy stuff posted here and find the first person sources.

You will quickly realize the further you go down the FCPS rabbit hole, through videos and documents, that the crazy sounding posters are actually very well informed, and very accurate.

That is what happened to me. I started researching publicly available FCPS and Ffx County documents and video the crazy stuff posted on this website, thinking that surely the stuff is just craziness by trolls with personal axes to grind. I quickly and shockingly discovered that much of it was not made up trolling, but true.

Now I follow FCPS like a hawk, reading and researching everything.

The school board as a whole does not have our kids best interest in mind. Reid is sweet, soft spoken and smiley, but is not as nice as her public persona indicates.

Please educate yourself fully, make your own conclusions, researching everything crazy posted here, and everything reassuring stated (often falsely) by our school board members.

If you resesrch thoroughly enough, you will become very disappointed with many of our local elected officials, including most of the school board.

Unless, of course, you are an activist yourself. Then you will be thrilled with their priorities.

You're going to be sorely disappointed.

Dunne combines some fairly conservative views on spending with the traditional desire on the part of south county polticians to screw northern and western Fairfax to benefit southeastern Fairfax. He'll happily shift boundaries if it means more kids coming into the schools in that part of the county that people try to avoid.

Moon used to be fairly thoughtful, and for that he was rewarded with the FCDC denying him an endorsement in 2019 and instead endorsing left-wingers like Sizemore-Heizer and Omeish. He learned his lesson, which is to do whatever folks like Karl Frisch want. Occasionally he'll challenge something or someone for a moment, and then find himself unable to complete a sentence. He's weary and over the hill.

McElveen still has political ambitions, and he's smart enough to know that the local Democrats are putting their political careers at risk, but then he can't piss off the other Democrats too much. So he'll probably vote against their redistricting plan, but he'll do so knowing that it has enough votes to pass and without calling them out. He's just trying to carve a middle path that might still get him elected to another office later.

This School Board is going to tear FCPS apart, and it's going to be virtually impossible to put it back together. Its future is bleak.

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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.

How far are you from Annandale? I mean, silly to think boundaries won’t change. And shame on your realtor for not sharing the possible changes and boasting “great school
Pyramid”.

It is illegal for reators to share anything like that about schools.

Have you never bought a house?[/quote]

Every house for sale has a list of the assigned schools on its website. That is not illegal for a realtor to share. Why do you think it is posted? It's not a recommendation or a discussion, it is just a fact.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

How far are you from Annandale? I mean, silly to think boundaries won’t change. And shame on your realtor for not sharing the possible changes and boasting “great school
Pyramid”.

It is illegal for reators to share anything like that about schools.

Have you never bought a house?[/quote]

Every house for sale has a list of the assigned schools on its website. That is not illegal for a realtor to share. Why do you think it is posted? It's not a recommendation or a discussion, it is just a fact.

Guess what pyramids are listed for all the homes at risk of redistricting? I’ll tell you it ain’t the school pyramids that they’ll be redistricted to.

[Anonymous]

They list the schools the property is currebtly zoned to. What else would make sense?

[Anonymous]

There are a lot of well informed people on this board. What are you doing with this insight? How are you educating your neighbors? Do you have a plan for an organized response?

You have me convinced. The proposals will be a nuclear option redraw. They have planned this for years. Many of us will be affected negatively.

So what do we do with this information, right now? Please, I want to get engaged in a positive way.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of well informed people on this board. What are you doing with this insight? How are you educating your neighbors? Do you have a plan for an organized response?

You have me convinced. The proposals will be a nuclear option redraw. They have planned this for years. Many of us will be affected negatively.

So what do we do with this information, right now? Please, I want to get engaged in a positive way.

You need to stop thinking of this as an opportunity for civic activism and recognize you need a disaster plan. That moment has passed. If a hurricane is about to wipe out your house it’s not a good time to be thinking about a new kitchen.

You may want to look at Arlington, Loudoun, or privates.

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Anonymous wrote:They list the schools the property is currebtly zoned to. What else would make sense?

Right. There are posters saying people should be more informed during their house search, but realtors can’t talk about it and Zillow doesn’t disclose anything but the current pyramid.

The sb shills like to say it’s our own fault for not knowing, but there is absolutely no mechanism for knowing to even be concerned in the first place.

Shame on the county and the school board for this bait and switch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of well informed people on this board. What are you doing with this insight? How are you educating your neighbors? Do you have a plan for an organized response?

You have me convinced. The proposals will be a nuclear option redraw. They have planned this for years. Many of us will be affected negatively.

So what do we do with this information, right now? Please, I want to get engaged in a positive way.

At the very least you could reach out to your four school board members and the BRAC member for your schools. You could also reach out to other Dems, eg BoS or state-level politicians.

Lastly, you can speak at upcoming school board meetings.

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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.

This was their plan before Covid. I tended a virtual boundary meeting during Covid where parents were given a survey full of confusing questions.

I don’t know why people refuse to remember this. It was not a secret. They didn’t have to say it on the campaigns because they all knew that was on their open to do list.

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.

You are not educated.

Educate yourself.

Rezoning absolutely was the school boards focus during covid.

They hid it during election year, knowing all the people who don't pay attention would vote blue, not knowing the plans that were already in progress.

The omission was intentional, to get elected.

Um, the Republicans were running on “grooming” and 2020 school closures and attacking trans kids, not on opposing rezoning. If it were intentional, the Republicans would have been making noise about it.

The "loony" Republicans were right about the school board's plans for "equity" and "nuclear" rezoning, although they were actively smeared as racists and called crazy by democrat activists and Dem party candidates. People who dug down and read the documents found that they "loonies" were telling the truth.

The "loony" Republicans protested certain books being put in school libraries, saying they were targeted at young children, exposing them to sexual themes which are inappropriate. Democrat activists and Dem party candidates accuse them of being "anti gay" and lying.

Maybe parents want to actually take a look at the books that the school board insists must be available in the schools. Find out if the "loony" Republicans turn out to be right about that too.

Interesting, but off topic.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of well informed people on this board. What are you doing with this insight? How are you educating your neighbors? Do you have a plan for an organized response?

You have me convinced. The proposals will be a nuclear option redraw. They have planned this for years. Many of us will be affected negatively.

So what do we do with this information, right now? Please, I want to get engaged in a positive way.

You need to stop thinking of this as an opportunity for civic activism and recognize you need a disaster plan. That moment has passed. If a hurricane is about to wipe out your house it’s not a good time to be thinking about a new kitchen.

You may want to look at Arlington, Loudoun, or privates.

Really? That’s the plan? Are you the one who posted useful information or are you one of the people posting “we can do what we want, don’t you dare think you can oppose it” type responses.

If the SB and FCPS have been plugging along, trying to keep things quiet for so long, maybe the remedy is to make as much noise as possible away from SB meetings and in your own community. If people “aren’t paying attention,” maybe now is the time to get them to pay attention.

If this will affect a wide swath of people who don’t see it coming, wouldn’t make sense to let them know it’s coming?

If it’s a hurricane, shouldn’t you tell your neighbors? Get people to work together to deal with the coming storm.

Saying “run away, I’m coming no matter what” is not a credible response from some of the informed posts that I read today. It sounds like a bully trying to intimidate people into compliance without resistance.

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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.

This was their plan before Covid. I tended a virtual boundary meeting during Covid where parents were given a survey full of confusing questions.

I don’t know why people refuse to remember this. It was not a secret. They didn’t have to say it on the campaigns because they all knew that was on their open to do list.

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.

You are not educated.

Educate yourself.

Rezoning absolutely was the school boards focus during covid.

They hid it during election year, knowing all the people who don't pay attention would vote blue, not knowing the plans that were already in progress.

The omission was intentional, to get elected.

Um, the Republicans were running on “grooming” and 2020 school closures and attacking trans kids, not on opposing rezoning. If it were intentional, the Republicans would have been making noise about it.

The "loony" Republicans were right about the school board's plans for "equity" and "nuclear" rezoning, although they were actively smeared as racists and called crazy by democrat activists and Dem party candidates. People who dug down and read the documents found that they "loonies" were telling the truth.

The "loony" Republicans protested certain books being put in school libraries, saying they were targeted at young children, exposing them to sexual themes which are inappropriate. Democrat activists and Dem party candidates accuse them of being "anti gay" and lying.

Maybe parents want to actually take a look at the books that the school board insists must be available in the schools. Find out if the "loony" Republicans turn out to be right about that too.

Interesting, but off topic.

DP, but it isn’t. If voters had dug deeper they would have realized who had a far-left agenda that included widespread boundary changes and who wanted FCPS to return to a focus on the basics. Maybe you would have given more thought to crossing a party line in 2023.

If it felt good voting for a Frisch, Lady, or Sandy Anderson, then you need a wake-up call.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of well informed people on this board. What are you doing with this insight? How are you educating your neighbors? Do you have a plan for an organized response?

You have me convinced. The proposals will be a nuclear option redraw. They have planned this for years. Many of us will be affected negatively.

So what do we do with this information, right now? Please, I want to get engaged in a positive way.

You need to stop thinking of this as an opportunity for civic activism and recognize you need a disaster plan. That moment has passed. If a hurricane is about to wipe out your house it’s not a good time to be thinking about a new kitchen.

You may want to look at Arlington, Loudoun, or privates.

Right. Civic activism is only reserved for causes that certain groups support. Just keep calm and keep quiet while the SB does their grand and just work. Or GTFO of the county. Not likely. I am going to make as much noise as I can and shine as bright of a light as possible on this travesty.

It’s not a natural disaster, it’s a choice that is being made by real people.