Wow. I am actually shocked (good way) and how much grandfathering they may be allowing. |
So if kids are moved between existing schools to shift boundaries for KAA, grades 10-12 can choose to remain at their previous school? |
They are ruining the real estate market with the comprehensive review. |
And ensuring that VA adopts a voucher program which will hurt public schools across the state. |
I saw this article on The Hill and immediately thought about the boundary review. The Democratic Party has hemorrhaged voters lately, in part for being out of touch on its policies. Exhibit 1 is the boundary review.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5395563-democrats-losing-support-white-voters/ Ignore the URL mention of white voters, because the article is not really about that. Here’s a quote from the article - “We do better when we first meet voters where they are and then bring them along on other issues. … And nine times out of 10, what they really care about is whether or not they’re going to be able to afford health care, whether or not their kids are going to be able to go to a good school … housing, living paycheck to paycheck.” Since all politics are local, the school board is doing immense damage to the Democratic brand with the unnecessary comprehensive boundary review. |
I wonder how the election of Sandy Anderson, who was already trying to undermine the Thru Consulting recommendations, as the new School Board chair, will affect the boundary review. At some point will there be a confrontation between the School Board and Reid where they throw Reid under a bus? |
Unfortunately, Anderson seems to be one of the board members trying to really mess with the boundaries. I don’t think she’ll be the savior. |
Sandy Anderson was elected the new school board chair?? Seriously? We went a step downward from Frisch? |
Sandy Anderson has been one of the worst, if not the worst school board rep on boundaries. She has actively worked against her Springfield District families on this issue, and has been miserable with communication, alternating between completely ignoring or dismissing constituents from multiple neighborhoods, to promoting neighborhoods from outside her schools over the schools she represents (pushing to displace and rezone Hunt Valley/Irving/WSHS families and replacing them with Lewis/Key neighborhoods) It is unbelievable that anyone would think that Sandy Anderson is the face of resistance against rezoning. This rezoning is Sandy Anderson's pet project. |
And she is also against grandfathering. She also has not had any face-to-face meetings with constituents; they have all been via Zoom. I believe Mateo Dunne's meetings have been in person. She has told WSHS families that she doesn't know where the Lewis rezoning rumors are coming from and that SCHS is closer. I'd wager good money that she is actively trying to move all or part of HVES to Lewis. |
The Lewis rezoning rumors came ffom Sandy's moyth at multiple different zoom meetings, community meetings and phone calls. Needing to move Rolling Valley/Key/Lewis students to Irving and WSHS has consistently been her example for months to multiple parents as the reason why she does not support grandfathering of high school students... as recently as June and as far back as March. |
The "Lewis rumor" is that Hunt Valley cannot be grandfathered because Sandy Anderson wants to replace them with Lewis/Rolling Valley families. This has been her position for months. |
Could you elaborate on this? The meetings I've been in, she has acted like moving HVES to Lewis is not the goal (I don't believe her at all) and just a rumor. |
lol, there are several other factors influencing the market right now |
Many years ago, before SCMS/HS opened, there were some neighborhoods off Gambrill south of the Parkway that were zoned HV/Key/Lewis. I think people are afraid of going back to that, and there was a rumor last summer that all of HVES was going to be rezoned to Lewis.
To be fair, those moves haven’t been on any of the map proposals so far. To come out with that now would be entirely out of left field. But, also to be fair, Anderson has made noise about closing the RVES split feeder by keeping them at RV and sending them to Irving/WSHS, whereas right now they are at RV/Key/Lewis (nominally … a lot of families move before that can become an issue). This change also isn’t on any maps so far but has been specifically mentioned by her at meetings. The current proposals are to close the RV split by sending them to Saratoga ES, which already fully feeds to key/Lewis without a split feeder. This would leave RVES quite under capacity, and Anderson doesn’t seem keen on advocating for RV to get something like a language or other magnet program to fill the excess seats. |