What schools do you think will be in new region 6

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense to separate Edison like that. Don’t edison and Lewis share feeder schools?

It should be Lewis, edison and hayfield.

Lewis shares an ES feeder with West Springfield. However Lewis pyramid kids must go to Twain inside Edison for middle school AAP. It's just all a mess anyway and nothing will be perfect.

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Anonymous wrote:It does not make sense to me to have the Tysons high schools (Madison, Langley, Marshall, and McLean) to be in three different regions. Tysons is slated to grow considerably in the next decade and those boundaries are sure to be adjusted.

That has nothing to do with region structure.

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Not a fan of Reid or this SB, but the regions will always have "overlap." It is not possible to have distinct regions when you have heavily populated areas. For example, Madison is about a mile from Oakton--and most people consider it to be Vienna--not Tysons. Go in the other direction from Madison and you would have South Lakes.

You could play this game all across Fairfax County. There will always be overlap.

What are you blathering about? Region 5 isn’t even contiguous now. Do the morons running FCPS now even know where their schools are located?

Why do you think regions need to be contiguous? It doesn’t matter where the schools are.

If you assume the regions are just a jobs program for ex-principals who “failed up” and other equally mediocre types, you’re probably right.

Otherwise, the FCPS clusters and regions have always been contiguous by design. If you want these people spending time in the field, it helps that they aren’t traveling from, say, the Westfield pyramid to the Marshall pyramid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense to separate Edison like that. Don’t edison and Lewis share feeder schools?

It should be Lewis, edison and hayfield.

True.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense to separate Edison like that. Don’t edison and Lewis share feeder schools?

It should be Lewis, edison and hayfield.

Lewis shares an ES feeder with West Springfield. However Lewis pyramid kids must go to Twain inside Edison for middle school AAP. It's just all a mess anyway and nothing will be perfect.

That is a simple fix. Eliminate the split feeder for Rolling Valley and make it 100% zoned for WSHS.

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Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense to separate Edison like that. Don’t edison and Lewis share feeder schools?

It should be Lewis, edison and hayfield.

Lewis shares an ES feeder with West Springfield. However Lewis pyramid kids must go to Twain inside Edison for middle school AAP. It's just all a mess anyway and nothing will be perfect.

That is a simple fix. Eliminate the split feeder for Rolling Valley and make it 100% zoned for WSHS.

Are you seriously talking about pulling more kids out of Lewis?

Yeah, if they do that, maybe they should assign all of Keene Mill (besides the island) to Lewis while they’re at it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense to separate Edison like that. Don’t edison and Lewis share feeder schools?

It should be Lewis, edison and hayfield.

Lewis shares an ES feeder with West Springfield. However Lewis pyramid kids must go to Twain inside Edison for middle school AAP. It's just all a mess anyway and nothing will be perfect.

That is a simple fix. Eliminate the split feeder for Rolling Valley and make it 100% zoned for WSHS.

This could be done simply and with minimal disruption by eliminating the split feeder at Sangster and making that school completely zoned for Lake Braddock. With the AAP overlap for middle school and WSHS/LB being essentially an "equal" school swap, there would be minimal fuss and fight from parents, especially if there was a grandfathering of all current high school kids.

Then eliminate the split feeder from Rolling Valley and move those kids all to WSHS starting with 8th graders. Those parents will be thrilled.

It would be a very simple rezoning with minimal fight where everyone is happy. I could be wrong, bjt I think this might also help eliminating some crowding at WSHS, or would result in no impact on enrollment numbers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense to separate Edison like that. Don’t edison and Lewis share feeder schools?

It should be Lewis, edison and hayfield.

Lewis shares an ES feeder with West Springfield. However Lewis pyramid kids must go to Twain inside Edison for middle school AAP. It's just all a mess anyway and nothing will be perfect.

That is a simple fix. Eliminate the split feeder for Rolling Valley and make it 100% zoned for WSHS.

This could be done simply and with minimal disruption by eliminating the split feeder at Sangster and making that school completely zoned for Lake Braddock. With the AAP overlap for middle school and WSHS/LB being essentially an "equal" school swap, there would be minimal fuss and fight from parents, especially if there was a grandfathering of all current high school kids.

Then eliminate the split feeder from Rolling Valley and move those kids all to WSHS starting with 8th graders. Those parents will be thrilled.

It would be a very simple rezoning with minimal fight where everyone is happy. I could be wrong, bjt I think this might also help eliminating some crowding at WSHS, or would result in no impact on enrollment numbers.

And a huge bonus would be the elimination of 2 split feeders.

Also, no student would be downgraded in school quality.

Finally, the property value arguments would be neutralized, so the rezoning would be one of the few that would happen without a fight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense to separate Edison like that. Don’t edison and Lewis share feeder schools?

It should be Lewis, edison and hayfield.

There are some ES students technically in the Annandale pyramid who end up at Edison (Edsall Rd area), and some Kingstowne kids go to Edison instead of Hayfield but I’m not aware of any shared feeders between Edison and Lewis.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah it’s out. Not what was expected.

care to elaborate?

The pyramids in region 6 are Marshall and Annandale

https://www.fcps.edu/department/office-chief-schools

They’re not in region 2 anymore

The website says Annandale, hayfield and Lewis for R6.

Interesting combination. Surprised they still have some gargantuan regions, so decreasing size of administrative load wasn't a primary factor.

Seems like they put higher need schools in smaller regions. Makes sense.

Pretty consistent with their economic segregation approach.

[Anonymous]

This has got to be the stupidest thread in the history of DCUM. On in Fairfax County would people come here to complain ad nauseum about some organizational restructuring that has ZERO IMPACT on:

-where you kid goes to school
-what your kid is taught
-how far your kid has to travel
-which teams your kid plays
-how teachers are paid
-who your kid’s principal is
-how involved or uninvolved you can be with your PTA

So many micromanagers here. All some of you know how to do is complain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This has got to be the stupidest thread in the history of DCUM. On in Fairfax County would people come here to complain ad nauseum about some organizational restructuring that has ZERO IMPACT on:

-where you kid goes to school
-what your kid is taught
-how far your kid has to travel
-which teams your kid plays
-how teachers are paid
-who your kid’s principal is
-how involved or uninvolved you can be with your PTA

So many micromanagers here. All some of you know how to do is complain.

What your post emphasizes is that FCPS has created entirely too much administrative bloat that wastes taxpayer money and has zero inpact on education, academic achievement, student behavior or teacher compensation.

Perhaps this layer of bureaucracy should be eliminated entirely since it has zero function value for the quality of education.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense to separate Edison like that. Don’t edison and Lewis share feeder schools?

It should be Lewis, edison and hayfield.

Lewis shares an ES feeder with West Springfield. However Lewis pyramid kids must go to Twain inside Edison for middle school AAP. It's just all a mess anyway and nothing will be perfect.

That is a simple fix. Eliminate the split feeder for Rolling Valley and make it 100% zoned for WSHS.

This could be done simply and with minimal disruption by eliminating the split feeder at Sangster and making that school completely zoned for Lake Braddock. With the AAP overlap for middle school and WSHS/LB being essentially an "equal" school swap, there would be minimal fuss and fight from parents, especially if there was a grandfathering of all current high school kids.

Then eliminate the split feeder from Rolling Valley and move those kids all to WSHS starting with 8th graders. Those parents will be thrilled.

It would be a very simple rezoning with minimal fight where everyone is happy. I could be wrong, bjt I think this might also help eliminating some crowding at WSHS, or would result in no impact on enrollment numbers.

And a huge bonus would be the elimination of 2 split feeders.

Also, no student would be downgraded in school quality.

Finally, the property value arguments would be neutralized, so the rezoning would be one of the few that would happen without a fight.

So even fewer students zoned to Lewis. Including some on the south side of the parkway who would geographically be better off at Saratoga. And if you made this change Saratoga would be an island away from Lewis. There is a huge area where no one lives that separates Saratoga from Lewis - the NGA, Fullerton Industrial, and I-95 / Loisdale Road. Take out the small link that is Rolling Valley and you create an island. But hey, screw Lewis right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense to separate Edison like that. Don’t edison and Lewis share feeder schools?

It should be Lewis, edison and hayfield.

Lewis shares an ES feeder with West Springfield. However Lewis pyramid kids must go to Twain inside Edison for middle school AAP. It's just all a mess anyway and nothing will be perfect.

That is a simple fix. Eliminate the split feeder for Rolling Valley and make it 100% zoned for WSHS.

This could be done simply and with minimal disruption by eliminating the split feeder at Sangster and making that school completely zoned for Lake Braddock. With the AAP overlap for middle school and WSHS/LB being essentially an "equal" school swap, there would be minimal fuss and fight from parents, especially if there was a grandfathering of all current high school kids.

Then eliminate the split feeder from Rolling Valley and move those kids all to WSHS starting with 8th graders. Those parents will be thrilled.

It would be a very simple rezoning with minimal fight where everyone is happy. I could be wrong, bjt I think this might also help eliminating some crowding at WSHS, or would result in no impact on enrollment numbers.

And a huge bonus would be the elimination of 2 split feeders.

Also, no student would be downgraded in school quality.

Finally, the property value arguments would be neutralized, so the rezoning would be one of the few that would happen without a fight.

So even fewer students zoned to Lewis. Including some on the south side of the parkway who would geographically be better off at Saratoga. And if you made this change Saratoga would be an island away from Lewis. There is a huge area where no one lives that separates Saratoga from Lewis - the NGA, Fullerton Industrial, and I-95 / Loisdale Road. Take out the small link that is Rolling Valley and you create an island. But hey, screw Lewis right?

The West Springfield parents delight in their ability to come up with new ideas to further marginalize Lewis. It’s cruel but probably a reflection of their own insecurity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This has got to be the stupidest thread in the history of DCUM. On in Fairfax County would people come here to complain ad nauseum about some organizational restructuring that has ZERO IMPACT on:

-where you kid goes to school
-what your kid is taught
-how far your kid has to travel
-which teams your kid plays
-how teachers are paid
-who your kid’s principal is
-how involved or uninvolved you can be with your PTA

So many micromanagers here. All some of you know how to do is complain.

What your post emphasizes is that FCPS has created entirely too much administrative bloat that wastes taxpayer money and has zero inpact on education, academic achievement, student behavior or teacher compensation.

Perhaps this layer of bureaucracy should be eliminated entirely since it has zero function value for the quality of education.

And what exactly is your evidence and data to support your last paragraph? Are you really suggesting that the region structure as asst supt position be eliminated entirely and that this “layer of bureaucracy” be removed? That all 200 principals should report to one person and all parent issues should funnel to one person? If that’s not what you’re suggesting, please clarify.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This has got to be the stupidest thread in the history of DCUM. On in Fairfax County would people come here to complain ad nauseum about some organizational restructuring that has ZERO IMPACT on:

-where you kid goes to school
-what your kid is taught
-how far your kid has to travel
-which teams your kid plays
-how teachers are paid
-who your kid’s principal is
-how involved or uninvolved you can be with your PTA

So many micromanagers here. All some of you know how to do is complain.

What your post emphasizes is that FCPS has created entirely too much administrative bloat that wastes taxpayer money and has zero inpact on education, academic achievement, student behavior or teacher compensation.

Perhaps this layer of bureaucracy should be eliminated entirely since it has zero function value for the quality of education.

And what exactly is your evidence and data to support your last paragraph? Are you really suggesting that the region structure as asst supt position be eliminated entirely and that this “layer of bureaucracy” be removed? That all 200 principals should report to one person and all parent issues should funnel to one person? If that’s not what you’re suggesting, please clarify.

DP but I’ve yet to hear of a single situation where a regional superintendent really did anything helpful. Some of them spend a lot of their time just re-posting school posts on Twitter approvingly.