FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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Anonymous wrote:Trying to align all the middle schools with the high schools is a fool's errand. It can't be done.

They need to draw the KAA boundaries in a way that makes sense and doesn't disrupt the boundaries for all the other schools in the area, and call it a day.

You can get a lot closer and diminish the number of splits coming out of the MS, which would benefit the students at those MS. It so happens that the kids who are attending Carson would be a quick drive over to the new HS. The biggest issue would be the number of students pulled from Westfield.

I think it's clear they should redo the MS boundaries to align with the new HS boundaries. It would be really simple if they stopped the AAP transfers.

Once they are done with that, it should look something like:

Carson- KAA and either SL or Oakton
Franklin- Westfield and Oakton
Hughes- SL
Rocky Run- Chantilly
Stone- Westfield
Liberty- Centreville

Oakton also gets kids from Thoreau. Not "really simple" to have a HS that pulls from three middle schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trying to align all the middle schools with the high schools is a fool's errand. It can't be done.

They need to draw the KAA boundaries in a way that makes sense and doesn't disrupt the boundaries for all the other schools in the area, and call it a day.

You can get a lot closer and diminish the number of splits coming out of the MS, which would benefit the students at those MS. It so happens that the kids who are attending Carson would be a quick drive over to the new HS. The biggest issue would be the number of students pulled from Westfield.

I think it's clear they should redo the MS boundaries to align with the new HS boundaries. It would be really simple if they stopped the AAP transfers.

Once they are done with that, it should look something like:

Carson- KAA and either SL or Oakton
Franklin- Westfield and Oakton
Hughes- SL
Rocky Run- Chantilly
Stone- Westfield
Liberty- Centreville

Oakton also gets kids from Thoreau. Not "really simple" to have a HS that pulls from three middle schools.

If Crossfield doesn’t move to KAA, it should be moved to Franklin. What this poster isn’t accounting for is Navy splitting between Chantilly and Oakton, which complicates getting Chantilly out of Franklin. (PP is clearly sacrificing Lees Corner to Westfield.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trying to align all the middle schools with the high schools is a fool's errand. It can't be done.

They need to draw the KAA boundaries in a way that makes sense and doesn't disrupt the boundaries for all the other schools in the area, and call it a day.

You can get a lot closer and diminish the number of splits coming out of the MS, which would benefit the students at those MS. It so happens that the kids who are attending Carson would be a quick drive over to the new HS. The biggest issue would be the number of students pulled from Westfield.

I think it's clear they should redo the MS boundaries to align with the new HS boundaries. It would be really simple if they stopped the AAP transfers.

Once they are done with that, it should look something like:

Carson- KAA and either SL or Oakton
Franklin- Westfield and Oakton
Hughes- SL
Rocky Run- Chantilly
Stone- Westfield
Liberty- Centreville

Oakton also gets kids from Thoreau. Not "really simple" to have a HS that pulls from three middle schools.

If Crossfield doesn’t move to KAA, it should be moved to Franklin. What this poster isn’t accounting for is Navy splitting between Chantilly and Oakton, which complicates getting Chantilly out of Franklin. (PP is clearly sacrificing Lees Corner to Westfield.)

I am PP. I'm not necessarily sacrificing Lees Corner; maybe they would get moved to Rocky Run. Or Navy that currently goes to Franklin is moved to Rocky Run. Really, it should more have read they should figure out who is going to each middle school first and then based on that, they assign high schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

It’s her pet project for sure. Interesting that her neighborhood isn’t touched, but a neighborhood right behind hers is slotted to move without much reason.

It is CRAZY to mive those few streets from Silverbrook/South County to Sangster/Lake Braddock.

It easily triples their commute, and forces them on some very busy main roads, one of which has recent teen driving deaths.

Then, they are basically flipping that neighborhood with a similar sized Sangster/Lake Braddock neighborhood that is very happy with their current school, which is about the same distance or closer, who also do not want to change schools.

Why would they even do something like this, flipping two clusters of streets, neither of which want to get rezoned, even though all the new schools are great options.

That Sangster/Silverbrook/Soco/LB rezoning is simply rezoning just to say you rezoned something, particularly for the Silverbrook streets.

I can't help but think that one is a revenge rezoning against someone who ticked off the school board member. It is just such a weird chouce for rezoning to LB

Absolutely. The road safety alone should be enough. It’s an odd choice & Sangster already has portables and large class sizes. Moving another neighborhood in, without any logical reason is odd. Sandy has not been very helpful with listening to her constituents’ worries and concerns. I understand that some changes may make more sense than others, but she comes in on the defense and is very argumentative and protective of that RVES/Key/Lewis pocket.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trying to align all the middle schools with the high schools is a fool's errand. It can't be done.

They need to draw the KAA boundaries in a way that makes sense and doesn't disrupt the boundaries for all the other schools in the area, and call it a day.

You can get a lot closer and diminish the number of splits coming out of the MS, which would benefit the students at those MS. It so happens that the kids who are attending Carson would be a quick drive over to the new HS. The biggest issue would be the number of students pulled from Westfield.

I think it's clear they should redo the MS boundaries to align with the new HS boundaries. It would be really simple if they stopped the AAP transfers.

Once they are done with that, it should look something like:

Carson- KAA and either SL or Oakton
Franklin- Westfield and Oakton
Hughes- SL
Rocky Run- Chantilly
Stone- Westfield
Liberty- Centreville

Oakton also gets kids from Thoreau. Not "really simple" to have a HS that pulls from three middle schools.

If Crossfield doesn’t move to KAA, it should be moved to Franklin. What this poster isn’t accounting for is Navy splitting between Chantilly and Oakton, which complicates getting Chantilly out of Franklin. (PP is clearly sacrificing Lees Corner to Westfield.)

I am PP. I'm not necessarily sacrificing Lees Corner; maybe they would get moved to Rocky Run. Or Navy that currently goes to Franklin is moved to Rocky Run. Really, it should more have read they should figure out who is going to each middle school first and then based on that, they assign high schools.

PP must not be aware that Lee's Corner has walkers to Franklin.
Nothing on the north side of 50 should go to Westfield. Franklin should be Chantilly/Oakton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trying to align all the middle schools with the high schools is a fool's errand. It can't be done.

They need to draw the KAA boundaries in a way that makes sense and doesn't disrupt the boundaries for all the other schools in the area, and call it a day.

You can get a lot closer and diminish the number of splits coming out of the MS, which would benefit the students at those MS. It so happens that the kids who are attending Carson would be a quick drive over to the new HS. The biggest issue would be the number of students pulled from Westfield.

I think it's clear they should redo the MS boundaries to align with the new HS boundaries. It would be really simple if they stopped the AAP transfers.

Once they are done with that, it should look something like:

Carson- KAA and either SL or Oakton
Franklin- Westfield and Oakton
Hughes- SL
Rocky Run- Chantilly
Stone- Westfield
Liberty- Centreville

Oakton also gets kids from Thoreau. Not "really simple" to have a HS that pulls from three middle schools.

If Crossfield doesn’t move to KAA, it should be moved to Franklin. What this poster isn’t accounting for is Navy splitting between Chantilly and Oakton, which complicates getting Chantilly out of Franklin. (PP is clearly sacrificing Lees Corner to Westfield.)

I am PP. I'm not necessarily sacrificing Lees Corner; maybe they would get moved to Rocky Run. Or Navy that currently goes to Franklin is moved to Rocky Run. Really, it should more have read they should figure out who is going to each middle school first and then based on that, they assign high schools.

I think they need to approach it the other way around. The middle school boundaries are a mess because Oakton doesn’t have a nearby middle school. They should look at the high school boundaries and how the elementary schools fit into them like a puzzle. Then they should reshape middle school boundaries to reduce split feeders to no more than two schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trying to align all the middle schools with the high schools is a fool's errand. It can't be done.

They need to draw the KAA boundaries in a way that makes sense and doesn't disrupt the boundaries for all the other schools in the area, and call it a day.

You can get a lot closer and diminish the number of splits coming out of the MS, which would benefit the students at those MS. It so happens that the kids who are attending Carson would be a quick drive over to the new HS. The biggest issue would be the number of students pulled from Westfield.

I think it's clear they should redo the MS boundaries to align with the new HS boundaries. It would be really simple if they stopped the AAP transfers.

Once they are done with that, it should look something like:

Carson- KAA and either SL or Oakton
Franklin- Westfield and Oakton
Hughes- SL
Rocky Run- Chantilly
Stone- Westfield
Liberty- Centreville

Oakton also gets kids from Thoreau. Not "really simple" to have a HS that pulls from three middle schools.

If Crossfield doesn’t move to KAA, it should be moved to Franklin. What this poster isn’t accounting for is Navy splitting between Chantilly and Oakton, which complicates getting Chantilly out of Franklin. (PP is clearly sacrificing Lees Corner to Westfield.)

I am PP. I'm not necessarily sacrificing Lees Corner; maybe they would get moved to Rocky Run. Or Navy that currently goes to Franklin is moved to Rocky Run. Really, it should more have read they should figure out who is going to each middle school first and then based on that, they assign high schools.

I think they need to approach it the other way around. The middle school boundaries are a mess because Oakton doesn’t have a nearby middle school. They should look at the high school boundaries and how the elementary schools fit into them like a puzzle. Then they should reshape middle school boundaries to reduce split feeders to no more than two schools.

Agree. Figure out high schools first. I live in the Franklin/Carson area. I don't think we can ever get to "one" feeder. But, maybe two could work.
The AAP centers really confuse the issue. Both schools are able to take care of Level IV kids without having one of them be a "center." There would be enough kids at each school that qualify for AAP.
I see Carson: KAA/South Lakes
Franklin: Chantilly/Oakton

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trying to align all the middle schools with the high schools is a fool's errand. It can't be done.

They need to draw the KAA boundaries in a way that makes sense and doesn't disrupt the boundaries for all the other schools in the area, and call it a day.

You can get a lot closer and diminish the number of splits coming out of the MS, which would benefit the students at those MS. It so happens that the kids who are attending Carson would be a quick drive over to the new HS. The biggest issue would be the number of students pulled from Westfield.

I think it's clear they should redo the MS boundaries to align with the new HS boundaries. It would be really simple if they stopped the AAP transfers.

Once they are done with that, it should look something like:

Carson- KAA and either SL or Oakton
Franklin- Westfield and Oakton
Hughes- SL
Rocky Run- Chantilly
Stone- Westfield
Liberty- Centreville

Oakton also gets kids from Thoreau. Not "really simple" to have a HS that pulls from three middle schools.

If Crossfield doesn’t move to KAA, it should be moved to Franklin. What this poster isn’t accounting for is Navy splitting between Chantilly and Oakton, which complicates getting Chantilly out of Franklin. (PP is clearly sacrificing Lees Corner to Westfield.)

I am PP. I'm not necessarily sacrificing Lees Corner; maybe they would get moved to Rocky Run. Or Navy that currently goes to Franklin is moved to Rocky Run. Really, it should more have read they should figure out who is going to each middle school first and then based on that, they assign high schools.

PP must not be aware that Lee's Corner has walkers to Franklin.
Nothing on the north side of 50 should go to Westfield. Franklin should be Chantilly/Oakton.

I'm well aware. I live near there. The implication would be one side of the boundary is Lee's corner/franklin/westfield and the other is lee's corner/rocky run/chantilly. But there's a million different scenarios, its just one example scenario. Maybe starting with the MS would means more ES split feeders but I'd rather personally keep kids together MS and HS as best as possible and have fewer MS split feeders. The boundaries are a mess because they just try to cram people where there's space at each level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trying to align all the middle schools with the high schools is a fool's errand. It can't be done.

They need to draw the KAA boundaries in a way that makes sense and doesn't disrupt the boundaries for all the other schools in the area, and call it a day.

You can get a lot closer and diminish the number of splits coming out of the MS, which would benefit the students at those MS. It so happens that the kids who are attending Carson would be a quick drive over to the new HS. The biggest issue would be the number of students pulled from Westfield.

I think it's clear they should redo the MS boundaries to align with the new HS boundaries. It would be really simple if they stopped the AAP transfers.

Once they are done with that, it should look something like:

Carson- KAA and either SL or Oakton
Franklin- Westfield and Oakton
Hughes- SL
Rocky Run- Chantilly
Stone- Westfield
Liberty- Centreville

Oakton also gets kids from Thoreau. Not "really simple" to have a HS that pulls from three middle schools.

If Crossfield doesn’t move to KAA, it should be moved to Franklin. What this poster isn’t accounting for is Navy splitting between Chantilly and Oakton, which complicates getting Chantilly out of Franklin. (PP is clearly sacrificing Lees Corner to Westfield.)

I am PP. I'm not necessarily sacrificing Lees Corner; maybe they would get moved to Rocky Run. Or Navy that currently goes to Franklin is moved to Rocky Run. Really, it should more have read they should figure out who is going to each middle school first and then based on that, they assign high schools.

PP must not be aware that Lee's Corner has walkers to Franklin.
Nothing on the north side of 50 should go to Westfield. F(Branklin should be Chantilly/Oakton.

I'm well aware. I live near there. The implication would be one side of the boundary is Lee's corner/franklin/westfield and the other is lee's corner/rocky run/chantilly. But there's a million different scenarios, its just one example scenario. Maybe starting with the MS would means more ES split feeders but I'd rather personally keep kids together MS and HS as best as possible and have fewer MS split feeders. The boundaries are a mess because they just try to cram people where there's space at each level.

Make Rocky Run: Chantilly/Westfield doesn't Brookfield have Westfield kids?

Keep Lee's Corner at Franklin--all should go to Chantilly You still have Navy/Waples Mill for Oakton. I cannot see that changing.
Depending on whether or not they squeeze Crossfield into KAA--Crossfield might go to Franklin

[Anonymous]

p.s. nothing south of 50 at Lee's Corner--put them in Brookfield.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

It’s her pet project for sure. Interesting that her neighborhood isn’t touched, but a neighborhood right behind hers is slotted to move without much reason.

It is CRAZY to mive those few streets from Silverbrook/South County to Sangster/Lake Braddock.

It easily triples their commute, and forces them on some very busy main roads, one of which has recent teen driving deaths.

Then, they are basically flipping that neighborhood with a similar sized Sangster/Lake Braddock neighborhood that is very happy with their current school, which is about the same distance or closer, who also do not want to change schools.

Why would they even do something like this, flipping two clusters of streets, neither of which want to get rezoned, even though all the new schools are great options.

That Sangster/Silverbrook/Soco/LB rezoning is simply rezoning just to say you rezoned something, particularly for the Silverbrook streets.

I can't help but think that one is a revenge rezoning against someone who ticked off the school board member. It is just such a weird chouce for rezoning to LB

Absolutely. The road safety alone should be enough. It’s an odd choice & Sangster already has portables and large class sizes. Moving another neighborhood in, without any logical reason is odd. Sandy has not been very helpful with listening to her constituents’ worries and concerns. I understand that some changes may make more sense than others, but she comes in on the defense and is very argumentative and protective of that RVES/Key/Lewis pocket.

I really wonder what it is about the RVES/Lewis pocket that has her willing to move other neighborhoods? The Thru proposal seems to make sense here: make the change at the elementary level by moving that pocket to Saratoga ES. Moving is going to be hard at any level, but there are real consequences for moving kids mid high school: loss of leadership positions in clubs and sports, disruption of foreign language study, loss of teacher relationships for recommendations, etc.. Anderson wants to to disrupt students at the HS level in the HVES Gambrill Rd neighborhoods and foreclose the possibility of even grandfathering existing HS students into WSHS in order to facilitate moving the RVES/Lewis pocket into WSHS. Why is this something she is pushing for?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trying to align all the middle schools with the high schools is a fool's errand. It can't be done.

They need to draw the KAA boundaries in a way that makes sense and doesn't disrupt the boundaries for all the other schools in the area, and call it a day.

You can get a lot closer and diminish the number of splits coming out of the MS, which would benefit the students at those MS. It so happens that the kids who are attending Carson would be a quick drive over to the new HS. The biggest issue would be the number of students pulled from Westfield.

I think it's clear they should redo the MS boundaries to align with the new HS boundaries. It would be really simple if they stopped the AAP transfers.

Once they are done with that, it should look something like:

Carson- KAA and either SL or Oakton
Franklin- Westfield and Oakton
Hughes- SL
Rocky Run- Chantilly
Stone- Westfield
Liberty- Centreville

Oakton also gets kids from Thoreau. Not "really simple" to have a HS that pulls from three middle schools.

If Crossfield doesn’t move to KAA, it should be moved to Franklin. What this poster isn’t accounting for is Navy splitting between Chantilly and Oakton, which complicates getting Chantilly out of Franklin. (PP is clearly sacrificing Lees Corner to Westfield.)

I am PP. I'm not necessarily sacrificing Lees Corner; maybe they would get moved to Rocky Run. Or Navy that currently goes to Franklin is moved to Rocky Run. Really, it should more have read they should figure out who is going to each middle school first and then based on that, they assign high schools.

PP must not be aware that Lee's Corner has walkers to Franklin.
Nothing on the north side of 50 should go to Westfield. Franklin should be Chantilly/Oakton.

I'm well aware. I live near there. The implication would be one side of the boundary is Lee's corner/franklin/westfield and the other is lee's corner/rocky run/chantilly. But there's a million different scenarios, it’s just one example scenario. Maybe starting with the MS would means more ES split feeders but I'd rather personally keep kids together MS and HS as best as possible and have fewer MS split feeders. The boundaries are a mess because they just try to cram people where there's space at each level.

You’re not making any sense. The current middle school boundaries result in three way+ split feeders. There’s no way to maintain the current middle school boundaries and simplify the feeder patterns without changing high school boundaries. One of the other have to change to simplify feeder pattern.

[Anonymous]

Middle school is only two years. Really, it should be less of a priority than getting ES and HS boundaries that make sense. You are never going to get logical MS boundaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Middle school is only two years. Really, it should be less of a priority than getting ES and HS boundaries that make sense. You are never going to get logical MS boundaries.

Yeah, what you guys think 7th and 8th grades are formative early teen years?

Just ignore their needs. It’s what the school board does best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

It’s her pet project for sure. Interesting that her neighborhood isn’t touched, but a neighborhood right behind hers is slotted to move without much reason.

It is CRAZY to mive those few streets from Silverbrook/South County to Sangster/Lake Braddock.

It easily triples their commute, and forces them on some very busy main roads, one of which has recent teen driving deaths.

Then, they are basically flipping that neighborhood with a similar sized Sangster/Lake Braddock neighborhood that is very happy with their current school, which is about the same distance or closer, who also do not want to change schools.

Why would they even do something like this, flipping two clusters of streets, neither of which want to get rezoned, even though all the new schools are great options.

That Sangster/Silverbrook/Soco/LB rezoning is simply rezoning just to say you rezoned something, particularly for the Silverbrook streets.

I can't help but think that one is a revenge rezoning against someone who ticked off the school board member. It is just such a weird chouce for rezoning to LB

Absolutely. The road safety alone should be enough. It’s an odd choice & Sangster already has portables and large class sizes. Moving another neighborhood in, without any logical reason is odd. Sandy has not been very helpful with listening to her constituents’ worries and concerns. I understand that some changes may make more sense than others, but she comes in on the defense and is very argumentative and protective of that RVES/Key/Lewis pocket.

Doesn’t some SB member live in bounds for Sangster? Sangster/LB is losing some kids to Newington Forest/South County due to the attendance island - not too many, and Sangster is so large that losing ~40 kids from K-6 isn’t going to make a huge dent. I feel like Thru saw Sangster losing kids and just said, what’s the most nearby neighborhood we can move in in order to fill those spots and it was the furthest neighborhood off Lee Chapel that still went to Silverbrook/SC. But those spots don’t need to be filled.

And I know right now none of Silverbrook wants to talk about it, but if Silverbrook is at or over capacity (which it usually is) they can easily move a few streets over to Halley, if needed, AND I hate to say it but when Hagel Circle moves out Halley is going to have pretty much the exact same demographics as Silverbrook right now. It’s a neighborhood of $900k+ easily large exurban homes with one large 90%+ FARMS neighborhood that will be on its way out. You can’t complain about it at that point.