FCPS comprehensive boundary review

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Anonymous wrote:I looked at the 2023 election results for the various precincts that send students to West Springfield. They seem to vote consistently for Democrats. Including the School Board at large and their district members. The one exception, for those in the Springfield district, they did narrowly favor Pat Herrity on the County Board.

Point is, the Democrats are the ones who have been all about liberal immigration (or essentially, no enforcement) and they are also the party that is pushing boundary changes. They control the entire school board, and they started talking about boundary changes five years ago. So if you live in the West Springfield feeding precincts and supported the Democrats in 2023, you essentially signed up for boundary changes.

Maybe yes, maybe no. Show us where any candidate running in 2023 said county-wide boundary changes would be a top priority. It was a different group than was on the School Board back in 2018 and a lot of things happened in the intervening years, most notably Covid and all the related issues around remote learning, remediating learning loss, etc.

No doubt the Rs, unhappy that their far-right candidates can't get elected, take some satisfaction from telling people now that "you had in coming," but most of us feel sandbagged that the group elected last fall has pursued this county-wide boundary review when there's not much demand for it and FCPS enrollment is essentially flat.

Well, the party in control in 2019 (Democrats) did signal they wanted to look at boundaries. If you are in an edge community such as Daventry or Hunt Valley, then you should have taken that as a warning. It does not seem that was done. So here we are.

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The important distinction from your last sentence is that Daventry is a neighborhood whereas Hunt Valley is a school. I am a Hunt Valley parent and my only comfort/hope at this point is that I believe that if we remain zoned for Hunt Valley then we are safe, because I don't see a scenario in which the SB will be able to defend, much less accept from the consultants that HV should move to Lewis.

The only option would be to move ALL of HVES - the WHOLE SCHOOL - to Lewis. Which would leave WSHS quite under capacity, and might create an awkward situation in ~10 years if a bunch of development really does happen in Springfield or in Alexandria zoned for Edison if boundaries between Lewis and Edison have to be adjusted again to account for more development. But at the same time, the situation with the school quality and accreditation metrics may force their hands.

Even if moving 500 kids out of WSHS would technically leave it under capacity, it would still have a substantial enrollment, and moving a similar number of kids into Lewis would still leave it among the smallest high schools in FCPS. If future growth in the Edison zone were actually to materialize, it's possible some Edison neighborhoods could be moved to other schools besides Lewis, such as Hayfield (for example, Kingstowne currently splits to Edison and Hayfield).

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Anonymous wrote:So you have West Springfield parents complaining that it’s too difficult to get from their nearby neighborhoods to Lewis given the traffic near Franconia and 95, but you’re suggesting that FCPS bus kids from all over the county to Lewis for vo-tech?

Something doesn’t quite add up there.

Our base school is SLHS, we don’t have Academies and there are a good number of kids who could benefit from taking those types of classes but don’t because they are hard to schedule. I know two kids who have said no to Academies because they are hard to schedule but who might have been interested if they were at their school. We cannot put Academies at every school, we have an under enrolled school with a population that might actually benefit from having access to Academies, and people are complaining about how it is hard to get to. Turn that school into a Vo Tech school so that kids who are not interested in college have a place to attend school that offer programs that work for them and don’t have to worry about weird scheduling. We use the space of an existing school more effectively, offer better options to kids who are not interested in college, and are eliminate the local concern about getting too and from the school.

The Vo Tech school in the area I grew up in was a well regarded option for many kids. It was a popular choice. We know that many kids are not interested in college but we don’t provide good options for those kids unless they are at the academy schools and it is easy to attend. Toss in that many of the kids that would benefit from the Academies are coming from families where their parents are less likely to be informed on the different options or how to apply for those options or how to work the scheduling for those options and you greatly limit the effectiveness of the Academies.

Put them in one place, allow kids to choose that option and move to a high school that fits their needs and you can decrease absenteeism, increase the graduation rates for an at risk population, increase the job prospects for an at risk population, and make better use of the space that we have.

What you’re misting is that there has already been a significant investment in the academies, so there are sunk costs. You can’t just declare Lewis a vo-tech school. You’d have to invest more in the facility to make it suitable for that purpose, spend a lot of money to provide transportation to that school, and then figure out how it impacts the existing academies with vocational courses.

If we didn’t have the academies and were starting on a blank slate, maybe it would be a decent model, though I wonder whether kids in Herndon or Centreville who might benefit from such a school would stick with a program miles away in Springfield. But we aren’t starting on a blank slate so it’s not going to happen. The idea is mostly a Hail Mary thrown out by people looking to kill Lewis as a community school.

Kids from springfield go all the way across the county in both directions to access academy classes. The reverse can happen using Lewis as a magnet if the kids have interest, just like kids coming from all over northern Virginia for TJ.

Being forced to deal with that mixing bowll crossing from your neighborhood school just 2-3 miles away with a 10 minite max commute, to across a major highway interchange miles away with a 30 minute bus ride or car commute in the name of equity as an unwilling victim of equity rezoning, is completely different than choosing a longer commute to access a specialized magnet program that will provide you with opportunities and career building unavailable at your neighbohood school.

Rezoning out of your neighborhood school for equity is a completely different school than choosing to attend a magnet program.

So you keep repeating, but the fact is that the county has no basis to conclude that eliminating Academy programs and centralizing vo-tech programs at Lewis would actually increase the number of students available of vo-tech courses or improve the quality of the instruction.

The SB has given no indication that it is currently pursuing this for Lewis, so it's bizarre that some of you have fixated on this path for that school, but perhaps it speaks to just how fervently you want to derail any discussion of moving kids from other schools to Lewis. However, that certainly should be something the consultants ought to look at given the disparities in enrollment between Lewis and other schools and the impact of those disparities, which have been discussed earlier in this thread.

The Board, or more specifically representative Derenak-Kaufax, did have some kind of academy concept in mind for Lewis to attract pupil placements before they settled on Keys-Gamarra's pushy idea. Kaufax used to refer to her vision for Lewis as a "destination school."

It's quite unfortunate given the demand in Fairfax County for strong programs, that they couldn't settle on a better use for Lewis's capacity. Vocational wouldn't have been the right path either, but a selective language + international studies academy like Maggie Walker would have been immediately attractive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I looked at the 2023 election results for the various precincts that send students to West Springfield. They seem to vote consistently for Democrats. Including the School Board at large and their district members. The one exception, for those in the Springfield district, they did narrowly favor Pat Herrity on the County Board.

Point is, the Democrats are the ones who have been all about liberal immigration (or essentially, no enforcement) and they are also the party that is pushing boundary changes. They control the entire school board, and they started talking about boundary changes five years ago. So if you live in the West Springfield feeding precincts and supported the Democrats in 2023, you essentially signed up for boundary changes.

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This happens all the time. Democrats vote for other Democrats, and then (most of them) are unhappy about the policies they've voted for. It's the very definition of insanity and these people never learn.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I looked at the 2023 election results for the various precincts that send students to West Springfield. They seem to vote consistently for Democrats. Including the School Board at large and their district members. The one exception, for those in the Springfield district, they did narrowly favor Pat Herrity on the County Board.

Point is, the Democrats are the ones who have been all about liberal immigration (or essentially, no enforcement) and they are also the party that is pushing boundary changes. They control the entire school board, and they started talking about boundary changes five years ago. So if you live in the West Springfield feeding precincts and supported the Democrats in 2023, you essentially signed up for boundary changes.

Maybe yes, maybe no. Show us where any candidate running in 2023 said county-wide boundary changes would be a top priority. It was a different group than was on the School Board back in 2018 and a lot of things happened in the intervening years, most notably Covid and all the related issues around remote learning, remediating learning loss, etc.

No doubt the Rs, unhappy that their far-right candidates can't get elected, take some satisfaction from telling people now that "you had in coming," but most of us feel sandbagged that the group elected last fall has pursued this county-wide boundary review when there's not much demand for it and FCPS enrollment is essentially flat.

DP. And yet, you were well aware that FCPS's motto is "One Fairfax." You absolutely know that they "see everything through an equity lens." That garbage is all over their website, not to mention discussed here regularly. So, it's mighty disingenuous of you to claim that you "feel sandbagged" and somehow didn't see a boundary review coming. Really? You've been told over and over by the SB that their MAIN GOAL is to make FCPS equitable to all. Sorry, but you should have known better and to claim otherwise is laughable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I looked at the 2023 election results for the various precincts that send students to West Springfield. They seem to vote consistently for Democrats. Including the School Board at large and their district members. The one exception, for those in the Springfield district, they did narrowly favor Pat Herrity on the County Board.

Point is, the Democrats are the ones who have been all about liberal immigration (or essentially, no enforcement) and they are also the party that is pushing boundary changes. They control the entire school board, and they started talking about boundary changes five years ago. So if you live in the West Springfield feeding precincts and supported the Democrats in 2023, you essentially signed up for boundary changes.

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This happens all the time. Democrats vote for other Democrats, and then (most of them) are unhappy about the policies they've voted for. It's the very definition of insanity and these people never learn.

The flip side is that the Republicans are a distinct minority in the county; they whine about FCPS and mostly field far-right fringe candidates for School Board; and rather than look for opportunities to build broader coalitions with disaffected Democrats when the occasions arise they double-down on partisan rhetoric and ensure their continued irrelevance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I looked at the 2023 election results for the various precincts that send students to West Springfield. They seem to vote consistently for Democrats. Including the School Board at large and their district members. The one exception, for those in the Springfield district, they did narrowly favor Pat Herrity on the County Board.

Point is, the Democrats are the ones who have been all about liberal immigration (or essentially, no enforcement) and they are also the party that is pushing boundary changes. They control the entire school board, and they started talking about boundary changes five years ago. So if you live in the West Springfield feeding precincts and supported the Democrats in 2023, you essentially signed up for boundary changes.

Maybe yes, maybe no. Show us where any candidate running in 2023 said county-wide boundary changes would be a top priority. It was a different group than was on the School Board back in 2018 and a lot of things happened in the intervening years, most notably Covid and all the related issues around remote learning, remediating learning loss, etc.

No doubt the Rs, unhappy that their far-right candidates can't get elected, take some satisfaction from telling people now that "you had in coming," but most of us feel sandbagged that the group elected last fall has pursued this county-wide boundary review when there's not much demand for it and FCPS enrollment is essentially flat.

DP. And yet, you were well aware that FCPS's motto is "One Fairfax." You absolutely know that they "see everything through an equity lens." That garbage is all over their website, not to mention discussed here regularly. So, it's mighty disingenuous of you to claim that you "feel sandbagged" and somehow didn't see a boundary review coming. Really? You've been told over and over by the SB that their MAIN GOAL is to make FCPS equitable to all. Sorry, but you should have known better and to claim otherwise is laughable.

You seem to be conceding that FCPS can only be equitable to all if county-wide boundary changes are implemented. That seems like a self-own to the extent you oppose boundary changes.

A different interpretation is that One Fairfax means taking steps to meet students where they are to ensure they can reach their full potential. Boundary changes aren't obviously necessary to advance that goal; in fact, some would argue they are primarily window dressing.

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Anonymous wrote:I looked at the 2023 election results for the various precincts that send students to West Springfield. They seem to vote consistently for Democrats. Including the School Board at large and their district members. The one exception, for those in the Springfield district, they did narrowly favor Pat Herrity on the County Board.

Point is, the Democrats are the ones who have been all about liberal immigration (or essentially, no enforcement) and they are also the party that is pushing boundary changes. They control the entire school board, and they started talking about boundary changes five years ago. So if you live in the West Springfield feeding precincts and supported the Democrats in 2023, you essentially signed up for boundary changes.

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This happens all the time. Democrats vote for other Democrats, and then (most of them) are unhappy about the policies they've voted for. It's the very definition of insanity and these people never learn.

The flip side is that the Republicans are a distinct minority in the county; they whine about FCPS and mostly field far-right fringe candidates for School Board; and rather than look for opportunities to build broader coalitions with disaffected Democrats when the occasions arise they double-down on partisan rhetoric and ensure their continued irrelevance.

Now do the LWNJs who constantly run for - and win - spots on the SB. Why aren't Democrats fielding any moderate candidates that everyone can coalesce around?

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Anonymous wrote:I looked at the 2023 election results for the various precincts that send students to West Springfield. They seem to vote consistently for Democrats. Including the School Board at large and their district members. The one exception, for those in the Springfield district, they did narrowly favor Pat Herrity on the County Board.

Point is, the Democrats are the ones who have been all about liberal immigration (or essentially, no enforcement) and they are also the party that is pushing boundary changes. They control the entire school board, and they started talking about boundary changes five years ago. So if you live in the West Springfield feeding precincts and supported the Democrats in 2023, you essentially signed up for boundary changes.

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This happens all the time. Democrats vote for other Democrats, and then (most of them) are unhappy about the policies they've voted for. It's the very definition of insanity and these people never learn.

The flip side is that the Republicans are a distinct minority in the county; they whine about FCPS and mostly field far-right fringe candidates for School Board; and rather than look for opportunities to build broader coalitions with disaffected Democrats when the occasions arise they double-down on partisan rhetoric and ensure their continued irrelevance.

Now do the LWNJs who constantly run for - and win - spots on the SB. Why aren't Democrats fielding any moderate candidates that everyone can coalesce around?

Moon and McElveen (who has moved right since he moved to the Langley district) are fairly centrist. It’s unclear what Dunne is about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I looked at the 2023 election results for the various precincts that send students to West Springfield. They seem to vote consistently for Democrats. Including the School Board at large and their district members. The one exception, for those in the Springfield district, they did narrowly favor Pat Herrity on the County Board.

Point is, the Democrats are the ones who have been all about liberal immigration (or essentially, no enforcement) and they are also the party that is pushing boundary changes. They control the entire school board, and they started talking about boundary changes five years ago. So if you live in the West Springfield feeding precincts and supported the Democrats in 2023, you essentially signed up for boundary changes.

Maybe yes, maybe no. Show us where any candidate running in 2023 said county-wide boundary changes would be a top priority. It was a different group than was on the School Board back in 2018 and a lot of things happened in the intervening years, most notably Covid and all the related issues around remote learning, remediating learning loss, etc.

No doubt the Rs, unhappy that their far-right candidates can't get elected, take some satisfaction from telling people now that "you had in coming," but most of us feel sandbagged that the group elected last fall has pursued this county-wide boundary review when there's not much demand for it and FCPS enrollment is essentially flat.

DP. And yet, you were well aware that FCPS's motto is "One Fairfax." You absolutely know that they "see everything through an equity lens." That garbage is all over their website, not to mention discussed here regularly. So, it's mighty disingenuous of you to claim that you "feel sandbagged" and somehow didn't see a boundary review coming. Really? You've been told over and over by the SB that their MAIN GOAL is to make FCPS equitable to all. Sorry, but you should have known better and to claim otherwise is laughable.

You seem to be conceding that FCPS can only be equitable to all if county-wide boundary changes are implemented. That seems like a self-own to the extent you oppose boundary changes.

A different interpretation is that One Fairfax means taking steps to meet students where they are to ensure they can reach their full potential. Boundary changes aren't obviously necessary to advance that goal; in fact, some would argue they are primarily window dressing.

PP here - yes, I completely agree that boundary changes aren't necessary and that FCPS should be improving the schools where students are failing. My point was that these LWNJ SB members apparently do NOT see it that way. Their idea of "equity" is moving UMC kids to failing schools in some misguided attempt to bring up test scores. Surely you know that's their MO and always has been? Which begs the question - why would you have voted for any of them, knowing this?

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Anonymous wrote:I looked at the 2023 election results for the various precincts that send students to West Springfield. They seem to vote consistently for Democrats. Including the School Board at large and their district members. The one exception, for those in the Springfield district, they did narrowly favor Pat Herrity on the County Board.

Point is, the Democrats are the ones who have been all about liberal immigration (or essentially, no enforcement) and they are also the party that is pushing boundary changes. They control the entire school board, and they started talking about boundary changes five years ago. So if you live in the West Springfield feeding precincts and supported the Democrats in 2023, you essentially signed up for boundary changes.

Maybe yes, maybe no. Show us where any candidate running in 2023 said county-wide boundary changes would be a top priority. It was a different group than was on the School Board back in 2018 and a lot of things happened in the intervening years, most notably Covid and all the related issues around remote learning, remediating learning loss, etc.

No doubt the Rs, unhappy that their far-right candidates can't get elected, take some satisfaction from telling people now that "you had in coming," but most of us feel sandbagged that the group elected last fall has pursued this county-wide boundary review when there's not much demand for it and FCPS enrollment is essentially flat.

DP. And yet, you were well aware that FCPS's motto is "One Fairfax." You absolutely know that they "see everything through an equity lens." That garbage is all over their website, not to mention discussed here regularly. So, it's mighty disingenuous of you to claim that you "feel sandbagged" and somehow didn't see a boundary review coming. Really? You've been told over and over by the SB that their MAIN GOAL is to make FCPS equitable to all. Sorry, but you should have known better and to claim otherwise is laughable.

You seem to be conceding that FCPS can only be equitable to all if county-wide boundary changes are implemented. That seems like a self-own to the extent you oppose boundary changes.

A different interpretation is that One Fairfax means taking steps to meet students where they are to ensure they can reach their full potential. Boundary changes aren't obviously necessary to advance that goal; in fact, some would argue they are primarily window dressing.

PP here - yes, I completely agree that boundary changes aren't necessary and that FCPS should be improving the schools where students are failing. My point was that these LWNJ SB members apparently do NOT see it that way. Their idea of "equity" is moving UMC kids to failing schools in some misguided attempt to bring up test scores. Surely you know that's their MO and always has been? Which begs the question - why would you have voted for any of them, knowing this?

Because the alternative in my area was a person who had a truck filled with side boards that was transphobic and only discussed bathroom issues and book banning. I voted for moderates where I could but I won’t vote for fear mongering, hate mongering, nut jobs. Run people who discuss real education issues and stop focusing on the small transgender population, stop treating people who are different as if they are scary, stop trying to ban books, and discuss the issues that are actually important.

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Anonymous wrote:I looked at the 2023 election results for the various precincts that send students to West Springfield. They seem to vote consistently for Democrats. Including the School Board at large and their district members. The one exception, for those in the Springfield district, they did narrowly favor Pat Herrity on the County Board.

Point is, the Democrats are the ones who have been all about liberal immigration (or essentially, no enforcement) and they are also the party that is pushing boundary changes. They control the entire school board, and they started talking about boundary changes five years ago. So if you live in the West Springfield feeding precincts and supported the Democrats in 2023, you essentially signed up for boundary changes.

No, people here didn't because NONE of the candidates mentioned this or even gave a whiff of a hint that this was coming. I live in West Springfield and I read EVERY webpage for all of the candidates, including the At-Large candidates. I saw a lot of code words for Moms of Liberty book crap on the Republican candidates' sites. That's why I reluctantly voted for Dem candidates - despite still being upset at how the handled the Covid shutdown -- because the Ds were saying things like they wanted to improve language arts and teacher funding. NONE OF THEM CAMPAIGNED ON THIS.

Stop blaming people who actually take the time to vote. If you're still pissed that Republicans didn't get on the school board, maybe they should try to appeal to more centrist voters and stop focusing so much on who's using what bathroom.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I looked at the 2023 election results for the various precincts that send students to West Springfield. They seem to vote consistently for Democrats. Including the School Board at large and their district members. The one exception, for those in the Springfield district, they did narrowly favor Pat Herrity on the County Board.

Point is, the Democrats are the ones who have been all about liberal immigration (or essentially, no enforcement) and they are also the party that is pushing boundary changes. They control the entire school board, and they started talking about boundary changes five years ago. So if you live in the West Springfield feeding precincts and supported the Democrats in 2023, you essentially signed up for boundary changes.

No, people here didn't because NONE of the candidates mentioned this or even gave a whiff of a hint that this was coming. I live in West Springfield and I read EVERY webpage for all of the candidates, including the At-Large candidates. I saw a lot of code words for Moms of Liberty book crap on the Republican candidates' sites. That's why I reluctantly voted for Dem candidates - despite still being upset at how the handled the Covid shutdown -- because the Ds were saying things like they wanted to improve language arts and teacher funding. NONE OF THEM CAMPAIGNED ON THIS.

Stop blaming people who actually take the time to vote. If you're still pissed that Republicans didn't get on the school board, maybe they should try to appeal to more centrist voters and stop focusing so much on who's using what bathroom.

Regretfully, we voted for the Ds for the same reason. Not one of them mentioned redistricting or boundaries when they ran last year.

It was a bait and switch, because they know it’s political suicide. It’s why they are rushing the whole process to try to get changes in a year before the election. And it’s why the school board rushed the selection of Thru consulting in a no bid process by bootstrapping a sham Texas process that wasn’t even geared toward redistricting.

We won’t make that mistake going forward.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I looked at the 2023 election results for the various precincts that send students to West Springfield. They seem to vote consistently for Democrats. Including the School Board at large and their district members. The one exception, for those in the Springfield district, they did narrowly favor Pat Herrity on the County Board.

Point is, the Democrats are the ones who have been all about liberal immigration (or essentially, no enforcement) and they are also the party that is pushing boundary changes. They control the entire school board, and they started talking about boundary changes five years ago. So if you live in the West Springfield feeding precincts and supported the Democrats in 2023, you essentially signed up for boundary changes.

Maybe yes, maybe no. Show us where any candidate running in 2023 said county-wide boundary changes would be a top priority. It was a different group than was on the School Board back in 2018 and a lot of things happened in the intervening years, most notably Covid and all the related issues around remote learning, remediating learning loss, etc.

No doubt the Rs, unhappy that their far-right candidates can't get elected, take some satisfaction from telling people now that "you had in coming," but most of us feel sandbagged that the group elected last fall has pursued this county-wide boundary review when there's not much demand for it and FCPS enrollment is essentially flat.

Well, the party in control in 2019 (Democrats) did signal they wanted to look at boundaries. If you are in an edge community such as Daventry or Hunt Valley, then you should have taken that as a warning. It does not seem that was done. So here we are.

Hunt Valley is the farthest community from Lewis.

Perhaps they have a risk of getting rezoned to South County, but Lewis is laughable.

The communities at risk for Lewis are Daventry and Keene Mill, both closer to Lewis than they are to WSHS.

It is almost as if the person who keeps posting about Hunt Valley getting rezoned to Lewis is a Daventry or Keene home owner trying to prevent property value drops as long as possible by attempting to deflect to HV.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I looked at the 2023 election results for the various precincts that send students to West Springfield. They seem to vote consistently for Democrats. Including the School Board at large and their district members. The one exception, for those in the Springfield district, they did narrowly favor Pat Herrity on the County Board.

Point is, the Democrats are the ones who have been all about liberal immigration (or essentially, no enforcement) and they are also the party that is pushing boundary changes. They control the entire school board, and they started talking about boundary changes five years ago. So if you live in the West Springfield feeding precincts and supported the Democrats in 2023, you essentially signed up for boundary changes.

Maybe yes, maybe no. Show us where any candidate running in 2023 said county-wide boundary changes would be a top priority. It was a different group than was on the School Board back in 2018 and a lot of things happened in the intervening years, most notably Covid and all the related issues around remote learning, remediating learning loss, etc.

No doubt the Rs, unhappy that their far-right candidates can't get elected, take some satisfaction from telling people now that "you had in coming," but most of us feel sandbagged that the group elected last fall has pursued this county-wide boundary review when there's not much demand for it and FCPS enrollment is essentially flat.

Well, the party in control in 2019 (Democrats) did signal they wanted to look at boundaries. If you are in an edge community such as Daventry or Hunt Valley, then you should have taken that as a warning. It does not seem that was done. So here we are.

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The important distinction from your last sentence is that Daventry is a neighborhood whereas Hunt Valley is a school. I am a Hunt Valley parent and my only comfort/hope at this point is that I believe that if we remain zoned for Hunt Valley then we are safe, because I don't see a scenario in which the SB will be able to defend, much less accept from the consultants that HV should move to Lewis.

The only option would be to move ALL of HVES - the WHOLE SCHOOL - to Lewis. Which would leave WSHS quite under capacity, and might create an awkward situation in ~10 years if a bunch of development really does happen in Springfield or in Alexandria zoned for Edison if boundaries between Lewis and Edison have to be adjusted again to account for more development. But at the same time, the situation with the school quality and accreditation metrics may force their hands.

This is just a crazy nonsense post that completely ignores the geography of the area (HV is the farthest elementary from Lewis, with many of its neighborhoods closer to WSHS than several other WSHS zoned neighborhoods) and the political districts (most of West Springfield Elementary, including super close to Lewis neighborhood Daventry was recently redistricted by the democratic Board of Supervisors to the Franconia magisterial district, which includes the school board rep for Lewis. HV is part of the Springfield magisterial district, which falls under the school board rep for WSHS.)

This post is so nonsensical, one can only think it is coming from the Saratoga mom troll, or some Daventry person who desperately wants FCPS to jump past their neighborhood and 4-5 other elementary schools, to pick the farthest zoned WSHS elementary from Lewis so they can remain at WSHS.

It is silly to keep claiming that HV is the first choice for rezoning.

Either post the receipts showing school board convos that HV is getting rezoned to Lewis, or just stop.

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Anonymous wrote:I looked at the 2023 election results for the various precincts that send students to West Springfield. They seem to vote consistently for Democrats. Including the School Board at large and their district members. The one exception, for those in the Springfield district, they did narrowly favor Pat Herrity on the County Board.

Point is, the Democrats are the ones who have been all about liberal immigration (or essentially, no enforcement) and they are also the party that is pushing boundary changes. They control the entire school board, and they started talking about boundary changes five years ago. So if you live in the West Springfield feeding precincts and supported the Democrats in 2023, you essentially signed up for boundary changes.

No, people here didn't because NONE of the candidates mentioned this or even gave a whiff of a hint that this was coming. I live in West Springfield and I read EVERY webpage for all of the candidates, including the At-Large candidates. I saw a lot of code words for Moms of Liberty book crap on the Republican candidates' sites. That's why I reluctantly voted for Dem candidates - despite still being upset at how the handled the Covid shutdown -- because the Ds were saying things like they wanted to improve language arts and teacher funding. NONE OF THEM CAMPAIGNED ON THIS.

Stop blaming people who actually take the time to vote. If you're still pissed that Republicans didn't get on the school board, maybe they should try to appeal to more centrist voters and stop focusing so much on who's using what bathroom.

You did not do your research.

The Ds on the school board talked about it non stop. One Fairfax. Equity, eqjity, equity.

And the person running for the Springfield rep was a moderate and much better option that Anderson.