FCPS comprehensive boundary review

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is ranting and raving on this 477 page thread going to solve anything?

Has anyone considered starting an email campaign to let our elected board members know how we feel about this change?

You’d be better off starting new recall petitions and reaching out to the state AG’s office to make sure they actually get dealt with properly this time.

I agree.

Miyares should get involved.

There is more than enough documented and video rezonung for equity and One Fairfax talk by the superintendent and school board that this would be a slam dunk for miyares.

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Anonymous wrote:A huge issue will be whether there will be grandfathering and, if so, the extent. Every HS boundary change for decades has had generous grandfathering of students already in high school.

If they change course and limit grandfathering to just rising seniors, or eliminate it, all hell will break loose. And those with the most responsibility in that scenario will be Rachna Sizemore-Heizer, Ilryong Moon, and Kyle McDaniel, who in their Governance Committee roles refused to commit to grandfathering when overseeing the revisions to Policy 8130. Their names would live in infamy in the county for many years to come.

How can they offer grandfathering for any significant portion of kids while also reevaluating boundaries every 5 years? It would be a constant state of turmoil.

Not to mention the exorbitant cost of double buses for even one year. Im not against liberal grandfathering, just pointing out that their supposed transportation savings end up largely negative in that scenario.

Across the country, grandfathering occurs for only senior classes because 1) of college admissions logistics, support and admission and 2) they have access to a driver’s license and car transportation to not relay on a bus budget. Sometimes juniors are included, but not as guaranteed and the entire county needs to adapt to account for capacity.

So what you are saying is that you don't have any understanding of college admissions or applications.

Junior year is the most critical grade for college applications.

For that reason alone, all juniors should be frozen at their zoned schools until graduation.

Rezoning should start with rising freshmen.

Current high school students should be locked into place and not affected by rzoning.

You think FCPS is going to go through all of this and then allow ALL current grades to stay? No chance. Would be a logistics nightmare on top of everything else that is trying to be moved.

I agree that Junior year is pivotal but we’d be lucky to get them grandfathered in. Same with sibling attendance.

When they last did county-wide changes in the mid 80s they grandfathered all current MS and HS students. They limited the volume of boundary changes to make sure they could grandfather.

These idiots should have started by accepted that constraint but they were too power drunk on the idea of changing lots of boundaries to agree to that.

If they don’t grandfather all kids already at a MS or HS they can kiss their political careers goodbye and many Democrats on the BOS can forget about getting re-elected as well. Any Republican with even an ounce of sense will know not to talk about library books or trans issues and focus on how the Democrats cared so little about families and were so arrogant. Politicians like Alcorn, Walkinshaw, Bierman, and Palchik will all see their political fortunes go up in smoke.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is ranting and raving on this 477 page thread going to solve anything?

Has anyone considered starting an email campaign to let our elected board members know how we feel about this change?

The school board and Dr. Reid know how unpopular this rezoning is.

They don't care. Watch the meetings.

For them, it is all about One Fairfax. Plus test scores, attendance stats and behavior issues don't tell the whole story because that 3 school is just as good if not better than your 7, 8 or 9 school. And kids are resiliant. This will be a hood life lesdon for the high schoolers to deal with adversity. (I think it was the Springfield Rep who said this when she argued against grandfathering high school stidents.)

They are firmly committed to the One Fairfax Equity for all train. As recently as last week Reid stated that they are staying the course on Equity, even if they lose federal funding. If Reid and the school board don't care about losing millions of dollars over equity, then they certainly don't care about the concerns of their constituents.

This is their democratic battle cry against republicans (evenmoreso the Trump/Musk extremes across the river)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is ranting and raving on this 477 page thread going to solve anything?

Has anyone considered starting an email campaign to let our elected board members know how we feel about this change?

The school board and Dr. Reid know how unpopular this rezoning is.

They don't care. Watch the meetings.

For them, it is all about One Fairfax. Plus test scores, attendance stats and behavior issues don't tell the whole story because that 3 school is just as good if not better than your 7, 8 or 9 school. And kids are resiliant. This will be a hood life lesdon for the high schoolers to deal with adversity. (I think it was the Springfield Rep who said this when she argued against grandfathering high school stidents.)

They are firmly committed to the One Fairfax Equity for all train. As recently as last week Reid stated that they are staying the course on Equity, even if they lose federal funding. If Reid and the school board don't care about losing millions of dollars over equity, then they certainly don't care about the concerns of their constituents.

This is their democratic battle cry against republicans (evenmoreso the Trump/Musk extremes across the river)

The fallacy on their part is thinking local Democrats can get away with anything because the antipathy towards Trump and Musk is their insurance policy.

We can dislike them just as much and they are even closer. Unless they clean up their act it’s going to be a classic FAFO.

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How can they do this when they have IB/AP? Do they have any sense at all?

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Have they actually said One Fairfax is the goal or is this just assumptions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have they actually said One Fairfax is the goal or is this just assumptions?

Assumptions. Right up there with the “it’s all about EqUiTy” claim.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Have they actually said One Fairfax is the goal or is this just assumptions?

Assumptions. Right up there with the “it’s all about EqUiTy” claim.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Have they actually said One Fairfax is the goal or is this just assumptions?

Assumptions. Right up there with the “it’s all about EqUiTy” claim.

They said it on video, multiple times, including the October 8th planning meeting.

The FCPS webpage linked earlier explaining the history of this rezoning process also explicitly states rezoning is to align with One Fairfax and Equity

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Anonymous wrote:Have they actually said One Fairfax is the goal or is this just assumptions?

Assumptions. Right up there with the “it’s all about EqUiTy” claim.

See slide 25. https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/20250221_SuperintendentBoundaryReviewAdvisoryCommitteePresentation.pdf

When they don't think you are looking, equity gets top billing. It doesn't appear in the actual 8130 policy or responses the SB has given about the leaked maps. But that is 100% the criteria they are using.

[Anonymous]

The FCPS email sent this afternoon included:

Dr. Reid welcomed the group and reminded the committee that at the next meetings the first two scenarios will be reviewed, to include evaluation of 6th grade in middle school, and a scenario that assumes all students attend the school that they are zoned to attend based on the current boundary.

Can more details on these scenarios be found anywhere? In order to have "all students" attend the school they are zoned for, they'd have to eliminate AAP centers, magnet programs, language immersion, and other programs. I didn't think any of that was on the table. Am I wrong?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The FCPS email sent this afternoon included:

Dr. Reid welcomed the group and reminded the committee that at the next meetings the first two scenarios will be reviewed, to include evaluation of 6th grade in middle school, and a scenario that assumes all students attend the school that they are zoned to attend based on the current boundary.

Can more details on these scenarios be found anywhere? In order to have "all students" attend the school they are zoned for, they'd have to eliminate AAP centers, magnet programs, language immersion, and other programs. I didn't think any of that was on the table. Am I wrong?

That seemed very ambiguous to me too - like keeping all boundaries the same but sending 6th to middle? Is that what they meant?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Have they actually said One Fairfax is the goal or is this just assumptions?

Assumptions. Right up there with the “it’s all about EqUiTy” claim.

Here is a copy and paste from an earlier post to make it easier for you to find it, since you seem to be a bit misinformed.

There is also a post with time stamps of the October 8th meeting if you care to look for it.


"...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/faci...ary-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/wat...04W3vvtV4w

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. ..."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have they actually said One Fairfax is the goal or is this just assumptions?

Assumptions. Right up there with the “it’s all about EqUiTy” claim.

See slide 25. https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/20250221_SuperintendentBoundaryReviewAdvisoryCommitteePresentation.pdf

When they don't think you are looking, equity gets top billing. It doesn't appear in the actual 8130 policy or responses the SB has given about the leaked maps. But that is 100% the criteria they are using.

In other words “I have no evidence, links, statements, documents, or proof, but trust me.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have they actually said One Fairfax is the goal or is this just assumptions?

Assumptions. Right up there with the “it’s all about EqUiTy” claim.

They said it on video, multiple times, including the October 8th planning meeting.

The FCPS webpage linked earlier explaining the history of this rezoning process also explicitly states rezoning is to align with One Fairfax and Equity

If they said it “multiple times” you should have no problem telling everyone the time marks so we can all see it for ourselves. Go ahead.